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Reviews Derek Brewer's editorial work on Malory and Chaucer. Mentions Brewer's unpublished projects, including the "Nelson Chaucer," that affected the "textual authority" of Middle English scholarship.

Primarily discusses medieval humor in Gower, yet addresses how Gower's and Chaucer's humorous characters are female. Looks at Criseyde in TC, Alison in WBT, the merchant's wife in ShT, and Alisoun in MilT.

Analyzes the history of the OED's medieval portion, and emphasizes how Chaucer's "linguistic innovativeness" is shaped by the "substance of OED and MED quotations and definitions." Includes extensive appendix of OED's record of vocabulary in BD.

Reflects on the significance of Brewer's early writings on Chaucer and his importance as a "critic and literary and cultural historian." Discussion of Brewer's exploration of the "Gothic" in connection with CT.

Introduces new scholarship developments based on Derek Brewer's contributions to Chaucerian studies. Connects Brewer's Chaucerian studies to his personal poetry, and provides insight into Brewer's pioneering work as a medievalist.

Addresses the importance of storytelling, and the "sheer power of narrative" in CT. In particular, argues that CT is "not an allegory," and that Chaucer plays with time by putting ParsT and Ret at the end, which reinforces the fact that "there is…

Analyzes Brewer's interpretations of the figure of the Knight in GP and KnT.

Explores the history and iconography of Venus and focuses on the theme of Venus in KnT, PF, and TC. Also maintains that "medieval Venus" stories greatly impacted Derek Brewer's writing and scholarly interests.

Provides a landscape of medieval courtly love, particularly within the French tradition, and evaluates how Chaucer explores intricacies of love in TC.

Focuses on how Troilus's "disciplined imagination" can be viewed through an understanding of "rhetoric's ancient connection with moral philosophy."

Explores how Chaucer plays with the theme of time in TC.

Discusses medieval views of feminine beauty as related to Troilus's desire and the "ordinariness of Criseyde."

Essays focus on the medieval idea of the "literary," with particular emphasis on the poetry of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Answerable Style under Alternative Title.

Studies the importance of "voice" within medieval studies; develops an "interrelation between voice and public"; and positions Chaucer as "a public poet" who is concerned with voice throughout his works. Considers voice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and…

Addresses "excesses of Chaucerian literary language" to reveal Chaucer's narrative voice within a literary and historical construct. Discusses the "complex range of intention and desire" in MLT. Also refers to HF.

Explores a relationship between "late-medieval aesthetics and renunciation" in ClT and establishes differences between Petrarch's and Chaucer's treatments of the Griselda story. Points out that Chaucer's Clerk challenges both Petrarch's "absolutist"…

Examines how Chaucer uses "ordinary structures of narrative inference to create the mirage of subjective depth" in his development of characters in TC. Refers to Chaucer's unique "experiment" with characterization in TC as the "subjectivity-effect."

Discusses the literary and historical contexts of Langland's poetics, and argues that the poem's "multilingualism makes it an exemplary English poem." Chapter 2, "Learning (B.8-12)," refers to WBT, MilT, and ClT.

Takes an in-depth look at the influence of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" on Shakespeare's "Pericles," focusing on cultural spirituality and the portrayal of death. Briefly contrasts the editorial process through which Chaucer's works evolved with…

In an analysis of Gower's legal associations, examines how Chaucer uses "jurisprudential topoi" in CT, particularly in SumT. Also discusses law in FrT, PardT, and Mel.

Focuses on devotional and legal "witnessing practices" of the late Middle Ages. Chapter 2, "The Face of a Saint and the Seal of a King," reveals how the Man of Law presents "episodes of false witness" in MLT.

Analyzes Pasolini's version of CT in the context of Eco's and Pasolini's debate about semiology and the relation of reality and art. Thus, the Italian filmmaker creates a filmic narrative reflecting Chaucer's historicity of frontier, in the topics,…

Frisian verse translation of GP, with notes.

Frisian verse translation of PrPT. A WorldCat record indicates that this was first published in De strikel: Moannebled foar Fryslan (1970), an item not seen.

A WorldCat record indicates that this is a Hebrew translation of Peter Ackroyd's 2009 modernization of CT; item not seen.