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Describes the "ideological investments" that underlie the history of Chaucer biographies, explores authorial self-consciousness and the "autobiographical impulse" in early English literature, and explains the interests and emphases that underlie…

Introduces four previously unknown documents, including a Chaucer life record connected to his guardianship of Michael Staplegate, which offer new perspectives on Chaucer's life and poetry. Implies that Chaucer's wardship of Staplegate extended as…

Surveys critical and historical treatments of Philippa Chaucer, showing both the ahistorical nature of much of this work and the common, negative approach in her characterization. Emphasizes that gender plays a significant role in how these judgments…

Includes a series of essays in medieval studies and book history that are concerned "with the tenuous connection between what we define as evidence and what we construct as the narrative, scholarly or historical, that makes sense of that evidence."…

Outlines the "critical myth" that Chaucer, despite his assumed or constructed urbanity, lived in an age that was less sophisticated than the critic's own. Interrogates the history of this myth, exploring progressivist and devolutionary biases in…

Castigates modern studies that describe the verse form of Francis Kynaston’s Latin translation of TC as "pentameter" or as "rhymed accentual," explaining that it is, instead, in eleven-syllable lines with an accent on syllable ten. Then explores how…

Questions whether Richard Pynson's edition(s) of Chaucer's works (1526) is "one or three items," examining the bibliographical evidence and traditions available to answer the question, exploring the limitations and assumptions underlying this…

Asserts that the conflation of editing and canon-formation in literary history "involve[s] an unavoidable circularity of reasoning, and an equally unavoidable series of assumptions we often claim to wish to avoid." Explores logical and methodological…

Comments on anachronisms in the portrait of Chaucer included in William Godwin’s Life of Chaucer (1803) and on the reception of the portrait and the biography, suggesting that the portrait is "more sincere" than other Chaucerian anachronisms and that…

Argues that, for Pasolini, "Chaucer presages the spiritual corruption of the nascent bourgeoisie" in the style and content of CT; yet, to "represent [the] spoiled fruits" of bourgeois corruption visually in "I racconti di Canterbury," the filmmaker…

Assesses the emphases of four modern adaptations of CT: Brian Helgeland's 2001 movie "A Knight’s Tale" (focusing on Chaucer's character as a "PR" man); the 2011–12 Tacit Theatre touring drama "The Canterbury Tales" (bawdy comedy); Pier Paolo…

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2016, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 336 items, plus listing of reviews for 40 books. Includes an author…

Praises Chaucer (pp. 17-31) as the first poet in English to be "read for pleasure" because he "invented in English the pleasant habit of writing for the sake of writing." Commends Chaucer's innovative uses of French and Italian models and the "wealth…

A comic, absurdist, satirical novel of interlocking tales told by a series of ship's passengers, loosely modeled on CT, opening with a "General Prologue" that introduces the tale-tellers and proceeds in chapters dedicated to individual tellers and…

Uses comparative and linguistic metrics and statistical analysis to describe the history of English meter from early Germanic verse to modern metrical experiments. Chapter 4, "Versifying in Bilingual England" (pp. 73-95), focuses on the metrical…

Assesses the presence of cosmopolitan thinking in medieval literature, drawing examples from Fulcher of Chartres' "Historia Hierosolymitana," TC, and the medieval Troy story at large. In Chaucer's poem, Criseyde discovers through Diomedes' amorous…

Includes a brief comical introduction to Chaucer’s poetry and a modernized selection from the conclusion to NPT, with b&w illustrations by Philip Reeve.

Challenges "the standard view that fifteenth-century poets wrote irregular meters in artless imitation of Chaucer," arguing instead that "Chaucer’s followers deliberately misread his meter in order to challenge his authority" and rather than…

Advocates teaching John Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern" as "his most accomplished poetical production," discussing the status-resistant view of natural gentility in his translation of WBT and of Boccaccio's tale of Sigismunda and Guiscardo.…

Includes discussion of KnT in a group of late-medieval English romances that differ from Continental romances in that they "outline a male heterosexual model informed by a Boethian contemptus mundi theme in which sobriety and reservedness replaces…

Item not seen. Abstract available at https://ethos.bl.uk. Examines stress in Middle English verse, exploring "how tension is created through the matching or mis-matching of lexical stress with the expected metrical template" in the Hengwrt version of…

Describes the emphasis on short stories in the Danish literary magazine "Cavalcade" and analyzes several of its Danish translations from CT published in the late 1940s, suggesting that the translators--Lis Thorbjørnsen and Jørgen Sonne--were…

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."