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Distinguishes three major types of prologues in late-medieval English literature: organic; a dilation; and a displaced prologue, i.e., a prologue that does not correspond to the document. Examines CT, LGW, TC, and Astr.

After a short discussion of the genesis of CT, Bourgne successively explores its structure (collection of tales; importance of commerce and exchanges; prologues; labyrinth); shifts between oral and written literatures, or audiences and readerships;…

Studies Chaucer's Bo to determine which texts, versions, and commentaries Chaucer might have used and which modifications he might have introduced and to what purposes.

Bourgne studies the links between architecture and Chaucer's transposition ("his new ekphrasis") into literary compositions.

Drawing on BD, TC, and the Gawain poet, Bourgne studies the influence of architecture on poetry.

Studies the function of medieval inscribed or letter-shaped jewels and similar objects, referring to Chaucer's Prioress and to TC.

Vernacular authors anxious about the fragility of texts due to the impermanence of the medium and scribal transmission called attention in their writing to forms of engraving in stone and wax. As writing habits changed, the depiction of writing…

Reflects on the term "object" in relation to whether it means a manuscript, circulating text, or real object; includes recurrent references to Chaucer and Chaucer scholarship.

Philological translation into French of TC 5. Based on John Warrington's editions, revised by Maldwyn Ellis (Dent: Everyman Classics 1992, 1974)

Although Chaucer and Christine de Pisan showed themselves well aware of the distorting mirror of gender constructions by men, the Renaissance produced even more misogynist views, especially in Jacobean domestic tragedy. Shakespeare, however,…

For two individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Hier et aujourd'hui under Alternative Title.

In BD, the omission of the transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone--included in other versions of the narrative--runs counter to the expectation of readers, thus exacerbating the anti-consolatory element in the adjacent narrator's dream.

Argues that Chaucer "contextualizes virtues through narrative." Provides close study of Chaucer's treatment of virtues and ethics in CT and TC.

The Prioress's portrait in GP and NPT both draw from aspects of the Lancelot story. The Prioress partially models her own life on that of Guinevere without the full religious conversion that Guinevere undergoes after the death of Arthur. The Nun's …

Considers Chaucer's use of Arthurian legend, from his use in TC of the traditional French conception of Lancelot for Troilus to his examination of the subtext the legend provides for the fabric of fourteenth-century English society. In particular,…

Intertextual relationships among MerT, SqT, and FranT indicate differing attitudes toward perception, loyalty, and treason, particularly focused in the depictions of squires. Chaucer's Squire condescends to the lower classes and their ignorance of…

Th is told between PrT and Mel, two stories that feature violence. While Th is often read as an innocent parody of romance, there are suggestions of potential violence. In his encounter with the elf queen. Sir Thopas represents the threat against the…

A collection of thirty-two eighteenth-century modernizations of CT by at least seventeen authors, known and anonymous. Valuable in an exploration of reception aesthetics and reader-response theory.

Examines traditions and analogues of the ballad "The Wanton Wife of Bath," a thirteenth-century Old French fabliau analogue, and post-Chaucerian versions. Texts included for various versions.

Lists recordings of Chaucer, of Middle English excluding Chaucer, and of Old English. Analyses of elocutive style and evaluations are provided for Chaucer only. Includes a review of Chaucer scholarship relevant to pedagogy as well as a bibliography.…

Concerned with textual ambiguity and flexibility in oral performance, Bowden compares varying interpretations of passages from CT. Pedagogical interpretative slant.

CT tapes are useful in interpreting the GP Prioress and excerpts in PardT, MerT, WBT, and NPT.

In his paintings of the Canterbury pilgrims, Blake shows the influence of previous illustrations for and commentary upon CT, but goes beyond the artistic and textual tradition to set the group of pilgrims in his own Blakean cosmos, pairing characters…

Compares depictions of Chaucer-the-pilgrim, the Knight, the Squire, the Monk, the Shipman, and the Reeve by the anonymous illustrator of John Urry's 1721 edition of Chaucer's "Works" and by James Jeffreys. The comparison reveals that "readers in…

Compares the treatment of proverbs in three eighteenth-century modernizations of MilT, assessing shifts in form, shifts in emphasis, and sensitivity to Chaucer's original. Considers how proverbs may "function as microcosms" of reader response and…