Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 1998. / Includes vita. Bibliography: leaves 212-226.

Thesis--John Hopkins University.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1934. / At head of title: The Catholic university of America. Bibliography: p. 132-139.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University. / Published also without thesis note in Three Chaucer studies. "List of references": p. 177-182.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University. / Published also without thesis note in Three Chaucer studies. "List of references": p. 177-182.

Thesis--John Hopkins University.

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Bibliography: p. 233-240.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--New York--Columbia university. / Bibliogr. p. 125-136. Index.

My dissertation reexamines Chaucer’s debts to the Consolation by reconciling Boethius’s Neoplatonic distaste for the material world with Chaucer’s poetic celebrations of the variety and sensuality of human life. I revise the understanding of Chaucer’s poetry by recontextualizing it within a new Boethianism that stems from Chaucer’s interaction with the scholastic commentary on the Consolation by Nicholas Trevet. Although critics have long known that Chaucer’s Boece extensively borrows from, glosses, and cross references with Trevet’s commentary, very little attention has been given to what effect this had on Chaucer’s Boethian poetry. My dissertation argues that through Trevet’s immensely popular commentary, Chaucer received a predominantly Aristotelian-Thomist reading of the Consolation, one that reinvents Boethius’s Neoplatonic rejection of the sensual world as an apologetically materialist philosophy. The Aristotelian-Thomist influence of Trevet’s commentary is most visible in Chaucer’s treatment of the human interactions with the temporal world: in the functions of sense perception, the working of memory, and the desire to foresee the unknown future. / text

The diploma thesis offers a philological analysis of František Vrba's translation into Czech of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper is composed of three major parts: "Theoretical background", "Hypothesis and Method", and "Analysis". The analysis addresses matters of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, metrical and cultural nature. The analysis focuses on The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale as convenient manifestations of stylistic variation, cross-generic links and structural correspondences and contrasts in The Canterbury Tales. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate the quality of František Vrba's Czech translation.