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A detective mystery in which a stone-tablet illustration of the Wife of Bath provokes the killing of a Chaucer professor during an auction. The story includes a putative portrait of Chaucer and surmises about his life.

Short story that involves a Chaucer scholar, a manuscript of Chaucer's Book of the Leoun (Ret 10.1087), and an extortion scheme.

Assesses how "mythological heroines from Ovid's "Heroides" and "Metamorphoses" were catalogued, conflated, reconceived, and recontextualized in vernacular literature," particularly as they reflect his "interest in textual revision and his…

Argues that in "The Ancestor's Tale: Richard Dawkins "uses Chaucer's poetics to address interpretative problems with evolution," particularly the "anthropocentric" notion that "humanity is the 'result' of evolution." Dawkins's uses of the frame…

Argues that Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" combines the concern with Boethian logic and necessity found in TC with Ramist thinking, indicating that Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford, was the author of the play. The combination prompts a…

Describes the lives and accomplishments of some 100 international writers. The section on Chaucer (pp. 84-92) summarizes his life and career as a public servant, integrating discussion of his major works in chronological order and emphasizing CT,…

Collection of essays reflecting contemporary topics in linguistic and literary research on the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts under Alternative Title.

Analyzes the metaphors, metonymies, and "metaphors based on metonymies" used in descriptions of love and of heart in CT, exploring the cultural dependence and/or universality of the figures, particularly differences between medieval and modern usage

Studies the generic variety, rhetorical features, and persuasive power of four works of medieval English literature, including ParsT, tabulating the relative incidences of rhetorical questions, appeals to authority or logic, poetic devices,…

Explores the pragmatic linguistic devices Chaucer uses to establish a common ground of communication and "create convincing exchanges" between the Dreamer and the Eagle in HF, identifying and analyzing various concerns: "back-channel," lexicon,…

Explores the "means and purposes" of Latin literary education in late medieval England, examining the "subject position" imagined for school children in pedagogical materials. Also comments on how Chaucer and Langland evoke a "grammatical nostalgia"…

Considers the utilities of "hyperprint" texts for teaching medieval literature, offering an extended example of the first twenty-five lines of MilT, augmented by five "fiducial markers" (QR-coded) that enable a reader/user, without leaving the…

Comments on the advantages of using new media to help students gain appreciation and expertise in studying Chaucer; includes descriptions of undergraduate classroom activities that use cinema, Chaucer blogs, YouTube videos of rap versions of…

Examines a series of English literary texts in which "the portrayal of landscape does both elegiac and political work." Includes CT, which "represents a new sphere of civic and economic movement within established space."

Discusses the narrative frame of H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine" as part of the "story-within-story narrative model" epitomized by CT, describing features of Chaucer's frame-narrative and arguing that Wells's presentation is unique in that the…

Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in…

Surveys Marxist scholarship concerning "class clowns" in American school rooms, classroom management of them, and their vocational potential. Then discusses Nicholas of MilT and John and Aleyn of RvT as students "who 'work the system' for the sake of…

Investigates the lexicons of emotion and "codes of masculinity" in a range of late medieval English literary texts, including RvT.

Explores three examples of literary representation of cultural contact across language boundaries: an episode from the "Doctor Who" television series, MLT, and the BBC adaptation of MLT, identifying parallels among cross-linguistic contact,…

Studies the "role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions," discussing a range of texts, medieval to postmodern, including two chapters on WBPT that assess the loathly lady as the "alter ego" of…

Summarizes differences between oral and literate communication, describes CT as a product of a transitional "manuscript culture," and discusses how WBP lends verisimilitude to the speaking voice of WBT, an example of Chaucer's virtuosity in a "time…

Argues that Chaucer raises questions in ClT about relations between poverty and the nature of the self, gauging the extent to which Griselda's agency, selflessness, and lack of "things" are factors in Walter's "inhuman" treatment of her, and asking…

Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps's "relatively faithful French translation," "Geta et Amphitrion," and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps's treatment of Plautus's Latin original with those of…

Argues that two of Chaucer's emphases in SqT modify source material from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and thereby undo the "binary divide between humankind and animal kinds." The "falcon's species vacillation" and Canace's "cross-species…

Traces the development of the relations between illusion and courtliness from Boccaccio to James Lasdun's story in the "The Siege," including a discussion of FranT that focuses on the "demande d'amour" that concludes the Tale.