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Provides background to franklins in medieval England and uses Stephen Greenblatt's notion of "self-fashioning" to assess the characterization of the Franklin in GP, in his words to the Squire (Sq-FranL), and in FranT as an "embodiment of the 'new…

Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"

Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…

Argues that the shift from exaggerated romance to philosophical discourse between Th and Mel, the voicing of these tales by Chaucer as narrator, and the responses of the pilgrims to the two tales, indicate a general shift of "literary aesthetics"…

Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."

Assesses John Lydgate as "the premier learned war poet of the later English Middle Ages," exploring his "Troy Book" and "Seige of Thebes" for the ways they depict the violence of war. Includes recurrent attention to Lydgate's sources, Chaucer's TC,…

Challenges D.W. Robertson's approach to allegory and to the WBP, arguing that the medieval outlook was more flexible than Robertson asserted, more capable of varied attitudes toward present times, the historical past, the eschatological future, and…

Surveys the presentation of CT in manuscripts and printed books up to the publication of William Thynne's first complete works of Chaucer (1532). Focuses on editorial principles and concepts such as compilatio, authorship, and collation. In Japanese.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this classroom anthology, designed for use in elementary school, includes an adaptation of NPT by Berry.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of KnT into Modern English prose.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of HF into Modern English verse.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of PF into Modern English verse.

Revised version of "Humor e Ironia em Geoffrey Chaucer: O Conto do Molerio X O Conto do Feitor" (2013)

Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer—Uma Leitura…

Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version…

Item not seen. Apparently pertains to TC 2.1735 and/or SNT 8.221.

Illustrated anthology of English literature and literary criticism from Old English into the twentieth century, with a section entitled "The Time of Chaucer" that includes NPT and PardT, along with "Interesting Sidelights," "The Royal Tree," and "The…

Comments on the legacy of Chaucer's humor in English literature, and includes a brief introduction to CT and selections from GP (descriptions of Wife Bath, Miller, Summoner, and Pardoner) in modern English translation (by Nevill Coghill), accompanied…

Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.

Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat record.

Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that FranT is "Rendered into modern English prose by John Hobday."

Introduces and anthologizes examples of humor in English literature, and critical analyses of it, arranged topically by humorous technique; includes Nevill Coghill's modern translation of the GP descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner under…

Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.

Observes tensions between masculine, political responsibilities Troilus has to his state and feminized submissiveness to his "sovereyn" Criseyde, grounding these tensions in medieval critiques of courtly love and aligning Troilus's submission with…

Indicates Chaucer's mixture of genres in CT, and assesses the "inversion of normative genres and usage of multigeneric construction" in NPT to convey significant themes and in ManT to pose a disturbing "pseudo-moral." Includes an abstract in Serbian.