Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender "d0e14901"

Narrator (of the Book of the Duchess ), 99 ;

feminization of, 60 -68, 80 ;

misunderstandings of, 78 -80;

as reader, 83 -84;

relationship to Black Knight, 85 , 97

Narrator (of the Canterbury Tales ), 290

Narrator (of the House of Fame ). See Geffrey

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Narrator (of the Legend of Good Women ), 1 -4, 8 -10, 14 -15, 196 , 200 ;

compared to the Clerk of Oxenford, 197 -98, 203 , 204 ;

feminization of, 17

Narrator (of the Parliament of Fowls ), 87 , 108 -10, 112 , 115 -17, 126 , 130 , 132 -33;

characterization of, 129 ;

compared to formel eagle, 139 ;

conclusions of, 138 ;

experience of love, 134 -35;

feminization of, 113 ;

as reader, 135 -37

Narrator (of Troilus and Criseyde ), 161 , 167 , 175 -80;

detachment of, 182 ;

feminization of, 178 ;

gender of, 176 , 182 ;

identification with Criseyde, 142 , 157 , 168 , 178 , 185 -86;

on ideology of love, 144 ;

as reader, 186 ;

sympathy for Criseyde, 183 ;

as voice of Chaucer, 185

Narrators, 2 , 195 , 290 ;

gender identity of, 12 .

See also Poet, male

Nature (in the Parliament of Fowls ), 108 , 115 , 116 , 118 -19, 127 -28;

advice to formel, 122 -23;

court of, 130 -31;

organization of Parliament by, 120 n

Nemesius (bishop of Emesa), 13

Newman, Barbara, 178

Nicholas (in the Miller's Tale ), 232 -35, 264 , 277 ;

competition with Absolon, 228 -29;

feminization of, 234 , 238 ;

punishment of, 235

Nightingale, symbolism of, 159 -60

Noblewomen, 22 , 238 -39;

and courtly love, 165 , 271 ;

influence on males, 19 ;

marriage of, 112 , 125 ;

socioeconomic power of, 72

Novelli, Cornelius, 231