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Chaucer uses "ingenu" irony (Muecke's term) in TC. Pandarus, the most prodigious user of proverbs, demonstrates the illusiveness and unreliability of proverbs. For all his proverbial wisdom, Pandarus, like the narrator, is inept in love. Proverbs…

Challenges B. J. Whiting's (1934) intuitive definition of proverbs and offers an ethnographic definition, focusing on "strategies" of performance of the proverbs in CT and TC and the utility of proverbs in effecting "normalization, valorization, and…

The first English citations for the word "proverb" come from Chaucer's works, in which the word appears twenty-six times. Chaucer uses the word primarily in its modern and most common sense of "traditional folk sayings"; however, he also uses it with…

Compares the treatment of proverbs in three eighteenth-century modernizations of MilT, assessing shifts in form, shifts in emphasis, and sensitivity to Chaucer's original. Considers how proverbs may "function as microcosms" of reader response and…

Assesses the Wife of Bath's admissions of lying, her glossings of Scripture, and her sexual punning as "nominalistic discourse" underpinned by her preference for the empirical and experiential over the universal. Disagrees with feminist readings of…

Fourteen essays by various authors, plus an introduction, honoring the scholarship and teaching of Alan Gaylord. The essays mirror Gaylord's work and methods, including exegetical historicism, close reading, prosodic criticism, and pedagogy. The…

Dramatic recitation of TC, with a cast of eight: Jane Camfield (Antigone and Ladies), Harvey De Roo (Calkas and Troilus), Melanie Yeats (Cassandra, Eleyne, and Ladies), Mary-Ann Stouck (Criseyde), Eric Ball (Deiphebus), Tom Burton (Diomede), Ken…

Eighteen essays by various authors; a professional biography of Emerson Brown, Jr.; and a list of his academic publications. For individuial essays, search for Seyd in Forme and Reverence under Alternative Title.

Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered by Troy Sales and Paul R. Thomas in 2003.

Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2006.

Read by Philip Thiel; edited by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas. Recorded by Ewart Shaw at Radio Adelaide. Includes ManPT.

Recorded digitally at Boulder, Colorado, in association with the 13th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Edited and mastered by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas.

Recorded at the Thirteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Melbourne.

Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…

Recorded at the Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Simon Fraser University.

Recorded at the Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Simon Fraser University.

Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent. Readers include A. C. Spearing; Mary-Ann Stouck; Tom Burton; William Cooper, Jr.; Harvey De Roo; Paul R. Thomas; and Emerson Brown, Jr. Re-edited and…

Recorded at Dartmouth College; read by Alan T. Gaylord.

Recorded at Campion College, University of Regina (side one), and at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent (side two). Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2004.

Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent.

Recorded at Simon Fraser University. Read by Joseph Gallagher.

Dir. and read by Alex Jones.

Recorded at the University of Adelaide, 1994. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2004.

Recorded at Dartmouth College; read by Alan T. Gaylord.

Recorded at the University of Adelaide, 1994. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2004.