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Comments on Chaucer's connections with Spain, focusing on 1366, when he was married and visited Spain, and on 1387, when many died of pestilence after accompanying John of Gaunt on his invasion of Spain in 1386.

Argues that landscape is a device of characterization and narrative control in fourteenth-century literature, drawing examples from Chaucer's works.

Characterizes the GP Knight based on his participation in Christian crusades and his worthy "non-involvement" in the Hundred Years War.

Analyzes the "Legend of Dido" in LGW to reveal how narrative serves as a "cognitive tool for shaping worldviews" held within cultural communities. Discusses the "cognitive-cultural underpinnings" and strategies Chaucer uses to tell a fragmentary…

Identifies which folios of Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I are included (photostatic copies) in the Tolkien archive of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tolkien VC 277, using the copies to assess Tolkien's possible assistance to Derek J. Price and R. M.…

An anthology of essays by various authors on aspects of medieval love literature. The introduction, by Paxson, discusses literary depictions of love in light of postmodern theories of the "psychological, phenomenological, and gendered bases" of…

Traces the changing reception of the literary images of the plowman and the shepherd from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. In the fourteenth century, the plowman begins to shift from representing such values as hard work and thrift to…

Some typical references are introduced to classify the characteristics of each period of Chaucerian scholarship from the fourteenth century to the present time. The paper also shows the necessity of trying a religious approach especially to CT to…

CT is basically religious in spite of its various secular elements. The religious connotation depends rather on Chaucer's Catholic views of life than on the outward signs. All the characters and their tales, both sacred and secular, are equally…

Examines the contradictory religious and secular aspects of the complex Prioress, an important personality in CT.

TC scholarship is reviewed. It is important to read TC in terms of the Christian view of life.

Argues that the novel has a far-reaching international history, evident in early eighteenth-century works translated and published in Amsterdam and Leipzig such as "Les Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Frêne," which shows not only proof of…

Opens a discussion of hare-hunting as parody in the Middle High German fabliau "Das Häslein" with comments on Chaucer's Monk (GP 191-92 and MkP 7.1945-48) and, with reference to medieval hunting practice, shows that the German work is farcical.

Stock applies semiotic theory to MerT: the reason-passion motif in May's stepping on January's back to climb the pear tree; the cough, the garden, and the May-Mary association; the serpent-Damien; the January-creator. The tale's verbal "signes"…

29 July 2003. Critique of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I Racconti di Canterbury," commenting that it is the "poor cousin" within Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" and observing its concern with death. Moliterno includes quotations from Pasolini about his…

Chapter titles include "The Writer and His Age," The Poet's Craft," "The Shorter Poems," "Chaucer and Italy," and "The Canterbury Tales."-

Korean translation of GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, and PardPT. Includes an introduction.

Korean translation of TC, with an introduction.

Korean translation of the complete CT, with poetry translated as poetry and prose as prose.

Twenty essays by various authors on topics in theoretical linguistics and in Old and Middle English linguistics and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature under…

Middle English texts of GP, MilT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPT, with introductions, glosses, and notes in Korean.

A traditional literary history of Britain from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons until 1500, introducing major writers (including Chaucer) and works, with summaries and brief quotations.

Examines the "game–earnest topos" in KnT to understand better Chaucer's many uses of games in CT.

Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social…

Copeland outlines the classical-medieval tradition of rhetoric and its relationships with history, philosophy, and literary style. Considers the Pardoner as an embodiment of rhetoric and its potential for abuse; the Wife of Bath as rhetorical excess…