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Variant treatments of ClT 4.507-8 reflect editorial practices as well as scribal power, specifically Adam Pinkhurst's, in shaping Chaucer's texts.

Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks "what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer's Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation." Summarizes the essays included in this special issue…

Reports on contemporary cultural conditions for teaching medieval narratives about rape, and summarizes the contents of this issue of the journal. Includes brief comments on modern responses to "Cecily Chaumpaigne's charges against Geoffrey Chaucer…

Describes the launch of a new electronic journal related to the study of Chaucer, "New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession," and summarizes the contents of the inaugural issue.

Introduces CT as one of the major accomplishments of English medieval literature, surveying information about Chaucer's life and works and focusing on the range and variety of CT. Describes GP, Ret, the longer prologues, and each of the tales, and…

Explores the influence of CT on Spenser's "Faerie Queene," especially the Renaissance version of Chaucer's work available to Spenser in Thynne's edition. Includes a list of Spenser's references and allusions to Chaucer.

Chaucer uses "ingenu" irony (Muecke's term) in TC. Pandarus, the most prodigious user of proverbs, demonstrates the illusiveness and unreliability of proverbs. For all his proverbial wisdom, Pandarus, like the narrator, is inept in love. Proverbs…

Tallies instances of Chaucer's attention to childhood education in CT.

Fifteen chapters, fourteen reprinted, on various aspects of education in society and literature. Includes a reprint of "Chaucer and Education."

Argues that in his "mature work" and in "the service of greater realism," Chaucer used rhetoric "dramatically rather than ornamentally." Then gauges the degree of appropriateness of tales to tellers in light of the percentage of rhetoric in a given…

Discusses Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations for the Kelmscott Chaucer. In Japanese.

The thirty-one portraits in the Kelmscott Chaucer show Burne-Jones's development as a painter and his identification with Chaucer as an artist. Burne-Jones represents Chaucer as a tall and slender man, similar to his own self-portraits. The emotions…

Edward III achieved his dynastic ambitions through military activity, careful marriages, and apportionment of lands and titles among his children. By 1377, his plans lay in ruins,and Richard II's abrasiveness destroyed Plantagenet harmony.

Blake's portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner in "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" bear strong resemblances to contemporary satirical portraits of William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox, respectively. The descriptions of the two pilgrims in…

The Prioress aligns herself with the widow in her Tale and with the Virgin Mary. Although the clergeon is like Christ in his challenge to Jewish tradition, PrT is concerned with female power as well as with cultural prejudice.

Comments on stylistic and tonal aspects of GP 1.1-18, focusing on their harmonious energy and "generalized vocabulary." Also comments Chaucer's sympathetic irony elsewhere in GP.

A collection of thirty-two eighteenth-century modernizations of CT by at least seventeen authors, known and anonymous. Valuable in an exploration of reception aesthetics and reader-response theory.

British Libreary NMS Additional 12524 was owned successively by Samuel Smith, Ralph Thoresby, and Horace Walpole. British Library MS Additional 9832, owned by Morell Thurston and them by Joseph Haselwood, was used by Urry for his edition. Both…

Exemplifies the recurrent concern with alchemy in western culture and literature, including description of Chaucer's depiction of it in CYPT, along with his reputation for scientific knowledge.

Part 2 (pp. 225-379) prints the entire GP, based on the text of Manly and Rickert (1940), with phonetic transcription of lines 1-78; introductory commentary on its meter, stress patterns, syllabification, and rhyme techniques; and a comprehensive…

Treats phonology (vowels, consonants, dipthongs), morphology, and meter of Chaucer's language.

An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…

Clarifies the late medieval shift from household economics to usurious commerce, and argues that HF, John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass," and Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour" depict the "dissolution" of traditional households entailed in this shift.…

Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in…

Analyzes how art--canonical literature, in particular--helps to construct, consolidate, and transmit patriarchal ideologies that support violence and female subjection. Assesses KnT as an example of how a masculine gaze affects female identity.…