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In contrast to the strong heroines in French romances, Criseyde is a weak, passive individual who does not act but is acted upon. Chaucer creates her this way deliberately to make her "magically attractive"--she is "lovely undefined responsiveness,"…

Unlike Dante, who recognizes his poetic "fathers" in the Divine Comedy and sees himself as surpassing them, Chaucer in TC adopts the stance of the translator of an ancient text but questions the value of its tradition.

Feminist film theory and psychoanalytic theory clarify how acts of looking and the arrangements of personal space establish power relations in TC. Explores how power is gained and lost in Troilus's initial gaze at Criseyde, her view of him from her…

Two allusions to birds of mythology suggest the "conflicts of signification" in TC; their ambiguity makes the reader "an active participant in the poem."

The proem of each book of TC summarizes the gist of the following story and establishes a suitable mood through invocation to appropriate gods.

Examines why the expression "this Criseyde" never occurs in TC, from the viewpoints of accent, stress, syllable, rhyme, spelling, and form. Statistically compares lines containing the words "Criseyde," "Troilus," and "this."

By manipulating his presumed sources and through the voices of the narrator and his characters, Chaucer develops reader-response strategy with such rhetorical devices as repetition and wordplay. The reflexive TC shows both love and language as…

Chaucer intended to entertain and edify Bukton by means of a network of biblical allusions that also provide an oblique comment on late-fourteenth-century biblical interpretation.

Explains the different strands in Scog partly through elements taken from Cicero's De amicitia and partly through its nature as a begging poem for Michaelmas, when annuities were renewed.

In Wom Nob, Chaucer introduces a psychology of love new to English poetry that derives from Machaut's "'realist' scholastic psychology" and that parallels the works of "stilnovisti" such as Dante, Cavalcanti, and Guinizella.

With the inevitable variations produced by different scribes, CT has been edited by copyists who interpret the work variously (e.g., as ordered or unordered). A critical edition of the spurious links is here presented.

Studies rhymes and rhyme words (the elements least liable to errors in transcription) and amends the traditional view that Chaucer could have written Fragment A but neither B nor C: fragments A and C are equidistant from B and could be the work of a…

Observes what kinds of words in the Roman de la Rose are likely to be borrowed by Chaucer as rhyme words, what alterations are made when they are transferred to Rom, and what sorts of words are added in the rhyme position in translation.

In addition to the introduction, this collection contains nine original essays focusing on the interrelations between textual and interpretive studies of late Middle English literature. The authors discuss the effect of editorial decisions on…

Ten essays by various hands. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for L'imagination medievale under Alternative Title.

Forty-two essays, including thirteen on Chaucer. For individual essays on Chaucer, search for Language and Style in English Literature under Alternatuive Title.

Twelve studies on historical linguistics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Middle English literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for This Noble Craft under Alternative Title.

Eleven essays on such topics as the theory and techniques of dialect comparison, the texts of Skelton and Dunbar, the N-town manuscript, and specific manuscripts.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Regionalism in Late Medieval…

Nine essays by various authors, eight of which assess Chaucer's fifteenth-century legacy. For the individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry under Alternative Title.

Examines the use and misuse of W. W. Greg's term "copy-text" in recent editions of Chaucer and in the Kane-Donaldson Piers Plowman. Confusions among "copy-text," "base text," and "best text" will be alleviated only when editors use the terms…

A historical survey of Scottish literary canons reveals three distinct systems of canonicity. Of particular interest is the effect of Chaucer on the canonicity of the New Chaucerians.

The method for studying literary relations between Scotland and England has been too simplistic. Even the best work, such as Gregory Kratzman's Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550, suffers from a narrow referentialism that must be rethought.…

Explores Chaucer's ambiguities in light of rhetorical tradition, the state of the language, Chaucer's poetic self-consciousness, and the textual history of his works. (In Japanese)

Chaucer is more attentive to the noises produced by people and their actions than to those of natural phenomena. He often suggests noises rather than describing them directly. His noisiest passages involve tournaments, chases, and music.

Deeply rooted in late-medieval social and religious ambivalence toward women, Chaucer's poetry both subverts and asserts traditional gender differences, as seen in LGWP, FranT, and WBP.