Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
I. Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, ed. Re-Interpretations [sic] of English. Essays on Literature, Culture and Film (I) ([La Coruña]: Universidade da Coruña, 2001), pp. 85-101.
Explores issues of persona, authorship, and reception in Th and Mel, focusing on the links between Tales, the Host's role, and the "evolution" of the pilgrim Chaucer.
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
Atlantis 24: 117-32, 2002.
Feminist narratological analysis of WBPT reveals that the Wife's arguments, based in traditional misogyny, overwhelm this misogyny through dynamic engagement of it.
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
Manuel Brito and Juan Ignacio Oliva, eds. Traditions and Innovations Commemorating Forty Years of English Studies at ULL (1963-2003) (Tenerife, Canary Islands: RCEI, 2004), pp. 273-80.
Hernández Pérez explores kinship models implicit in the cultural "memory" of ClT, especially those that involve Walter's sister and the sending of children to a relative's household. Griselda's class and deference may reflect vestiges of marriage…
Hernández Pérez, Ma Beatriz.
Liminar: Estudios sociales y humanisticos 6.2 (2008): 15-30
Examines Chaucer's works, particularly BD and LGW, in connection to female patronage networks in the late fourteenth century in England, France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Argues that the new cultural and political role of many aristocratic women had…
Hernández Pérez, Mª Beatriz.
F. J. Cortés et al., eds. Variation and Variety in Middle English Language and Literature (Barcelona: Kadle, 2000), pp. 55-64.
Analyzes Chaucer's use of seascapes and water imagery in LGW, HF, and TC, attending to their metaphoric qualities and their narrative functions.
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
SELIM 16 (2009): 103-20.
Analyzes HF in light of Saint Augustine's understanding of memory, showing how Chaucer proposes a dialogue with history and literature of the past in which the author and the reader are recipients of a common legacy.
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
SELIM 11 (2001-2002): 29-47.
Assesses "The Assembly of Ladies" in light of several Chaucerian techniques, particularly his use of a disarming narrative persona. The relatively straightforward female narrative persona of "Assembly" is unlike the narrator of LGW, although both…
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Sonia Villegas and Beatriz Domínguez, eds. Literature, Gender, Space (Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2004), pp. 131-42.
Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.
Hernández Pérez, María Beatriz.
Dulce María González Doreste and María de Pilar Mendoza Ramos, eds. Nouvelles de la rose: Actualité et perspectives du "Roman de la rose" (La Laguna: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2011), pp. 455-78.
Assesses Rom as a translation and also as a key moment in Chaucer's literary career that will make him the father of English poetry.
Herold, Christine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2382A.
Discusses the differences and similarities between classical Greek ideas and late Roman and medieval Christian concepts of tragedy, focusing on Lucias Annaeus Seneca and his influence on the works of Chaucer, Jean de Meun, and Boccaccio.
The medieval conceptualization of tragedy has its roots in classical tradition, especially Seneca as mediated by Boethius. Herold surveys classical, patristic, and medieval ideas of tragedy and the tragic, exploring how Chaucer, among others,…
Herold, Christine.
Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 47-65.
Herold reads WBT as an "individuation myth" in which the knight gains "wisdom and self-empowerment" in his encounters with the anima, manifested in the "triple-aspect of the Great Mother Archetype": maiden, queen, and loathly lady.
Herrold, Megan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Explores how Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, and other writers "appropriate conventionally misogynistic figures to rethink radically the ethical and political capacities of personhood, and therefore justice, in society."…
As knight, sheriff, and "contour" (I.359), the Franklin is the quintessential late medieval county "bureaucrat," whose duties provided incentives both to disclose and to hide the financial information to which he was privy. From its "dramatic irony"…
Hersh, Cara.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 26, no. 2 (2019): 9-16.
Offers a pedagogical exercise for teaching PrT in a way that provokes students' confrontation with issues of personal disgust and engagement with the tale.
Hertog, Erik.
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1991.
Explores the phenomenon of literary analogues through a pragmatic and structuralist analysis of four salient components of narrative, each illustrated with examples from Chaucer's fabliaux and their analogues in various European languages. The…
Hertog, Erik.
Erik Kooper, ed. This Noble Craft . . .: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics, Utrecht, 19-20 January, 1989. Costerus New Series, no. 80 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 200-21.
Based on Roland Barthes's work on the structural analysis of narrative texts, this essay assesses SumT and two analogues. Hertog describes a model for the recognition of similar events in fiction.
Hertz, John Atlee.
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2600-01.
Addresses "source relationships of geographical matters" in Chaucer. Chaucer's cosmography and its sources, and other "geographical matters," arguing that Chaucer "makes more frequent use of geography than do most of his contemporaries." Focuses on…
Explores the relationship between reality and romance in KnT, comparing the Tale's presentation of details and ideals with those found in Froissart's "Chronicle," and arguing that the Knight operates with the "assumptions of chronicle history" and…
Herz, Judith Scherer.
Modern Philology 58 (1961): 231-37.
Claims that CYT "depends on the metaphor of alchemy for both characterization and structure," discussing the Canon's Yeoman as a "fearful, naive, but by no means static" character and exploring the use of vocabulary of literary romance in his…
Herzman, Ronald B.
Anthony Pellegrini, ed. The Early Renaissance: Virgil and the Classical Tradition (Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, 1985), pp. 1-17.
In FrT, Chaucer humorously uses references to Dante's story of Frate Alberigo. In reference to "Inferno," canto 33, to reverse Dante's pattern of punishment and sin, Chaucer specifically names Dante; and Chaucer's description of Satan is fashioned…
Herzman, Ronald B.
American Benedictine Review 33 (1982): 325-33.
Symkyn's name is diminutive of Simon and thus calls up the story of Simon the Magician as found in the Acts of Peter. In a larger sense the rise and inevitable fall of pride that is the tales structural skeleton gains resonance when placed against…
