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Sandidge, Marilyn.   Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 357-73.
Youthful attitudes toward old age in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer differ strikingly, perhaps because of demographic changes caused by the Black Plague. In Boccaccio, youth respects the wisdom of age, whereas in Chaucer young people resent the…

Takada, Yasunari, presiding.   Eigo Seinen 146.8: 478-87, 2000.
Discusses the reception history of Chaucer, ranging from Spenser through Shakespeare to the English Romantics. Panelists include Nahoko Miyamoto, Yoshiko Kobayashi, and Atsuhiko Hirota.

Crane, Susan.   PMLA 102 (1987): 835-36.
The Wife of Bath, a fiction rather than a person, slips into inconsistency because of the very problems Chaucer raises.

Nolan, Barbara.   PMLA 101 (1986): 860-61.
Moriarty overemphasizes unity and logic at the expense of the varied traditions on which Chaucer drew.

Moriarty, Michael E.   PMLA 101 (1986): 859-60.
Nolan fractures the unity of GP; a suitably deconstructive approach would consider all of the poet's voices, avoiding the the term "voice" altogether.

Hyde, William J.   PMLA 98 (1983): 253.
The Pardoner's invitation is not a physical threat to the pilgrimage but a further sign of his propensity to profit from others and to compensate for his "sexual difference." Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.

Owen, Charles A.,Jr.   PMLA 98 (1983): 254.
The Pardoner's invitation is not an attempt to divert the pilgrims from their journey, and the Host's response is designed to restore the fellowship of the pilgrims, not to improve their spiritual well-being. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97…

Summers, Claude J.   PMLA 98 (1983): 254-55.
Storm does not distinguish between his own and Chaucer's attitudes toward the Pardoner's homosexuality. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.

Quinn, Esther C.   PMLA 102 (1987): 835.
Chaucer's strategy, rather than the Wife's incapacity, has warped conventional views of class, sex, and romance in WBT.

Storm, Melvin.   PMLA 98 (1983): 255-56.
The Pardoner's self-revelation "heightens the challenge" of deceiving the pilgrims at the end of the sermon and does not preclude it. Chaucer uses the Host's response to the Pardoner's invitation to point to the pilgrims' spiritual weakness--even if…

Burlin, Robert B., and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.   PMLA 95 (1980): 880-82.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on textuality, narrative "absence," narrative "presence," and their usefulness in discussing "voice" in GP.

Owen, Charles A.,Jr.   PMLA 108 (1993): 542-43.
Questions John H. Fisher's "Language Policy for Lancastrain England" (PMLA 107) on method of establishing Chaucerian texts. See Fisher's "Forum Reply."

Burger, Glenn.   PMLA 108 (1993): 334-35.
Since Chaucer does not describe the Pardoner's kiss, it could be either mouth-to-mouth or cheek-to-cheek; in either case, a public kiss signifies a sort of equality. A reply to Ann Barbeau Gardiner PMLA 108 (1993): 333-34.

Gardiner, Ann Barbeau.   PMLA 108 (1993): 333-34.
Glenn Burger predicates a mouth-to-mouth kiss of Host and Pardoner, without evidence for such kisses between men.

Kretzschmar, William A., and Rodney Delasanta.   PMLA 93 (1978): 1007-08.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section, discussing the tone and details of Delasanta's essay, "Penance and Poetry in 'The Canterbury Tales," published earlier in 1978 in PMLA.

Smith, Nathaniel B., and Evan Carton.   PMLA 94 (1979): 948-50.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section letters that comment on the meaning of "authority" in the Middle Ages, particularly Chaucer's uses of the notion.

Braxton, Phyllis N.   PMLA 108 (1993): 1170-71.
Forum letter in which Braxton, disagreeing with Pamela Michaela Paasche, claims that closure is evident in Chaucer's works when his male point of view is recognized, and presents MerT as a "case in point."

Owen, Charles A., Jr., and James Dean.   PMLA 101 (1986): 251-53.
Exchange of letters in the Forum section of PMLA, disagreeing about the validity of the Ellesmere order of the CT and about the speaker of Chaucer's Ret.

Fisher, John H.   PMLA 108 (1993): 543-44.
A reply to Owen's response to Fisher's "Language Policy for Lancastrian England" (PMLA 107).

Owen, Charles A., Jr., Caroline D.Eckhardt, and Katharine Slater Gittes.   PMLA 98 (1983): 902-04.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on openendedness and closure in CT and the influence of Arabic literary models on Chaucer.

Bloomfield Morton W.   PMLA 88 (1973): 142.
Responds to K. J. Hughes' forum letter about the artistic and dramatic qualities of MLT.

Hughes, K. J.   PMLA 88 (1973): 140-42.
Critiques Morton W. Bloomfield's "The Man of Law's Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy," commenting on the artistic quality of MLT and the Man of Law as narrator.

Jordan, Robert M., James I Wimsatt, and Mary Carruthers.   PMLA 94 (1979): 950-53.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on the characterization of the Wife of Bath and the role of sources (especially Jerome) and historical contexts in understanding the character.

Goodman, Barbara A.   Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2103): 85-98.
Considers how to attract students to medieval courses in minority-serving institutions, particularly general education courses. Includes description of a course that juxtaposes CT with Ibn Battuta's "The Rihla."

Bowden, Betsy.   Translation & Literature 3:30-46, 1994.
Examines select passages of moderizations of ShT by John Markland, Henry Travers, Andrew Jackson, and William Lipscomb for how their diction, imagery, and emphases encourage us to approach the Tale as "implied performance." All four interpret and…
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