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Surveys Chaucer's works for evidence of his knowledge and acceptance of astronomy and astrology. Argues that he uses astrological allegory as a structural device in his poetry.

Updated third edition includes new introduction by Galloway and four additional narratives.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this classroom anthology, designed for use in elementary school, includes an adaptation of NPT by Berry.

An anthology of previously published materials, including selections from Boccaccio (on the Black Death) and Froissart (on the Peasants' Revolt), essays on cultural backgrounds to the fourteenth century (imagination, technology, science, courtly…

Deconstructs BD as an example of a work that resists the Renaissance impulses to individualism and the rise of narrative. In BD, lyricism is asserted by the failure of narrative to console, and individualism is undercut by recurrent verbal play on…

Revisits the implications of the horse-and rider imagery that underlies the description of the Wife of Bath at GP 1.469, focusing on her riding an "amblere," exploring relations with the thirteenth-century French "Lai du Trot," and suggesting that,…

An "earthscape of renewals and pilgrimages," CT is chiefly incarnational and pluralistic, with four exceptions. As pious tales with separate value structures and terms of reference differing from the GP principle of "purifying, abstracting and…

Analyzes clerical speech habits in Chaucer's GP "ars descriptionis personae"; affective tone in PrT, SNP, SNT, MkT, and ClT; and, where appropriate, the connection with the stately rhyme-royal stanza--with contrasts to language, verse styles, and…

As early as the fifteenth century, two views of CT prevailed: (1) the entire CT is a religious work, and (2) only ClT, PrT, MLT, MkT, ParsT, and SNT are religious. In arguing the first position, Knight addresses difficulties arising from the Hengwrt…

Muscatine's "Gothic form" applies to BD with its "linear series of discrete episodes" and foci, as well as its shifts in viewpoint, style, and voice. Interpretations move in a hermeneutical circle without resolution: from parts to whole, from whole…

Examines penance in poems of the "Pearl" MS, "Piers Plowman," and CT. Neither a collection of disparate stories nor an illustration of one theme, CT reflects the "quarternity or reality" in which penance, though not the chief theme, is yet a…

Reviews scholarship and corrects mistaken assumptions about medieval tragedy. The first vernacular writer in Europe to consider himself a tragedian, Chaucer was anticipated by several Latin writers but drew mainly from Boethius. The tragic falls in…

For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Etudes de linguistique et de litterature en l'honneur d'Andre Crepin under Alternative Title.

Argues that "there is an ironically complex relationship of the speaker to what he says" in CYPT, particularly in the way that the Yeoman's simplistic understanding of alchemy leads him to abandon the evils of alchemy while the Canon's intelligent…

Traces Chaucer's uses of two rhetorical devices of compression throughout his poetic career, "praeterito" and "reticentia," arguing that he developed sophisticated uses of the devices for creating dramatic and emotional effects. The devices entail,…

Surveys the history of indulgences in Church history as background to Chaucer's character of the Pardoner, commenting on abuses and critiques of the practice recorded in English documents as corroboration of Chaucer's depiction.

Fifteen essays by various hands. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English under Alternative Title.

Spiritual stalwartness makes heroines of the protagonists in MLT, 'Emaré,' and the 'King of Tars'; the active quality of their faith makes them agents in the conversion of others.

Videotape discussion of GP, with footage from Cleves Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Lavenham, the Pilgrim's Way, and other sites.

Fine art printing of GP, with accompanying abstract visual renderings. Each copy (250 printed) includes one of twenty additional original screen prints by King and an accompanying poem or commentary by Roy Fisher, Andrew Crozier, Kevin Power, or…

Twenty lyric poems inspired by descriptions in GP: "Knight," "Dyere," "Cook," "Tapicer," and "Webbe," by Roy Fisher; "The Reeve, " "The Manciple," "The Merchant," 'The Doctor of Physic," by Keith Please; "Some Instructions of the Horses," by Andrew…

Analyzes the role of the first-person pronoun, "supponit pro," and narrating voice in TC through the lens of "medieval sign theory." Argues that through translation, authorship is transformed because authorship becomes "a matter of re-elaboration…

Addresses the "literal paternity" of Chaucer as the "father of English poetry" for fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writers, including Shakespeare and Jonson. Discusses how Chaucer established himself as a "poet within the classical poetic line." …

KnT creates puzzling effects. Chaucer's subversion of several issues (genre, nobility, love, wisdom) highlights their absurdity.

Examines diachronically the values of "e" in weakly stressed syllables, revealing the extent, causes, and consequences of phonetic and morphosyntactic changes: loss of syllables and inflectional endings, efforts to make spelling consistent, and…