...R. D. Perry This essay discusses the fart joke that ends Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Summoner’s Tale.” It argues that the joke uses the language of medieval philosophy to satirize the work of medieval Scholastic philosophers. The essay begins by examining Chaucer’s relationship to philosophy more broadly...

..., virtual to the end. This essay studies Geoffrey Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale because, among medieval narratives, it flaunts the richest domain of the virtual. Its plot largely revolves around not what happens in its story world but what could happen in it and yet does not. Paying attention to virtual strings...

... of Beryn , an anonymous continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . The Sindibad tale and the Tale of Beryn thematize narrative use in the context of a trial, in which the pleas and counterpleas highlight the function of fictionalizing acts. Fiction in these narratives is conceptualized as a practice...

... from Chaucer, Kafka, and Borges, we argue for cases that exhibit a more complex dynamic, with the reader’s direction of attention varying from the real to fictional world and from low to high suspension of disbelief. We claim that immersion may also take place in works where the reader is more focused...

... fondazione di Roma ” (“On 21st of April of the 2,630th Year from the Foundation of Rome”). In Odi barbare ( Barbarian Odes ), 83 – 88 . Bologna : Nicola Zanichelli . CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) . 1978 . The Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship . New York : CCAR . Chaucer...

... Narinsky’s dissertation was on the unreliable narration in Chaucer’s poetry. Her most recent project is on the presentation of minds in late medieval English literature, focusing on Chaucer and Gower in particular. Dan Shen is Changjiang Professor of English and director of the Center for European...

... 2005 Notes on Contributors Mark J. Bruhn is an associate professor of English at Regis University in Denver, Colo- rado. His essays on a variety of writers from Chaucer to Atwood have appeared or are forthcoming in the Chaucer Review, European Romantic Review, Poetics Today, Studies...

... two tales from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (the Nun’s Priest’s and the Wife of Bath’s) as pre- cursors of the modern short story, with special regard to Chaucer’s handling of time, space, characters, and narrators. Particularly interesting is the dis- cussion of how Chaucer creates...

..., suggestion, and compression. Next, an essay by Antonio Lo´pez Santos analyzes two tales from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (the Nun’s Priest’s and the Wife of Bath’s) as pre- cursors of the modern short story, with special regard to Chaucer’s handling of time, space, characters, and narrators...

...,Satires ménippées: Edition, traduction et commentaire (Rome: Ecole Française de Rome). Chaucer, Geoffrey 1987 The Riverside Chaucer, 3d ed. , edited by Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin). Connery, Brian A., and Kirk Combe, eds. 1995 Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism...

... Mechanisms of Empathy in Humans: A Relay from Neural Systems for Imitation to Limbic Areas ,'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100 : 5497 – 5502 . Chaucer Geoffrey 1988 The Riverside Chaucer ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Clark...

... and Eighteenth Centuries , translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Stanford,CA: Stanford University Press). Chaucer, Geoffrey 1987 The Riverside Chaucer, 3d ed. , edited by Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin). de Grazia, Margreta 1996 “Imprints: Shakespeare,Gutenberg and Descartes,” in Alternative...

... 2001 Notes on Contributors Mark J. Bruhn is an associate professor of English at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where he teaches courses in British literature, linguistics, and stylistics. He has published essays and reviews in the Chaucer Review, Studies in Philolo , the CEA...

..., and World). 1965 [1939] Modern Poetry and the Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press). Byron, George Gordon 1986 [1818] “Beppo,” in A Critical Edition of the Major Works , edited by Jerome McGann, 316 -43 (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Chaucer, Geoffrey 1957 The Works...

... Chaucer, John Lydgate, and James Joyce. She received the Latsis Founda- tion Award and the Hélène and Victor Barbour Award for Literary Criticism for her book on the body in the Iliad and Beowulf, La logique du corps articulaire: Les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale (2000...

... Structure in Fiction and Film ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). Clements Robert J. Gibaldi Joseph 1977 Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio and Chaucer to Cervantes ( New York : New York University Press ). Davenport Tony 2004...

..., Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Milton, among others. Martin Svensson Ekstroem is senior research fellow in the Chinese Studies Depart- ment at Stockholm University as well as associate editor of the BulletinoftheMuseumof Far Eastern Antiquities (BMFEA). Among his articles are ‘‘What Happened When Mao...

... of Chaucer and Virgil a volume in the Cornell Words- worth series. Tony Jackson is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations...

... in JMEMS , New Medieval Literatures , Speculum , Studies in the Age of Chaucer , and elsewhere. Katra Byram is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. Her research centers on narrative theory and German literature from the late...

... is currently writing two books. The first, Chaucer s Coteries and the Making of the English Literary Tradition, looks at the way coterie poetics helps shape the English literary tradition in its incipient moments. The second, The Complete Canterbury Tales, argues thatChaucer inscribes an aesthetics of incom...