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Presents various essays that introduce Chaucer, the European literary tradition on which his works draw, and the social conditions, art, and culture of his time. Includes a chronology of Chaucer and a list of recommended readings. In Japanese. For…

Offers a "brief history" of Japanese translations of CT and focuses on the versions--complete and selected--by Kenji Kaneko, first published in 1917, revised and rereleased in 1923 and 1946. Explores the historical cultural conditions of Kaneko's…

Provides an overview of the literary influence of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Chaucer. Refers to Italian analogues to PardT. In Japanese.

Interprets WBT as a story in which the knight finally accepts the absurdity caused by himself, persuaded by the old woman's words citing classical works. In Japanese.

A version of GP for children, with the pilgrims imagined and illustrated, verbally and visually, as puppies.

Presented as an antidote to the "indoctrination" that is imposed on literature classes by "PC English professors." Chapter two, entitled "Medieval Literature: 'Here Is God's Plenty'" (pp. 23-47) focuses on CT, Langland's "Piers Plowman," the vigor of…

Examines the use of whiteness in a variety of medieval works, arguing that being "white" is a mark not merely of ethnicity but also of Christianity, "beauty," and rank. Examples include mystery plays, "Pearl," and BD.

Interrogates post-Enlightenment understandings of shame, and argues that in FranT shame negotiates continua rather than dichotomies (men/women, courtly love/marriage, and public/private). Read in light of conduct literature, Arveragus's claims and…

Argues that "Middle English 'defaute,' signifying both lack and loss, characterizes the work of mourning" in BD, considering the "interplays between the poem's articulations of toponyms and its figurations of 'White' as simultaneously a deceased body…

Drawing on the superflat movement in Japanese contemporary art, argues that cuteness in Th effects a compression of the text's narrative layers and semiotic networks. Mirroring the horizontal, non-linear organization of the poem's layout in medieval…

Frames an assessment of literary theory with opening and closing comments on TC, claiming that, at the end of the poem, "Chaucer, in effect, is doing theory" and, by doing so, "converts his text into something residual and emergent, pleasurable and…

Describes "premodern theories of affect rooted in humoral theory and faculty psychology," and explores the affects of wonder and shame in FranT as well as its queered futurity, focusing on Aurelius's brother, who occupies "the position of the…

Examines the "workings of empathy" in SqT to situate it in "premodern critical race studies, reading the "falcon-Canacee-lap" formulation as "a homo-affective assemblage, an animal human thing that blurs the borders of body, object, and species,"…

Outlines the teaching of a unit on global, multicultural "inns and "hostels" in medieval texts, focusing on representations of nonwestern dwelling places during travel. Includes comments on SqT as "rich in hotel psyche and tonality."

Chaucer presents Calchus as both a father in misery and a "sheer opportunist," enabling us to see Criseyde's decision as her own. Shakespeare's Calchus is a manipulator; his Cressida, the object of manipulation.

Kaplan explores medieval and early modern legal discourse about slander and defamation. Though HF is concerned with the relation between poetry and slander, in Chaucer's time "defamation was not understood as having temporal consequences for the…

Defines anti-Semitic art as any work that employs pejorative stereotypes about Jews without repudiating them. Focuses on Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" but also considers PrT and Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta."

Examines the narration and the interpretations of Troilus's dream in Book V of TC, the questions of sources and authority, and the function of the Latin argument to Cassandra's speech in manuscripts.

An edition based on the Variorum facsimile edition of the Hengwrt manuscript (1979), retaining the original virgule marks. Includes glosses and explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, with Japanese translation, textual notes, and commentary.

Reprint of Japanese translation of TC with notes and commentary, based on F. N. Robinson's edition. First published in 1948.

Surveys the relationship between song and poetry in English tradition, identifying the tenacity of the association until the end of the nineteenth century as evident in poetry and in the statuary of London's Albert Memorial. Cites evidence from TC…

Karnein argues that the "De amore" was written at the court of Philip Augustus, not in Champagne; that it was to condemn "courtly love'; and that it was so interpreted by its earlier, clerical audience and only later taken nonironically by lay…

Argues that SqT is an exception among medieval romances because it investigates things that are not what they seem. The first section of the tale scrutinizes the mechanics of marvels and wonder; the second explores the mechanics of stories,…

Focuses on marvels in medieval literature, and argues that medieval readers appreciated indeterminacy of the marvelous. Some attention to FranT.

Studies marvels, wonders, and human imagination in medieval natural philosophy and literature, especially romance and travel narratives of western European and Islamic communities. Refers to several of the CT and links aspects of FranT with "Sir…