Chaucer and Related Topics
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Seeing the Sowdanesse: Reconsidering the Syrian Mother in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. Kathy Nixon, American University of Kuwait
While critics often question the Man of Law’s assessments, few doubt his comments about the Sowdanesse. My female students in Kuwait challenge his view of her. Through their close reading of the text and teachings from the Qur’an, they suggest that she, like Judith, defends her faith with steel.
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Heteronormatizing the Bedroom & The Gaze: Social & Spatial Considerations of Chaucer’s Fabliaux. Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota
The physical location of sex and the sexualized gazing in Chaucer’s fabliaux reinforces medieval patriarchy and heteronormativity. The bedroom is restricted to a heteronormative sexual space, forcing “unruly” women to choose alternate places to express their “unnatural” desires, emphasized through voyeurism.
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The Poetic Philosophy of Particulars: Criseyde as Nominalist in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Jelena Marelj, Queen's University
Within the framework of the philosophical nominalist-realist debate, I contend that the notoriously opaque Criseyde in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is a nominalist character due to her preoccupation with the ephemeral "particulars" of present existence and due to her agency.
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