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Explores the psychological realism of the conflict at the end of PardT between the Host, a "bully" who rejects the power of language, and the Pardoner, a "conscious artist" who has attacked the Host's "coarse masculinity." Ironically, the Host's…

Both PardP and PardT are "self-exposure" on the part of the Pardoner, although in the latter he is "unaware" of his similarity to the three rioters: "all four are spiritually dead . . . blasphemers and motivated by avarice . . . totally hardened…

Describes how the PardPT together work to convey the message that the Pardoner does more good than he intends.

Assesses the rhetorical power of PardT in light of the conventions and stylistic features of medieval sermons. The Pardoner adheres to most conventions effectively, but his "delight in his own powers of persuasion and the purpose of his preaching"…

Describes the "economy and pace, characterization, style, and plot-form" of PardT, comparing it with folk-tales, and summarizes the narrative functions of the "digression" on vice (6.485-660).

Identifies three "sections" of PardT (the "pulpit-thumping," the "story-telling," and the "sales talk," arguing that their apparent disunity is resolved by the character and purpose of the Pardoner.

An anthology in two parts: 1) seventy-six examples of English verse "reflections" on the nature and features of poetry; 2) 318 examples of "English poets' responses" to other English poets. Includes notes and indexes. The Chaucer section of part 2…

Expansive commentary on western art and literature, including the assertion (pp. 171-72) that Edmund Spenser established English literary tradition by "abandoning Chaucer and eradicating his influence," particularly his "populism."

Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of GP, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and brief characterization of each of the pilgrims. Includes a description of Chaucer's life and works and of Middle English grammar,…

Score for a selection from MercB in modernized English.

Gothic fantasy graphic novel in which Chaucer makes a cameo appearance, discussing poetry in a tavern in 1389. One of the characters in the tavern seeks to avoid death, an echo of PardT. Originally published in magazine form as The Sandman 9.16…

A report of the activities and membership of the Chaucer Library Committee.

Shows how close is the "bond between literary culture and the ideology and practice of domination enshrined in judicial controls" in late-medieval England after the Black Death. Summarizes statues of labor, taxation, and responses to the Uprising of…

Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1989 MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 359 items including reviews.

The 1990 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research; lists 304 Chaucer studies.

Annotated entries are alphabetized in five chronological periods (1900-30, 1931-60, 1961-70, 1971-80, 1981-85) under two headings: Knight in the GP (and Links) and KnT.

Supplies every form of every word in the Chaucer corpus of The Riverside Chaucer, using KWIC format. Presents the headword in the center of the page and provides about two lines of context for the poetry. Variant spellings are listed separately,…

Thomas Chaucer continued the lease on his father's house in the garden at Westminster Abbey to provide a repository for Geoffrey Chaucer's literary remains. His motive was to help form a Lancastrian poetic canon committed to social stability and…

Hoccleve's hopes for preferment depended upon his claim to personal acquaintance with Chaucer and to his "consail and reed." Hoccleve's patrons had known Chaucer by sight and could verify the image of Chaucer that accompanies Hoccleve's poems. …

An examination of Chaucer's original family name, Malyn, casts doubt on previous claims that Chaucer's family was involved in leather making. For social and commercial reasons, Chaucer was a more acceptable surname. Chaucer used Malyn or its…

Justifies writing a new biography of Chaucer despite objections that it may be impossible, useless, or superfluous. The exceptional nature of Chaucer's life and the richness of his historical context make the undertaking worthwhile.

The letters provide a new perspective on the uprising of 1381,the usurpation of 1399, and exploitation of the language of love.

A study of the "traditions of lyric publication on which Tottel built" his 1557 collection, Tottel's Miscellany. Discusses early English printers' "Chaucerian anthologies"--Caxton's quarto volumes among them--that combine Chaucer's lyrics and longer…

Furnivall's printed transcriptions of TC manuscripts have created a legacy of errors, especially in editions based on Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 61 (Cp). Hewett-Smith identifies errors in Robinson's edition and exemplifies the transmission…

A collection of thirty-two eighteenth-century modernizations of CT by at least seventeen authors, known and anonymous. Valuable in an exploration of reception aesthetics and reader-response theory.