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Both PrP and PrT express "affective devotional piety," while simultaneously they are "swollen with reference to targets of Wycliffite polemic." As a result, their Marian generic affiliations and the "collocational patterns" of their diction can and…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 337 items, plus listing of reviews for 92 books. Includes an author…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 205 items, plus listing of reviews for 82 books. Includes an author…

Explores Chaucer's strategy of satire in WBPT, arguing that in its concern with interpretation and discursive insensibility it is fundamentally similar to the anti-mercantile satire of MerT, ShT, and MLT. Reads the Wife in "a London context,"…

Surveys rhetorical approaches to Chaucer and documents the "renaissance in rhetoric" in late fourteenth-century England by surveying manuscripts that contain rhetorical treatises. The impact of this renaissance is evident in Chaucer's poetry: while…

Provides an "anatomy of Lydgate's engagement with" ClT, documenting his "many Griseldas": muse, "haughty beloved," "antithesis of contemporary women," "exemplary spouse," woman who "falls short of being the Virgin Mary," "victim of…

Explores human affiliations with the "non-power" of animals in four Chaucerian images: capons in PardT, mouse in WBP (in contrast with lioness), stags in KnT, and carrion in ClT. Contrasts these with the brass steed as an image of power in SqT.

References to animals presented as "sentient beings" in SumT convey the friar's "spiritual weakness," perhaps reflecting oral traditions of Franciscan ideals.

Comments on Umberto Eco's, Jacques Derrida's, and Marianne Dekoven's contributions to animal studies, and assesses the Host's references to "jade" and "trede-fowl" in NPP and NPE as "prime examples" of the "human habit of appropriating the animal…

Tallies Chaucer's depictions of hunting in BD, LGW, and FranT, and argues that these, in contrast with other works in Middle English, show a "marked lack of sympathy for animals as quarries."

Explicates comparisons between lovers and animals in KnT, suggesting that Chaucer uses them to expose human folly.

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 323 items, plus listing of reviews for 80 books. Includes an author…

Explores relations between concepts of selfhood and notions of spiritual and, especially, secular vocation in WBT, Langland's "Piers Plowman," and Gower's "Vox clamantis." The "wide scope" of late medieval applications of the Pauline notion of being…

Interrogates post-Enlightenment understandings of shame, and argues that in FranT shame negotiates continua rather than dichotomies (men/women, courtly love/marriage, and public/private). Read in light of conduct literature, Arveragus's claims and…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 166 items, plus listing of reviews for 42 books. Includes an author…

Contrasts Gower's and Chaucer's depictions of alchemy in, respectively, the "Confessio Amantis" and CT, and analyzes what these narratives reveal about the poets' views of money and economy. Unlike the depiction of money in Book V of the "Confessio,"…

Explores the "agency" of scribes and seeks to reconstruct their "thinking" by examining a number of instances where late medieval English vernacular scribes left gaps in manuscripts, focusing on examples where the ostensive goal is to maintain…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 229 items, plus listing of reviews for 43 books. Includes an author…

Argues that Chaucer's "occlusion" of Boccaccio as a source for TC and KnT is a complex affirmation of literary authority that asserts independence within a "genealogy of erasure." Statius, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and in turn Lydgate,…

Reads "The Churl and the Bird" as John Lydgate's self-conscious rumination on "the poetic and philosophical implications" of willfully refusing to accept confinement. Includes comments on SqT, ManT, and Chaucer's influence on Lydgate.

Comparative analysis of the themes, techniques, and intertextual relationships of Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," Boccaccio's "Decameron," and CT. Topics include world view, love and passion, nascent humanism, satire and irony, and narrative structures.…

Modern novel that includes a sailing trip to the Caribbean, during which the travelers (the Doctor's Colleague, the Wife, the Diver, etc.) exchange "tales." Includes reference to Chaucer and an approximate quotation of HF 354-60.

Considers "Trohetvisan" and Sted in light of their possible historical allusions and literary conventionality, exploring similarities and differences, and concluding that Chaucer's poem is best regarded as "undated and unaddressed," a poem "written…

Limited edition (210 copies), photo-litho facsimile of GP from British Library copy of William Caxton's 1476 first edition, with facing-page modern translation by Nevill Coghill, two original wood engravings (a portrait of Chaucer and the Knight…

Assesses the Chaucer portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript and in Hoccleve's Regement of Princes as evidence in the study of the development of individual identity. Considers literary portraits of John Locke, John Milton, John Donne, and Chaucer,…