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1.
Record Number:
8078
Author(s):
Donavin, Georgiana.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Taboo and Transgression in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre" [The author examines the themes of violence and incest in the story of Apollonius and Antiochus. The author argues that prohibitions against these crimes serve in part to evoke them. 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 94 - 121.
Year of Publication:
2002.
2.
Record Number:
11031
Author(s):
Watt, Diane.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" [The author argues that the various "appetites" condemned by Gower (incest, latent homosexuality, and female desire) are part of a mirror for princes guide to proper manly behavior that emphasizes the control of sexuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters . University of Wales Press, 2002. Pages 28 - 41.
Year of Publication:
2002.
3.
Record Number:
10161
Author(s):
Sobczyk, Agata
Contributor(s):
Title :
Encore un inceste occulté: l'épisode de la fille de l'empereur dans "Le Roman de Robert le Diable"
Source:
Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999): Pages 221 - 234.
Year of Publication:
1999.
4.
Record Number:
3205
Author(s):
Laskaya, Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English "Emaré"
Source:
Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts. Edited by Anna Roberts . University Press of Florida, 1998. Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999): Pages 97 - 114.
Year of Publication:
1998.
5.
Record Number:
3146
Author(s):
Watt, Diane.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Behaving like a Man? Incest, Lesbian Desire, and Gender Play in "Yde et Olive" and Its Adaptations [Yde masquerades as a man to escape her incestuous father, is given the emperor's daughter in marriage, and miraculously becomes a man].
Source:
Comparative Literature
(Full Text via JSTOR) 50, 4 (Autumn 1998): 265-285.
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Year of Publication:
1998.
6.
Record Number:
1996
Author(s):
Allen, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer Answers Gower: Constance and the Trouble with Reading [the Man of Law's reactions to the incest theme in Gower's "Confessio Amantis"].
Source:
ELH: A Journal of English Literary History
(Full Text via Project Muse) 64, 3 (Autumn 1997): 627-655.
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Year of Publication:
1997.
7.
Record Number:
3915
Author(s):
Fehrenbacher, Richard W.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye: The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde [The author analyzes patriarchal foundational myths of Troy and the incestuous desire inherent in the exchange of women].
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997): Pages 341 - 369.
Year of Publication:
1997.
8.
Record Number:
1811
Author(s):
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Gold in the Dungheap: Incest Stories and Family Values in the Middle Ages
Source:
Journal of Family History , 22., 2 (April 1997): Pages 133 - 149.
Year of Publication:
1997.
9.
Record Number:
1775
Author(s):
Harvey, Carol J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
From Incest to Redemption in "La Manekine"
Source:
Romance Quarterly , 44., 1 (Winter 1997): Pages 3 - 11.
Year of Publication:
1997.
10.
Record Number:
2993
Author(s):
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Appalling Dangers of Family Life: Incest in Medieval Literature [The author analyzes saints' lives, exempla, adventure stories, and romances].
Source:
Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays. Edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre . Garland Publishing, 1996. Romance Quarterly , 44., 1 (Winter 1997): Pages 157 - 171.
Year of Publication:
1996.
11.
Record Number:
2525
Author(s):
Gravdal, Kathryn.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Confessing Incests: Legal Erasures and Literary Celebrations in Medieval France [a study of the narrative structures related to gender in six old French incest stories: "Dit de la bourgeoise de Rome," "Dit du boeuf," "Vie de Saint Grégoire," "La Manekine," "Roman du Comte d'Anjou," and "Belle Hélène de Constantinople"].
Source:
Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995): Pages 280 - 295.
Year of Publication:
1995.
12.
Record Number:
4829
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Trouble with Sodom: Literary Responses to Biblical Sexuality [the author analyzes English reactions to the story of Lot including the threatened homosexual rape of the angels, Lot's offering of his daughters in the angels' place, and the daughters' incest with Lot; texts and authors analyzed are Alcuin, Aelfric, "Genesis A," Gower, and "Cleanness"].
Source:
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 77., 3 (Autumn 1995): Pages 97 - 119.
Year of Publication:
1995.
13.
Record Number:
152
Author(s):
Scala, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Canacee and the Chaucer Canon: Incest and Other Unnarratables
Source:
Chaucer Review , 30., 1 ( 1995): Pages 15 - 39.
Year of Publication:
1995.
14.
Record Number:
4430
Author(s):
Pelen, Marc M.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Providence and Incest Reconsidered: Chaucer's Poetic Judgment of His Man of Law
Source:
Papers on Language and Literature , 30., 2 (Spring 1994): Pages 132 - 156.
Year of Publication:
1994.
15.
Record Number:
7391
Author(s):
Stroud, T. A.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Palinode, the Narrator, and Pandarus's Alleged Incest [The author takes on recent critical readings of the supposed "incest episode" in "Troilus and Criseyde," arguing that incest does not occur. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 27., 1 ( 1992): Pages 16 - 30.
Year of Publication:
1992.
16.
Record Number:
10282
Author(s):
Wailes, Stephen L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Hartmann von Aue's Stories of Incest [The author argues that Hartmann von Aue was deeply concerned by the subject of incest, a fact which his poetry reveals. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 91., 1 (January 1992): Pages 65 - 78.
Year of Publication:
1992.
17.
Record Number:
12855
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Doubling and Incest in the Mabinogi [The author traces the theme of incestuously doubled identities in The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Speculum , 65., ( 1990): Pages 344 - 362.
Year of Publication:
1990.