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Studies genre in CT, "Piers Plowman," and Gower's "Mirour de l'omme," focusing on estates satire, "redemptive discourse," the mirror tradition, legal discourse, and "genealogies of sin."

Argues "that Chaucer developed his own theory of sound in his dream vision poetry." His theory--that sound travels and transforms rather than dissipates--was adapted from his scientific learning," particularly Boethius's "De institutione musica."…

Uses "mostly . . . a phenomenological approach" to explore "how objects in Medieval English Literature disrupt individual linear time." Addresses various texts and, in a chapter on TC, argues that "Criseyde is representative of Freudian melancholia"…

Traces the development of a "salvific but antisemitic fantasy of Judaization" in western aesthetics from St. Paul to modern writers, and identifies an "alternate mode of modern poetics based in the Jewish philosophy of language and in the practice of…

Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the 'beautiful ugly,' " and "bring attention to the…

Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing "a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Ronsard…

Explores how "false confessions and sermons" in late medieval literature "investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred." Includes discussion of PardPT.

Explores how the material book is a "metaphorically rich signifier" in contemporary culture and in a selection of English narratives, including BD and PF--where the narrators' books, serving as portals to the dream experience, result in "poetic…

Investigates the concept and diction of the "non-human person" in a range of early English texts from "Beowulf" to CT, tabulating and assessing the usage of various locutions for humans and near-humans. Includes attention to elves, fairies, giants,…

Investigates "how medieval authors implement impaired bodies in service of spiritual exploration," addressing depictions of impaired bodies generally excluded from disability studies, such as "personified sins, aging bodies, and martyrs' bodies."…

Explores "how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from their branching forms to their growth cycles, to negotiate literary influence and construct poetic meaning." Includes a chapter on HF as well as one each on "Piers…

Surveys "the wide influence exerted by the Islamic eschatological narrative known as 'Mohamme's Ladder' on European literary production until the 17th century." Discusses the possibility that Chaucer knew the work, and assesses correspondences…

Examines "experimentalist modes of inquiry in Middle English literature and natural philosophy," including discussions of HF, LGWP, and other texts for the ways they "stage mental experiments that show how the material world might be perceived and…

Examines the history and literature of Richard II "through a queer theoretical lens," including discussion of TC, Maidstone's "Concordia," Shakespeare's "Richard II "(and its performance history), and modern fiction. Explores the "cultural norm of…

Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on…

"[I]nvestigates the distinctive conceptions of literary authorship of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas by means of close and comparative readings of their utilisation of a particular form and mode: framed first-person…

Examines Gower's and Chaucer's uses of the conventions of "dits amoureux" and their composition of "religious pastoralia," especially in the "Confessio Amantis" and CT, respectively, where Gower integrates "his satirical and devotional writings,…

Addresses "medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons." Chapter 4 considers "the concepts of ritual murder libel, blood libel, and Jewish…

Argues that "the nascent art of international relations . . . among England, Scotland, and France, creates a heightened awareness of the connections between literary and political mediation central to the distinct textures of medieval wartime."…

"[O]ffers an interdisciplinary perspective on later medieval views of animals, focusing on the Latin, French, and English texts circulating in England." Includes assessment of "Chaucer's depictions of inarticulable grief and interspecies empathy" in…

Uses "the frameworks of illness narrative, narrative medicine, and trauma theory" along with the model found in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" to "examine the doctor–patient relationship" in BD, Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and "Pearl,"…

Applies modern trauma theory to medieval English texts: "Beowulf," "Dream of the Rood," "Pearl," and LGW. Addresses sexual abuse and the witnessing of such abuse in LGW, focusing on "tropes of indirection, silence, and repetition."

Explores the interplay between romance and religious poetry in late medieval English vernacular literature, and includes discussion of how, as a parody of romance, Th "primes the reader for the prudential lessons" of Mel.

Outlines "the history and theory of BDSM [bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism]" and explores "concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence" in "Sir Gowther," "The Book of Margery Kempe,"…

The categorical proposition, or sentence, is offered as a global model for narrative structure. The sentence structure, which makes meaning by suggesting the significant similarities between what might have been and what is actually said, takes the…