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Argues that "as a better joke," "worly" is preferable to "worthy" in Tho (7.917). The latter appears to be "scribal normalization" of Chaucer's mocking of a "well-worn native" word.

Details two meanings of Chaucer's idea of "fame" in lines 1873-82 of HF: either living a "private, unnoticed life," or not looking for "glory as a poet." Compares Book II to Alexander's Pope's "The Temple of Fame."

One scribe included the "Tale of Beryn" in his copy of CT. The Prologue presents Chaucer's pilgrims after they arrive at Canterbury, and the tale is appropriate to its teller, a merchant. Argues that the "Beryn" author was "an intelligent and…

Defines "pronominatio" and traces its background in medieval rhetorical handbooks; then surveys instances in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton, analyzing individual uses that convey either praise or censure given to characters by associating…

Argues that "the increasing alterity of Middle English texts in the early modern period compelled editorial interventions designed to make the texts accessible as well as to identify, to emphasize, or to establish the texts/ relevance to contemporary…

An international ranking which summarizes the lives and works of 100 writers. Chaucer is listed as number five (behind Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Tolstoy), and credited with a "fundamental redefinition of the possibility of poetic expression."

Anatomizes the theme and structures of failure in CYPT, contrasting the Canon's Yeoman and Chaucer-pilgrim as narrators, and tallying ways that failure dominates the narrative: failed science, failed rhetoric, failed comedy, failed moralizing, and…

Cites and quotes a portion of Dorigen's "song" in FranT 4.857-94 as an early, pre-Romantic lyrical example of the "'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' effect" in poetry, a trope by which reference to a physical space links the inner concerns of multiple…

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To describe the arming of Sir Thopas, Chaucer employs a repetitive style that parodies that of arming scenes in Middle English romances.

Dame Alice embodies the "bossy woman" who wishes to be mastered in bed, demands freedom outside it, but only finds her ideal in fantasy. Her fourth husband failed to master her in bed; the fifth refused her freedom outside it; only the knight in WBT…

A playful send-up of literary criticism, especially efforts to psychoanalyze characters. Explains features of WBT in terms of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and vice versa.

Argues that internal evidence (meter, repetitiveness, exaggeration, etc.) is sufficient to establish that "The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale" is a parody, comparing examples drawn from the poem to similar ones in Chaucer's MercB, MilT, and, especially,…

Eighteen essays by various authors; a professional biography of Emerson Brown, Jr.; and a list of his academic publications. For individuial essays, search for Seyd in Forme and Reverence under Alternative Title.

The complete annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical treatments of "The Miller's Tale,""The Reeve's Tale,"and "The The Cook's Tale" from 1900 through 1992, subdivided into the following categories: editions, translations, and modernizations…

Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…

Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent. Readers include A. C. Spearing; Mary-Ann Stouck; Tom Burton; William Cooper, Jr.; Harvey De Roo; Paul R. Thomas; and Emerson Brown, Jr. Re-edited and…

Recorded at the Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Simon Fraser University.

Recorded at the Thirteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Melbourne.

Recorded at Campion College, University of Regina (side one), and at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent (side two). Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2004.

Recorded at the Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Simon Fraser University.

Recorded at the Seventh International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Kent.