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Anger and glossing--linked by their common "refusal to accommodate the self either to events in the world outside, or to the autonomous meaning of the text"--are evident in SumT and throughout CT. The Marriage Group centers around patience, the…

Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…

Anger "rises to the level of a philosophical and ethical problem for Chaucer." An understanding of the role anger plays in the formation of self and community is useful in understanding the communities Chaucer creates and examines in CT.

Reads Mel as a narrative of anger and anger management in which Prudence's "transformative" advice helps Melibee resolve his personal and political anger, even though his fundamental anger against God is not reconciled.

For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Angleterre et Orient au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.

Purdie explores "how and why" tail-rhyme romance developed in Middle English and defines the "temporal and geographical limits" of the subgenre. The book includes a version of Purdie's "The Implications of Manuscript Layout in Chaucer's Tale of Sir…

Identifies in RvT lexical evidence of a culture permeated with French linguistic influence, evidence that could be reinforced by a more thorough linguistic study of RvT and the rest of Chaucer's corpus: "Far from being 'ephemeral and localized' or…

Chaucer was prepared for his travels to Italy by the fact that his acquaintances knew Italy well.

Explores how English displaced Latin as a literary language in the court of Richard II and assesses meter, Anglicization, and historical topics as common features of Anglo-Latin verse by Gower and Thomas Barry.

Discussion of Anglo-Norman fabliaux and their Latin antecedents. Elements of Anglo-Norman fabliaux are found in MerT, while MilT, RvT, and ShT follow Continental French fabliaux. Assessments of Anglo-Norman fabliaux are needed.

By means of vocabulary items, characteristics of Chaucerian English as found in the "Kingis Quair" are noted in passing.

The method for studying literary relations between Scotland and England has been too simplistic. Even the best work, such as Gregory Kratzman's Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550, suffers from a narrow referentialism that must be rethought.…

The absence of holographs and of other early manuscripts, along with other evidence, suggests that Chaucer left only "foul papers" or copies of his works, especially CT and TC, in a state of more or less continual revision, from which different…

Although anthropocentric, BD emphasizes the similarity of animals and humans under the law of "kynde." They share an "embodied state and an ethical system as a result of their shared creation." The hart, object of the hunt, parallels the Black…

Deconstructs the human/animal binary once useful in the emerging field of animal studies by casting anew these relationships into a "multiplicity of intersecting and competing distinctions that better reflect medieval ways of thinking." Through close…

Adduces "popular lore" to show that Chaucer's references to a hare and a goat in the GP description of the Pardoner (1.684 and 688)—corroborated by other details from the actions and descriptions of the Pardoner—characterize him as a "testicular…

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…

Suggests that Langland, Chaucer, and Gower represent political speech with the speech of animals, and argues that this device was later appropriated in anti-Ricardian discourse.

Includes an oral retelling of NPT for children, "Chanticleer the Rooster," adapted and read by Jim Weiss, with a brief introduction. Track 9; ca. 15 min.

Describes "critical animal studies"; then examines human-animal relations in PrT and NPT, arguing that the Prioress's "selective sympathy for certain animals" in her GP description "forecasts her narrow sympathy for certain humans" in her Tale. NPT,…

Discusses animals as symbols in medieval culture and includes four essays that consider works by Chaucer. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animals in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.

An alphabetical listing of animals, mythical and actual, with discussion of their iconography and symbolism in oriental, classical, biblical, and medieval traditions. The index includes nineteen references to Chaucer and his works.

Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather…

Analyzes Chaucer's characterization of the birds in PF to explore the process of "distanciation," stemming from two coexisting viewpoints in the poem: the author's and the dreamer's.

Reconsiders what role Anne may have had as a patron of Chaucer, examining her literary interests and political career and assessing the relation between these and the depiction of Alceste in LGWP. From Lydgate forward, the construction of Chaucer as…