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Describes the concern with the "embodiment" of peasants in medieval estates theory, explores physicality in the GP description of the Miller, and examines rebelliousness and animal imagery in MilPT, aligning them with "peasant poetics" and the…

While Chaucer's line is iambic pentameter, it differs from Renaissance pentameter by virtue of a French Romance presence so strong as to constitute a motive rhythmic force in the poetry.

Analyzes the "comic unity" of the Pluto-Proserpine episode of MerT with the four biblical accounts women to: Rebecca, Judith, Abigail, and Esther (4.1362-74), all figures of deliverance rather than deception. By association, Proserpine should be read…

Dante and Chaucer elaborate on the three aspects of the classical goddess who appears as "Proserpina in hell, Diana on earth, and Luna" in heaven. Medieval commentary associates her with memory. Chaucer treats her recurrently, sometimes parodically,…

This anthology of Middle English writing includes MilT and PardT(edited from the Ellesmere manuacript), with facing-page glosses and a brief introduction.

Studies the influence of the book of Psalms on moral discourse in late-medieval England.

Summarizes the attribution and reception of Anel in the early modern period and views the six-line poem appended to Caxton’s edition of Anel, known as
"Chaucer’s Prophecy," as a source for the Fool's speech in Shakespeare's "King Lear."

Explores the thematic concern with poetic tradition in the narrator-Africanus exchange of PF and in Spenser's "Mutabilitie Cantos," arguing that Chaucer and Spenser share an "interest in rhetorically linking the earth-bound poet with a community of…

Surveys Chaucer's uses of ye and thou forms in CT, discussing plurality, formality, and other usage. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Tabulates and assesses the uses of singular "ye" and "thou" in CT, considering usage norms, rhyme patterns, and scribal variants, and identifying patterns of high incidence of "incorrect" usage in CYPT, KnT, WBP, and Mel, while ParsT is also highly…

Tabulates the uses of second-person singular pronouns ("ye" and "thou") in speeches between pilgrims in CT, and focuses on instances in which the Host uses these pronouns to address his fellow pilgrims, observing a concern with rank.

Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this accompanies Zink's "Pronouncing Chaucer's English: The Basic Program."

Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this accompanies Zink's "Pronouncing Chaucer's Language: The Basic Program."

This webpage coordinates and comments upon approaches to medieval texts as "multimodal"; designed for classroom use, with suggestions for further exploration and hypertext links to texts, illustrations, and related materials. Arranges the approaches…

Describes how visual aids and a trip to a medieval collection in a museum (in this instance the Kress collection in Birmingham, Alabama) can help students confront medieval literature with greater depth and involvement.

Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. General commentary on the theology of indulgences and more focused studies of the history and literary depiction of indulgences in European nations/institutions in the late Middle…

Argues that oral promises were binding in the largely oral, late-medieval culture and considers the contemporary "seriousness" of both Dorigen's marriage vow to Arveragus in FranT and her contradictory promise to Aurelius.

Comments on similarities between the mixture of bawdy and sublime in CT and in other medieval tales, collections, and contexts, exploring how bawdiness challenges official discourse. Examines at length Henri d'Andeli's aristocratic fabliau,…

Distinguishes three major types of prologues in late-medieval English literature: organic; a dilation; and a displaced prologue, i.e., a prologue that does not correspond to the document. Examines CT, LGW, TC, and Astr.

Eleven articles by various authors on the functions of prologues and epilogues. For fives essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Prologues et épilogues dans la littérature anglaise under Alternative Title.

Pasolini's Racconti di Canterbury uses ellipsis and expansion to produce cinematographic transformations of CT. Adjustments of narrative structure and original visual effects produce "tales told only for the pleasure of telling them."

Study guide to GP for adolescent readers, with a modern translation accompanied by running commentary that focuses on key words and unfamiliar concepts. The Introduction concerns themes, images, and social conditions, and the volume concludes with a…

A reading of GP in modern adaptation by Shirley A. Dye, accompanied by color drawings of scenes and characters. Illustrated by Dye and Angela Parotti. Released in 2004 on DVD.

Parallels various features of CT with late-medieval English social history.

Proposes an "integration of the 'historical' and 'archetypal/esthetic' schools" of criticism of medieval literature, based on Ernst Cassirer's theories of symbol and the "evolutionary scheme of human self-consciousness," exemplifying the critical…