Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.
Contents:
Countervailing aesthetic of joy in Troilus and Criseyde / John M. Hill. The prologue to The legend of good women / Robert Worth Frank, Jr -- Epic theater : the comedy and the Canterbury tales (the knight and the miller) / Richard Neuse -- The riddle of sovereignty / Manuel Aguirre -- New armor for the Amazons : the wife of Bath and a genealogy of Ovidianism / Michael A. Calabrese -- Chaucer's Second nun's tale and the apocalyptic imagination / Eileen Jankowski -- Reframing the violence of the father : reverse Oedipal fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of law's, and Prioress's tales / Barrie Ruth Straus -- Chaucer's Shipman's tale, Boccaccio, and the "civilizing" of fabliau / John Finlayson -- Time as rhetorical topos in Chaucer's poetry / Martin Camargo -- Countervailing aesthetic of joy in Troilus and Criseyde / John M. Hill.
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