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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…

Audio recording of GP read in Middle English in three voices.

Critiques Theodore Morrison's translation of GP for its inaccuracies, losses of irony, and poor poetry, supplying instances of each. The Morrison translation appears in the "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" and the Macmillan "Literature of…

GP prefigures the comedy of humours in its emphasis on body language, while the depth and complexity of Chaucer's wit make him a forerunner of Shakespeare and Dickens.

Translation of GP into modern Welsh verse, with notes.

Preliminary collations of The Parson's Tale lines 10.75-551 indicate that de Worde's 1498 edition of the Tale derived from a high-quality manuscript rather than from William Caxton's second edition. Such editorial effort reflects high regard for The…

The variations in narrative structure from BD to PF reveal a shift in Chaucer's belief from faith in the capacity of experience, book, and dream as sources of absolute truth to skepticism about these same medieval traditions.

Proposes that Th is not merely a parody of romance but is composed according to the principle of "progressive diminution," demonstrating its "prototype" and "extension" from geographical to temporal, social, to linguistic "domains."

Posits that Chaucer's box-office appeal is limited in the U.S. by his "relatively low cultural profile," his association with "British linguistic and literary nationalism," and the "paradoxical stigma" of being both too high-brow and too bawdy.…

Discusses the careers of Manly and Rickert, their initiation of the Chaucer Project at the University of Chicago in 1924,and their techniques for collating Chaucer manuscripts. Emphasizing the professionalism and influence of the two scholars,…

Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language…

Describes the "scientific humanism" that underlies the scholarship of Manly and Rickert and that prompted them to construct Chaucer as "an ideal bourgeois." Their efforts to establish Chaucer as an originary ideal through a wholly authoritative text…