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Canterbury Tales
| The General Prologue |
=Student Essay |
| The Knight |
=Student Essay |
| The Miller |
=Student Essay |
| The Reeve |
=Student Essay |
| The Cook |
=Student Essay |
| The Man of Law |
=Student Essay |
Dissertation: The Hagiographic Narrators of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Second Nun, The Man of Law, The Prioress - Granville S. Hill [.pdf]
Thesis: Body Politics: Otherness and the Representation of Bodies
in Late Medieval Writings - Martin Blum [.pdf]
Thesis: Women in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:
Woman as a Narrator, Woman in the Narrative - Vladislava Vaněčková [.pdf]
Thesis: The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales - Ju-ping Kuo [.pdf]
Chaucer and Moral Philosophy: The Virtuous Women of the Canterbury Tales - Denise Baker
History, Mission, and Crusade in The Canterbury Tales - Celia M. Lewis [.pdf]
'But algates therby was she understonde': Translating Custance
in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - Christine F. Cooper
Moments of Silence, Acts of Speech: Uncovering the Incest Motif in the Man of Law's Tale - Yvette Kisor
"A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon:" Constructions of Genealogy
in the Clerk's Tale and the Man of Law's Tale - Angela Florschuetz
- Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination
of the Idea of the Marriage Group - Cai Zong-qi
- Nominalistic Perspectives on Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale - Roger E. Moore
- Chaucer's Man of Law as a Purchasour - Martha Dampf Lambkin
- Chaucer, the Liturgy, and Constance's Ever-increasing Pathos - Kevin J. Harty
- "Biheste is dette": Marriage Promises in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Marie Nelson
- Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Teaching Through the Sources - Christine M. Rose
- Providence and Incest Reconsidered: Chaucer's Poetic Judgement of his Man of Law
- Marc M. Pelen
- Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - Susan Schibanoff
| The Wife of Bath |
=Student Essay |
| The Friar |
=Student Essay |
| The Summoner |
=Student Essay |
| The Clerk |
=Student Essay |
Dissertation: Innocence, Suffering, and Sensibility: The Narrative Function of the Pathetic in
Chaucer's Tales of the Clerk, Prioress, and Physician - M. Catherine Turman Wildermuth [.pdf]
Thesis: The Clerk's Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems - Christopher J. Brock [.pdf]
Thesis: The Name of the Risus: Nominalism, The Carnivalesque, and the Pursuit of Truths
in Chaucer's the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale and the Clerk's Tale - Joseph L. Grossi [.pdf]
Thesis: Women in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:
Woman as a Narrator, Woman in the Narrative - Vladislava Vaněčková [.pdf]
Thesis: The Wife of Bath's Coverchiefs and Conjugal Sovereignty
in Four Chaucerian Marriage Tales - Ervin C. Dueck [.pdf]
Thesis: The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales - Ju-ping Kuo [.pdf]
Chaucer and Moral Philosophy: The Virtuous Women of the Canterbury Tales - Denise Baker [.pdf]
Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and the Monstrous Critics - Denise N. Baker [.pdf]
Reading Like a Clerk in the Clerk's Tale - Laura Ashe
Reading Griselda's Smocks in the Clerk's Tale - Laura F. Hodges
Griselda's Pagan Virtue - Lynn Shutters
'It it be your will': Sadomasochism in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale - Michelle Danner [.pdf]
"A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon:" Constructions of Genealogy
in the Clerk's Tale and the Man of Law's Tale - Angela Florschuetz
- Fragments I-II and III-V in The Canterbury Tales: A Re-examination
of the Idea of the Marriage Group - Cai Zong-qi
- Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity - J. Allan Mitchell
- Petrach, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale - John Finlayson
- The Clerk's Tale:
A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion" - Richard Neuse
- A Woman in the Mind's Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale - Robin Waugh
- The Powers of Silence: The Case of the Clerk's Griselda - Elaine Tuttle Hansen
- Griselda's "Unnatural Restraint" as a Technology of the Self - M. L. Warren
- Chaucer's
Clerk of Oxenford and Other Rime Royal Interludes - F. Martin
- Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage - George Lyman Kittredge
- What's Really Being Tested in "The Clerk's Tale"? - Susan K. Hagen
| The Merchant |
=Student Essay |
| The Squire |
=Student Essay |
| The Franklin |
=Student Essay |
| The Physician |
=Student
Essay |
| The Pardoner |
=Student Essay |
| The Shipman |
=Student Essay |
| The Prioress |
=Student Essay |
Dissertation: Chaucer's Costume Rhetoric in his Portrait of the Prioress - Laura F. Hodges [.pdf]
Dissertation: The Hagiographic Narrators of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Second Nun, The Man of Law, The Prioress - Granville S. Hill [.pdf]
Dissertation: The Figure of the Wayward Nun in Late Medieval Literature: The Ambiguous Portraits of the Archpriest of Hita's Doña Garoza and Chaucer's Madame Eglentyne - Graciela S. Daichman [.pdf]
Dissertation: Innocence, Suffering, and Sensibility: The Narrative Function of the Pathetic in
Chaucer's Tales of the Clerk, Prioress, and Physician - M. Catherine Turman Wildermuth [.pdf]
Thesis: Women in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:
Woman as a Narrator, Woman in the Narrative - Vladislava Vaněčková [.pdf]
The Problem of the Performative in Chaucer's Prioress Sequence - William Orth [.pdf]
Sadism and Sentimentality: Absorbing Antisemitism in Chaucer's Prioress - Merrall Llewelyn Price [.pdf]
The Prioress's Fair Forehead - Thomas J. Farrell [.pdf]
Subjectivity and the Discourse of The Other in the Prioress's Portrait and Tale - S. Gaynor [.pdf]
Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims - Sheila Delany [.pdf]
Wild Horses, Justice, and Charity in the Prioress's Tale - Richard Rex [.pdf]
Pastiche as Irony in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale - Richard Rex [.pdf]
Muscipula Diaboli and Chaucer's Portrait of the Prioress - Stephen P. Witte [.pdf]
- "The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in Prioress's Tale - L. Patterson [.pdf]
- Performing the Prioress: "Conscience" and responsibility in studies of Prioress's Tale - M. Calabrese
- Lumiansky's Paradox: Ethics, Aesthetics and Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale" - Greg Wilsbacher
- Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women
- Timothy D. O'Brien
- Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A
Girardian Reading - C. Gruenler
- Chaucer's Prioress - Dr. Elizabeth G. Melillo
Chaucer’s Prioress: Simple and Conscientious, or Shallow and Counterfeit? - Victoria Wickham
Prioress "Re-Analysis" - Michael Ginzburg
| Sir Thopas |
=Student Essay |
| The Tale of Melibee |
=Student Essay |
Dissertation: Maintaining Injustice: Literary Representations of The Legal System C1400 - Kathleen E. Kennedy
Dissertation: Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books - Malte Urban [.pdf]
Thesis: "The Wil of his Wif": Discourse, Power, and Gender in The Tale of Melibee - Sara D. Jenkins [.pdf]
Chaucer and Moral Philosophy: The Virtuous Women of the Canterbury Tales - Denise Baker
Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format?
Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection - B. Bowden [.pdf]
Echoes of Communal Response in The Tale of Melibee - Michael Foster [.pdf]
"In hir tellyng difference": Gender, Authority, and Interpretation in The Tale of Melibee - A. Walling [.pdf]
Maintaining Love Through Accord in The Tale of Melibee - Kathleen E. Kennedy [.pdf]
Inverse Counsel: Contexts for the Melibee - Lynn Staley Johnson [.pdf]
- Telling differences: Tale of Melibee and Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence - Dominick Grace
- Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading - C. Gruenler
- Chaucer's Knight, the Tale of Melibee, and the Socio-Historical Implications of Pilgrimage - F. Martin
| The Monk |
=Student Essay |
| The Nun's Priest |
=Student Essay |
| The Parson |
=Student
Essay |
| The Second Nun |
=Student Essay |
| The Canon's Yeoman |
=Student Essay |
| The Manciple |
=Student Essay |
| Other |
=Student Essay |
Book: Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry - Larry Sklute [.pdf]
Book: A Distinction of Stories : The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury - J. B. Allen & T. A. Moritz [.pdf]
Dissertation: Shame and Guilt in Chaucer -
Anne H. McTaggart [.pdf]
Dissertation: The Transcendent Comedy of the Canterbury Tales: Harmony in "Quyting,"
Harmony in Fragmentation - John Zedolik [.pdf]
Thesis: Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales - Michael E. Bigley [.pdf]
Thesis: Chaucerian Physiognomy and the Delineation of the English Individual - William P. Orth [.pdf]
Chaucer as Master of the Short Story - E. Hudson Long [.pdf]
'Verray felicitee parfit' and the Development of Chaucer's Philosophical Language - William Watts
The Pardoner in Canterbury: Class, Gender, and Urban Space in the "Prologue to the Tale of Beryn" - Robert S. Sturges
- Chaucer's Use of Solas - Carolyn Chiappelli
- The Spiritual Purpose of the Canterbury Tales - Constance Woo and William Matthews
- BOOK. Chaucerian Play:
Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales -
Laura Kendrick
- BOOK. Chaucer's Dante:
Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales -
Richard Neuse
- On the Road to Canterbury, Liliput and Elphinstone: Satiric Travel Narratives
in Chaucer, Swift and Nabokov - Sam Schuman
- "Biheste
is dette": Marriage Promises in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. - Marie
Nelson
- Chaucer's Missing Children - Jane Cowgill
- A Beastly Origin: Journeys from the Oxes Stalle' in Chaucer's Poetry - John B. Marino
- Sociological Poetics and the Canterbury Tales - F. Martin
- Compositional Finalization in the Canterbury Tales - F. Martin
- "Hooly Chirche," the Sacrament of Marriage, and Thematic Finalization in The Canterbury Tales - F. Martin
- The Chronotope of Real-Time and Real-Space in Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage - F. Martin
- Pilgrimage in the Age of Schism - F. Martin
- Reaping What Was Sown: Spenser, Chaucer, and The Plowman's Tale - M.A. Thesis by David P. Clark [.pdf]
- The Peasants' Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer - Ann W. Astell
Gentilesse: It's Not Just for the Nobility Anymore - Raegan T. Bricks
Effectively Reading Chaucer - John Larson
| Troilus and Criseyde |
=Student Essay |
Book: Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry - Larry Sklute [.pdf]
Dissertation: Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism - John B. Treilhard [.pdf]
Dissertation: Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books - Malte Urban [.pdf]
Dissertation: Sarpedon's Feast: A Homeric Key to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Ann Bradley [.pdf]
Dissertation: Love Imagery in Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, John Gower's Confessio Amantis,
and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Tamara F. O'Callaghan [.pdf]
Dissertation: The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature - Cindy L. Vitto [.pdf]
Thesis: "In widewes habit blak": Chaucer's Criseyde and Late-Medieval Widows - Michelle L. Middleton [.pdf]
Thesis: Old Testament Spatial Metaphor and Troilus and Criseyde: A Study in Persistence - Heather L. K. Wenzel [.doc]
Christian Implications of Knighthood and Courtly Love in Chaucer's Troilus - Marion N. Green [.pdf]
The Religious View of Chaucer in his Italian Period - Naozo Ueno [.pdf]
Brother as Problem in the Troilus - Timothy O'Brien
On Affliction and Reading, Weeping and Argument: Chaucer's Lachrymose Troilus - M. Carruthers [.pdf]
'Of Your Herte Up Casteth the Visage': Turning Troilo/Troilus's Eyes to God - Jenny Lee
Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyda - Robert Levine
Privitee, Habitus, and Proximity: Conduct and Domestic Space in
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Josephine A. Koster
Echoes of Boethius and Dante in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - An Sonjae
Troilus and Criseyde: The Hidden Influence of Chaucer's Reading - An Sonjae
Holding the Center: Chaucer's Book of Troilus and Dante's Commedia - Noel Harold Kaylor
- Chaucer's Man of Sorrows: secular images of pity in the 'Book of the Duchess,' the 'Squire's Tale,'
and 'Troilus and Criseyde' - Phillipa Hardman
- Criseyde's Routhe - Kate A. Bauer
- White by Black: Chaucer's "Effect Contraire" in Troilus and Criseyde - Gail Turley Houston
- "Calle It Gentilesse": A Comparative Study of Two Medieval Go-Betweens - Deborah Ellis
- Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Levinas: Fortune, Moral Luck, Erotic Adventure - J. A. Mitchell
- Troilus and Criseyde: "Beth War of Men, and Herkneth What I Seye!" - Elaine Tuttle Hansen
- "Little Troilus": Heroides 5 and its Ovidian contexts in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Jamie C. Fumo
- Queer Pandarus? Silence and Sexual Ambiguity in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Tison Pugh
- Knowledge, Belief, Lack of Agency: The Dreams of Geoffrey, Troilus, Criseyde, and Chauntecleer - Sue Hum
- Nature as Destiny in 'Troilus and Criseyde' - Jennifer R. Goodman
- Time and Eternity in Troilus and Criseyde - Thomas L. Martin
- The Descriptio in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - SunHee Kim Gertz
- Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" - David C. Benson
- Introduction to Troilus and Criseyde - Brother Anthony of Taize
- Dante, Chaucer, and Pandarus - R. A Shoaf
- Dante, Chaucer, and Troilus - R. A Shoaf
- Dante, Chaucer, and Criseyde - R. A Shoaf
- "Al that which chargeth nought to seye": The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde - R. W. Fehrenbacher
- 'True' Love or Not To Love? - Cathy Cupitt
Pandarus the Broker - Christian Cotroneo
The Development of Criseyde in Troilus and Criseyde - Kirsten Davis
Troilus’s Deathwish: Passive Free Will - Erin Suydam
| Parliament of Fowles |
=Student Essay |
| The Book of the Duchess |
=Student Essay |
| The House of Fame |
=Student Essay |
| Legend of Good Women |
=Student Essay |
| Miscellaneous |
=Student Essay |
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