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Traces a history of Chaucer reception in the context of Christian controversies by "situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries." Emphasizes how Chaucer "engaged with…

Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of "Father Chaucer" to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his…

Studies "depictions of armor" in CT, Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur," and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," "exploring how these works help us understand medievalism in contemporary media," and investigating "how armored bodies function as a way to think…

Theorizes ecopoetic criticism, considering anthropocentrism, anthropotropism, and the "writability" of voices, whether human or nonhuman. Considers the "turn" to the human that opens GP and how the "impenetrability" of the human in GP is "often…

Discusses literary value and the value of continued interest in Chaucer's CT, focusing on parts 4 and 5. Argues that these parts function as a unified group, a framing that offers a new way to read and discover the value of the other CT tales.

Considers CT--primarily SNT, Mel, ManT, and Sted--to argue that Chaucer's frequent depictions of characters employing "parrhesia," which Michel Foucault associates with speaking truth to power, suggest that Chaucer admired those who spoke truth to…

Provides background on Chaucer and CT and emphasizes how each tale in CT addresses the particulars of the literary genre to which it is related. In Japanese.

Introduces Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer's lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with…

Exemplifies the variety of references to food and uses of food imagery in CT, especially GP, observing how they serve as indicators of social and moral conditions--particularly high status and the sin of lust--and aid in characterization.

Explores cultural, prosodic, and personal aspects of translating selections from CT into Farsi verse, with sustained attention to GP, the translatability of Chaucer, and parallels between his work and Persian literature and culture.

Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks "what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer's Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation." Summarizes the essays included in this special issue…

Examines life-writing in the European Middle Ages, with commentary on late antique prototypes and focus on England, ranging widely in languages and forms: Latin and vernacular, history and fiction, poetry and prose, biography and autobiography,…

Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the "Gawain"-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks…

Introduces Chaucer's life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer's poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.

Studies the complicated sexuality of the Virgin Mary in late medieval English literature, exploring scriptural and apocryphal backgrounds; visual imagery; and dramatic, narrative, and lyrical texts. Includes comments on wives' secrets and the…

Argues that Chaucer's poetry can inform contemporary discussions of teachers' bodies and their relative absence from the classroom due to online learning and sexual concerns. Focuses on "the power and purpose of poetry" in SNT, CYT, and ManPT.

Reassesses LGW through an examination of time, understood within a feminist frame, to see repetition and blurring of time and distance between dreamer and reader. Claims that this recursiveness of LGW offers open-ended possibilities for…

Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela's rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as…

Concentrates on Damian in MerT to show how the tale links critique of hierarchical marriage to critique of medieval estates theory. Contends that the tale counters
problems with vertical governance through horizontal governance.

Argues that WBT presents a different vision of law, informed by female agency, where the focus is on reeducation. The rapist-knight is rewarded rather than punished, but this failure of justice functions as a call to activism, as the law so depicted…

Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…

Introduces a special issue of Chaucer Review focused on feminism and Chaucer that surveys the state of the field of current feminist approaches to Chaucer, offering a view of scholarship defined by interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Articles…

Introduces CT as one of the major accomplishments of English medieval literature, surveying information about Chaucer's life and works and focusing on the range and variety of CT. Describes GP, Ret, the longer prologues, and each of the tales, and…

Investigates the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism and how "the history of the medieval" provides contemporary readers with "a model of how to relate to the past." Argues that medieval writers offer models for understanding how…

Explores individuality in visual and verbal portraiture, arguing that facial expressions or movements in art--i.e., "the extent to which a given image evokes or represents movement"--are the basis of perceptions of individuality in portraits.…