Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index
Preface: a life in progress - M.I. Cameron -- - Introduction - David Williams -- - Chaucer and character: the heresies of Douglas Wurtele - Robert Myles -- - "Withouten oother compaignye in youthe": verbal and moral ambiguity in the General prologue portrait of the wife of Bath - Beverly Kennedy -- - The wife of Bath and "speeche daungerous" - Chauncey Wood -- - The Franklin, Epicurus, and the play of values - E.C. Ronquist -- - Mapping a history of sexuality in Melibee - Glenn Burger -- - Chaucer after the linguistic turn: memory, history, and fiction in the link to Melibee - Christine Jones -- - Chaucer's clerk, on the level? - Victor Yelverton Haines -- - Confusing signs: the semiotic point of view in the Clerk's tale - Robert Myles -- - Sense, reference, and wisdom in the Merchant's tale - Patrick J. Gallacher -- - "Lo how I vanysshe": the Pardoner's war against signs - David Williams
