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Focuses on the function of reality and fiction in Chaucer's BD as influenced by Ovid, Boccaccio's "Amorosa visione," Guillaume de Machaut's "Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse," and "Jugement du roy de Behaigne."

The dissonant echoes within and between Chauntecleer's dream narrative and the subsequent disputatio prevent any clear idea of the veracity of the dream's apparently prophetic nature. In the confrontation between the cock and the fox, the dogmatism…

Examines the allegorical purposes of LGWP, assessing the dream structure and the importance of the dreamer's awakening at the end of the G version.

Compares the anonymous author of "Jacob's Well" to a priest of the same type as Chaucer's Parson, or a canon such as John Mirk.

A late-fifteenth-century French riddle about the dividing of a fart cites Chaucer as the solution, evidence that SumT was known at the time in France.

Yvernault assesses Chaucer's ambiguous uses and rewriting of Boccaccio in ClT, especially in his treatment of Griselda.

Like many of his French predecessors, Chaucer relied heavily on ancient (and a few foreign) authorities, but his vernacular language lacked prestige. He gradually freed himself from such handicaps to claim new status as an English writer.

Compares FranT with Breton lays, and centers on how memory, and the unreliability of the past, weaken the connection between Middle English lays and Breton lays.

Facing-page translation of PF into modern French poetry. Includes as an appendix Marteau's poetic tribute to Chaucer, "Hommage au Noble Geffroy Chaucier, Grant Translateur."

Sees Chaucer the Pilgrim and his inverted doubles--the female image of the Wife of Bath and the male image of the Host--as three parts of Chaucer's personality. Similar unity can be found among WBT, Th, and Mel.

Includes references to GP, MLT, SNT, ClP, PrT, and FrT.

Though BD is highly structured, ambiguity pervades it, raising questions about the relationships between dreaming and writing, illusory experience and textual reality, and psychological emptiness and poetic fruition.

Middle English edition and French translation of BD, HF, Anel, and PF, with introduction and commentary in French.

Texts and translations facing, preceded by a full introduction and followed by appendices of musical works and miniatures, as well as notes to the text that explicate textual questions and "specify relationships between Machaut's and Chaucer's…

Explores the origins of Boccaccio's "Decameron" 10.10 and some Finnish analogues, without direct consideration of ClT.

Considers FranT in light of Epicurean philosophy, arguing that Dorigen's Epicurean efforts to seek perfect tranquility are thwarted by those who seek honor (Arveragus), impossible love (Aurelius), illusion (Aurelius's brother), and riches (the clerk…

In English literary tradition before Chaucer the concept of the devil has great vitality. But in CT, only in SumT and ParsT does the term "devil" have its traditional force; for the most part, one finds a transition away from the medieval idea.

Focuses on the rich meanings and implications of fragment in PardPT.

Comments on Chaucer's ventriloquist complaints (in LGW and TC) and examines the length, structure, position, tone, and function of the genre in FranT. While they were initially types, major characters gain dimension. Dorigen's second soliloquy…

French translation of WBT.

Compares and contrasts courtly love in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's TC.

Considers BD as a partition between the mythical and fictional worlds and reality, as a textual space of transition where poetic experience and real life are intertwined.

After a short survey of France's discovery of medieval English literature, especially Chaucer, in the nineteenth century, Dor describes the main features of Chatelain's first complete translation of CT into French, published in London from 1857 to…

Considers the dates of BD and Jean Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" and explores their similarities, arguing that Froissart's poem inspired the central idea ("l'idée centrale") and many other features of Chaucer's poem—aspects of…

The language used to describe Hippolyta in KnT undermines the praise of Theseus and exposes "the dramatic irony in the Knight's perception of Theseus's military exploits and subsequent exchange of ethnic women."