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Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in…

Revises the author's earlier study "The Keyhole Politics of Chaucerian Theatricality: Voyeurism in the Knight's Tale" (SAC 27 [2005], no. 183), placing it in the context of a parallel discussion of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Essays by various hands. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Vox Feminae under Alternative Title.

Distinguishes between vow and boast in literary convention, traced down to the burlesques in "The Tournament of Tottenham" and Chaucer's Th. Considers the role of women as "taunters."

Surveys the theme of Fortune's influence in treatments of the story of Troilus and Criseyde from Boccaccio to Dryden, including TC and the versions of Henryson and Shakespeare.

This volume provides select bibliographical listings for a range of English writers, from Joseph Addison to W. B. Yeats, arranged alphabetically by author, covering materials up to 1977. The Chaucer section (pp. 32-37) lists discussions of canon and…

Eleven articles on medieval women and/or literature for them, especially works that are written by women authors. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, see Piero Boitani, "Marie de France and the Breton Lay in England," (pp. 211-26).

For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voix (et Voies) under Alternative Title.

Technical report of a set of acoustic experiments designed to gauge how "voicing duration" interacts with intonation to "give a poetic line much of its 'personality'." One experiment assesses eight readings of a passage from Alexander Pope's "Essay…

Eighteen essays by various authors on language, literature, and scientific manuscripts in Old and Middle English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices on the Past under Alternative Title.

Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.

Reads Ret as the "culminating moment in the progressive disillusionment" of the Canterbury fiction for poet and reader alike. SNT, CYT, and ManT together "systematically confront" medieval notions of truth and the ability of humans to know it,…

This collection of fourteen essays honors Helaine Newstead and focuses on the sources--primarily Celtic--of Arthurian literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices in Translation under Alternative Title. …

Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their “focalisations” internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the…

Brandolino examines reciprocity between faith and interiority in a number of late medieval English vernacular texts, including WBPT and SNT. After 1215, when Pope Innocent III "issued a decree requiring all Christians . . . to make an annual private…

Approaches late medieval vernacular culture in terms of "voice," and suggests that "voice" is the subject of CT. Argues that Chaucer "frames" his work "between the praise of voice and the censure of it prevalent in pastoral rhetoric and represented…

Report of a pedagogical experiment in which online interactive computer software enabled students to assume roles of the Canterbury pilgrims. The experiment sought to emphasize Chaucer's rhetorical qualities, but the results reinforced the dramatic…

Studies the importance of "voice" within medieval studies; develops an "interrelation between voice and public"; and positions Chaucer as "a public poet" who is concerned with voice throughout his works. Considers voice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and…

Compares varied uses of narrative voices in CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor "in light of the tradition of prologue writing. Chaucer and Ruiz employ satire and ambiguity to elicit a variety of questions from their audience - enough to arouse…

"Laus" (praise) and "vituperatio" (rendered by Chaucer as "sklaunder") find their way into medieval "ars poetriae." Using the "idiom of odium" (e.g., traditionally disreputable animals and bodily functions), Chaucer focuses on reporting angry…

Analyzes the "effect and experience" of the stained glass in HF and in Lydgate's "underappreciated remobilization" of it in his "Temple of Glass," comparing the aesthetics of the dream visions with those of late medieval glass in England, its…

Uses several medieval court cases and posthumanist perspective to examine medieval notions of "corporeal property," arguing that, by comparing property relations to a "spousal and familial one," the Wife of Bath persistently destabilizes the…

Describes a classroom practice of encouraging students to explore emotional responses to PrT by asking them to illustrate any scene from the tale and then compare these illustrations with historical illustrations, from the Vernon manuscript to modern…

Describes the value of sociograms ("visual diagram[s] of a given social network") in teaching GP, summarizing underlying theory and presenting a practical application. College-level assignment and results included.

Argues that Boethius's "Consolation" inspired many "amatory imitations" (especially the "Roman de la Rose" and TC) because its opening scene parallels--and perhaps helped inspire--the visual commonplace of the (love)sick man tended by a female who…