Hearing, smelling, savoring, and touching in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Chaucer’s scholar’s have long recognized the poet’s keen sense of observation and have commented upon the poet’s ability to transfer his visual images to his writing.
Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce
Caught in the (One-)Act: Staging Sex in Late Medieval French Farce Sharon D. King Paper given at the 14th Triennial Colloquium of the…
Wild woman and her sisters in medieval English literature
The subject of this work is the concept and figure of the Wild Woman. The primary focus will be on various forms this figure assumes in medieval English literature: Grendel’s mother—the second monster Beowulf faces—and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, along with other figures.
Function and Representation of Women in Fourteenth-Century English Arthuriana
This thesis investigates the function and representation of female characters through Arthurian tropes in three fourteenth-century English Arthurian texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale,’ and Sir Launfal.
Chaucer’s Arthuriana
The majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court.
The Wife of Bath: a Tragic Caricature of Women
The Wife is characterized by a preoccupation with sex, which she uses to manipulate her husbands, of which she has had five, into acquiescing their land and money to her control.
Monstrous transformations: loyalty and community in four medieval poems
I will examine two forms of transformation, the werewolf transformation and the monstrous human transformation, both of which feature shape shifters who presumably cannot be trusted
A Feminist of the Medieval Times: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer’s characters take part in a story-telling contest while going on the pilgrimage. Among them, the Wife of Bath is an outstanding woman who seems not to be a typical figure in the medieval times.
Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
Madness has been long misrepresented in medieval studies. Assertions that conceptions of mental illness were unknown to medieval people, or that all madmen were assumed to be possessed by the devil, were at one time common in accounts of medieval society.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not?
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not? By Michael Carosone Published Online (2011) Introduction: Her name is Alisoun, but she is better known as “The Wife…
The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales
The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales Kuo, Ju-ping M.A. Thesis, The Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature, June 23 (2003) Abstract…
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants Kennedy, Beverly The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol.2, edited by Norman Blake…