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Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of RvT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of ClT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of MerT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of WBPT in Middle English and that WBP and WBT were re-issued separately in 1986 and 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FrT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of SumT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of PF in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of PrT and Tho in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler in Middle English of MilT, summarized as "A comical story about three men after one woman's attention, set in medieval England.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FranT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of NPT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

The pilgrim narrator of CT represents the views of nominalist epistemology, creating a tension in the text as Chaucer the poet continues to uphold a more traditional epistemology based on "ante-rem," "in-rem," and "post-rem" universals.

In terms of medieval Christian thought, wherein conversion to Christianity was viewed as gradual rather than instant, the life of Griselda typologically represents the Christian soul, though Chaucer may not consciously have connected the two while…

Repeated imagery of falconry's mew, derived from typology and folklore, symbolize the poem's vision of mutability in human affairs. Especially as they relate to the character of Troilus, these images represent the Neo-Platonic notion of the soul as…

Building on medieval conventions in which the city was a metaphor for the human condition, Thebes--known for fratricide and civil war--symbolizes disorder and chaos. Theseus, especially through his subjugation of the queen of the lawless and violent…

Chaucer uses biblical exegesis and typology for thematic purposes. In ClT, Griselda is portrayed as "pharmakos," a "figura Christi," through Chaucer's addition of biblical colorings and the typological juxtaposition of her character and actions with…

Reexamines the correspondences between literary nominalism and realism as competing paradigms and analyzes critical approaches to the literary debate on universals in late-medieval (especially Chaucerian) and early modern literary studies.

Surveys the critical history of "Lollius"--Chaucer's putative source for TC--and argues that the invention poses a poetic analogy to the absolute power of the nominalist God. By creating Lollius, Chaucer makes his general audience believe in the…

Discusses the problematic nature of relating late-medieval nominalism to Chaucer's literary texts. Chaucer's representation of philosophizing clerks suggests that he took a dim view of such figures of contemporary life, whom he tended to portray as…

Nominalism and literature were never parts of a single, seamless discourse; influences between them are at best complex and indirect. Penn surveys research on literary nominalism in late-medieval (mostly Chaucerian) texts, arguing that sources other…

Haas interprets MkT as Chaucer's critical testing of tragedy (one of the most problematic pagan genres being revived) and thus his evaluation of the most progressive endeavors of his age, voiced with the greatest impact by "maister Petrak."

Assesses the "ecocritical insights" of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" via its intertexual relations with the "pilgrimage ecopoetics" of CT, exploring structural similarities in the works and their vernacularity, metatextual references, "linguistic and…

Clarifies what kind of poems William Wordsworth criticized as "idle and extravagant stories in verse" and examines four English narrative poems before Wordsworth, including WBT. All four turn out to be more or less "idle and extravagant" by…

Argues that Ovid's "Tristia" and "Ex Ponto" influenced the ideas of Fame, Fortune, and Rumor in HF, along with several details in the poem.

Illustrated biography of Chaucer written for elementary and middle-school children.