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1	Troy Novant: An Examination of Aeneas as Depicted by Geoffrey Chaucer Steffensen, Peter 09 August 2016 (has links) This thesis examines the ways in which historical, cultural, and literary influences have changed the way that Chaucer portrayed Aeneas in both The Legend of Good Women and The House of Fame. The primary texts looked at in comparison are Ovid's Heroides, Virgil's Aeneid, and the historical works of Dares and Dictys. This study concludes that this complex network of forces caused Chaucer to present Aeneas as an overall negative figure in his poetry. Chaucer Aeneas Dido Legend of Good Women House of Fame
2	Troy Novant: An Examination of Aeneas as Depicted by Geoffrey Chaucer Steffensen, Peter 22 August 2016 (has links) This thesis examines the ways in which historical, cultural, and literary influences have changed the way that Chaucer portrayed Aeneas in the both The Legend of Good Women and The House of Fame. The primary texts looked at in comparison are Ovid's Heroides, Virgil's Aeneid, and the historical works of Dares and Dictys. This study concludes that this complex network of forces caused Chaucer to present Aeneas as an overall negative figure in his poetry. Chaucer Aeneas Dido Legend of Good Women House of Fame
3	FROM JUDITH TO DORIGEN: THE FEMININE EMBODIMENT OF VIOLENCE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Allyn Kate Pearson (18857740) 02 July 2024 (has links) <p dir="ltr">When one thinks of the medieval past, one might think of knights with their shining armor and swords; these are warriors. My dissertation seeks to examine and expose how “warriors” are gendered as masculine; a person or character categorized as a warrior might be assumed to be a man unless otherwise specified to be a “woman warrior.” The need for the qualifying adjective (“woman” or “female”) illustrates that the maleness of warriorhood and violence is understood as implicit. This governing assumption affects how women’s actions, particularly women’s violent actions, are interpreted. This dissertation takes women’s violence as a starting point, examining characters from Judith to Chaucer’s Dido. I show how and why the violence these women enact cannot be relegated to, say, maternal instinct or spirituality. The spiritual warrior is herself impressive, of course; she is a tool, a weapon of God, through whom God fights. The idea of the spiritual warrior then allows for discussions of women without painting them as inherently violent or aggressive. Instead, the spiritual warrior is the martyr, an extension of maternal instincts and the idea that women are caretakers and, when necessary, protectors. But these self-sacrificial ideals, often associated with maternity, are not, nor should they be, a requirement for womanhood.</p><p dir="ltr">I argue that in order to create a capacious enough definition of “woman” and even femininity, we must prize definitions of femininity from the grip of the patriarchy. What if we took these women on their own terms, instead? I seek to do exactly this: to examine, throughout this dissertation, both the ways that violent women act and what they say, without considering how their behavior might, nonetheless, be understood to conform to limiting ideas of femininity (such as the virgin or the whore). I thereby invite us to think about what it means when violent women enact their will on the world; and I also attend to the physical, in addition to the spiritual, effects of this violence (like killing someone). My work suggests that, in order to take gender seriously, we must pay attention to these moments when women hurt or kill either someone else or themselves.</p> British and Irish literature Literary theory Medieval Literature Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury tales Legend of Good Women Feminist theory. Gender Katherine Group Virgin Martyrs
4	Producing the Middle English corpus: confession and Medieval bodies Meyer, Cathryn Marie 28 August 2008 (has links) Not available / text Confession in literature Confession stories
5	Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband Weber, Minon January 2017 (has links) Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. This type of comedy is often represented by stereotypical characters, such as the fallen woman, the good woman and the young innocent maiden, all three of which I will investigate in this essay. oscar wilde wilde comedies of manners victorian England society Victorian Society patriarchy feminism A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband Lady Windermere's Fan Rita Felski Felski patriarchal society transgressing gender boundaries gender boundaries fallen woman fallen women good women good woman stereotypes theatre play plays comedies Oscar Wilde feminism Oscar Wilde plays Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk

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