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Compares pilgrimage in Japan with that in Christian culture and then discusses the pilgrimage to Canterbury in CT.

Harrow explores social criticism in Sembene Ousmane's novella "Le Mandat" (film version "Mandabi") with references to thematic similarities in Chaucer's PardT. Both Ousmane and Chaucer portray the effects of unexpected treasure on its beneficiaries…

Describes the general influence of European literature on Chaucer's works. In Japanese.

Surveys the history of Latin literature from Carolingian Renaissance to the twelfth century and enumerates the Latin texts that Chaucer undoubtedly read or his works directly draw on. The final passage focuses on Boccaccio, Petrarch, and ClT. In…

Provides a list of French works written in the period up to Chaucer's lifetime in the order of the number of extant manuscripts, from more than 100 to four. Assuming this reflects the French texts that surrounded Chaucer, reviews Charles Muscatine's…

Discusses Chaucer's indebtedness to Anglo-Norman literature for FranT, Th, and MLT. In Japanese.

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

Provides a detailed account of Chaucer's life, with consideration of how his personality and experience contributed to his literary characteristics. In Japanese.

Provides recommended reading list in English and Japanese for studying Chaucer and late medieval literature and culture.

Examines readings in CT manuscripts that are not found in most critical editions. Reviews history of textual criticism of CT up to the Riverside edition, with special reference to Ralph Hanna's scholarship. Considers merits of the electronic…

A brief introduction to Chaucer's vocabulary compared to present-day English, his grammar, his pronunciation and spellings, and his versification. In Japanese.

Points to the position of ParsT as the last tale of CT, and discusses reasons for this placement by taking into account Harry Bailly's attitude toward the Parson, the meaning of evening time, and Chaucer's adoption of prose rather than verse for…

Focuses on contrastive characterizations of the husband figures in MerT and ShT. Considers the common motif of the untruthful wife in relation to the theme of mutability. In Japanese.

Examines connotations of words concerning oaths and mutilation of body in PardT in relation to contemporary attitudes toward the worship of relics. In Japanese.

Discusses swoons or relevant scenes in Rom, BD, Anel, Mars, TC, LGW, KnT, MilT, MLT, and WBT to reveal how the swoon creates comical effects throughout Chaucer's poetry. In Japanese.

Introduces the historical context of pilgrimage in both the West and Japan in order to interpret the opening lines of GP. Argues that "kejime" as represented in pilgrims in "Tokaidochu Hizakurige," written by Jippensha Ikku, can also be read in the…

Investigates the frequency and function of "this" as a pragmatic marker in MilT, RvT, FranT, KnT, PrT, and MerT, in relation to each narrator's social class and narrative genre. In Japanese.

Examines the meaning of the expression concerning the seating order in GP (1.52) by considering a similar expression in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reviews contemporary illustrations and historical records related to the feast. In Japanese.

Examines the plot of PrT in relation to the patterns of the saints' legends as well as relevant historical contexts, and discusses Chaucer's intention as well as narrator's and characters' roles. Compares PrT and Marian miracles in Oxford,…

Drawing on the fact that George Eliot read BD when she faced the death of her partner, George Henry Lewes, this essay reflects on how Eliot receives the deep sorrow and "pathetic sympathy" of the knight in black in BD. In Japanese

Traces Criseyde's mental and emotional movement through the plot of TC, and argues that, for Chaucer, Fortune does not have to do only with the change of external world, but also with man's interiority.

Examines Chaucer's notion of "gentilesse" and its importance by looking into instances of its use in KnT, SqT, FranT, WBT, ParsT, and Gent. In Japanese.

Compares Criseyde with Dido and Aeneas in the works of Ovid and Virgil to shed light on the unique characterization of Chaucer's heroine in the context of classical Trojan literature.

Examines the notions of nature and chance represented in TC in light of medieval philosophical and cosmological theories. In Japanese.

A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer's Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and…