Introduction The Problem and the Possibility

 Chaucer as an Intellectual Man: A Review

 Possibility of Chaucer as an Intellectual

 The Layout of the Book

Chapter One Counselor or Critic?

 Court Poet as Prince-pleaser, Counselor, or Critic?

 Chaucer's Counseling: The Tale of Melihee

 Between Counsel and Critique: Mirror for Prince

Chapter Two Chaucer as a Social Commentator

 Chaucer's Position: in and on the Society

 Writing as Social Practice: The Nun's Priest's Tale

 Women in Chaucer's Society: Criseydo and Wife of Bath

 Portraying of Clerics: Prioress, Pardoner, and Parson

Chapter Three Entertainer, Edifier and Enlightener

 The Role of Enlightener: Authority Negotiated

 Literary Authority and Chaucer's Poetic Innovation

 Masculine Authority vs. Feminine Experience

Chapter Four Wisdom and/or Weakness

 Wisdom in art: Commenting with Strategies

 Wisdom in Life: Chaucer and Chinese Shi

 Weakness or Not?

Conclusion Possibility of Transcending

Selected Bibliography

 Primary Sources

 Secondary Sources

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