Carolyn P. Collette is an American literary critic and a specialist in
medieval literature, particularly
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
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The Canterbury Tales
''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''Masterpiece, ...
.'' She is Professor Emerita of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College, and a research associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, in England.
Background
Collette received her B.A. from
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
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and Ph.D. from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Select bibliography
Books
* ''Species, Phantasms and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
* ''Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Personal, Professional and Public Writing'', with Richard Johnson, 2nd ed. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman), 1997.
Articles
* "A Closer Look at Seinte Cecile's Special Vision," ''The Chaucer Review'', 10, 1976, 337–49.
* "Sense and Sensibility in The Prioress' Tale," ''The Chaucer Review'', 15, 1981, 138–150.
* "Ubi Peccaverant, Ibi Punirentur: The Oak Tree and The Pardoner's Tale," ''The Chaucer Review'', 19, 1985, 39–45.
* "Umberto Eco, Semiotics and The Merchant's Tale," ''The Chaucer Review'', 24, 1989, 132–38.
* "Chaucer and Victorian Medievalism: Culture and Society," ''Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies'', Vol. 29–30, 1989, 115–125.
* "Chaucer's Discourse of Mariology," in ''Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative'', ed. Robert Edwards, by D.S. Brewer, 1994, 127–147.
* "Heeding the Counsel of Prudence: A Context for the Melibee," ''The Chaucer Review'', 29, 1995, 416–433.
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External links
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American medievalists
Women medievalists
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American women literary critics
Mount Holyoke College alumni
Mount Holyoke College faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women historians
21st-century American women
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