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Includes discussion of Alice Chaucer's literary interests and patronage, literary involvement of her father (Thomas Chaucer), various manuscripts affiliated through common works (Chaucerian and otherwise), John Paston II's compilation and curation of…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "this study presents the frame as a strategic locus of value in the literary text, arguing that the frame both constitutes and is constituted by an interplay between stylistic 'insides' and ideological 'outsides'. .…

Explores the "centrality of the bedchamber to the imaginative worlds" of various texts: TC, Chaucer's dream poems, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, "The Book of Margery Kempe," Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies," and others. In…

Surveys "sixteenth-century writers [sic] from Chaucer to Spenser and from Copernicus to Bacon, showing how they construct authority and attempt to rewrite intuitions about nature and her students. My subsequent chapters on physics, chemistry, and…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "argues that the pose of melancholy was a vital framing fiction in later medieval poetry . . . , investigate[s] the medical, philosophical and religious traditions of melancholy, and . . . trace[s] the political role…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "This thesis investigates a particular discourse which conflated ideas of male sexuality and work . . . in the particular social and economic climate of late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century London." Discerns…

Item not seen. From the abstract: Examines "the treatment of five of the tales about classical women that appear" in LGW and in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Considers gender, the "socio-political environment of the time," and poetics in the prologues…

Investigates notions of contagion, melancholy, and reader response in BD, Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Sidney's "Old Arcadia," Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and four early modern "self-help" texts.

Investigates "gendered metaphors of translation" in three late-medieval compilations of adaptations from Ovid's "Heroides"--LGW, Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen"--addressing them as "the authors' most overt…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "The focus of my discussion is on the presentation of Medea in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth century English literature where her story is recounted by three historians of Troy . . . as well as by Chaucer, in…

Shows "how the frequent conflation between anger and revenge has shaped the representations of what we might call anger management in early English literature," from representative Old English works to Shakespeare. Two chapters focusing on Mel, ClT,…

Analyzes "the literary and musical tools used by Ralph Vaughan Williams to aid in an informed performance" of songs composed by Vaughan to various texts; includes discussion of MercB, accompanied by musical score and commentary.

Argues that CT is "the source" of Part II of Melville's "Clarel," comparing the behaviors of the characters of the two works for the ways they reflect a "single perspective" among Chaucer's pilgrims and "totally different perspectives" among…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "The chapters examine a range of Middle English literary texts that respond to the prescriptive recommendations for mourning outlined in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and in the . . . penitential literature…

Distinguishes elegy and consolation as literary modes, considering the notion of Purgatory as a major underlying feature of the latter. Examines "Pearl" and BD as elegies, reading the latter "as a resistant and secularising monument to suffering that…

Explores speech in late medieval English "literature and prescriptive religious writing," focusing on how "inward feelings [are] realized only in intersubjective exchange." Includes discussion of, among others, "Piers Plowman," "Mum and the…

Examines "the way that gender, genre, form, and affect in late medieval devotion literatures, in the vernacular, provide varying degrees of access to spiritual reality for medieval women." Draws on "contemporary affect theory" and includes discussion…

Item not seen. From the abstract: "My dissertation argues that numerous fourteenth-century texts connect listening with ethics in a phenomenon I call “auditory poetics.” I analyze human agency surrounding the creation and reception of sound in…

Identifies "nine components commonly found in prayers," exploring their presence in various devotional poems in Middle English and interpolated in narrative works by the "Gawain"-poet, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer, observing superior style in the…

Briefly describes differences between TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," focusing on genre and style, characterization, and attitudes toward women.

Item not seen. Dramatized adaptation of Wife of Bath materials; in Portuguese. Produced by Amir Haddad in 2018.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this musical recording includes a track (no. 4; running time 4:01) entitled "Quero Pensar : A Mulher de Bath" [I Want To Think (The Wife Of Bath)], one of sixteen total tracks. Lyrics in Portuguese. Additional…

Provides background to franklins in medieval England and uses Stephen Greenblatt's notion of "self-fashioning" to assess the characterization of the Franklin in GP, in his words to the Squire (Sq-FranL), and in FranT as an "embodiment of the 'new…

Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"

Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…