Browsing by Subject "Chaucer"
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Chaucer at Oxford and at Cambridge by J. A. W. Bennett
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Chaucer's Jailer's Daughter
(2015-05)We know that Shakespeare read Chaucer, but we do not know exactly how he read Chaucer. Established models of source studies require solid "proof," but this paper proposes a more liquid conception of influence that permeates ... -
Embodied cognition, Latin pedagogy, and the rhetorical foundations of medieval vernacular poetry
(2015-05)This dissertation uses the insights of recent cognitive science to illuminate narrative and rhetorical strategies in the Eclogue of Theodolus, a Latin debate poem, and its French and English literary descendants. The Eclogue ... -
Finding Lollius : empathy, textual knowledge, and the ending of Troilus and Criseyde
(2014-05)The ending of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has been a frequent source of dissatisfaction and confusion. After five full books centered on a doomed love between pagans, the final stanzas suddenly shift to an orthodox ... -
The long line of the Middle English alliterative revival : rhythmically coherent, metrically strict, phonologically English
(2012-05)This study contributes to the search for metrical order in the 90,000 extant long lines of the late fourteenth-century Middle English Alliterative Revival. Using the 'Gawain'-poet's 'Patience' and 'Cleanness', it refutes ... -
Speaking through the “open-ers” : how age feminizes Chaucer’s Reeve
(2013-05)The Reeve’s Prologue in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales represents one of the most prominent medieval narratives of old age. In his bitter tirade the Reeve emphasizes the topics of impotence, sexuality, power and voice through ... -
“That country beyond the Humber”: the English North, regionalism, and the negotiation of nation in medieval English literature
(2009-12)My dissertation examines the presence of the “North of England” in medieval texts, a presence that complicates the recent work of critics who focus upon an emergent nationalism in the Middle Ages. Far removed from the ...
