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Burnley, John David.   Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 17-34.
Challenges "over-simple dichotomies" between English and French in late-medieval England and illustrates the "pragmatic complexity" of the use of Anglo-French texts. Assesses grammar, style, "speaker attitudes" (with reference to CT and TC), and…

Burns, Christopher, ed.   New York: Park Lane, 1996.
Selects a variety of poems by British and American writers, arranged thematically, including examples from GP: 1-18 (original and translation), and 445-76 (Wife of Bath), 165-207 (Monk), and 285-308 (Clerk) in modern English; all translations by the…

Burns, Maggie.   Neophilologus 81 (1997): 637-47.
Argues that Chaucer drew on Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the "Ovide moralise" rather than on Geoffrey of Monmouth for his description of Pyramus's death in LGW.

Burns, Nicholas.   Joan F. Hallisey and Mary-Anne Vetterling, eds. Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Weston, Mass.: Regis College, [1996]), pp. 19-24.
Unlike modern thinkers who pose Islam as an "Other" in opposition to Christianity, Dante and Chaucer depict the continuities of the two religions. In "Divine Comedy," Dante disapproves of Islam but incorporates it into his cosmic scheme. In MLT,…

Burns, Raymond S.   [Old Greenwich, Conn.]: Listening Library, 1969. PC 3375.
Item not seen. The WorldCat records indicate that this lecture is read by the author; also released as an audio cassette in 1973.

Burns, Sister Mary Florence.   Dissertation Abstracts International 22.04 (1961): 1154.
Studies the Collation Text and the Printer's Copy of Tyrwhitt's edition of CT, identifying his reliance on two manuscript witnesses--British Library Harley 7335 and Cambridge University Library Dd.4.24--and establishing "his fidelity to the…

Burr, David Stanford, ed.   New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002.
This anthology of lyrics and excerpts includes Troilus's Song (TC 1.400-29), in Middle English.

Burrell, Arthur, ed.   Adelaide: University of Adelaide, [2009].
Traslates CT in modified Middle English (originally published in 1908), without notes or commentary, providing links to each of the tales in separate e-files. Occasional diacritical marks indicate stress. The Introduction briefly surveys "Chaucer's…

Burrow, J.   Medium Aevum 30 (1961): 33-37.
Explores parallels between several medieval analogues to Chaucer's use of the phrase "Latyn corrupt" in his description of Constance's language in MLT 2.519--the alliterative "Morte Arthure," the "Etymologiae" of Isidore of Seville (possibly, the…

Burrow, J. A.   Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp. 54-61.
Hoccleve, a personal acquaintance of Chaucer, received personal instruction from Chaucer in the art of English poetry. Hoccleve remains firmly subordinated to his master poet of imaginary worlds, but his distinctive strength is his being "a poet of…

Burrow, J. A.   New York:
Deals with medieval systems of dividing life into ages, with ages based on time divisions, and with exhortations to overcome the difficulties of various ages and to act one's age. Discusses the GP Squire as a youth, the Wife of Bath's youth, old…

Burrow, J. A.   Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 109-24.
Discusses the five "romances" in CT. WBT, ostensibly an Arthurian romance, is actually a "fairy tale, told by a woman and dominated by women"; Th is an "outright burlesque" of contemporary English roamnces; SqT, unfinished, does not offer the…

Burrow, J. A.   Essays in Criticism 36 (1986): 97-119.
ManP reveals Chaucer's art at its most assured. The Host, Manciple, and Cook are united by their role in London's catering trade, and their exchange in the passage shows the Manciple as a blend of malice and circumspection, the Cook as a carnival…

Burrow, J. A.   Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
Fifteen essays and notes on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish writings, four never before printed. For two previously unprinted essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Burrow, J. A.   J. A. Burrow. Essays on Medieval Literature. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 27-48. Also in Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature (Tubingen: Narr, 1984), pp. 91-108.
Analyzes characters, both divine and human, in KnT as "representatives of the "three ages of man: youth, maturity, and old age."

Burrow, J. A.   Claude Rawson, ed. English Satire and the Satiric Tradition. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), pp. 44-55. Also in Yearbook of English Studies 14 (1984): 44-55.
Th, according to L. H. Loomis, follows no previous pattern of burlesque. This article disputes Lommis's contention through comparison with "prise de Neuvile" in action, language, opening address, catalogues, descriptions, parody, abrupt ending, and…

Burrow, J. A.   Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 69-91.
Deals with critical testimonies regarding Th by readers and imitators of Chaucer: Dunbar, ballad composers, the author of "Gamelyn," Skelton, Warton, Puttenham, "E. K.," Drayton, Spenser, Harvey, Lyle, Shakespeare, and Speght.

Burrow, J. A.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.

Burrow, J. A.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 61-75.
Although Chaucer frequently uses petitionary devices, he seldom seems comfortable in the humble role (cf. For, Purse,Scog). Usually he distorts the pattern in fictive and outrageous fashion (HF, LGW) to make jest of humility.

Burrow, J. A.   Review of English Studies 30 (1979): 385-96.
Implicit in the proverb are two distinct views of the order of human development: the order is either a 'high norm to be achieved" or a "low norm to be transcended." Although Chaucer never directly cites the proverb, evidence found in KnT and PrT,…

Burrow, J. A.   M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 105-11.
Explores connotations of "elvyssh" in Pr-ThL as an aspect of "Chaucer's poetic self-representations" in CT and in HF, suggesting that they indicate characteristic reserve.

Burrow, J. A.   A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), 169-79.
Compares authorial and scribal versions of passages from Hoccleve's verse, focusing on scribal omission of monosyllabic words, spelling variants, and terminal -e. Assesses what Hoccleve's practice might tell us about Gower's practice, and how the two…

Burrow, J. A.   Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 44-54.
Burrow comments on several scenes in TC while exploring the limited vocabulary with which medieval English poets could convey nonverbal communication. Considers words such as "cheere" and "countenance."

Burrow, J. A.   Chaucer Review 38 (2004): 294-97.
Burrow recommends repunctuating TC 2.255 as "Nece, alwey lo to the laste," suggesting that it means "look to the last," a phrase that might have been inspired by Chaucer's experiences as a "diplomat and negotiator."

Burrow, J. A.   Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 65-75.
Explores the concept of "civil inattention" ("a desire not to intrude on privacy") as it helps to explain the behavior of the dreamer toward the Black Knight in BD. The concept is described in modern sociology and occurs in several medieval romances…
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