New Perspectives On Criseyde

by Vitto, Cindy L.; Marzec, Marcia Smith

• ISBN13: 9781889818375
• ISBN10: 1889818372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-31
• Publisher: Pegasus Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Cindy L. Vitto
Marcia Smith Marzec
Historical Contexts for Understanding Criseyde
``Slydynge'' Critics: Changing Critical Constructions of Chaucer's Criseyde in the Past Century	11	(26)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock
Criseyde's ``widewes habit large of samyt broun'' in Troilus and Criseyde	37	(22)
Laura F. Hodges
Mate or Mother: Positioning Criseyde Among Chaucer's Widows	59	(16)
Kathryn Jacobs
Concerns of Gender and Power
Criseyde Reading, Reading Crisyde	75	(36)
Kara A. Doyle
``Le Vostre C.'': Letters and Love in Bodleian Library Manuscript Arch. Selden. B.24	111	(28)
Martha Dana Rust
How the Woman Makes the Man: Chaucer's Reciprocal Fictions in Troilus and Criseyde	139	(26)
Holly A. Crocker
Postmodern Prisms
Re-reading / Re-teaching Chaucer's Criseyde	165	(16)
Susannah Chewning
Criseyde as Codependent: A New Approach to an Old Enigma	181	(26)
Marcia Smith Marzec
Cindy L. Vitto
The Performative Criseyde: Self-Conscious Dramaturgy	207	(24)
Jean E. Jost
Criseyde's Beauty: Chaucer and Aesthetics	231	(24)
Peggy A. Knapp
Revisioning Criseyde
``That I was born, alas'': Criseyde's Weary Dawn Song in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde	255	(22)
Peter G. Beidler
Criseyde's Poem: The Anxieties of the Classical Tradition	277	(22)
John V. Fleming
Criseyde Alone	299	(34)
Winthrop Wetherbee
Index of Passages Discussed	333	(1)
General Index	334