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Assumes Chaucer's Clerk to be "an eminent Oxford logician," and surveys possible real-life models, suggesting that several individuals are plausible and that others "could well have influenced the characterization."

Assesses editions and translations of Chaucer's works between 1660 and 1750 (including Speght 3, Dryden, Urry, and Morrell) for the ways they reflect the principles and practices of Augustan scholarship, lexicography, aesthetic outlooks, social…

Argues that R. K. Root's groupings of manuscript variants in TC (alpha, beta, and gamma) evince Chaucer's developments in his characterizations of Pandarus, Troilus, and, especially, Criseyde; the characterizations also help to balance tragedy and…

Assesses astrological imagery in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, Henryson, Lyly, Greene, and Spenser, including discussion of how the zodiacal signs of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini suggest "symbolic re-enactment of sin" and provide "ironic commentary" in…

Assesses the history and criticism of the concept of courtly love, contending that it is a "complicated metaphor for the poet's commitment to the craft of poetry." Then considers the occasions and philosophical implications of BD, PF, and HF, arguing…

Considers plot and narrative voice for the ways that they set up comic climax in representative French fabliaux and in the six fabliaux of CT.

Identifies a "significant continuity of thought" in BD, HF, and PF: "their shared concern" with Nature and Fortune as principles of order and fertility, on the one hand, and disorder on the other. Traces the roots of these concerns in Boethius, Alain…

Argues that the "emblematic Mary legend of the medieval 'puys'" is analogous to PrT, that the description of the Prioress in GP is "as Marian" as it is courtly, and that Chaucer had access to information about the "puys."

Describes Chaucer's uses of physiognomic details in GP, PardPT, KnT, RvT, WBP, Th, and NPT, arguing that while he used such details for imagery he "only rarely relies on physiognomy alone to delineate character."

Examines Chaucer's uses of the terminology of dreams, his sources of this terminology, critical approaches to dreams in Chaucer, and Chaucer's "handling of dream incidents and narrative themselves," arguing that Chaucer is "reticent about providing…

Suggests that the comparison between Chauntecleer's and mermaid's singing in NPT (7.3269-72) is an "ironic joke" as well as being an "ironic anticipation" of the rooster's fate, connected with the theme of predestination in the Tale.

Includes discussion of SNT, proposing that the Tale was composed in 1381 and exploring Chaucer's sustained interest in hagiography.

Identifies the "structural units" of TC---"the books, the time units, and the narrative units"--and explores their relationships. Also considers various "structural devices": the proems, the lyrics, the rhetorically elaborate temporal descriptions,…

Studies the "3500 second-person pronouns" in CT, using a socio-linguistic model that attends to "Social, Kinship, and Ideational Domains" to account for patterns of usage.

Assesses the characteristic styles of the characters and narrator of TC, arguing that Chaucer was interested in individuality but not psychology.

Describes the classical and medieval developments of the story of Dido and focuses on versions by Virgil, Ovid, and Chaucer, the latter in both HF and LGW.

Identifies Chaucer's uses of the "Ovide Moralisé," particularly the narrative material of the French poem rather than its allegorical interpretations, often used in combination with Latin sources. Considers LGW, Form Age, TC, HF, ManT, and ParsT,…

Uses the Halle-Keyser theory of meter to discover a "pattern of heavy stresses in the initial syllables" of twenty-one of the twenty-three stanzas of ABC that "illuminate the poem aurally."

Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that the participants discuss FranT and MerT (Side 1); KnT, NPT, and WBT (Side 2)

Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that the volume includes "La confesión de una viuda. El estudiante, la patrona y el sacrestán. Por G. Chaucer."

Discuses idealism and human foibles depicted in Chaucer's works, assessing them in light of contemporary social, political, and religious controversies and exploring how Chaucer poses ideals without denying human reality. Available at…

Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that this includes Spanish translation of a selection of Chaucer's poetry, with an introduction.

Uses transformational grammar to describe Chaucer's sentence structure. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10069/32242.

Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that this is a second edition of the Czech translation of CT, released previously in 1953 and 1956 and including discussion of the Canterbury narrator by Zdenek Vancura.

Item not seen; WorldCat record indicate that this is the author's dissertation from the University of Bonn, pertaining to Chaucer's uses of proverbs.