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Includes a section entitled "Shorter Chaucer Tales" (pp. 21–51) with five pieces inspired by CT: "The Host Tale," "The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)," "The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)," "The Not Tale (Funeral)," and "Fried Tale (London Zoo)." The…

Provides close readings of canonical medieval texts, including "Piers Plowman," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT. Emphasizes KnT, GP, MilT, PrT, SumT, PardT, and FrT.

Compares WBT with its Middle English analogues and comments on the relations between WBPT and ShT. http://repository.seikei.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10928/86/1/bungaku-46_13-22.pdf (accessed January 12, 2016). In Japanese.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this is a translation of LGW into Slovenian, with illustrations.

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2009, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Identifies and describes reference works that pertain to individual English authors, published (in print or online) from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century--concordances, glossaries, name-dictionaries, indices to quotations and…

Summarizes Chaucer's life and career, and comments on TC and CT (especially the Pardoner and Wife of Bath) as demonstrations of Chaucer's "commitment to the religious view of life," his "humanist sympathy" with living in a fallen world, and his…

Features the beauty and importance of the Luttrell Psalter and Caxton's second edition of CT, with commentary on book production and the sociohistorical importance of the featured texts. Four sections pertain to Chaucer: "Commercial Printing" (2:30),…

Reassesses the implications of the two copies of the quitclaim pertaining to Cecily Champain and Chaucer, clarifying the meaning of "quitclaim," describing the process of issuing claims in the medieval period, and arguing that Champain issued two…

Tabulates, compares, and analyzes the "collation results" of understudied sections of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of CT and Caxton's second edition, comparing them with variants in manuscripts, and arguing that while De Worde's editorial practice was…

Ten essays by various authors on textual concerns of late medieval English manuscripts and early printed books. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts under Alternative Title.

Identifies several difficulties in representing manuscript abbreviations digitally, focusing on graphic subscription and superscription, and drawing data from manuscripts of MLT transcribed for the "Canterbury Tales" Project.

Presents and discusses tabular data from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, copied by Adam Pinkhurst, to show how "codicological and palaeographical context" can affect orthography and abbreviation in late medieval English manuscripts.

Describes a group assignment for use in an undergraduate Chaucer classroom, designed to introduce students to basic principles and practice of medieval book production, including paleography and codicology.

Offers a series of undergraduate classroom exercises to teach differences in kinds of edited texts and to introduce concepts crucial to editorial practice, using samples from Middle English literature: MerT IV.2069–76 most extensively.

For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Code-Switching in Early English under Alternative Title.

Explores "how and why Middle English poets switch into French," confronting distinctions between switching dialects (diglossia) and switching languages as well as acknowledging the complicating conditions of social discourse (footing). Discusses…

Describes various ways that scribes used "visual pragmatics" (i.e., "bibliographic codes like rubrication, illumination, underscoring and so forth") to indicate code-switching in late medieval English literary manuscripts. Includes a comment on the…

Distinguishes graphetic, graphemic, and "meaningful subgraphemic phenomena" in the Latin-based abbreviations of MLT manuscripts, using the data to demonstrate why the "Canterbury Tales" Project has elected not to expand abbreviations uniformly and…

Surveys studies of Chaucer's uses of Dante and Boccaccio as sources, focusing on work done since 1980 and "highlighting new and forthcoming work."

Offers a "new description of Chaucer's interaction with Italian poetry," focusing on how he avoids borrowing several of its most innovative features: the "presence of a beatific lady," the tendency to elevate the poet's poetry to high authority, and…

Describes and discusses two analogues to the pear tree episode in MerT (and in Boccaccio's "Decameron"), one in Persian by Rumi in his "Mathnavī," and one in Arabic by Ibn al-Jawzi in his "Kitāb al-adhkiyā'." Also describes and discusses two…

Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.

Surveys Gower's reception among fellow poets and critics, including comments on the effect of Chaucer upon Gower's reputation and the value of comparing their versions of individual stories.

Compares and contrasts the uses of estates literature in works by Gower, Chaucer, and William Langland, explaining the didacticism of Gower, Chaucer's "playful 'show--don't tell'" in GP, and Langland's allusive allegorizing.