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Reads the House of Rumor in HF as "an echo object through which we can recover Chaucer's complex and dynamic view of human cognition." Reads the basket-like structure as Chaucer's "uncanny" anticipation of "neuroplasticity," the "capability of the…

Describes and assesses the influence of Chaucer's works on twentieth-century writer Jack Spicer, discussing Spicer's life, his poetics, and his uses of source materials, exemplified in his adaption of TC.

Argues that "Middle English 'defaute,' signifying both lack and loss, characterizes the work of mourning" in BD, considering the "interplays between the poem's articulations of toponyms and its figurations of 'White' as simultaneously a deceased body…

Treats three examples of eighteenth-century comic medievalism as the "male adolescence of the Enlightenment": Henry Fielding's presentation of Arthurian material as "farcically lascivious discourse" in "Tom Thumb," the "pre-modern prurience" of…

Reviews references to how Chaucer is represented and appropriated in Anglophone Caribbean literature and critical essays. Includes example of "fictional allusion" to CT in Jean Rhys's "Again the Antilles."

Argues that in the Dido account of LGW Chaucer "channels" deep-seated cultural "anxiety about Phoenicians as he asserts his place in a Roman-centered Western tradition." By "removing the story of Dido's diasporic leadership, and misidentifying her…

Establishes how Shakespeare and Fletcher used "images of Africanness to link race and class" in "The Two Noble Kinsmen," and claims this differs from Chaucer's concern with the "racial alterity" and "whiteness" of the Amazonian women in KnT.

Focuses on the "mirroring structure" of Agbabi's "Unfinished Business," from"Telling Tales" (2015), and Mel. Also reflects on the inherent "problematizing of translation" that accompanies transforming Mel into contemporary poetry.

Examines Caroline's Bergvall's five Chaucer poems in her "Meddle English" (2011), including discussion of their relations with Chaucer's originals. Focuses especially on Bergvall's "Fried Tale."

Examines Pasolini's inclusion of Italian and English dialects in "I racconti di Canterbury" / "The Canterbury Tales." Reveals how Pasolini's use of dialects reflects his own theories about the importance of "language as an instrument of . . .…

Describes several ways of addressing modern "experimental poems 'as' criticism," and suggests that, adumbrating such metapoetic practice, the juxtaposition of Th and Mel "constitutes a wondering literary-theoretical response to Boethius'…

Contrasts Custance of MLT with her source in Trevet's "Cronicles," exploring the depictions of the sea in the two poems as well, arguing that women and water are tamed by "providential control" in Chaucer, especially when seen in light of Alatiel of…

Considers "connections between the thinking subject and affected body in the medieval period," focusing on "heaviness" as a state of health and a condition for communication. Cites instances in Mel and TC as examples of external and internal…

Argues that, rooted in "animality" that is "carefully performed and constructed," the humor of MilT "functions to erect a conception of humanity over and against the ostracized and inferior semi-human." The Miller performs his animality, and,…

Examines glosses of John Gower's English text of "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's CT, especially MLT, and claims that Chaucer and Gower "are acutely aware of the risks, and sometimes the pleasures, of misprision or queer (mis)interpretation" as they…

Integrates queer theory and ecocriticism to reassess historical manuscript concepts of Adam, including contemporary print and digital media examples. Examines "medieval homosocial networks of textual production" and applies ecotheoretical viewpoints…

Considers CT--primarily SNT, Mel, ManT, and Sted--to argue that Chaucer's frequent depictions of characters employing "parrhesia," which Michel Foucault associates with speaking truth to power, suggest that Chaucer admired those who spoke truth to…

Wonders how the transgender experience allows a "trans textuality" and offers an example of this proposed theoretical approach to manuscripts via a consideration of the Ellesmere manuscript.

Examines Cambridge University Library, MS Ff. 1.6 (the Findern manuscript), which includes extracts from PF and part of LGW, and considers its "taste for writings relating to female desire." Argues that "expression of female same-sex desires must be…

Notes that Chaucer's treatment of the daisy in LGW differs from his typical use of flower imagery. Recognizes parallels between the daisy in LGW and its narrator Geffrey, notes differences between the narrator(s) of the F prologue and the G prologue,…

Considers the "floral atmosphere" of the House of Rumor in HF and sees it as a "place of production [that] appears as entwining, encircling vegetation."

Includes comments on how "Godfridus super Palladium," Astr, and "The Book of John Mandeville"--found together in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS e Musaeo 116--share concern with "possible future[s]" and with "the role of practical or instructional…

Reads the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 as an inspiration for the relationship between textual authority, bibliophobia, and violence in WBPT. Compares Alisoun to rioters who destroyed writings they deemed threatened their personal rights. Argues that the…

Responds to essays included in a special issue of "postmedieval," and comments on SqT, identifying ways that the work and its brass steed--"belong to a world of the "sıra" in ways that reflect the entangled and often diffuse ways that fictional…

Deeply engaged with literary tradition and the dynamics of translation, TC resists "the patriarchal biases of the founding myth the narrator transmits to us." It "denaturalizes the masculine literary corpus" by revealing the "radical contingency of…