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Compares the "structures of feeling" in PrT and Gower's "Tale of the Jew and the Pagan," particularly their interrelations of pity, violence, justice, antisemitism, and affective response. Suggests that the two authors reworked their versions at the…

Compares and contrasts Marjan Strojan's presentations of the Pardoner's sexual identity in his 1974 and 2012 Slovenian translations of the GP description of the Pardoner; WBP, 161-87; and PardPT; examining variations and omissions in the texts and…

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Unit One of this pedagogical study guide includes a thematic section "Faith and Doubt," which features PardT (J. U. Nicolson's poetic translation), with exploratory study questions. A student workbook is…

Builds on previous readings of PardT that identify its descriptions of food, especially bread and wine, as part of its parody of the Christian mass and Eucharist. Demonstrates that Chaucer uses specifically Wycliffite terms when referring to food and…

Shows that "medical models for textual interpretation" structure Part 6 of CT. Assesses violent, authoritative models of medical cure posed in the GP description of the Physician; interrogates literary interpretation as self-repair in PhyT; and…

Argues that the "tidal influences" in FranT encourage "feminist interpretation" of Dorigen's promise, "identification of an environmentalist sensibility" in the tale, and attention to human subjection "to natural cycles and forces." Furthermore,…

Challenges the use of a mid-line semicolon in FranT, 964, arguing that it and the virgule in the Ellesmere manuscript disambiguate the syntax of the description of the conversation between Dorigen and Aurelius, diminishing the characterization of…

Contends SqT and Thopas are not artistic failures but that their departures from the usual norms of the medieval romance genre in tone, form, and subject matter are evidence of Chaucer's search "for a new mode of romance writing." Further, their…

Outlines the teaching of a unit on global, multicultural "inns and "hostels" in medieval texts, focusing on representations of nonwestern dwelling places during travel. Includes comments on SqT as "rich in hotel psyche and tonality."

Responds to essays included in a special issue of "postmedieval," and comments on SqT, identifying ways that the work and its brass steed--"belong to a world of the "sıra" in ways that reflect the entangled and often diffuse ways that fictional…

Describes goals and methods of teaching the "Roman de la Rose" in undergraduate courses that include Middle English literature. Includes attention to manuscript illustrations and to intertextual relations of MerT to Rom.

Explores how tree climbers have been represented in European and North American literature and art, including discussion of MerT in a section on "questionable gendered attitudes about women climbing trees," traced back to the biblical Garden of Eden.…

Argues that "Petrarch's Stoicization of Boccaccio's" story of Griselda "constucts an ideal of apatheia predicated on the forcible interruption of the . . . internal process of assent," and that Chaucer's re-vernacularization of the tale "uses the…

Introduces a special issue dedicated to Shakespeare's references to Padua, summarizing the collected essays and addressing references to Padua in the Towneley mystery play ("Magnus Herodes") and in ClP (27). Suggests that Chaucer's linking of Padua…

Advocates the use of student-generated creative writing in a course called "Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages," focusing on reading ClT in tandem with Patience Agbabi's retelling of Chaucer'stale, "I Go Back to May 1967," from "Telling Tales"…

Assesses the demonic presence in FrT (the Green Yeoman), placing "Chaucerian demonology within a wider intellectual and cultural context" from St. Augustine to the "Malleus maleficarum." Surveys views on demonic/angelic presence as apparition,…

Examines female desire and sovereignty in WBT and its analogues, arguing that "the texts reveal the tensions among the various ideologies of women's (and men's) positions which the[ir] culture sustains," and suggests that they, paradoxically,…

Connects the "[f]inancial discourse" of WBP with those of "The Book of Margery Kempe" and of "Paston women's papers," showing that fictional and historical women share a mutual mercantile "understanding of life" that unites their "spiritual, marital,…

Identifies the "Catholic Humanist rhetorical" ideal that combines "wit and wisdom" in Shakespeare's "As You Like It," examining ten individual scenes. Opens with background to this ideal in European humanism, especially Italian and English, including…

Classifies nouns in WBT into semantic categories and discusses proportions of OE-derived nouns to Latin-derived nouns within some of these categories. In Japanese.

Explores ways that "Jacques Lacan's radical account of sexual difference" as "the articulation of an impasse of language" can open ways to see beyond "normative views of sexual difference and femininity" in reading WBPT.

Studies the "co-articulation of the transhistorical issues of gender, race, and sex" in WBPT and Zadie Smith's "Wife of Willesden," arguing that they "invoke similar forms of sexual assault and feminine abuse while undermining analogous abstractions…

Presents new evidence, particularly the Wycliffite Bible, and disagrees with J. A. Burrow that Custance's speech in MLT when she reaches Northumbria is a debased kind of Latin. Argues the speech is not a mercantile "lingua franca" and claims that…

Contrasts MLT with "The King of Tars," "Bevis of Hampton," and the Becket legend (where Thomas Becket's mother is a "heathen or Saracen"), arguing that, unlike the "contradictory approaches . . . to the conversion of the Muslim Other elsewhere, MLT…

Focuses on Henry Brooke's 1741 verse adaptation/translation of MLT as a rewriting of English history that asserts "national identity" and "looks fondly at the relationship between the Anglican Church and State, ultimately equating its hopeful…