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Chaucer's "detached role" in CT establishes his "characteristic attitude toward human behavior--the rhetorical attitude," which views social interaction as a series of roles played in accord with conditional games. Comments on the Host, the Wife of…

Contrasts ShT with its fabliau analogues, arguing that Chaucer creatively adapts the genre by adding complicated characterization to the stark comic plot and by developing a serious thematic concern with the commercialization of sex and marriage,…

McDonald describes the principles and operation of two late medieval ribald games of "amorous divination" - Ragman Roll and Chaunce of Dice - as a means to explore the female audience for such games and related literature, particularly LGW. "Demandes…

Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of "play and game," including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and…

Bakhtinian analysis of references to garlands and garlanding in KnT and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Greenwood traces the classical traditions of garlands of love and glory, arguing that depictions of both "veer towards negative criticism" in these two…

As Greenwood has shown in a previous study, garlanding often implied criticism. In KnT and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, however, it is an acknowledgment of power.

Argues that George Gascoigne's reading of TC inspired aspects of his "Adventures of Master F. J." [or F. I.]. In particular, identifies parallels to the scene Troilus's fainting (TC 3.1092), the character of Criseyde, the "self-effacing pose" of…

Explores the complex workings of an allusion to the Wife of Bath in Joyce's "Ulysses " that resonates with Irish mythology, Yeats, and Irish political power.

Identifies a number of parallels between Chaucer's works and those of Gavin Douglas, focusing on "Eneados" and demonstrating that "Douglas owes far more to Chaucer than has been generally recognized." Not a "servile imitator," Douglas, "like…

Chaucer influenced Douglas in many ways: "as a model for diction and register, as a source of phrase and adapter of syntax, as an establisher of the Dream Poem...; Chaucer's "House of Fame" stands as the inspiration for Douglas's own first long…

Thirteen previously published articles study "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," medieval English Literature, the development of Arthurian literature, and Middle English romances. Contains a Japanese translation of the first two branches of…

Discusses various levels of difficulty in translating CT and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" into Modern English.

Includes versions of the GP description of the Pardoner and lines 591-640 of PardT in normalized spelling, with a brief Introduction that identifies several indications that the Pardoner is gay.

Part of Paravicini's three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and…

Chaucer explores the limits of romance and extends them so that TC, KnT, SqT, Th, WBT, and FranT become "poems about narrative."

Describes the use of select Chaucerian works as part of a four- or five-week unit in an undergraduate introduction to literature.

Lampert decenters Christianity and releases the study of Jews and Judaism from a "restricted economy of particularism." She shows how representations of Jews go beyond representations of the "Other" in a range of English texts by revealing…

A study of "the interconnectedness of gender, epistemology, and poetics in Chaucer's texts," focusing on "idioms of gender that attend narrative protocols of reflexitivity and appropriation." Examines the linguistic, discursive, and sexual…

Bokenham "strategically utilizes feminine piety" and his own "dullness" to express political dissent in a style that differs from the high rhetorical style of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate. He rejects their "classicizing, aureate" tradition, initiating…

Despite its antifeminist core, medieval exegesis is not "universally misogynistic or patriarchal." Focusing on three historical moments--the age of Augustine, the twelfth century, and the age of Chaucer, including his fifteenth-century…

Romance is the medieval genre that most clearly dramatizes gendered identity, focusing on "courtship, marriage, lineal concerns, primogeniture, and sexual maturation." Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, FranT, and Th reflect and confront masculine identity…

Describes distinctions that derive from transgender politics and explores how the gender and sexual identities in SumPT--"largely constructed by and through its twin genres of antifraternal critique and fabliau"--"insinuate that friars are both…

Burger characterizes second-wave feminism as a precursor of gay and lesbian studies, arguing that queer theory desires and explores the past in particularized rather than universalized ways, in part to "trouble Foucault's epistemic break between the…

Examines "the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer's literature, e.g., "knyght," "lady," "leche," "wyf '," focusing on MerT, FranT, ABC, and TC, but addressing most of Chaucer's works.

Professional book production and circulation in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including Chauceriana, present courtly models for gender, eventually affecting rural gentry. The Findern MS revises femininity, and the female voice can be…