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1.
Record Number:
4892
Author(s):
Lowe, Kate.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Ethics and Interpretation: Reading Wills in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" ["I argue that Chaucer represents himself working within a tyrannical textual 'community,' and that he asks us faithfully to intuit an unstated and unstatable intention that, by virtue of being unstatable, is necessarily outside the work. The faith we exercise in intuiting that intention offers an alternative both to the tyrannical reading of his patron and to the brutal faithlessness depicted in the legends themselves. Chaucer provokes us to recognize that our interpretive practice has ethical implications, since the issues involved in interpretation are no different from the issues of the 'real world' in the narratives themselves. He sharpens this provocation by suggesting resonances between the 'legend' and the last will of a dying author." (Page 74)].
Source:
Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 20., ( 1998): Pages 73 - 100.
Year of Publication:
1998.
2.
Record Number:
2025
Author(s):
Seymour, M.C.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer's Revision of the Prologue of "The Legend of Good Women" [suggests that Chaucer revised the prologue in 1399 or 1400 in order to present the text to the new king, Henry IV; he excised some portions to make it more accessible and added material on the duties of lordship and his own literary achievements].
Source:
Modern Language Review , 92., 4 (October 1997): Pages 832 - 841.
Year of Publication:
1997.
3.
Record Number:
3596
Author(s):
Taylor, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Anne of Bohemia and the Making of Chaucer [The author explores Anne of Bohemia's connections with the "Legend of Good Women"; he suggests that her role has been downplayed in order to build up the figure of Chaucer as author].
Source:
Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 19., ( 1997): Pages 95 - 119.
Year of Publication:
1997.
4.
Record Number:
1339
Author(s):
Hanrahan, Michael.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Seduction and Betrayal: Treason in the "Prologue" to the "Legend of Good Women" [false lovers who seduce and betray echo the treason of Richard II's favorites].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 30., 3 ( 1996): Pages 229 - 240.
Year of Publication:
1996.
5.
Record Number:
155
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, "Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere"
Source:
Chaucer Review , 30., 2 ( 1995): Pages 134 - 149.
Year of Publication:
1995.
6.
Record Number:
2049
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer and Jean Le Fèvre [influences of Le Fèvre's "Lamentations de Matheolus" and "Livre de Leësce" on Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women," all of which share a double focus on good women and the bad men who deceive them].
Source:
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 232., ( 1995): Pages 23 - 36.
Year of Publication:
1995.
7.
Record Number:
153
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Good Women and Bonnes Dames: Virtuous Females in Chaucer and Christine de Pizan
Source:
Chaucer Review , 30., 1 ( 1995): Pages 58 - 70.
Year of Publication:
1995.
8.
Record Number:
9126
Author(s):
Meale, Carol M.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Legends of Good Women in the European Middle Ages [The author addresses the texts about exemplary women written by Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer. She takes the character of Medea as an example of their differing approaches, arguing that Chaucer is interested in women in terms of their literary development while Christine has a political dimension to her text. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 55 - 70.
Year of Publication:
1992.
9.
Record Number:
7346
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Geographies of Desire: Orientalism in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women [The author compares cultural and racial forms of medieval alterity with the category of gender in the Legend of Good Women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Chaucer Yearbook , 1., ( 1992): Pages 1 - 32.
Year of Publication:
1992.
10.
Record Number:
8319
Author(s):
Eadie, John.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Author at Work: The Two Versions of the Prologue to the "Legend of Good Women" ["In this paper I want to examine the differences between the two versions and to consider whether these differences can best be explained by the theory that one version is a revision, carried out by Chaucer, of the other. I will also discuss the priority of the two versions, and try to indicate the circumstances in which, I believe, the two versions arose." Page 135.].
Source:
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 93., ( 1992): Pages 135 - 144.
Year of Publication:
1992.