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Uses the Middle English translation of Lanfranc of Milan's "Chirurgia magna" ("The Science of Cirurgie") to help explore the compromise between authority and experience in TC, where Pandarus injects the language of experience into his uses of medical…

Brewer comments on his professional visits to Japan, on similarities between Japanese and European medieval cultures, and on promises, honor, and irony in Chaucer's poetry, especially KnT.

Reconsiders the social status of franklins in the late medieval period and points out that their gentility is ambiguous. Discusses the value of "gentilesse" in FranT by comparing the tale with Boccaccian analogues, taking into account the…

Examined in terms of Lacanian psychology and the concept of the king's two bodies, Chaucer's PF and Dunbar's "Thrissill and the Rois" reveal how patronized poets deal with sovereign discourse and their relation to it through bodily figuration. …

Bolens explores David Rudrum's notion of "narrative use" (fiction as a speech act that is used for a purpose) and applies it to "The Book of Sindibad," "The Seven Sages of Rome," and especially "The Tale of Beryn." Narrative use is an overt concern…

Includes comments on the "feature-by-feature account" of the Prioress's face in GP 1.151-56, and suggests that "a description of this kind is less likely to produce a vivid response than one that relates the features to one another."

Studies "virtual" narratives in FranT. Compares FranT to earlier lais of Marie de France and "Sir Orfeo." Suggests that Chaucer's "unrealized possibilities" mark a moment in the history of genre development when medieval lais begin to resemble modern…

Describes "the concept of immersion as seen from cognitive narratology" and the "concept of defamiliarization as seen from unnatural narratology," applying these theoretical constructs to BD, Jorge Luis Borges's "The Circular Ruin," and Franz Kafka's…

Argues that Chaucer uses philosophical language in describing the fart joke of SumT in order to burlesque the "logical thinking" of scholastic thinkers, particularly the Merton Calculators, showing how literature can "more effectively" work out…

Translates lines 1-117 of GP into Japanese, based on The Riverside Chaucer (1987).

Describes the place of MilPT in CT, summarizing its plot, major characters, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selection of seventeen excerpts from previously printed critical studies (1956–2006), and a brief, annotated bibliography…

Sketches the biography of Chaucer, and describes the place of WBPT in CT, summarizing its plot, major characters, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selection of sixteen excerpts from previously printed critical studies (1970–2002),…

Contrasts lack of commentary on birth control in ParsT with its presence in the letters of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, arguing that Chaucer was pre-Malthusian ("prémalthusien") rather than proto-Malthusian ("protomalthusien").…

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that "After Chaucer" follows the title on p. 6 of this volume--perhaps indicating a version of KnT.

Includes drawings of each of the Canterbury pilgrims, plus a scene of the gathering at the Tabard Inn, interspersed with short quotations from GP (Nevill Coghill translation) and a brief introduction.

Reprints twenty-three essays by Braddy and five of his reviews, all initially published between 1931 and 1969, and all pertaining to Chaucer

A series of stand-alone studies, most reprinted in revised form from earlier publications. Includes a newly edited and translated Cistercian sermon and a new essay, "Langland and Preaching." Also includes, among other revisions, "Chaucer's Norfolk…

A collection of nineteen essays previously published by the author, eight on Chaucer.

Twelve essays by Scattergood, seven reprinted and five here published for the first time. Chaucer is cited in several of the reprinted essays, one of which is an extended analysis of Purse: "London and Money: Chaucer's Complaint to His Purse."

Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).

Argues that Chaucer's poetry can inform contemporary discussions of teachers' bodies and their relative absence from the classroom due to online learning and sexual concerns. Focuses on "the power and purpose of poetry" in SNT, CYT, and ManPT.

Summarizes the attribution and reception of Anel in the early modern period and views the six-line poem appended to Caxton's edition of Anel, known as
"Chaucer's Prophecy," as a source for the Fool's speech in Shakespeare's "King Lear."

Considers the protagonists of ClT and Lars von Trier's film "Breaking the Waves," exploring how the audience's experiences of the "weird realism" of Griselda and Bess may be seen to induce a "heightened mode of encounter with the traces of a…

Explores the medieval concept of "mounted knighthood" in "conception and practice," considering how it resonates with "postmodern models of the cyborg, distributed consciousness and the inherently prosthetic self." Assesses "chivalry's intersections…

Argues that the narrator and the characters of FranT pursue an ideal of social harmony based on "trouthe," but they produce a "collective fiction" in which "competing forms of exchange"--marriage, promises, and money--disclose tensions that must…