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Item not seen, reported in MLA International Bibliography as a study of enjambment in relation to syntax in BD.

Focuses on ways Chaucer's successors employed lists in dream visions, and refers to HF, BD, PF, LGW, KnT, and GP. Argues that by employing different listing techniques, medieval authors used lists as a way of legitimizing themselves as authors.

Argues that medieval lists or catalogues point both to the necessary and to the excessive, and in doing so emphasize differing views of appropriate ownership and use of material goods. Includes brief mention of lists in HF and Form Age.

Collects ten essays by various authors that discuss lists and listing as epistemological, rhetorical, and poetic devices, with an introduction by the editors ("Enlistment as Poetic Stratagem"), and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain…

As part of a larger discussion of changing paradigms of friendship, considers TC, along with Shakespeare, Milton, Lanyer, and others.

Includes six essays about Chaucer by Leon Sendra and a summary-introduction by Jesus L. Serrano Reyes. The first essay proposes a sociolinguistic approach to Chaucer's works, based on the textual-linguistic theory of M. A. K. Halliday, and the other…

Narrative autobiography of the author's fascination with Chaucer, recounting the writing and publishing of three books on allegory in CT. Includes Cullen's thoughts about the reception of Chaucer among academic and popular audiences.

Explores relations among voice, genre, music, orality, and memorial transmission in "Lay le Freine," "Sir Orfeo," and FranT, including assessment of the ambiguities and Bahktinian polyphony of voices in the GP description of the Franklin's oral…

Includes brief consideration of sexuality in Chaucer's work, with specific mention of MilT, RvT, and TC.

Evaluates Chaucer's strategies of adapting his Italian sources in ClT. He uses three paratexts to adjust the original story to the specific narratological and structural microcosm of CT: ClP, the conclusion explaining what Petrarch meant in…

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that the volume includes a poem entitled "On a Theme of Chaucer."

Explores the "complications" involved in defining "environment," "landscape," and "nature" in MerT, and views the narrative through an "ecocritical" lens, describing the critical method and showing that in the Tale "literary devices revolving around…

College textbook designed to introduce undergraduate students to the "ways that specialists in the social sciences and the humanities analyze environmental problems." Chapter 4, "Literature and the Environment," opens with a description of LGWP and…

Emphasizes an ironic view of Parson's "exploration of 'lawful pleasure'" and contends that ParsT can be viewed as a "psychological experience of delight."

Though similarities have been found, Mercury's appearance to Arcite in KnT cannot be traced to a single specific source. One should view the scene in the broad context of the theme of epic descent from which Chaucer draws several effects.

Uses Chaucer's list of poets of Troy in HF 1460ff. as a "vantage point" to demonstrate how epic catalogs in Middle English Troy narratives are "sites of scepticism towards established truths, questioning the Trojan War, the claims of epic, and poetry…

The two descent scenes in the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone are similar to epic descents. The descent of Ceyx is typical and traditional; that of Alcyone, nontraditional and unheroic.

Traces the epic from classical roots to postmodern versions in various media; includes brief comments on KnT as epic with elements of romance, the latter challenged by MilT.

Critiques modern approaches to irony in CT.

As a reckoning or quantification of sin, ParsT rationalizes the "complexities of the human will." By making human options clear, it can serve as either a beginning or an end.

Discusses the "living tradition" of Middle English poetry in later English culture, commenting on continuities, revivals, and imitations, with recurrent references to the status of Chaucer.

The word "uncircumscript" near the end of TC suggests Chaucer's Boethianism. Chaucer's TC differs from Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in telling the story of a man who lives by "love's heigh service" in a universe where love holds the world together.

Study based on theories of Fowler (genre) and Jakobson (metaphor and metonymy) reveals that English verse romance from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries is typically episodic, with variations attuned to changing intent.

Episodes in the first part of WBT parallel events in the second. This "step parallelism structure" reveals a "pattern of attenuation" that emphasizes the development of the knight, who becomes less impulsive and more reflective through the course of…

To attain equality, woman have historically had to resist hierarchy, to quest liminality, and to exercise holy disobedience. Women in earlier Christianity, especially in the Romanesque period, exercised that disobedience; but in the paradigm shift…