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Introduces a "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature" (CCWL) based on Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" and utilizes corpus stylistics to "operationalize" the argued coherence of the western canon. Using CT as an example, illustrates how tagging…

Considers Chaucer's extensive and subtle use of "the full vocabulary of 'chance' and 'mischance'." Shows how his use of privatives and negative prefixes with these words "inflect[s] his larger concerns with Fortune (usually personified as an agent)…

Considers the roles of apartheid and linguistic queerness in the class-based characterizations of various hobbits in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," suggesting that Tolkien's scholarly study of Chaucer's literary dialects and his glossary for the…

Tabulates evidence of the greater regularity of stress in Gower's verse than in Chaucer's, particularly in nouns and adjectives that feature the apocope of final unstressed -e. Attributes this regularity to the influence of Gower having written…

Studies the :speaking face" depicted in Chaucer's works (TC, Buk, BD, and ClT), discussing the trope as a subset of facial expression in the history of emotions. The first writer in English to do so, Chaucer has his characters and narrators translate…

Observes that in Chaucer's short-line verse, headless lines are much more common than initial inversion, whereas in his iambic pentameter the exact opposite occurs. Argues that Chaucer and his predecessors used such metrical license "very…

Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer's "discourse pragmatic" uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of "present and past tenses in discourse" where the narrator "dynamically…

Examines the use of riddling and the structure of riddles as a means of representing "the wondrous in the everyday." Specifically considers Chaucer's use of this in BD and PF. Additionally suggests that the "Secretum philosophorum" is an intertext in…

Seeks to "account for constraints governing Chaucer's syntactic inversions with a purpose to uncover Chaucer's underlying metrical principles," employing a combination of "optimality theory" and "Maxent Grammars" and analyzing "every tenth line" of…

A young-adult novel, modeled on CT, in which senior high school students on a bus trip from Canterbury, Connecticut to Washington, D.C. share stories about their awakening sexuality. Characters' names (including the primary narrator, Jeff Chaucer)…

Looks at how Bossewell's "Workes of Armorie" uses LGW, WBT, and BD in exploration of the construction of masculine identity.

Argues that details and attitudes depicted in WBPT and in the description of the Wife in GP influenced various aspects of Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well."

Argues that Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" combines the concern with Boethian logic and necessity found in TC with Ramist thinking, indicating that Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford, was the author of the play. The combination prompts a…

First-person fiction featuring Eugenia Panisporchi, who teaches Chaucer, and who remembers all of her past lives, which connect with her present one. Includes trans-temporal recollections of when she met "Mr. Chaucer" and encountered models for…

Analyzes William Blake's "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" by paying special attention to its ordering of the pilgrims, and investigates Blake's understanding of Chaucer and his intention in his classification of the pilgrims. In Japanese.

Argues that the Petrarchism commonly held to have begun in English with Wyatt and Surrey is, instead, an alteration of a tradition already prevalent among English writers such as Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate. In particular, claims that…

Explores Alexander Pope's "transformation" of MerT in his "January and May," focusing on his "reading of Chaucer," and his poem's "consonance with the time of Queen Anne." Also comments more generally on Pope's reception and uses of Chaucer's…

Argues that in "The Ancestor's Tale: Richard Dawkins "uses Chaucer's poetics to address interpretative problems with evolution," particularly the "anthropocentric" notion that "humanity is the 'result' of evolution." Dawkins's uses of the frame…

The woman that infatuates the narrator is a barista who she calls "Chaucer girl," so named because she is first seen holding a copy of "The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."

Assesses how "mythological heroines from Ovid‘s "Heroides" and "Metamorphoses" were catalogued, conflated, reconceived, and recontextualized in vernacular literature," particularly as they reflect his "interest in textual revision and his…

Item not seen; WorldCat information indicates this is a children's novel, set in the Middle Ages, about a gifted girl who flees her home in order to protect a Chaucer manuscript.

Short story that involves a Chaucer scholar, a manuscript of Chaucer's Book of the Leoun (Ret 10.1087), and an extortion scheme.

Suggests that WBP 3.707-10 inspired lines 1–3 of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy."

A detective mystery in which a stone-tablet illustration of the Wife of Bath provokes the killing of a Chaucer professor during an auction. The story includes a putative portrait of Chaucer and surmises about his life.

Demonstrates that in Lydgate's "Disguising" the wives' use of Chaucerian "performative and legalistic speech acts" is set in evocative conflict with the "theatricality of monarchical justice," arguing that Lydgate learned from Chaucer's WBPT how…