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Item not seen. From the abstract: "The focus of my discussion is on the presentation of Medea in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century English literature where her story is recounted by three historians of Troy . . . as well as by Chaucer, in…

Shows "how the frequent conflation between anger and revenge has shaped the representations of what we might call anger management in early English literature," from representative Old English works to Shakespeare. Two chapters focusing on Mel, ClT,…

Analyzes "the literary and musical tools used by Ralph Vaughan Williams to aid in an informed performance" of songs composed by Vaughan to various texts; includes discussion of MercB, accompanied by musical score and commentary.

Argues that CT is "the source" of Part II of Melville's "Clarel," comparing the behaviors of the characters of the two works for the ways they reflect a "single perspective" among Chaucer's pilgrims and "totally different perspectives" among…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "The chapters examine a range of Middle English literary texts that respond to the prescriptive recommendations for mourning outlined in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and in the . . . penitential literature…

Distinguishes elegy and consolation as literary modes, considering the notion of Purgatory as a major underlying feature of the latter. Examines "Pearl" and BD as elegies, reading the latter "as a resistant and secularising monument to suffering that…

Explores speech in late medieval English "literature and prescriptive religious writing," focusing on how "inward feelings [are] realized only in intersubjective exchange." Includes discussion of, among others, "Piers Plowman," "Mum and the…

Examines "the way that gender, genre, form, and affect in late medieval devotion literatures, in the vernacular, provide varying degrees of access to spiritual reality for medieval women." Draws on "contemporary affect theory" and includes discussion…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "My dissertation argues that numerous fourteenth-century texts connect listening with ethics in a phenomenon I call “auditory poetics.” I analyze human agency surrounding the creation and reception of sound in…

Identifies "nine components commonly found in prayers," exploring their presence in various devotional poems in Middle English and interpolated in narrative works by the "Gawain"-poet, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer, observing superior style in the…

Briefly describes differences between TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," focusing on genre and style, characterization, and attitudes toward women.

Item not seen. Dramatized adaptation of Wife of Bath materials; in Portuguese. Produced by Amir Haddad in 2018.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this musical recording includes a track (no. 4; running time 4:01) entitled "Quero Pensar : A Mulher de Bath" [I Want To Think (The Wife Of Bath)], one of sixteen total tracks. Lyrics in Portuguese. Additional…

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.