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Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.

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Gail McMurray Gibson devotes a whole essay to The Shipman's Tale, in which she sees 'a parodic enactment of Christ's Resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalen. The reader may wonder how she establishes the association. I will not deprive him of the pleasure of discovering the answer for himself, except to the extent of offering him a single clue: what was the name of the Shipman's barge ? The Review of English Studies

Gail McMurray Gibson, devotes a whole essay to The Shipman's Tale, in which she sees 'a parodic enactment of Christ's Resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalen. The reader may wonder how she establishes the association. I will not deprive him of the pleasure of discovering the answer for himself, except to the extent of offering him a single clue: what was the name of the Shipman's barge ? The Review of English Studies Gail McMurray Gibson devotes a whole essay to The Shipman's Tale, in which she sees 'a parodic enactment of Christ's Resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalen. The reader may wonder how she establishes the association. I will not deprive him of the pleasure of discovering the answer for himself, except to the extent of offering him a single clue: what was the name of the Shipman's barge? The Review of English Studies An interesting volume of literary criticism; the scholarship is above reproach, and it offers literary interpretation that will be stimulating. Although not everyone will agree with the authors views, they make a good volume which the profession will find worth reading. Siegfried Wenzel, author of The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations and Elucidations: Medieval Poetry and Its Religious Backgrounds

Gail McMurray Gibson, devotes a whole essay to The Shipman's Tale, in which she sees 'a parodic enactment of Christ's Resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalen. The reader may wonder how she establishes the association. I will not deprive him of the pleasure of discovering the answer for himself, except to the extent of offering him a single clue: what was the name of the Shipman's barge ? The Review of English Studies

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John P. Hermann is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama and the author of Allegories of War: Language and Violence in Old English Poetry. John J. Burke Jr. is a professor of English at the University of Alabama and coeditor of The Unknown Samuel Johnson.

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