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McKergow, Ian. "Language and morality after Ockham : a study of Chaucer's engagement with themes in Jean de Meun." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23725.

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William of Ockham's (1285-1349) influence on medieval philosophy has been generally acknowledged. Little, however, has been written on the possibility that his work had an effect on the arts. His radical reversal of traditional epistemology and ontology raised new questions which had great implications for poetry. This study seeks to establish the extent of his influence on one poet, Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345-1400), by examining Chaucer's engagement with Jean de Meun (c. 1232-1305) on the theme of language and morality.

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Norman, Taryn Louise. "Queer Performativity and Chaucer's Pardoner." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/NormanTL2006.pdf.

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McLaughlin, Suzanne Renae. "The "Double Sorwe" of Troylus and Criseyde : an analysis of Chaucer's dramatic tragedy /." View online, 1991. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880896.pdf.

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Buxton, Rachel. "Transaction and transcendence : rethinking history as poetry in Geoffrey Hill's Canaan /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb9916.pdf.

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Mitchell, Robert. "Guilt and creativity in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/guilt-and-creativity-in-the-works-of-geoffrey-chaucer(188c155f-69f0-432e-a5cb-aaad3d920e23).html.

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The late Middles Ages saw the development in Europe of increasingly complex, ambitious, and self-conscious forms of creative literature. In the works of poets such as Dante, Petrarch and Chaucer new models of authorship and poetic identity were being explored, new kinds of philosophical and aesthetic value attributed to literary discourse. But these creative developments also brought with them new dangers and tensions, a sense of guilt and uncertainty about the value of creative literature, especially in relation to the dominant religious values of late medieval culture. In this thesis I explore how these doubts and tensions find expression in Chaucer’s poetry, not only as a negative, constraining influence, but also as something which contributes to the shape and meaning of poetry itself. I argue that as Chaucer develops his own expansive, questioning poetics in The House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales, he problematises the principle of allegory on which the legitimacy of literary discourse was primarily based in medieval culture and the final fragments of The Canterbury Tales see Chaucer struggling, increasingly, to reconcile the boldness and independence of his poetic vision with the demands of his faith. This struggle, which emerges most strongly and polemically in the final fragments, I argue, runs in subtle and creative forms throughout the whole of Chaucer’s work. By seeing Chaucer in this light as a poet not of fixed, but of conflicted and vacillating intentions – a poet productively caught drawn between ‘game’ and ‘earnest’, radical ironies and Boethian truths – I attempt to account, in a holistic manner, for the major dichotomies that characterise both his work and its critical reception.

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Bartch, Michael Christopher. "Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05292009-093331/.

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This paper considers the embodied ethics of Geoffrey Hills poetic practice. Hill stages his engagement with poetry through the idioms, images, tropes, and diction of the literary tradition. Through this pragmatic rehearsal of the language of the dead, Hills poetry projects the tradition into the present. Hill resists the ethical entrapments of appropriative poetry through his insistence upon the brute physicality of atrocity and through a rigorous (for both poet and reader) formal difficulty. Hills practice refuses to console after the models of Peter Sacks, Jahan Ramazani, or John Vickery. Instead, concerned with modernitys disconnectedness, Hills poetry returns us to the presence of the dead, to their ritual and language. Alternatively, because Hills subjects are historical atrocities, rather than natural occurrences, the sort of communal consolation that the elegy traditionally offered would be inappropriate to Hills concerns. These atrocities are, most frequently, instances of human violence (the Holocaust, the Battle of Towton, the Wars of the Roses, etc.) and, for this reason, they do not lend themselves to the consolations of natural cycles of death and rebirth. Since they were often committed in the name of religion, Christian transcendence is similarly questionable, as are other consolatory transcendences. These conventional modes of consolation being denied, Hills poetry reconnects us with the dead through the formal devices and techniques of the historical institution of poetry. Through the rigorous engagement with and sacrificial making of poetry, Hill attempts to redeem tradition and history for the present.

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Keay, Alexandra. "The rise and fall of Nazism in the twentieth century : Geoffrey Wright's Romper Stomper /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark25.pdf.

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Hughes, Jacob Alden. "Shakespeare the Chaucerian." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/j_hughes_041309.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in English literature)--Washington State University, May 2009.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 26, 2010). "Department of English." Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-75).

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Lieske, Mary. "Monstrous transformations : loyalty and community in four medieval poems /." View online, 2010. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131524892.pdf.

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Lamson, Morgen. "Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/431.

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There has been much written on Boethius and his impact on Chaucer's greater known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a rich mix of medieval conventions and Boethian elements and themes. Such ideas have been explored through the lenses of his five, shorter "Boethian lyrics" - "The Former Age," "Fortune," "Truth," "Gentilesse," and "Lak of Stedfastnesse" - particularly because it is within these five poems that the metafictional narrative approach or framing of Chaucer's Boethiusinfluenced work, through narration and possible consolations, are fleshed out and brought into focus. However, the "Boethian lyrics" are not necessary in the study of the three earlier poems The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame. Using the convention of the frame tale with the dream vision in these three poems allows for the narrator to be brought to an understanding in each of these texts, strongly suggesting that this approach is something that Chaucer came across in Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. To merely go through and catalogue all Boethian elements as lifted directly from Consolation would accomplish nothing but a catalog of similarities. In that same vein, to analyze the "Boethian poems" would also be treading over familiar scholarly ground. In examining an intermediary group of texts as a bridge between Boethius's classical philosophy and Chaucer's courtly poetry, particularly The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame, this more concretely shows the extent of Boethius's coloring injected into Chaucer's writings from early in his writing career. Through close readings and secondary outside research, I am confident that another chapter of Chaucerian scholarship, one that has rarely been explored, much less written, can be added.

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Bigley, Michael Erik. "Musicality, subjectivity, and the Canterbury tales." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312007-110614.

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Green, Adam Geoffrey. "Regulation of TGF-gbs signaling by Xrel3, a member of the Rel/NF-[kappa]B family in human cervical cancer cells / y Adam Geoffrey Green." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,155720.

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Jones, Oliver M. "The Matters of Troy and Thebes and Their Role in a Critique of Courtly Life in Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279137/.

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Both Chaucer and the Gawain-poet use the Matters of Troy and Thebes as material for a critique of courtly life, applying these literary matters to the events and actions in and around Ricardian England. They use these classical matters to express concerns about the effectiveness of the court of Richard II. Chaucer uses his earlier works as a testing ground to develop his views about the value of duty over courtly pursuits, ideas discussed more completely in Troilus and Criseyde. The Gawain-poet uses the Matter of Troy coupled with the court of King Arthur to engage in a critique of courtly concerns. The critiques presented by both poets show a tendency toward duty over courtly concerns.

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LaBurre, Jennifer. ""Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/125.

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The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of their bestial counterparts it was conventionally meant to highlight some derogatory aspect of that character. Chaucer makes use of the animal-image throughout The Canterbury Tales, especially in "The Knight's Tale," to stress a break in each character from humane reason or to emphasize a lean towards a bestial nature. The degree of this departure is showcased in the ferocity of the animal-image in question and the behavior and nature of the character, i.e. the animals of a more timid nature or neutral standing highlight a much less negative nature than the ferocious predators present in the battle scenes.

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Johnson, Lesley Anne. "Commemorating the past : a critical study of the shaping of British and Arthurian history in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie, Wace's Roman de Brut, Lazamon's Brut and the alliterative Morte Arthure." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1990. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/commemorating-the-past--a-critical-study-of-the-shaping-of-british-and-arthurian-history-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-regum-britannie-waces-roman-de-brut-lazamons-brut-and-the-alliterative-morte-arthure(69e29fce-4401-4b4f-a58f-3b33f5656c19).html.

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Bealle, Joanna Maria Johnson David F. "Chaucer's sublime philosophy in the house of fame." Diss., 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06272003-141919/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. David F. Johnson, Florida State University, School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed September 23, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

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Nowlin, Steele. "Chaucer, Gower and the invention of history." 2007. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/PSUonlyIndex/ETD-2042/index.html.

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Valenzuela, Shannon K. "Mnemosyne's son Chaucer, translation, and the creation of English textual memory /." 2006. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-12112006-165128/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006.
Thesis directed by Dolores Warwick Frese and Maura B. Nolan for the Department of English. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-295).

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Meihuizen, Elizabeth M. M. "The work of G.H. Durrant : English studies and the community." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/476.

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