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Classical and medieval theories of sexual reproduction privilege the male role as active and occlude the female as passive. This occlusion is paralleled by the plot and language of ClT, in which mothering is subordinated to paternalistic concerns…

Offers new support for the old theory that PF represents Anne of Bohemia as the "formel eagle" and King Richard, Charles of France, and Friedrich as her three suitors, presenting new ararguments for dating the poem in 1380 and new evidence that both…

Explores the unity of HF evident in the "evolution of the narrator, Geffrey," arguing that the poem "is essentially a humorous and all-embracing review of man's frantic quest for fame, learning, and love" that follows the educating of [a] drudging…

In contrast with Augustinian models, the poetic use of obscenity provides a nontraditional method of self-definition. For Rutebeuf, the obscene served to establish his own poetic identity; for Chaucer, it provided a means for characters to establish…

Focuses on materiality and objects in PrT, specifically the corpse, the antiphon, and the "greyn," and their "transcendence of the miraculous object." Claims that these objects illustrate Carolyn Bynum's notion of material objects involved in…

Murder mystery involving a nun who apparently comes back to life; Chaucer figures as a secondary character. Translated into Italian as "La Reliquia Rubata: Thriller Medioevale" (Casale Monferrato: Piemme, 2001).

Surveys the critical history of NPT, including the scant comments focused on the tale between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Argues that the "tale's interest in direct experience acts as means of liberations from the plethora of discourses…

Textbook edition of NPPT. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also…

Examines various sources, intertextual relations, and the Bahktinian dialogism of NPT as aspects of its relations with Menippean satire.

Includes interlinked images and transcriptions of all fifty-five pre-1500 versions of NPT, with complete collations (linked to variant maps), commentaries on family relationships of the versions, and stemmatic commentary on key readings. The search…

Introductory, descriptive analysis of NPPT and PardPT, "designed primarily for the school, college, and university student." Summarizes the places of the two Tales in CT and explains their poetic and thematic concerns, focusing on the artful…

Suggests that Chauntecleer is Chaucer's satiric target when he refers to Boethius in NPT 7.3294; the rooster apparently is not familiar with Boethian music theory found in both "De Musica" and the "Consolation of Philosophy."

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of NPT in Middle English and that this was re-issued on CD in 2010.

Item not see. The WorldCat record indicates that this is a study guide to NPT, designed for high school students, [with text?].

Summary (without text) and commentary on NPPT, arranged in sections, accompanied by glosses to Middle English phrases. Also includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his literature; commentary on source materials of NPT, its characterization and…

Recorded at the Ninth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Trinity College, Dublin, 1994. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2003.

Follows the general format of the Variorum Edition with text based on Hengwrt and collations with early manuscripts and most printed editions . Surveys earlier criticism with extensive notes.

Presents NPPT and NPE in Middle English (following Robinson's 1957 edition) with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-44) considers the tale-teller relations of NPPT, the "digressions" (dreams, sermons, and rhetoric) of NPT, and…

Study guide to the NPPT that includes the Middle English text, with facing-page glosses and commentary that encourages careful reading. The volume includes a summary of CT and an introduction to Chaucer's language, along with discussion of various…

Acknowledging NPT to be "a rhetorical tour de force," assesses implications of its status as a "fable," surveying medieval commentaries on the genre, particularly its ability to teach and/or delight, and commenting on the morality the Nun's Priest…

In his last allusion in NPT, the Nun's Priest reminds us once again of the preaching tradition with which his tale has been playing. The various narrative perspectives shift so frequently that NPT is more than just an idle tale or a tale about a fox…

Reconsiders questions of the number of Canterbury pilgrims, focusing on GP, 1.164 and the ecclesiastical pilgrims. Suggests that the Nun's Priest and the Clerk may be identical or, at least, kindred spirits, and considers what NPT and ClT may reveal…

NPT is a "mock-summa" that skeptically examines how authority is conveyed and parodies "didactic mechanisms." Mocking various kinds of rhetoric and discourse, the Nun's Priest also evokes a laughter of merriment that "laughs without laughing at…

Identifies a variety of tones in NPT, identifying interplay among the voice of the "rhetor," a "sermonizing" voice, and the outlook of a "sophisticated fabulist," exploring the "quality of their combination" by observing their relations with…

Surmises that, as a satiric response to the anti-Semitism of PrT, NPT may reflect Chaucer's possible knowledge of a twelfth-century "Anglo-Jewish collection of 107 animal fables," the "Mishle Shu' alim," generally attributed to Berechiah Ben Natron…