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1.
Record Number:
12607
Author(s):
Krueger, Roberta L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, “un seule chemise,” and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières and the Ménagier de Paris [Christine’s sparse and forceful retelling of the story of patient Griselda in “La Cité des Dames” corrects the clerical tradition that informed previous versions of the story. While male writers like Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer frame the Griselda story with interpretive commentary, Christine strips the story of embellishment in order to focus attention on Griselda’s eloquence and her suffering at the will of her cruel husband. Just as Griselda is clothed and unclothed as she shifts in status within the story, so is the Griselda narrative itself rhetorically unclothed as Christine retells it. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns . Palgrave, 2004. Pages 71 - 88.
Year of Publication:
2004.
2.
Record Number:
11024
Author(s):
Bodden, M. C.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": Interrogating "Virtue" through Violence [The author argues that the tale of Griselda should not be read as an allegory of humanity's relationship to God but as Chaucer's critique of hagiography's docile, virtuous heroines. Bodden cites the Envoy as clear evidence of Chaucer's condemnation of violence and in particular the torture of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
A Great Effusion of Blood? Interpreting Medieval Violence. Edited by Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk . University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pages 216 - 240.
Year of Publication:
2004.
3.
Record Number:
8079
Author(s):
Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales [The author argues that the family relations both in the tales of Griselda and of Custance manifest a profound anxiety about paternity and a need for concealed violence, both physical and psychic. The happy endings do not mask the father's violence and the conflict between the generations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Pages 122 - 138.
Year of Publication:
2002.
4.
Record Number:
5981
Author(s):
Weckström, Mari Pakkala.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Rise and Fall of the Faithful Wife: Chaucer's Griselda and Dorigen Seen Through Dialogue
Source:
Gender and Conflict in the Middle Ages. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, York, January 5-7 2001. . 2001.
Year of Publication:
2001.
5.
Record Number:
4508
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" [The author compares the three versions of Griselda's tale; he argues that the differences are not as great as critics have maintained with Chaucer deriving more from Boccaccio than was previously believed].
Source:
Studies in Philology , 97., 3 (Summer 2000): Pages 255 - 275.
Year of Publication:
2000.
6.
Record Number:
2706
Author(s):
Harding, Wendy.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Dynamics of Law in the "Clerk's Tale" [examines three relationships which embody the law: the interaction between lord and people, between husband and wife, and between God and believer].
Source:
Chaucer Yearbook , 4., ( 1997): Pages 45 - 59.
Year of Publication:
1997.
7.
Record Number:
3581
Author(s):
Newton, Allyson.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Occlusion of Maternity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Chaucer Yearbook , 4., ( 1997): Pages 63 - 75.
Year of Publication:
1996.
8.
Record Number:
1783
Author(s):
Newman, Florence.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Man with Two Wives: Female Rivalry and Social Power in a Medieval Motif [International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 1996].
Source:
Le Cygne: Bulletin of the International Marie de France Society: Abstracts, Notes, and Queries , 2., (April 1996): Pages 19 - 22.
Year of Publication:
1996.
9.
Record Number:
1632
Author(s):
Godorecci, Barbara J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Re-Writing Griselda: Trials of the Grey Battle Maiden [the handling of the testing theme in Boccaccio, Petrarch's Latin translation, and Chaucer's English version].
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996): Pages 192 - 196.
Year of Publication:
1996.
10.
Record Number:
258
Author(s):
Whitaker, Muriel.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Artists' Ideal Griselda
Source:
Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Edited by Muriel Whitaker . Garland Publishing, 1995. Pages 85 - 114.
Year of Publication:
1995.
11.
Record Number:
636
Author(s):
Sprung, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title :
If It Youre Wille Be: Coercion and Compliance in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 2 (Fall 1995): Pages 345 - 369.
Year of Publication:
1995.
12.
Record Number:
420
Author(s):
Van Dyke, Carolynn.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Clerk's and Franklin's Subjected Subjects [individual agency of Dorigen and Griselda].
Source:
Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 17., ( 1995): Pages 45 - 68.
Year of Publication:
1995.
13.
Record Number:
56
Author(s):
Georgianna, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Clerk's Tale and the Grammar of Assent [Griselda's story as a religious tale].
Source:
Speculum
(Full Text via JSTOR) 70 (1995): 793-821.
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Year of Publication:
1995.
14.
Record Number:
1436
Author(s):
Finnegan, Robert Emmett.
Contributor(s):
Title :
She Should Have Said No to Walter: Griselda's Promise in "The Clerk's Tale" [emphasis on Griselda's moral responsibility with an analyis of the terms "assenten" and "consenten" and "tempten," "assaien," and "assaillen"].
Source:
English Studies , 75., 4 (July 1994): Pages 303 - 321.
Year of Publication:
1994.
15.
Record Number:
9489
Author(s):
Phelpstead, Carl.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The “Man of Law's Tale” as a philosophical narrative [The author argues that certain of Chaucer’s tales which are usually considered mainly exemplary in fact explore Boethian philosophical problems of suffering that apply to everyone. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992): Pages 181 - 189.
Year of Publication:
1992.
16.
Record Number:
7392
Author(s):
Edden, Valerie.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sacred and Secular in the "Clerk's Tale" [The author argues that Chaucer's addition of humanizing character elements to the story of Griselda renders it secular rather than strictly religious or exemplary. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 26., 4 ( 1992): Pages 369 - 376.
Year of Publication:
1992.
17.
Record Number:
8658
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Clerkly Allusiveness: Griselda, Xanthippe, and the Woman of Samaria [The author traces many sacred and secular allusions in Chaucer’s "Clerk’s Tale," a narrative about the virtuous peasant Griselda. Some of the allusions in the tale connect Griselda to Biblical exemplars of feminine obedience and submission (such as the Virgin Mary, Rebecca, and the Samaritan woman), but other allusions connect her to secular figures of female disobedience like Xanthippe (the wife of Socrates) and the Wife of Bath. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Allegorica , 12., ( 1991): Pages 17 - 27.
Year of Publication:
1991.
18.
Record Number:
12798
Author(s):
Cramer, Patricia.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Lordship, Bondage, and the Erotic: The Psychological Bases of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" [The author offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of "The Clerk's Tale," questioning readings of the story which see Walter and Griselda as an "ideal" Oedipal couple. She further attempts to invalidate Oedipal resolutions by revealing their negative psyc
Source:
JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 89., 4 (October 1990): Pages 491 - 511.
Year of Publication:
1990.