244 25 16429 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Spicer, Kevin Andrew. Published DAI A71.12 (2011): n.p. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Pardoner and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 71 (2011). Source mea sac 35:127. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Sum Moribundus': Prolegomenal Forays into the Realm of Despair Description An account of the resource Considering such works as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," and PardPT, the author identifies finitude and nothingness as the roots of despair in late medieval and early modern works, as well as in modern theory. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Candido, Igor. Published DAI A73.01 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject Clerk and His Tale Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 73 (2012). Source mea sac 35:117. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boccaccio and Myth: Eros, Psyche, and Classical Myth in the Fourteenth Century Description An account of the resource Argues for the influence of the Eros and Psyche myth on Boccaccio's Griselda tale, and thereby on ClT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Bodden, M. C. Published New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xvii, 276 pp. Chaucer Subject Clerk and His Tale Language and Word Studies Series The New Middle Ages. Source mea sac 35:116. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman Description An account of the resource Historical analysis of early women's speech; describes early modern England's regulations of women's speech and women's subversive strategies to represent themselves as subjects in masculine discourses (including court depositions). Examines speech and silence in ClT; argues that Harry Bailly addresses the Clerk in the same ways women are addressed, and the Clerk code-switches in order to question how linguistic ideologies enforce gender norms. ClT challenges the association of women's silence with femininity and sexuality. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Olson, Glending. Published Viator 42.1 (2011): 247-82. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Summoner and His Tale Friar and His Tale Troilus and Criseyde Journal by Volume Number Viator 42 (2011) Source mea SAC 35:115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Demonism, Geometric Nicknaming, and Natural Causation in Chaucer's Summoner's and Friar's Tale Description An account of the resource Nicknames for geometric propositions occur in TC ("dulcarnon," "flemyng of wrecches") and one seems to be at play at the end of SumT ("figura demonis"), where the squire's "natural" solution to the problem of dividing the fart opposes the supernatural causation that operates in FrT. The opposition between natural and supernatural causation helps to unify Part 3 of CT and reflects the contemporary concerns of some Lollards and intellectuals, such as Nicholas of Oresme. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Hayes, Mary Published New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xiv, 246 pp. Chaucer Subject Friar and His Tale Summoner and His Tale Series The New Middle Ages. Source mea sac 35:114. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion Description An account of the resource Studies the tradition in which God speaks through humans and the proto-reformation implications of literary texts where the laity use speech usually reserved for priests. Chapter 4, "Cursed Speakers," considers the carter's and old woman's curses in FrT as parodies of Eucharistic prayers. Chapter 5, "Belly Speech," explores divine speech eminating from parts of the body other than the mouth, with discussion of the ailing man's fart in SumT as an instance of this non-vocal divine speech. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Wade, James. Published New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xiii, 212 pp. Chaucer Subject Merchant and His Tale Tale of Sir Thopas Wife of Bath and Her Tale Series The New Middle Ages. Source mea sac 35:113. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fairies in Medieval Romance Description An account of the resource Discusses fairies and elves within medieval romances and folklore. Analyzes Chaucer's use of "fayrye" in the MerT, "fairy mistresses" in Th, and the "fairy woman" in the WBT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Brijak, Vladimir. Published N&Q 256 (2011): 247-54. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Wife of Bath and Her Tale Squire and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Notes and Queries 256 (2011) Source mea SAC 35:112. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hamlet and Lameth Description An account of the resource References to "Lameth" in WBT and SqT comprise links in a sturdy chain connecting the tragic actions of Shakespeare's prince of Denmark to Lamech, a "(pseudo-)biblical figure associated with murder, rage, and vengeance." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Amsel, Stephanie A. Published DAI A72.07 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject Wife of Bath and Her Tale Second Nun and Her Tale Clerk and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 72 (2012). Source mea sac 35:111. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Formation of Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: A Study of Italian and English Mystics, Christine De Pizan, Boccaccio, and Chaucer Description An account of the resource Considers WBPT and SNPT, along with woman writers of the 13th-15th centuries, as part of the development of a female "subject consciousness." Also examines Grisilde in ClT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Wheatley, Edward. Published Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Date 2010 Physical Description xiii, 284 pp. Chaucer Subject Man of Law and His Tale Source mea sac 35:93:110. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of Disability Description An account of the resource Explores the "cultural geography" of blindness in medieval literature, art, and religious texts of England and France. Includes discussion of MLT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Shearer, Joanna R. Published DAI A71.09 (2011): n.p. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Troilus and Criseyde Legend of Good Women Man of Law and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 71 (2011). Source mea sac 35:109. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Naughty by Nature: Chaucer and the (Re)Invention of Female Goodness in Late Medieval Literature Description An account of the resource Assesses Chaucer's presentation of women in TC, LGW, and CT (especially MLT) for the various ways that he invigorates them as characters to give them voice and dimension. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor June, Rebecca. Published DAI A72.03 (2011): n.p. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Man of Law and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 72 (2011). Source mea sac 35:108. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mothers of Exile: Gender and Identity in Medieval Narratives of Foundation Description An account of the resource Considers Custance of MLT to be an exception to the medieval stereotype of the barbarous female founder of a society. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Dauby, Hélène. Published Anglophonia 29 (2011): 79-89. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Man of Law and His Tale Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations Journal by Volume Number Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies 29 (2011). Source mea SAC 35:106. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From Trevet to Gower and Chaucer Description An account of the resource Chaucer and Gower both adapted the story of Constance from the Anglo-Norman chronicle of Trevet. A comparison of the proper names, institutional terms, and speeches shows that Gower closely follows Trevet while Chaucer modifies the story in MLT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Sayers, William. Published N&Q 256 (2011): 188-91. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Language and Word Studies Knight and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Notes and Queries 256 (2011) Source mea SAC 35:104. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ahoy! and Jury-Rigging: Etymologies Description An account of the resource Chaucer's use of the interjection "Oo" in KnT (2533) is adduced as a stage in the history of "Ahoy" going back to the Anglo-French verb "oir" (to hear, listen). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Garner, Lori Ann. Published Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xi, 367 pp. Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Source mea sac 35:93:101. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England Description An account of the resource Focuses on Anglo-Saxon architecture and poetry and draws connections between physical spaces and literary texts. Argues that Anglo-Saxon buildings should be viewed as "dynamic spaces" to enrich an understanding of development of Anglo-Saxon literature. Chaucer's KnT is mentioned in the notes, pp. 325-327. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Coleman, Joyce. Published María Bullón-Fernández, ed. England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 135-65. Date 2007 Alternative Title England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. Contributor Bullón-Fernández, María, ed. Chaucer Subject Pardoner and His Tale Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations. Source mea; 1/10/2014; 12/18/2014 SAC 36:175 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal--and Patron of the Gower Translations? Description An account of the resource Coleman argues that Philippa of Lancaster, oldest legitimate daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal from 1387, sponsored the Portuguese and Castilian translations of Gower's "Confessio" Amantis. Philippa may also have been responsible for an analogue to Chaucer,s Pardoner,s Tale that turns up in Hermengildo de Tancos' "Orto do esposo." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Friedman, Jamie A. Published Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman, eds. The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 203-22. Date 2011 Alternative Title The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy. Contributor Rider, Jeff, ed. Friedman, Jamie, ed. Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations Source mea sac 35:99. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Interiority in the 'Knight's Tale' Description An account of the resource Argues against reading Emelye as absent or purely symbolic and instead posits her as having a more complex subjectivity that can be more fully accessed when reading KnT alongside Boccaccio's "Teseida." Close reading of Emelye's prayer to Diana shows her potential for resisting male authority and indicates her nuanced interiority. Despite this moment of autonomy, Emelye loses agency in the text once her body functions as the site for fulfillment of male desire. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Friedman, Jamie A. Published DAI A721.12 (2011): n.p. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 71 (2011). Source mea sac 35:100. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows in Three Middle English Narratives Description An account of the resource Examines "The King of Tars," "The Siege of Jerusalem," and KnT in order to demonstrate that identity, however embodied, was unfixed in these works and perhaps in the later Middle Ages at large. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Evans, Justin. Published DAI A72.09 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 72 (2012). Source mea sac 35:98. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stubborn Against the Fact: Literary Ideals, Philosophy and Criticism Description An account of the resource Uses KnT as a sample premodern text to support a critical approach "equally as concerned with literary ideals as it is with projects of subversion." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Burke, Kevin J. Published DAI A72.10 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject Knight and His Tale Wife of Bath and Her Tale Clerk and His Tale Second Nun and Her Tale Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 72 (2012). Source mea sac 35:97. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucerian Representations of Human Behavior: Determined and Free Action in the 'Knight's Tale' and the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' Description An account of the resource Contemplates issues of determinism and free will in KnT and WBPT. KnT is viewed as "deterministic," which in turn is countered by the Wife, as well as ClT and SNT. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Gourlay, Alexander S. Published N&Q 256 (2011): 522-23.. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Journal by Volume Number Notes and Queries 256 (2011) Source mea SAC 35:94. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More on Blake's 'Auguries' Description An account of the resource In the context of the biblical passages alluded to in a couplet evoking "gem-encrusted plows," it is worth noting that in Blake's depiction of the Canterbury Pilgrims, "he represented the Plowman as a medieval version of himself." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Whalen, Brett Edward, ed. Published Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xiv, 385 pp. Chaucer Subject General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations Source mea sac 35:95. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader Description An account of the resource A sourcebook of "fifteen centuries of history" about the historical, social, political, and religious development of pilgrimages. Includes a section on "Pilgrimage and Piety in the Late Middle Ages," with an abridged version of GP, pp. 325-30. Discussion and study questions follow each of the sources. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Claridge, Claudia. Published Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Date 2011 Physical Description xiii, 301 pp. Chaucer Subject Language and Word Studies Canterbury Tales--General General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Source mea sac 35:93. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration Description An account of the resource Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to portray pilgrims as "ideal 'types'" rather than "individuals." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Spurr, Barry. Published Sydney Studies in English 37 (2011): 1-18. Date 2011 Chaucer Subject Canterbury Tales--General. Journal by Volume Number Sydney Studies in English 37 (2011). Source mea sac 35:89 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Fame and Nurture of Poetry Description An account of the resource Spurr cites A. E. Housman's lecture "The Name and Nature of Poetry" and calls upon the makers of the Australian National Curriculum not to excise CT and other canonical texts from the program. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Walsh, Morrissey Jake. Published DAI A73.02 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Knight and His Tale Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 73 (2012). Source mea sac 35:91. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Termes of Phisik': Reading between Literary and Medical Discourses in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and John Lydgate's 'Dietary' Description An account of the resource Considers Chaucer and Lydgate's appropriations of medical discourse (as in GP and KnT) and their introduction of such discourse into the larger English literary culture, including the ramifications for the history of medicine in England. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaucer Bibliography Online ChaucerItem2 Items for the Chaucer Database Author / Editor Vernon, Matthew Xavier. Published DAI A72.10 (2012): n.p. Date 2012 Chaucer Subject Canterbury Tales--General Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion Journal by Volume Number Dissertation Abstracts International 72 (2012). Source mea sac 35:90. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African-American Literary Tradition Description An account of the resource Suggests parallels between medieval literature and African-American literature, with particular attention to Layamon and August Wilson (stories of origin), Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills" and Dante (a suppressive desire for harmony), and Naylor's "Bailey's Café" and CT (polyvocality).