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A study of "the interconnectedness of gender, epistemology, and poetics in Chaucer's texts," focusing on "idioms of gender that attend narrative protocols of reflexitivity and appropriation." Examines the linguistic, discursive, and sexual…

Bokenham "strategically utilizes feminine piety" and his own "dullness" to express political dissent in a style that differs from the high rhetorical style of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate. He rejects their "classicizing, aureate" tradition, initiating…

Despite its antifeminist core, medieval exegesis is not "universally misogynistic or patriarchal." Focusing on three historical moments--the age of Augustine, the twelfth century, and the age of Chaucer, including his fifteenth-century…

Romance is the medieval genre that most clearly dramatizes gendered identity, focusing on "courtship, marriage, lineal concerns, primogeniture, and sexual maturation." Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, FranT, and Th reflect and confront masculine identity…

Describes distinctions that derive from transgender politics and explores how the gender and sexual identities in SumPT--"largely constructed by and through its twin genres of antifraternal critique and fabliau"--"insinuate that friars are both…

Burger characterizes second-wave feminism as a precursor of gay and lesbian studies, arguing that queer theory desires and explores the past in particularized rather than universalized ways, in part to "trouble Foucault's epistemic break between the…

Examines "the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer's literature, e.g., "knyght," "lady," "leche," "wyf '," focusing on MerT, FranT, ABC, and TC, but addressing most of Chaucer's works.

Professional book production and circulation in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including Chauceriana, present courtly models for gender, eventually affecting rural gentry. The Findern MS revises femininity, and the female voice can be…

Chaucer's male narrators and characters are obsessed with ideas of linear/finite time, progression, arrival, and teleology. His female characters either silently subscribe to the male obsession or are dominated by cyclical/monumental and transcendent…

In contrast to the uniformity specified in LGWP, the legends themselves, when examined in light of the nominalist principle of particularized language, reveal widely differing heroines, not indistinguishable victims. ShT functions as pattern; CYT as…

Thomas W. Ross's "Variorum Edition" of MilT creates new possibilities for interpreting the misdirected kiss.

Chaucer satirizes the anti-Semitism and sexual restrictiveness of the medieval church by presenting the serpent-Satan as a representation of Judaic reproduction denied the celibate Prioress. Rudat suggests the Prioress terminated an earlier unwanted…

Eaton connects various uses of the word "conscience" in Chaucer's works with the social classes of the characters with whom the word is associated and with gender differences such as the structuring of physical space.

O'Neill surveys Chaucer's attitudes toward age and gender in CT, with particular focus on WBPT. In CT, the "medieval, ageing Englishwoman as a sexual being emerges with . . . dignity and vitality."

Uses Chaucer's works, Mannyng's "Handlyng Sinne," and several Middle English romances to examine conversion as a process by which the self is redefined either in opposition to a dominant class or as a means of admission to it.

Argues that MerT is unified by its engagement with medieval debate tradition, evident in a series of five episodes that concern competing views on gender and marriage. Moreover, the "phantom debate" of the Merchant's "split consciousness" and the…

Investigates two crucial scenes of reading in TC--Criseyde's reading with her attendants in Book 2 and Pandarus's voyeuristic reading of a romance in the consummation scene--finding in their contrasts two opposed models of reading: one that…

By representing the narrator of CT first as a disembodied authority and then as a storyteller in the pilgrimage game, Chaucer explores the parameters of voice, gender, and authority. The perception of gender in speech is shown to be a social…

In an argument that medieval writers gendered undesirable aspects of pagan beliefs as feminine, Shutters examines Griselda in ClT.

Argues that the idealized knightly figure of Troilus in TC is taken from the characterization of Florio in Boccaccio's "Filocolo."

Textbook edition of GP with end-of-text notes, glossary, and dictionary of proper names, accompanied by an Introduction that addresses the role of GP in CT, as well as its art and "Inheritance." Also includes several appendixes: "The Poet and His…

Supports the reading of "hors" as plural in GP 1.74 on the grounds that "goode" in the same line is a plural form that "determines the number of the entire construction."

Textbook edition of GP. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also includes…

Presents performance strategies for improving linguistic knowledge among undergraduate Chaucer students.

Examines the equation of political and poetic authority in the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Historical romance tends to legitimize political authority and to cite poetic authority, while the fabliau pretends to chronicle true occurences…