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Explores the meaning of Chaucer's astrolabe and reflects upon medieval England and the English language.

Explores issues of absence, death, exile, silence, orality, and musical performance in "Sir Orfeo" to find connections with FranT. Approaches "Sir Orfeo" as a reflection on how Chaucer depicts the professional art and artists and lay-makers in FranT.

Studies how horse figures function in telling, traveling, and space definition in "Les quatre fils Aymon," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, GP, SqT, and TC.

Explores the connection among name, birth, and personal achievements. The study is based on "Lybeaus Desconus," but also draws on other medieval sources such as HF.

Focuses on the oriental influences on Chaucer's SqT and on his treatment of the marvelous in light of the medieval controversial approach to mechanisms.

Although courtly love, magic, and supernatural situations make up the framework of FranT, the role played by binding agreements, contracts, and consent in the Tale alters the traditional definition of magic. Claims that fourteenth-century society was…

Explores the ambivalence of the forest in several examples, particularly ones drawn from KnT and BD.

This comparative study of the two texts, based on the same motif of the gathering of birds, aims at exposing the spiritual and moral differences of the works. The theological and philosophical intention in Attar has disappeared in Chaucer's treatment…

Explores the type, use, and functions of formulas in Th, in relation to parody; in Mel, in dramatic form reinforcing allegory.

Comments on the relationship between narration and food in CT.

Includes introductory comments on displacement in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, specifically the meaning of travel in Chaucer.

Analysis of Becket reliquaries made in Limoges, including commentary on the role of the city and its cathedral in Becket's experience and in CT (as an elusive destination).

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

Examines the interweaving of tenses and time sequences in the boxed-in structure of the narrative in BD.

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

Yvernault explores the relationships among marginal spaces, architectural frames, sense, and self-assertion.

Analyzes the metaphors of space and architecture in relation to textual construction in TC.

Yvernault focuses on the narrative imbalance in MilT caused by the intrusions of the margin through description of holes and through open and broken architectural structures.

Yvernault explores various levels of the love discourse in PF in relation to the roles played by reflection and silence.

Posits that uncertainty and ambiguity are structuring stylistic techniques of Chaucer's descriptions in PF.

Yvernault explores the representation of space(s) and the problem of deconstruction in HF, focusing on the poem as textual architecture.

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.

Includes comments on Chaucer's use of the term "orisante."

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.

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."