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"The Significance Of The Tradition Of Nature In Chaucer's ""troilus And Criseyde."""
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Criseydan Conversations 1986-2002 A Narrative Bibliography
… constructing the foundations on which we now stand. However, in light of recent pressures in the very competitive and practical aspects of academic life, the scholarly conversation is often lost amidst the desire to find any obscure point on which to publish simply for the reason that no one has …
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Towards an Edition of Troilus and Criseyde: The Work, Authorial Versions, and Digital Tools
… the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde using phylogenetic methods. It has three main goals: (1) to show that phylogenetic methods can illuminate the relationships within the textual tradition, (2) to challenge the “three-version” theory that has influenced Troilus …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… culture, investigating both Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I conclude that Chaucer's poem both replicates and …
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Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition
… western roots back to Hermes, Mercury, and Loki and take global trickster scholarship into consideration, criteria can be established and the role of the literary trickster can be assessed. The literary trickster’s role is to undermine the established order (social and political …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… dissertation examines the concept of intention and its relationship to the idea of the moral self in late medieval England. Late medieval English writers often identified intention, as opposed to action, as the site of moral identity. Drawing on medieval legal distinctions between intended and …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
<p>As a result of the growth of cities and the rise of a merchant class in later medieval England, the desire for privacy began to emerge alongside an increase in personal consciousness. In my dissertation, I examine the place of privacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England by juxtaposing …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
In “Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature,” I examine five early literary texts, spanning from the late-fifth to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s …
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An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages
… the work traces the development of the idea and the representations of nature in the ancient world which so much influenced the Middle Ages; it focuses on the English world by offering an interpretation of the natural world in Beowulf, and draws conclusion on possible eco-oriented ideas of …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the significance of the Time-Fortuna-Occasio topoi and of· genre conventions in Early Modern discourse on change; and seeks to identify some of the complexity in Shakespeare's use of them. An appendix to …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
There has been much written on Boethius and his impact on Chaucer's greater known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
… representations of conversion in chronologically and culturally remote communities: how medieval authors' understanding of conversion was conditioned by earlier Christian literary models, and how those models and the social worlds they presuppose were in turn transformed by medieval authors to …
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
… concept of penance during the Middle Ages in England reflects the influence of many geopolitical sources, as well as the expanding influence/maturation of the Roman Catholic Church and the development of sacramental rituals during this period. One of these sacraments was codified as a result of …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… as part of the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools both for understanding the instruction of generations of schoolchildren and for reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools. As Chapter 1 explains, …
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… French of incorporating songs in this manner; and second, on the importance of this tradition to Chaucer, a poet who includes songs in nearly all his narrative poetry, and who was deeply familiar with many of the late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century French works of this type. In order …