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In response to Morton Bloomfield, "Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer," Minnis distinguishes between the "alterity" and the "modernity" of medieval literature, arguing that medieval theories of literature should be applied to Chaucer.

Introduces the kinds of courts with which Chaucer would have been acquainted, organized into sections on house and law and one on game that end with readings of FrT and SNT. Discusses the range of courtly depictions, cataloguing "some of the…

Explores the variety, subtleties, and complexities of Chaucer's "costume rhetoric" in GP, examining how details of the secular pilgrims' dress and accoutrement capitalize on late-medieval English clothing practice and extend literary tradition.…

Argues that Chaucer was the "Father of English Prudery" because (fabliaux notwithstanding) he elevated and purified the English language by inventing a language of circumlocution and courtly indirection and by substituting Latinate terms for the…

Shows how late medieval "anxieties over the corruption of chivalry" and criticism of the morals, motives, and conduct of crusaders" are reflected in the pairing of the GP descriptions of the Squire and Knight, and in KnT and SqT. Argues that…

Evaluates Chaucer's indebtedness to Dante by examining ascriptions (indexed two ways). Considers aspects of Chaucer-Dante relationship within European setting. The younger Chaucer borrowed isolated lines and phrases from the "Comedy"; the mature…

Advocates a "contextual" approach to source study, arguing that several discussions of Dante's influence on Chaucer depend upon weak correspondences, better treated as shared tradition than direct influence. Discusses the lists of lovers in PF and…

Chaucer's ABC closely reflects its original, a portion of Deguilleville's "Pelerinage." What critics have seen as Chaucer's creative contributions are better described as examples of "redistribution."

Wallace considers Eustace Deschamps's attitudes toward the English occupation of Calais and reads Deschamps's ballade 285 (which praises Chaucer) as a "spirited act of reverse or returned colonization." Identifies parallels in the careers of…

Applies Deschamps' concept of natural music (i.e., words in verse, from L'Art de dictier) to Machaut's ballade "Tout ensement," to "The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale," and to Chaucer's Ros, demonstrating how the rhythms of Middle French and Middle English…

After a survey of the reactions to Tolkien's article on the use of the northern dialect in RvT, Dor shows--on the basis of internal evidence--the geographical background of each pilgrim and the gradation in the process of Londonization.

Given his interest in Chaucer and his ownership of a copy of TC, Dickens's "comic literary use of the motif of 'Christ-forgives-his-killers'" may be an echo of Chaucer's use of the motif, which is based on Luke 23.34, in TC 3.1577.

Chaucer may have known the "Ephemeris Belli Troiani" of Dictys Cretensis.

A study of Chaucer's simultaneous employment of, and challenge to, comparative language and thinking. Chapter 1 explores dissimilarity and its "taxonomic force" in academic and religious traditions, while chapter 2 focuses on this subject in HF.…

Summarizes the life and medical expertise of John of Gaddesden, rejecting the notion that Chaucer caricatured Gaddesden in the GP description of the Physician, suggesting that it is instead an "impersonal description." Also comments on Chaucer's…

Explores the "[p]ossible influence" of ShT "on the Don Juan theme" in England and in Spain, observing that the former "is likely enough but difficult to prove," while the latter is "very unlikely and virtually unprovable."

Chaucer's references to education are scattered, unpredictable, and peripheral except in the WBT and SqT, where the education theme is central.

Similarities in the depiction of character, in the pilgrimage topos, and in the reworking of source material suggest Chaucer's influence on "The Waste Land." Evans explores Eliot's academic and scholarly familiarity with Chaucer.

In Japanese. For seven articles that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title for Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki.

Although Chaucer's writings reflect the disposition of his time to exclude, in one way or another, those who are strangers in various communities, the poet is uninterested in England as a nation. Nonetheless, in the nineteenth century Chaucer came to…

Proposes that Erasmus's satiric "Peregrinatio religionis ergo"--detailing a pilgrimage to Canterbury--is influenced by the cynicism of Chaucer's CT. The parodies on "dulia" and "latria" in KnT, of Moses and Aaron in the Pardoner and Summoner, and…

Griselda reflects the "ordinary peasant woman" of Chaucer's age. Her anxieties about the burials of her children are similar to concerns found in guild records; both ClT and the guild records indicate late-medieval interconnections among poverty,…

Eleven essays and an introduction (by Davis) deal with Chaucer's concern with poetic fame and/or with his poetic reputation among his contemporaries, down to the twenty-first century. The introduction (pp. 1–19) describes the essays and comments on…

Martin defends the "eclectic approach" she adopted in her book, "Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons" (University of Iowa Press, 1990), a critical posture that borrows from a variety of critical approaches.

Nine essays by various authors, eight of which assess Chaucer's fifteenth-century legacy. For the individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry under Alternative Title.