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Augustine and Jerome influenced the medieval Church's use of hierarchy to evaluate a woman's spiritual standing. Chaucer, however, refuses to be bound by the limitations of theological stereotypes. He shows that women often neither choose nor get…

Lee assesses FranT as a "sequel" to SqT that repudiates its magic, replaces its stasis with moral development in the idea of "gentilesse," and provides a missing Christian subtext--a "Christmas miniature" that precedes the apparent disappearance of…

FranT is a rhetorical . . . completion" of SqT, which should itself be read with "rhetorical and lyrical" rather than narrative models in mind. The literate mode of Dorigen's complaint and Aurelius's two speeches to her contrasts with the oral mode…

PhyT has been undervalued; it is meant to be read in conjunction with the two that precede and follow it. A comparison with Gower's version and with Chaucer's similar story of Lucrece elucidates the tale. Virginia's character is brought into focus…

The rape victim in WBT quickly vanishes from the text because she is "excommunicated," or denied access to the privileges of the knight who exploits her.

A Bakhtinian approach to the juxtaposition of PhyT and PardT. In its aloof style and its paralleling of Apius and Virginius, PhyT is marked by a "tendency to monologue." PardT is dialogic in its comic replacement of justice with mercy.

Examines the diverse portrayals of children in medieval literature, commenting on how Chaucer questions the innocence of the "clergeoun" in PrT and how in LGW and MkT his pathos is more restrained than in his sources.

The absence of details of physical dress or adornment applied to Custance in MLT coincides with the presentation of her as a virtuous, Christian heroine. Though descriptive details are conventional in romances, their relative absence here is…

Discusses three topics - Ford Madox Brown's painting of Chaucer reading from MLT to a decadent court at a time of dynastic crisis, the current Middle Eastern situation, and the story of Noah's Flood - in relation to Chaucer's portrayal of Custance's…

Comments on the upbringing of young people in CT. Mentioned in only three lines, the "mayde child" in ShT exemplifies the late medieval practice of wardship. The words signify the callous immorality of the guardian who, like the governesses…

A comic completion, in mock Middle English, of CkT as a version of both Little Red Riding Hood and the parable of the Prodigal Son, with allusions to TC, GP and several stories from CT.

Erotic film adaptation of CT; loosely adapted. Screenplay by Hyapatia Lee.

Discusses medieval concepts of aging and Chaucer's depictions of old men in CT. Claims that Chaucer displays a balanced attitude in his depictions of old men, which differs from how medieval society tended to view the elderly in a negative light.

Analyzes the architectural constructions (especially walls) in KnT and TC. Claims that the "effect of a wall in Chaucerian narratives is the double-sidedness," because walls can invite and discourage connections between inside and outside spaces.

Contrasts Chaucer's storytelling techniques in KnT, MilT, PardT, WBT, MLT, and MerT with those of their sources, contemporary writings, and folk traditions. Uses the approaches of Propp, Bal, Bakhtin, and Frye.

Contrasts WBT with its English analogues and assesses the role of rhetorical dilation, which Chaucer derived from Roman and French traditions. The digressions compel readers to engage WBT dialogically.

Reads FranT as Chaucer's satiric portrayal of the narrator, focusing on the character of the Franklin, contradictions within his narrative, his characters' concern with public show, and legal aspects of Arveragus and Dorigen's clandestine marriage.

Through various devices of style and narrative technique, Chaucer undermines the Knight's (and Theseus's) efforts to find or impose order on human and cosmic disruption and violence.

Item not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as written in Korean with English summary.

Applies Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalesque," which provides a "context for understanding the importance of laughter" in CT. The Miller focuses on physical pleasure and natural instinct in MilT; his disregard for rules of social hierarchy…

Korean translation of GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, and PardPT. Includes an introduction.

Korean translation of the complete CT, with poetry translated as poetry and prose as prose.

Treats Nicholas Trevet's, John Gower's, and Chaucer's tales of Constance as seriatim clarifications of "mens exili" (the mind of exile) in preparation for discussing relations between "exilic experience" and "national formation and nationalistic…

Investigates how Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Usk, and Hoccleve use confessional discourse to challenge Latinity and "authorize their own literary productions." Includes discussion of the "self-abasing literary self-portrayals as penitents" found in…

Looks at confessional elements in works by Chaucer, Langland, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, ultimately arguing that such practice is central to an understanding of early English vernacular literature.