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Metacomnmunicative markers are more frequent in Middle English religious texts than in Early Modern English religious texts. Boggel focues on such structural and directional markers as "you must remember this" or "let us first examine." Examples…

The fundamental distinction in KnT is not between Palamon and Arcite, but between them and Theseus. The Dionysian misrule of Thebes is symbolically contrasted to the Apollonian order or Athens. The mythic structure of the narrative prepares a…

Chapter 2 discusses the Wife of Bath's "unique approach to her fourth husband's death as she balances her postmortem responsibilities to him with her immediate remarriage,' acting with "concern" while also "tending to her own wishes."

Examines theory and practice of poetics in medieval English literature, including author-centered, text-centered, and modern theoretical approaches.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval…

Twelve essays by various hands. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England under Alternative Title.

Fourteen articles by various hands. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century under Alternative Title.

For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe under Alternative Title.

Essays by various hands. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Essays by various hands on fourteenth-century poetry, secular drama, songs, and lyrics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature in Fourteenth-Century England under Alternative Title.

Ten essays by various authors on topics that include depictions of nature, Chaucer and his reception, Spenser, and medievalism. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.

Ten essays on medieval theories of interpretation and modern approaches to medieval texts. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Interpretation: Medieval and Modern under Alternative Title.

Contains fifteen essays designed for new readers of Chaucer. Emphasizing criticism rather than introductory studies, the contributors introduce fresh insights to encourage new readers to delve further into Chaucer's poetry. Little attention is…

Revised version of the 1986 original, now with seventeen essays, five of which are new. Revised pieces are "The Social and Literary Scene in England" (Paul Strohm); "Chaucer's Italian Inheritance" (David Wallace); "Old Books Brought to New Life in…

Essays on Anglo-Italian relationships and Chaucer's borrowings. For individual essays, of this volume.

Reprints materials from The Riverside Chaucer, with facing-page Italian translation in verse and prose, following the original. Volume 1 contains the dream poems and TC. Volume 2 includes CT. Both volumes include short introductions to the individual…

Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at a symposium on "The Body and Soul in Medieval Literature." Most of the essays focus on Middle English literature, including some comparisons with medieval French and Italian works and some later…

Discusses the conflict between the letter and the spirit in NPT, providing a short survey of the history of literal interpretation. Chaucer freely accepts the letter as literature without excluding the morality. The Priest makes us turn away from…

While using the Italians' narrative structures in MkT, Chaucer twists the styles and themes of Dante and Boccaccio. The pathos and direct narrative of Chaucer's Hugelyn supplant the horror and ambiguities of Dante's Ugolino. Chaucer's Cenobia…

Boitani studies the chain of literary works that stem from Chaucer's KnT, namely "The Two Noble Kinsmen" of Shakespeare and Fletcher and Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite." The story of Palamon and Arcite has features in common with that of Troilus and…

Examines Marian prayers and images in Dante, de Guilleville, Petrarch, and Chaucer, who use prayers to the Virgin at crucial moments in their works. A comparative study illuminates religious ideals and narrative strategies in CT (PrT, SNT), TC, and…

A collection of essays by Boitani, chiefly comparative.

Examines medieval tragic scenes of recognition, including those in Chaucer's MLT and TC and in Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid."

Comparing the old man in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and the old man in PardT, Boitani explores the medieval "other" or "discarded image of the universe," which depends on a "hermeneutic openness" that makes the modern reader perceive the…

The Monk's "de casibus" tragedy poses a problem for the modern reader with an idea of tragedy that involves fallibility, sin, and error. Chaucer himself holds a more complex idea of tragedy than does the Monk. Chaucer's version differs from Dante's…