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155
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Title :
Literary Allusion in Chaucer's Ballade, "Hyd, Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere"
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Chaucer Review , 30., 2 ( 1995): Pages 134 - 149.
Year of Publication:
1995.
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Record Number:
11820
Author(s):
Pulsiano, Phillip and Kirsten Wolf
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Title :
The "Hwelp" in "Wulf and Eadwacer" [The symbolic meaning of the "hwelp" (whelp, young dog or wolf) in is much debated in this Old English poem. Some critics interpret the "hwelp" as representing a child who is born as a result of an illicit love affair, but the authors argue that many references to wolves in Old Norse literature and law suggest that the "hwelp" in this poem is the child of an outlaw father. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991): Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication:
1991.
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Record Number:
11066
Author(s):
Brownlee, Kevin.
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Title :
The Image of History in Christine de Pizan’s "Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune" [Christine creates a double representation of history in this poem. In addition to relating all the great events in human history, she also presents a personal history in the form of an allegorical autobiography. This narrative fictionalizes her own development into the author of the book, as Christine presents her past self reading a sequence of wall paintings. As she narrates these images, Christine establishes her unique authority as a female poet of history, differentiating herself from the male wall-reading protagonists of the Aeneid, Roman de le Rose, the Prose Lancelot, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Yale French Studies
(Full Text via JSTOR) (1991): 44-56. Special Editions: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature.
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Year of Publication:
1991.
4.
Record Number:
11070
Author(s):
Huot, Sylvia.
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Title :
The Daisy and the Laurel: Myths of Desire and Creativity in the Poetry of John Froissart [Froissart’s poetic persona fuses the identities of the cleric and the lover, and thus his poetry is both learned and secular. He adapts Ovidian myths (particularly those focusing on Apollo, a figure of both poetry and wisdom) to construct a mythographic basis for his intellectualized poetic identity and love psychology. At the same time, he adapts numerous mythic allusions to transform the daisy into a symbol of erotic desire, loss, and memory. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Yale French Studies
(Full Text via JSTOR) (1991): 240-251. Special Editions: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature.
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Year of Publication:
1991.
5.
Record Number:
11065
Author(s):
Huttar, Charles A.
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Title :
Arms and the Man: The Place of Beatrice in Charles Williams’ Romantic Theology [Williams adopts Dantean themes in his twentieth-century novels and Arthurian poetry. In many of his works, female characters inspire epiphanies just as Beatrice inspired Dante (in “Paradiso” and “Vita Nuova”). Williams’ numerous allusions to the arms (or bodies) of beautiful women invoke famous near-divine feminine figures from medieval literature like Isolde and Beatrice. In both the medieval and modern texts, the woman’s physical beauty is the vehicle for the male lover’s transcendent awareness and understanding of God. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Studies in Medievalism , 3., 3 (Winter 1991): Pages 307 - 343.
Year of Publication:
1991.
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Record Number:
11217
Author(s):
Twomey, Michael W.
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Title :
Christ’s Leap and Mary’s Clean Catch in “Piers Plowman” B.12.136-44a and C.14.81-88a [In his allegorical poem, William Langland combines conventional images of Christ and Mary in order to represent how Christ’s love and Mary’s purity played a key role in the foundation of the Church. The poet achieves this effect through poetic devices, including allusion and metaphor. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Yearbook of Langland Studies , 5., ( 1991): Pages 165 - 174.
Year of Publication:
1991.
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Record Number:
11817
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Cantigas d'escarnho and "serranillas": The Allegory of Careless Love [Sexually explicit texts that parodied literary works of courtly poets (like Bernart de Ventadorn) or obscene poems that satirized medical texts could serve legitimate purposes. Obscene literature participated in an interpretive network alongside other types of texts. Whether directly or indirectly (through allegory, allusion, or double entendre), these texts commented upon or critiqued the themes of more prestigious genres like courtly literature. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , 68., 2 (April 1991): Pages 247 - 263.
Year of Publication:
1991.
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Record Number:
8658
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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.
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Record Number:
10683
Author(s):
Heinrichs, Katherine.
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Title :
Mythological Lovers in Chaucer's "Trolius and Criseyde" [Chaucer makes many allusions to well-known figures from classical mythology in this poem, and medieval readers were familiar with the meanings of these references. For instance, when Chaucer's fickle Criseyde mentions Oenone (a female figure from Ovid's "Heroides"), medieval readers would have been reminded of medieval glosses of the "Heroides" that interpret Oenone as exemplum of foolish love. Allusions to other mythological lovers like Tereus and Procne, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Myrrha similarly serve as exampla for love as a disastrous and socially destructive force. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 12., ( 1991): Pages 13 - 59.
Year of Publication:
1991.