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In chapters on Adam, TC, LGW, MLT, WBT, ClT, and PardT, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer's writing constructs and engages a sexual poetics. She contends that "whoever exerts control of signification, of language and the literary act, is associated with…

Considers "political agendas" that governed the development of Chaucer scholarship and textual criticism and analyzes medieval studies in terms of current theories about historicism. CT bears "a privileged relation" to the historic moment. Chapters…

A study of Chaucer's simultaneous employment of, and challenge to, comparative language and thinking. Chapter 1 explores dissimilarity and its "taxonomic force" in academic and religious traditions, while chapter 2 focuses on this subject in HF.…

Reads CT as Chaucer's effort to "see, speak and write" into fiction the bond of love that is to him an "ontological fact of creation." The road to Canterbury is a metaphor of salvation; the pilgrims and their "Tales" are links in the spiritual chain…

Examines agency as theme and narrative technique throughout Chaucer's corpus, considering the "multifariousness" of the topic. Agency does not refer exclusively to the human will; it also "embraces innumerable forces that operate interdependently" -…

Eleven studies on reception and influence, the shared culture of the two authors, and specific tales. Includes an introduction by Koff and an afterword by David Wallace. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Decameron and the Canterbury…

Fourteen essays by various authors, along with an introduction and "Robert O. Payne: In Memoriam" by Hill. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.

Studies the Old and Middle English vocabularies of category in nature and human experience, anatomizing the words used for colors, the senses, the seasons, compass directions, geometric shapes, types of plant life and animal life, and human selfhood.…

Describes the aesthetic and moral principles and practices, overt and covert, of the CT, acclaiming the vitality of the "framing structure" of the links and the complex ironies of the narrator (especially in Ret) for the ways that they enable and…

A difficult form requiring of the reader a complex consciousness and thus hitherto largely neglected by critics, Menippean satire provides a meaningful context for Chaucer. The works of the third century B.C. satirist, themselves being lost, come to…

Examines first-person narrators in Machaut's "dits."

Anatomizes the tradition of the classical epic in Western literature, from Homer to Tolstoy and Thomas Mann, tracing the "Alexandrian" mode that originated with Callimachus and his school and runs counter to the more strictly restrained tradition of…

Chaucer approaches history as a subject and human beings as individualized subjects within history, examining the medieval view of history as degeneration from an ideal and developing the modernist, humanist view of history. In Anel, Boethianism…

Chapter 8 discusses differences between aristocratic and lower-class desire in PF, exploring how endless desire establishes sovereignty in the poem. The essay also assesses the relations of the poem with Scots tradition, especially the version of…

A collection of essays treating the legend of Jews killing Christians, particularly children. Fourteen essays cover such areas as case histories, folkloristic tales and literary texts, surveys of the legend in different locales, ritual-murder…

The underlying theme of the poems in MS Cotton Nero A.x.Art.3 is radical spiritual change.

Spanish translation of G. K. Chesterton's biography of Chaucer and his times.

An anthology of Spanish translations of Chaucer's dream visions. Includes previously published translations of BD and HF, plus new translations of PF and LGW. Notes and introduction by the translator.

Spanish translation of CT, with introduction and explanatory notes.

Spanish prose translation of TC, with a biographical and critical introduction that emphasizes Chaucer's adaptation of source material.

Spanish prose adaptation of GP, KnT, MLT, ClT, and NPT.

This anthology of international short fiction in Spanish translation is intended for classroom use, with a pedagogical introduction (pp. 9-105) and study questions (pp. 485-524). It includes PardT (pp. 123-31), without PardP, as well as tales by Don…

Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that this includes Spanish translation of a selection of Chaucer's poetry, with an introduction.

2 vols.

A selection from CT in Spanish prose, including GP, KnT, MilPT, RvT, ShT, PrPT, ThPT (the tale of Thopas in stanzaic verse), MkP, NPPT, WBPT, ClPE (with Envoy in verse), MerPT, SqE, FranPT, PardPT, ParsT, and Ret. Published again in 2006, with a new…