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Studies fame, death, and related motifs in William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makars" ("Timor Mortis"), including comments on his echoes of and references to Chaucer.

Dunbar's so-called autobiographical references are comparable to Chaucer's references to himself in his poetry. Also Dunbar's references employ conventions that may be found in Chaucer.

Markus examines several features of Chaucer's spelling--digraphs, vowel doubling, "ee" versus "e"--drawing data from ParsT and arguing that inconsistencies in vowel-doubling are related to vowel length's "having lost its former phonemic identity."…

Describes the advantages of close reading of Chaucer's lyrics and shorter poems, examining ABC and Ros in detail for their riches of prosody, tone, structure, and meaning, with attention to narrative voice.

Argues that scribe John Duxworth, rather than his patron Jean d'Angoulême, was the guiding intelligence behind the execution of the Paris manuscript of CT (Ps) and that his revisions and errors are consistent with the habits of other scribes who…

Applies spatial metaphors from contemporary feminist scholarship to medieval texts of various genres, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Chretien's "Yvain," TC, the "Life of Christina de Markyate," the "Ancrene Wisse," and the "Book of…

Proposes a "theoretical conjunction" between "an ecological love for the non-identical and ethical theories of love for the neighbor," exploring in light of neighbor theory Dorigen's relationships in FranT with Arveragus, with Aurelius, and with the…

Explores the ways in which Chaucer anticipates features of Renaissance literature, focusing on realism and ideas of humanity in TC and CT, but also commenting on satire in PF and parody in Thop. In Lithuanian, with summaries in Russian and English.

Electronic texts of Chaucer's works in plain text and html, with a concordance and glossary, translations, and links to images, a chronology, and various web resources.

Intersectional analysis discloses that MLT, John Gower's Tale of Constance, and "The King of Tars" cast out "non-Christian bodies from the possibilities of reproductive futurism" and "offer visions of Christian imperialist futures enacted and made…

The white eagle of Criseyde's dream of TC 2.925-931 is a "superimposition of the eagle of Purgatorio IX and the doves of Inferno V"; it links the love affair of TC with that of Dante's ruined Paolo and Francesca. The mating of doves and eagles in…

Tallies Birney's contributions to Chaucer scholarship, particularly his studies that pertain to irony and close reading, and assesses their importance in the tradition of twentieth-century Chaucer criticism.

Reviews the work of Earle Birney (1930s, 1940s) on Chaucerian irony: dramatic, verbal, structural.

Shows that in his writing and public persona, Earle Birney "engages in a conscious and self-conscious effort to make himself a public poet for Canada, using Chaucer's role as the father of English poetry as a model" and echoing Chaucer’s stylistic…

Includes comments on Earle Birney's use of Chaucerian motifs in his poetry and his writing about Chaucer's irony.

Introductory commentary on British poetry from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the works of John Keats, focusing on canonical works and writers. Chapter 2 (pp. 21-30) summarizes Chaucer's life and describes his iambic meter, explicating Truth (original and…

In BD, Chaucer relies on Latin "artes poeticae" and French courtly poetry for sources and models. "Amplificatio" is prominent: "expolitio," "circumlocutio," "collatio," "apostrophatio," "prosopopeia," "digressio," "descriptio," and "oppositio." …

On location in England, Gallagher recites passages from Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, comparing and contrasting their phonologies, morphologies, and vocabularies. The emphasis is on "Beowulf," but includes a passage from FranT…

Explains the value of variant type faces in establishing the process and sequence of composition in Caxton's Westminster print house, focusing particularly on the two compositors of the first edition of CT and on evidence of their involvement in…

Anthology of early English fiction including excerpts from Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer, and others.

Surveys a wide range of occurrences and developments for [kn], a cluster with a number of uncommon properties. Examination of the lexical and phonetic idiosyncrasies demonstrates that observed figural representation in is not at odds with a rational…

Argues that "the increasing alterity of Middle English texts in the early modern period compelled editorial interventions designed to make the texts accessible as well as to identify, to emphasize, or to establish the texts/ relevance to contemporary…

Maintains that "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland" may have contributed to how Chaucer was received by "anti-Catholic cultures of the sixteenth century."

Examines a diverse range of authors from the fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries for their political, philosophical, and scientific perspectives in order to map a movement away from a trust in collective experience and toward a focus on the…

Catalogues Chaucer resources at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on Aitken as collector.