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Shows how Chaucer's oeuvre offers many glimpses of readers' and listeners' encounters with the written word, but that last wills and testaments offer more direct insights into "the ways the majority of people interacted with and interpreted 'English'…

Seeks to complicate--even replace--the figure of Father Chaucer with Child Chaucer, examining children in Chaucer's works, along with figures of childishness, playfulness, and childlikeness, exploring the poet's uses of and resistance to traditional…

Describes the history and reception of friars in France and England from their inception to c. 1400, with a chapter on late fourteenth-century English literary responses: "England: The Turbulent 14th Century, and the Writings of Chaucer, Langland and…

Argues that hue or skin tone "makes skin visible in texts that do not explicitly mention it" and serves to act as an indicator of narrative structure, emotional interactions, and generic conventions of romance in TC.

Uses Judith Butler's transgender theory to read the skin of the Pardoner as an example of cooperative agency resulting in a reconstructed identity, in contrast to the surgically enforced violence of cutting off Virginia's head in PhyT in order to…

Argues that leprosy was seen in the later Middle Ages as a "broad category of skin diseases rooted in sin." Suggests that Robert Henryson's Cresseid, Chaucer's Summoner, and Amiloun were questionable characters whose diseased skins can be viewed as…

Demonstrates how the Wife of Bath's resistance to "straight" clerical exegesis is reflected in her skin's rejection of violently enforced "cutaneous legibility" and the forced reading of her "seinte Venus seel" as an innate and legible marker of her…

Reads the Cook's ulcer as potential leprosy in an effort to show how such signs on the skin act as points of uncertainty that impact the relationships among the pilgrims.

Reasons that just as a parchment leaf bears traces of its animal origins and can bear evidence of writing and rewriting, Chaucer writes the Summoner, the Cook, and the Wife of Bath with attention to their skins and the ways in which they communicate…

Includes nine essays based on presentations at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Nineteenth International Congress in Reykjavík. Sets up a theoretical framework for the exploration of "the textuality of human skin" and "the relations between text,…

Introduces Japanese analogues of PardT dating from the seventeenth or eighteenth century, and compares them with their Chinese and Indian ancestors, in order both to hypothesize the genealogies and to trace the change of motifs through transmission.…

Considers the relationship between Chaucer's position in courtly society and his attitude toward his female audience through the examination of his creation of female characters, especially those in TC, LGW, Mel, and WBP.

Includes essays exploring connections among Chaucer's works, courtly life, and Arthuriana. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer, Arthur, and Medieval Roman III under Alternative Title. In Japanese, except for Chapters 1-3.

Notes that the canonizing of Chaucer can have the effect of making him less challenging, blunting the force of his concern for the all-importance of "trouthe" and compassion, issues that "every person in every age" must face.

Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that the volume is intended for a juvenile audience and includes narrative accounts of the lives and works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, and Rudyard Kipling. The Chaucer…

Departs from purely functional or allegorical approaches to the whelp in BD by situating the narrative's portrayal of canine-human relations within the field of critical animal studies. Establishes the role of the whelp in rectifying human…

Analyzes the speech of Chaucer's birds and claims that Chaucer "endows the avian world with a series of communicative strategies as diverse as--and profoundly linked to--his own poetic strategies." Looks at SqT, GP, and PF.

Questions the assumed "medieval distinction between humans and other animals" and explores language used by humans and nonhumans in the Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animal Languages in the Middle Ages under…

Analyzes the aesthetics of medieval romance in light of the philosophies of G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, exploring and explaining the "pleasurable seriousness" (for modern and medieval audiences) of the "Lais" of Marie de…

Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening…

Reads NPT in light of the Nebuchadnezzer account in MkT--the only one of the Monk's tragedies with a "happy ending," the result of a lesson learned. Contrasts MkT as an early work of Chaucer's with NPT as one of his maturity, focusing on the "rival…

Reviews the "extreme implausibility" of attributing the art of individual tales in CT to the pilgrim-narrators, and argues that the "ideas and arguments" of the tales belong to Chaucer. Also reviews the sequential order of the tales as found in the…

Includes twelve essays by various authors on Middle English literature, and an introductory appreciation of A. V. C. (Carl) Schmidt, a list of his publications, and an index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Truth is the Beste under…

Theorizes how "fundamental ways of apprehending space in the past can differ from our own," focusing on local, everyday spaces, their boundaries, and their contents, and exemplifying medieval notions with details and descriptions from Chaucer's…

Addresses the history of medieval Christianity from the fall of Rome to the ideas of the Reformation. Focuses less on secular and ecclesiastical religious elites and more on how the general public viewed issues of damnation and salvation in the…