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Considers the "gestalt of identity" that armor represents in TC, assessing the private and public aspects of references to arms and armor in the poem, focusing on Troilus and Diomedes.

Examines Chaucer's original characterization of Calkas through the ways it diverges from the representation of this character in earlier versions. Chaucer presents him as a human individual whose words are not necessarily to be trusted, introducing…

Suggests how Chaucer may have become familiar with the work of Guido Cavalcanti, and argues that TC records philosophical and poetical perspectives and several poetic devices that are similar to those found in Cavalcanti's "Donna me prega."

Argues that moral and psychological interpretations of TC--readings that judge the characters and those that empathize with their experiences--are "not as incompatible as their adherents would have us believe." Chaucer's rich depictions of his…

Discusses determinism in a variety of late medieval works, Malory's "Darthur" most extensively. Includes discussion of TC for its depiction of "God's ability to overpower anything that had been ordained by some predetermining force," part of the…

Reads the manuscript glosses to TC in Cambridge, St. John's College, MS L.i and Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.IV.27 as an "experimental early step toward the more elaborate marginal apparatus" in CT manuscripts. The TC glosses reflect a…

Focuses on Criseyde's two oaths of fidelity in TC (3.1493-1502 and 4.1549-54) for the way that they allusively engage Ovidian narratives; counter the linear temporality of epic; affirm Criseyde's sincerity and "bold idealism"; and compel readers to…

Argues that Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" provides Chaucer with a means of understanding time as a unified and simultaneous whole, and that he deploys this understanding in the dream visions, and especially TC.

Presents evidence that William Thynne used MS Hunter 409 as his source when preparing Rom for his 1532 edition of Chaucer's Workes," "resorting to the French original when in doubt," and recurrently archaizing the text by adding the y-prefix to…

Offers a pedagogical plan for a lesson in the close reading of several late medieval English lyrics, including comparisons of poems by Thomas Hoccleve with Purse and Chaucer's roundel at the end of PF. Explores issues of "accessibility" to students,…

Explores the bird-talk and "interspecies communication" in PF as they dramatize the potentials and limitations of allegory, translation, "biotranslation," the "writeability" of bird sounds, and the relations between human and nonhuman subjectivities.…

Argues that when read in the light of the moralized garden in Alan of Lille's "Plaint of Nature," the "locus amoenus" of PF is "an ethically charged terrain," in which the narrator successively exemplifies and then deviates from the virtues of…

Explores how poets "guide their readers through sequences of feelings, thoughts, and attitudes" by means of verbal depictions of built spaces that orient readers' attention to the use of spaces and spatial objects. Includes discussion of the gate in…

Comprises an anthology of English-language poetry about birds and bird species, with accompanying color plates. In the section concerning hawks, includes a stanza from PF (lines 330-36).

Assesses how the invocation to the "yevere of the formes" (2228ff.) that opens the "Legend of Philomela" in LGW contributes to the "primary rhetorical effect" of the legend, i.e.,"secondary pathos." As an appeal to an absent god, the invocation, like…

Examines "the role of women in literary texts as counselors to kings" in late medieval England, assessing works by Chaucer (LGW and Mel), John Gower, and Stephen Scrope.

Assesses several aspects of the "ballade" in LGWP to argue that the differences between the F and G versions of the interpolated poem (itself composed as a standalone lyric) indicate that the F version predates the G.

Uses Michel Foucault's notions of power, subversion, and discourse to argue that LGWP "illustrates the medieval writer's relationship to hegemonic power" and "presents the potential ways authors are involved in the production and subversion of…

Translates into Japanese both F and G versions of LGWP, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes in Japanese.

In Chinese; item not seen. The subject listings and the notes in the record of the online MLA International Bibliography indicate that the essay treats HF, "Pearl," Lollard writing, and work(s) by George Herbert. The record also indicates that a…

Focuses on HF, 584–92, clarifying the meaning and implications of "stellifye," arguing that the narrator's fear of stellification reflects Chaucer's concerns about social and poetic ascent, and describing how the allusion to Ganymede evokes a…

Reads the description of the temple of Venus in HF in light of its literary sources and late medieval church ambulation, investigating how ideas of physical, aesthetic, and spiritual motion underlie the narrator's moving gaze. Includes five b&w…

Analyzes Boccaccio's impact on Chaucer in HF. Presents literary history of Boccaccio's "Amorosa vision" and descriptions of Chaucer's trips to Italy, and claims that "Chaucer tries out an array of Boccaccian approaches to Dantean questions and…

Presents HF as a poetic and rhetoric reflection, as well as a reaction to the desire to have (versus the desire to be) and the belief in popular opinion (versus the belief in truth).

Reads the House of Rumor in HF as "an echo object through which we can recover Chaucer's complex and dynamic view of human cognition." Reads the basket-like structure as Chaucer's "uncanny" anticipation of "neuroplasticity," the "capability of the…