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Examines passages in The Legend of Thisbe of LGW that differ from the source, Ovid's "Metamorphoses." In Japanese.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation into Japanese of the complete CT, based on the text of the Riverside Chaucer.

Argues that the various parts of NPT, an "expanded fable," are unified by a thematic exploration of true and false knowledge, then identifies instances where the tale mirrors "some elements of theme, structure, and style" of other parts of CT.

The Old Man in PardT represents a fusion of divine force with the sense of futility and remorse that accompany physical aging--a motif found in medieval lyrics, Villon, and in later writers.

Examines various aspects of the narrations in CT, ranging from the use of tropes to the author's political position. In Japanese.

Chaucer's love poems, including a translation.

Discusses Chaucer's narrative techniques in TC, focusing on two points of view: one intrinsic, in the relationship between the narrator and the story; the other extrinsic, between the narrator and the audience.

Sato suggests that the narrator involves his audience in the narration and makes them comakers of the story and even narrative agents.

A primer on Chaucer, introducing Japanese students to Chaucer the poet, his age, his language, and other basic aspects related to Chaucer's world.

The author investigates some of the ways in which Chaucer exploited the scheme of CT to enlighten us about the nature of the art of narrative, and demonstrates some of the modern senses in which the poet dramatized the medieval pilgrims with…

Analyzes the rhetorical shift between the third-person presentational voice of the first eighteen lines of GP and the following first-person voice of the involved narrator. The passage exploits a new paradigm of narration and validates the theories…

Surveys the structure, frequency, and functions of interjections in the English language, tracing discussion of this word class in linguistic commentary and in Beowulf, MilT, and modern comic books.

Tabulates, describes, and analyzes the interjections used in RvT, summarizing their functions, etymologies, morphologies, and semantics, and using the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse to explore the extent to which the usage in RvT is…

Introduces CT as one of the major accomplishments of English medieval literature, surveying information about Chaucer's life and works and focusing on the range and variety of CT. Describes GP, Ret, the longer prologues, and each of the tales, and…

Sauer describes the "inadequacy of lesbian criticism in today's Medieval Literary Studies" and suggests some opportunities for developing such studies, including opportunities in Chaucer studies.

Pedagogical introduction to Chaucer's works, presented as advice for writing college-level essays (written by Sauer with Laurie A. Sterling, with a sample essay on male physiognomy in GP by Timothy Richards) and writing about Chaucer more…

Twenty essays by various authors on topics in British literature before 1800: five essays on Shakespeare; three on medieval uses of Christ's death (in Beowulf, Song of Roland, and El Cid). Other topics include Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,…

An encyclopedia of authors, works, genres, trends, terminology, and sources of British poetry from the beginnings to 1600, with entries composed by the editor and many contributors, with cross listings and suggestions for further reading. Includes an…

Urges clarification and deployment of queer pedagogy in teaching medieval literature, citing examples of its usefulness in a classroom discussion of production and reproduction in NPT, nuances of "deviance" in Middle English, and the tangibility of…

An introduction to the phonetics and phonology of Chaucer's language in two parts: first, the reconstruction of the phonetic and phonemic system of Chaucer's English and its diachronic development; second, the text of GP with a phonetic…

Chaucer views gentility as a matter of virtue rather than of birth or economics, reflecting contemporary shifts in aristocratic lifestyles. Italian influences and decreasing military service made it necessary for the aristocracy to redefine…

Chaucer may be satirizing the pretensions of the contemporary upwardly mobile.

In 1397, Richard II's rule became more tyrannical, a fact reflected, some chroniclers report, in more elaborate forms of address that were more appropriate for God than for a king.

A biography that assesses Richard II, the quality of his rule, and the events of his reign. Uses Shakespeare's play as a point of departure and argues that Richard's accomplishments and excesses resulted in large part from the fusion of "exercise of…

Criticism of warfare at the end of the fourteenth century focused on greed and pride as "evils of the times," rather than on burdens of taxation, an earlier preoccupation. In Sted, Form Age, Mel, and Th, Chaucer's dislike of war is evident, and his…