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Reprint of Japanese translation of TC with notes and commentary, based on F. N. Robinson's edition. First published in 1948.

Surveys medieval notions and representations of privacy in relation to various religious and devotional practices, study, gardening, social spaces, and the demise of community. Comments recurrently on Chaucer's depictions of solitude, focusing on his…

MilT serves as a corrective to KnT (where chaos in effect breaks down order) by exceeding the typical symmetry of the fabliau (a genre in which order properly has no part). Departing from the "pryvete" set up in its many senses, MilT develops and…

In MilT, the house and the space around it symbolize both the tale itself and the principal characters. The top floor represents the "heavenly" sphere where the flood is predicted and awaited; the middle, or "earthly," level is Alison's bedroom; and…

Compares elements of privacy (e.g., "access, intimacy, and withdrawal") in official documents and records to canonical literary works including TC, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Malory.

Explores links between privacy and urban spaces in Fragment 1 of CT, especially MilT, in which each of the major male characters fails to control his own "pryvetee." The article follows Pierre Bourdieu in conceptualizing the practices of privacy as a…

Considers transformation "both as a theme and as a methodological problem." In SNT, faith is more "real" than experience, while in CYT, the "real" is not accessible to the Canon. Chaucer experiments with the relationship between the material and…

Allusions in SumT to the "silent canon" - the clerical practice of offering the Eucharistic consecration prayers silently - open a window on "lay-clerical relations," exposing the politics governing access to the secrets of the Eucharist. Through its…

Collection of essays that discuss emerging challenges for scholars and editors in textual studies. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Probable Truth under Alternative Title.

Addresses inconsistencies in the character of the Pardoner and in the relation between the teller and his tale. Identifies the symbolic possibilities of the Old Man and tallies several ironies in the tale.

"Chaucer's ME pentameter (if that is what it was) had become lost by the beginning of the 16th century and had to be reinvented."

Comments on Chaucer's formal descriptions of women in Rom, BD, RvT, and MilT, focusing on his uses of rhetorical conventions, Continental models, and native English alliterative phrases and vocabulary.

Analyzes modern approaches to Chaucer's portrayal of women.

The grounds for "best-text" editing are uncertain. In following a "best-text," an editor may seek to "place the modern audience in the position" of the Ur-audience. Hanna questions Hengwrt as basis for "best text" and Manly-Rickert's method of…

Describes the interrelationship in HF between oral and written forms of transmission of literature. Only through the poet's journey through space (bk. 2) can limitations imposed by literary conventions of written text be overcome.

Justifies writing a new biography of Chaucer despite objections that it may be impossible, useless, or superfluous. The exceptional nature of Chaucer's life and the richness of his historical context make the undertaking worthwhile.

Comments on aspects of convention, generic variety, and characterization in BD, PF, HF, LGW, and TC as evidence of Chaucer's status as a "great representative of the mediaeval culture and a pioneer of Renaissance art." In Russian, with Lithuanian and…

In Russian; with English summary (p. 55): "The realistic tendencies of 'The Canterbury Tales,' a result of Chaucer's cultivating the traditions of medieval literature, are considered. According to contemporary scholars, the basis for these tendencies…

Twenty-six essays by various authors, with eight that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. under Alternative Title.

Twenty essays by various authors on topics in British literature before 1800: five essays on Shakespeare; three on medieval uses of Christ's death (in Beowulf, Song of Roland, and El Cid). Other topics include Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,…

Thirteen papers on topics ranging from Old English to eighteenth-century British literature. For three papers that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature under Alternative…

Includes thirty-eight essays. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature under Alternative Title.

Twenty-eight essays by various authors on Scottish language and literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature…

For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.

Twenty-three essyas by various authors delivered at the "Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature" 10-12 October 1996, topics ranging from medieval to modern. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer search for…