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Title: CHAUCER'S USE OF DOUBLE AND MULTIPLE NEGATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPHATIC DEVICES IN "THE CANTERBURY TALES".
Creator: BLAISE, GORDON ROBERT, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Multiple negation is a grammatical construction that can be found in the prose and poetry of Old and Middle English. There is much evidence to support the premise that Chaucer, in the Canterbury Tales, elevated the poetic use of such negative constructions to levels yet unsurpassed in English literature. Primarily used to emphasize or create ambiguity, Chaucer's negation often reveals more about a character than one would attain under normal circumstances. The General Prologue and The Nun's...
Show moreMultiple negation is a grammatical construction that can be found in the prose and poetry of Old and Middle English. There is much evidence to support the premise that Chaucer, in the Canterbury Tales, elevated the poetic use of such negative constructions to levels yet unsurpassed in English literature. Primarily used to emphasize or create ambiguity, Chaucer's negation often reveals more about a character than one would attain under normal circumstances. The General Prologue and The Nun's Priest's Tale both provide numerous examples of a phenomenon in which the application of multiple negation appears to be somewhat selective, adding to the complexity of certain characters, while other, "less interesting," characters remain relatively simple. Such grammatical selectivity developed into an emphatic device signaling that a great deal is going on beneath the negation.
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Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14389
Subject Headings: Literature, Medieval
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE COMIC SPIRIT OF RENART, THE TRICKSTER, IN CHAUCER'S "NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE".
Creator: BAUDOUIN, JOELLE RENEE, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Renart cycle, which originated in France in the last years of the twelfth century in a series of "branches," am o ng them in particular Branch II-Va of Pierre de Saint-Cloud, eventually appeared in England in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale." Nineteenth-century criticism of the Roman de Renart, emphasizing true-to-life detail, has been rejected by twentieth-century critics who defend especially the satiric elements in the story. There is, however, another dimension to the Renart cycle,...
Show moreThe Renart cycle, which originated in France in the last years of the twelfth century in a series of "branches," am o ng them in particular Branch II-Va of Pierre de Saint-Cloud, eventually appeared in England in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale." Nineteenth-century criticism of the Roman de Renart, emphasizing true-to-life detail, has been rejected by twentieth-century critics who defend especially the satiric elements in the story. There is, however, another dimension to the Renart cycle, that is, the disruptive yet attractive force of the fox, which Chaucer allows to emerge in the "Nun's Priest's Tale," although Chaucer criticism has generally neglected the importance of daun Russell in the tale. He is glorified throughout the "fable section," and his presence is felt indirectly throughout the whole tale. The fox-trickster represents the comic and "accidental" view of life developed by Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14290
Subject Headings: Literature, Medieval
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "The Battle of Maldon": Evidence of the move away from epic heroism.
Creator: Baird, Diane Stetson, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Battle of Maldon is a poem of change, a pivot point in the English literary tradition. It lies between Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both in time and in intent. The Maldon poet created finely interrelated philosophic and social commentary in his poem, playing the epic hero against the newer Christian martyr. He used both characterizations to create a picture of Byrhtnoth as a political martyr. With some understanding of the historical and religious perspectives of tenth...
Show moreThe Battle of Maldon is a poem of change, a pivot point in the English literary tradition. It lies between Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both in time and in intent. The Maldon poet created finely interrelated philosophic and social commentary in his poem, playing the epic hero against the newer Christian martyr. He used both characterizations to create a picture of Byrhtnoth as a political martyr. With some understanding of the historical and religious perspectives of tenth century England, it is possible to begin to appreciate The Battle of Maldon and to understand its pivotal role in artistic evolution. The poet integrated disparate ideas to produce an Anglo-Saxon work of surprising complexity that has survived for one thousand years.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14779
Subject Headings: Literature, Medieval, Literature, English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NARRATOR AND THE BLACK KNIGHT IN CHAUCER'S "THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS.".
Creator: BING, LOUISE ADELE, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: An examination of the dream-vision form and the Hiddle English lyric clarifies the role relationship in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, a relationship not fully clarified by past scholarship. In the dream vision a conventional pattern establishes the relationship between the narrator and his superior guide and, in the English lyric form, the "chanson d'aventure," the narrator encounters a sorrowing figure who provides enlightenment through the explanation of his sorrow. Chaucer employs the...
Show moreAn examination of the dream-vision form and the Hiddle English lyric clarifies the role relationship in Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, a relationship not fully clarified by past scholarship. In the dream vision a conventional pattern establishes the relationship between the narrator and his superior guide and, in the English lyric form, the "chanson d'aventure," the narrator encounters a sorrowing figure who provides enlightenment through the explanation of his sorrow. Chaucer employs the dream vision's conventional pattern and, in the dream portion of the poem, he makes use of the "chanson d'aventure" form with the added complexities of his own material. His Narrator has forgotten his nature as man. The sorrowing Knight reminds him of the need to feel this emotion, both over the loss of the Duchess and because of man's own fallen state. The Knight, then, becomes a guide who provides enlightenment for the erring Narrator.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13601
Subject Headings: Literature, Medieval, Literature, English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The significance of old French manuscript evidence for seeking all sources of "The Romaunt of the Rose".
Creator: Balis, Nathaniel Cogswell, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must...
Show moreThe search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must start with the most compatible French and English texts. At present, the best way to test Geoffrey Chaucer's authorship of the Middle English Romaunt is through close examination of the French rime-borrowings most orthoepically comparable in both languages that the Middle English writer occasionally chose to translate rather than borrow. This selective borrowing suggests the translator's attempt to bring each term slowly into the English mainstream, by using it at first only in its literal sense.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15032
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Medieval
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE CONTROVERSY OVER PATRISTIC EXEGESIS: 1865-1975.
Creator: LYNCH, ELFRIEDE MARIA., Florida Atlantic University, Greer, Allen W.
Abstract/Description: The exegetical method established by the early Christian Church fathers for interpreting the Bible, was of minor academic concern from 1865 until approximately forty years ago when the question was raised explicitly about its systematic application to medieval literature at large. A scholarly controversy over patristic exegesis developed and there was a growing number of publications dealing with the critical approaches to medieval literature and especially with the use of the patristic...
Show moreThe exegetical method established by the early Christian Church fathers for interpreting the Bible, was of minor academic concern from 1865 until approximately forty years ago when the question was raised explicitly about its systematic application to medieval literature at large. A scholarly controversy over patristic exegesis developed and there was a growing number of publications dealing with the critical approaches to medieval literature and especially with the use of the patristic exegetical method for the understanding of specific works. These publications are surveyed in this paper and the method of patrist ic exegesis is illustrated through its application to three medieval poems. The conclusion reached indicates that the patristic exegetical method, though not the exclusive method applicable to medieval l i terature, has become an indispensable critical tool to enlarge our understanding of religious works and uncover significant meanings in works heretofore incompletely or erroneously understood.
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Date Issued: 1976
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13771
Subject Headings: Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Christian literature, Early--History and criticism
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Title: Tomorrow is yesterday: protoscience from the medieval manuscript to the golden age of science-fiction.
Creator: Leivers, Robert James., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Protosciences, or new sciences trying to establish their legitimacy, are ubiquitous in literature. In the old stories we hear of alchemists who can only dream of the discoveries that modern chemists take for granted, and in the new stories we hear of travelers moving faster than light as our greatest physicists attempt to make that fantasy a reality. Limiting our viewpoint to the modern scientific reductionist view of the universe not only makes little sense if we consider Michael Polanyi's...
Show moreProtosciences, or new sciences trying to establish their legitimacy, are ubiquitous in literature. In the old stories we hear of alchemists who can only dream of the discoveries that modern chemists take for granted, and in the new stories we hear of travelers moving faster than light as our greatest physicists attempt to make that fantasy a reality. Limiting our viewpoint to the modern scientific reductionist view of the universe not only makes little sense if we consider Michael Polanyi's theories of emergence and 'personal knowledge', but it robs medieval scholars for the conceptual credit they are due for theories they could not satisfactorily explain by the future's standards, and stifles the sorts of fantastic possibilities that are opened by the great science-fiction authors. Medieval authors' expositions of protoscientific thought laid the ground work for our own modern disciplines, and by reexamining how this happened we can develop a new appreciation for the power of the imagination.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362480
Subject Headings: Science fiction, History and criticism, Literature and society, Science, Renaissance, Philosophy, Medieval, Influence, Science and civilization
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Medieval Dramatic Sources for Paradise Lost.
Creator: Doubleday, Beth, Leeds, John, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Many scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture....
Show moreMany scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture. However, he evinced his broadmindedness both by holding theological views that were nearer to Catholic than to Calvinist orthodoxy, and by making substantial literary use of medieval sources. Although the revolution of which he was a part made it difficult for him to access medieval biblical drama, there were avenues through which these plays were available, in texts or performances, to Milton as he composed Paradise Lost.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000911
Subject Headings: Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost., Civilization, Medieval--Influence., Civilization, Medieval, in literature., English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
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Title: The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls.
Creator: Fleisher, Nancy Kay Gates, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Geoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer...
Show moreGeoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel and closing.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000917
Subject Headings: Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Parliament of fowls--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Political and social views., Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Title: The attack of the compilator: Chaucer's challenge of auctores and antifeminism in The Legend of Good Women.
Creator: Babrove, Franklin., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Geoffrey Chaucer's narrator persona in The Legend of Good Women (LGW) goes through a transformation, starting off in the Prologue to the LGW as a naèive compilator who is subordinate to his literary sources, or auctores, and eventually becoming an auctor himself by the end of the Legends. To gain an authoritative voice, Chaucer's narrator criticizes auctoritee as it pertains to the antifeminist tradition and its misrepresentation of women as inherently wicked, in the process using certain...
Show moreGeoffrey Chaucer's narrator persona in The Legend of Good Women (LGW) goes through a transformation, starting off in the Prologue to the LGW as a naèive compilator who is subordinate to his literary sources, or auctores, and eventually becoming an auctor himself by the end of the Legends. To gain an authoritative voice, Chaucer's narrator criticizes auctoritee as it pertains to the antifeminist tradition and its misrepresentation of women as inherently wicked, in the process using certain rhetorical devices and other literary strategies to assert control over his sources for the Legends, as well as over the text as a whole. Of particular importance in this process is the narrator's line "[a]nd trusteth, as in love, no man but me" (2561) occurring near the end of "The Legend of Phyllis," the penultimate legend in the LGW. At this point in the text, the narrator persona steps completely outside of the role of compilator and presents himself as auctor who can be trusted by his female readers to tell their stories fairly and sympathetically, in ways that subtly confront antifeminist texts and perceptions.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362330
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Medieval, Criticism and interpretation, Feminism in literature
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Title: The Subaltern Female Struggle for Power in Courtly Love France and Medieval Spain.
Creator: Macbeth, Verna Michelle, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the...
Show moreIn medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the former having control over the representation of the latter, and therefore control over how the subaltern shapes its selfimage. In medieval, courtly love France, those who manufacture the literary representations of women are male, and those texts that aided in the re-affirming of feudal society; though some women, like Christine de Pizan, resisted those representations. Conversely, in medieval Spain, courtly love does not take hold as a literary phenomenon due to the different cultural and social environment of Spanish noble women.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000936
Subject Headings: Marginality, Social--France--To 1500, Marginality, Social--Spain--To 1500, Feminism and literature--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Man-woman relationships in literature, Literature, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation
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