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Creative non-fiction contemplation of storytelling, Chicanx identity, and spatial politics, including, in Chapter 3, "Disciplines and Disciples," a brief consideration of "discipline" in CYT (8.1253), as it relates to alchemy, deception,…

Contrasts the master-pupil relationships in CYT and Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and their concepts of philosophy. Argues that CYT ridicules the false nature of philosophy. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Explores aspects of "power differential and toxicity" in the mentor-mentee relationship of the Canon and the Canon's Yeoman, reading CYPT as the emancipatory complaint of the latter. For a response, see Response to Micah James Goodrich and Alice…

Comments on issues of complaint and consent in two essays included in this volume of SAC, linking the medieval past with the present. Includes response to Micah James Goodrich, "The Yeoman's Canon: On Toxic Mentors."

Anatomizes the theme and structures of failure in CYPT, contrasting the Canon's Yeoman and Chaucer-pilgrim as narrators, and tallying ways that failure dominates the narrative: failed science, failed rhetoric, failed comedy, failed moralizing, and…

Surveys medieval and early modern study of alchemy and writing about alchemy, with particular attention to its obscurities of language and limited potential for progress. A section called "Playing with Obscurity: Chaucer's Manipulation of the 'Tabula…

Chapter 2 focuses on free volition (as formulated by John Duns Scotus), empathy, and fraternal bonding in "Amis and Amiloun" and in SNT. In the latter, Valerian and Tiburce "forgo political loyalties and prioritize their fraternal bond by cultivating…

"[A]nalyzes scenes of 'undisciplined reading' in late medieval texts: that is, scenes in which characters read without formal training and with the 'wrong' emotions." Includes discussion of NPPT as a "bungled interpretation of Marie de France's…

Considers the end of NPT and the Bible verse Romans 15:4. Claims the verse is used to bridge the two opposing views of Chaucer's intent in his writing, attempting to unite the morally serious poet with the subversive poet.

Classifies the nouns in NPT using the categories presented by an English lexicon. Considers the proportion of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category. In Japanese.

Categorizes nouns in NPT into twenty groups according to their meanings, counts the numbers of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category, and considers possible implications of their proportions. In Japanese.

Collects 100 poems and excerpts from poems on views of outer space, including NPT, 3187–99. In Middle English with no indication of edition.

Examines music as a coequal to rhetoric and a branch of medieval philosophy to argue that Chaucer's beast fable traces and complicates three major tenets of Boethian and medieval music theory.

Traces the tension between reading ecocritically and figuratively, highlighting moments of grafting in MkT and Rom, and reads these moments of horticulture more literally.

Considers the vexed critical history of MkT as a possibility for engaging classroom discussion about issues of theme, aesthetics, political perspective, and critical predilection. Focuses on various approaches to the tale before and after the heyday…

Explores the interplay between romance and religious poetry in late medieval English vernacular literature, and includes discussion of how, as a parody of romance, Th "primes the reader for the prudential lessons" of Mel.

Comments on the history and nuances of "syklatoun" as a kind of sartorial cloth used parodically in Th, a prelude to discussing the implications of clothing in "Emaré" as a popular romance.

Focuses on the medical effects of the herbs mentioned in Th to argue that the narrator's impetuosity demonstrates the effects of herbs he mentions in lines 760-65.

Reconsiders questions of the composition and occasion of PrT (here titled "Clergeon") before Chaucer incorporated it into the CT, arguing on biographical, stylistic, and liturgical grounds that Chaucer may have originally composed the poem as early…

Includes comparison of PrT with sources and analogues: the Anglo-Norman Hughes de Lincoln and two accounts--"The Child Slain by Jews" and "The Jewish Boy"--found in the Vernon manuscript. Analyzes the stories' various contributions to the…

Considers the young child who watches the wife and monk in ShT, arguing that Chaucer's construction of narrative perspective, which the child embodies, anticipates more modern handling of narrative perspective, including that of Henry James.

Graphic version of PardT, newly adapted and illustrated in ink and watercolor, with a calligraphic, abbreviated text in modern verse.

Focuses on CT and PardT, specifically. Discusses the Pardoner's fabrication of relics and the "preposterous" transformation of "accident into substance," a reversal of the trope used in PardT, the narrative voice in both GP and PardT, and deception…

Considers the Pardoner in PardT as an "exemplary figure" of what Walter Benjamin argues is a defining trait of modernity: the eclipse of religion's sacralizing capacities by capitalism, which, like the Pardoner's sales pitch, intensifies guilt rather…

Explores intertextual relations among versions of the Virginia / Virginius story (by Livy, Bersuire, Gower, and Chaucer), focusing on how the depiction of Virginia's mother in both Gower and Chaucer "offers a broader semblance of propriety by…