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Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading of NPT and PardT in Middle English, re-released in 1956.

Argues "that in early modern England the primary theoretical models by which poets understood how language means what it means were applications of
eucharistic theology." Opens with discussion of PardT, SumT, and Pearl "in the context of the debate…

Social history of late-medieval England, designed for adolescents, including discussion of Chaucer as "royal servant," poet, and "father of the English language" (pp. 1-9). Recurrent mention of Chaucer in subsequent discussions of historical topics.…

Nicholas' seduction of Alisoun is an impudent parody of the Annunciation, of which he sings in the "Angelus ad virginem." Absolon is clad "ful smal," i.e., in a tight-fitting garment, as a sign of his lechery and vanity.

The term "rebec" or "ribib(l)e", used by the Summoner to insult the old woman, meant fiddle, and then a woman with a shrill voice.

Latin-English glosses from BL MS Add. 37075 and other hitherto unpublished sources throw light on attitudes toward words for sex, body parts, and body functions as used by Chaucer and Scottish Chaucerians.

"Astromye" is neither a scribal error nor an acceptable variant for "astronomye" but a malapropism that probably appeared originally as "arstromye," containing a pun in the first syllable.

Shows that MED's definition of "mevyng" is correct, and that the word is not a scribal error for "menyng" but exists in its own right.

Summarizes the editorial career of Thomas Wright and the "lasting significance" of his edition of CT, valuable because "Wright chose, or perhaps happened upon, the best-text editorial method" and because "his explanatory notes, while not extensive,"…

Identifies bawdy double meaning in Pandarus's use of "al hool" in TC 2.587, signaled by Criseyde's embarrassed laughter and not apparent in Boccaccio's original.

Provides hitherto unavailable information about late-medieval culture through Latin-English instruction books.

The first CT "Variorum" to appear, Ross's edition, based on the Hengwrt, collates ten manuscripts and twenty printed editions with full critical apparatus to "present the MilT as Chaucer wrote it, as nearly as our present knowledge and resources…

An alphabetical glossary of obscene, sexual, and scatological references, puns, and allusions in Chaucer's works. Individual entries define and analyze the terms and phrases, providing bibliographical citations to previous critical discussions; the…

Describes development of the English literary canon in light of two parallel developments or "epistemological shifts": the development from a "rhetorical" to a "modern 'objectivist' culture" and the shift from an idea of "canonicity based on…

Both Criseyde's dream in Bk. 2 and Troilus's dream in Bk. 5 of TC are generally understood in terms that debase Criseyde. But Chaucer's intertextual construction of these dreams and his reconstruction of Cassandra and Criseyde from his sources…

Examines feminist and antifeminist readings Criseyde, arguing that--like Chaucer, who appropriates his sources, and like his narrator, who constantly negotiates and repositions himself in relation to Lollius--Criseyde performs, mimes, and parodies…

Chaucer and Marie de France simultaneously contribute to the development of vernacular literature and subvert its conventions through parody, pastiche, and resistance to existing gender models.

Philip Larkin's undergraduate essays and notes, preserved among Bruce Montgomery's papers at the Bodleian Library, record his reactions to Chaucer (generally positive) and Langland (negative).

Discusses Chaucer's creation of the five Guildsmen in GP. Stresses the "complex phenomenon," historical background, and proliferation of medieval guilds and fraternities in the fourteenth century.

Like Boccaccio in Il Filocolo, Chaucer in FranT contrasts men and women by emphasizing men's mobility and women's fixity. Men are depicted as publicly and physically active, while women are privately and intellectually active.

Discusses the work of J. B. Severs, the manuscript tradition of Petrarch's Griselda narrative, and the form in which it would have been accessible to Chaucer.

Revised, expanded version of the author's "Chaucer A to Z. The Essential Reference to His Life and Works" (1999; SAC 23 [2001], no. 5), with a more extensive biographical introduction to Chaucer, critical summaries of each of his works, and a more…

An encyclopedic dictionary of Chaucer and his works, with entries from "abbeviato" to "Zeuxis." Entries pertaining to Chaucer's works include separate plot summaries and commentaries; those pertaining to his biography include people, places, and…

Argues that, despite critics' dismissal of the idea, a clandestine marriage is as likely in Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" as in TC.

Assesses Chaucer's relationship with Petrarch, focusing on translation theory, humanism, and Chaucer's uses of the Italian writer as source for ClT and the "Canticus Troili" of TC. Also assesses Chaucer's references to Petrarch in ClT and in MkT, as…