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For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, of this volume.

Tracing the revival of the romance genre, Santini describes in chronological order the work of amateur scholars, editors, and editorial societies that produced editions and commentary on Middle English romances between 1760 and 1860. Comments on the…

Uses medieval and modern translation theories to consider Old and Middle English narratives about the origins of English Christianity; includes discussion of MLT and its "unveiling of the hidden inclination toward Christianity among the people of…

Brief biography of the first translator of CT into Spanish (ca. 1920). (In Spanish.)

Describes the life and achievements of Manuel Pérez y del Rio Cosa, the first translator of CT into Spanish; discusses the quality of the translation and its role in Spanish understanding of Chaucer.

Chaucer's portrayal of Criseyde had to remain true to Boccaccio's account of her as a betrayer of Troilus, both underlining and undercutting her traditional character and conveying Boethius's idea of the nature of "human felicite."

Discusses TC, Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," and Dryden's "Troilus and Cressida or Truth Found Too Late," arguing that each treatment of Criseyde reflects how its author responds to literary tradition. In…

Compares Criseyde of TC with her analogues in Henryson's "Testament," Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," and Dryden's "Truth Found Too Late," arguing that in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's versions she is a victim of predatory males and is left open…

"[I]nvestigates three medieval manuscript collections--compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries in Herefordshire, Derbyshire and East Anglia, respectively--that are significant in their similarly implied female readerships, their thematic treatment of…

Explores what Chaucer's use of genres strongly associated with female readers--such as vernacular devotional writing, conduct literature, and hagiography--suggests about his attitudes toward women. Examines the significance of the catalogue of…

In the course of examining changing ideas of female readers, considers Chaucer's self-definition as a "writer of feminine genres" (e.g., devotions, saints' lives, and conduct literature).

The third of the three "notes" is entitled "III. Religious Form, Amorous Matter: Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'" (pp. 157-80); it documents a number of similarities of form, theme, and occasion between the two works…

Brief short story in which the narrator's desire to hear an authentic story--"to get to the Canterbury Tales outside the covers of a book"--leads to a change in his life.

Examines "experimentalist modes of inquiry in Middle English literature and natural philosophy," including discussions of HF, LGWP, and other texts for the ways they "stage mental experiments that show how the material world might be perceived and…

Argues that Chaucer's "main contribution to English satire" is the "reunification" of "Horace's gentleness, Juvenal's verve, and St. Jerome's moral vision," augmented by his "facile use of the double-entendre" and "his own special combination of…

Reconsiders the structure and usage of figurative negation in Chaucer treated by Hein (1983), in relation to context and rhyme and in comparison with "Roman de la Rose." Figurative negation is related to rhyme.

The historical present and perfect tenses in KnT could be said to function mainly to express vividness, which is closely related to the nature of orally delivered poetry.

Examines various uses and stylistic effects of "and" in HF.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this is a translation of TC into Japanese, with a translation of Anel, both based on the Riverside Chaucer.

Includes two reminiscences and thirty-four essays in Japanese. For the reminiscence and the six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature under Alternative Title.

Japanese translation of Astr based on the Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition. In Japanese.

Analyzes MerT, SNT, and CYT in the context of Ockhamist thought, focusing on physical sight and blindness.

Analyzes animal images and their effects in the works of Chaucer. In Japanese.

Lists forty-eight onomatopoeic words used by Chaucer. Examines some of these words' auditory, as well as visual, effects within their literary context. In Japanese.

Focuses on how ClT differs from its two sources, Petrarch's "Historia Griseldis" and its anonymous French translation "Le livre Griseldis," and argues that Chaucer adds his original expression of the characters' emotion so as to encourage the…