Knowledge Commons | Susan M. Nakley | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/susie/activity/ Activity feed for Susan M. Nakley. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a4a3fa3933e93da2a3b84612d45afce7 Susan M. Nakley's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1795053/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:34:08 -0400 0 2a749debfda0684f57cf06c281e75e7f Susan M. Nakley deposited "Rowned She a Pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622019/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 03:54:28 -0400 This article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]

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]]> 0 22447389b53b54096fcb9e0a433f8b10 Susan M. Nakley deposited "Rowned She a Pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the group CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622016/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 03:48:45 -0400 This article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]

]]> 0 13259da7625885d8111ec2cfd360a285 Susan M. Nakley started the topic MLA Committee Elections: LLC Middle English in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/mla-committee-elections-llc-middle-english/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:13:37 -0400 Hello, fellow Middle English Forum members! My name is Susan Nakley, and I am both honored and thrilled to be nominated for election to our forum’s executive committee. Currently, I am an Associate Professor and the Associate Chairperson in the English Department at St. Joseph’s College, New York, where I began teaching after defending my dis…[Read more]

]]> 89eac8f219c45383d60bc9678dd90f3a Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621953/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:41:24 -0400 Late medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]

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]]> 0 8b4a49c6e2ecae7faf9205c29b8f0406 Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621948/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:25:23 -0400 Late medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a92b52922e0358f6e12341f94b3d4a Susan M. Nakley deposited "Rowned She a Pistel": National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer's Wife of Bath https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621912/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:38:19 -0400 This article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ae28b03b4833581b8c67fb05dcde04b Susan M. Nakley's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621875/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:07:10 -0400 0 30aa433f96827fbe1f63ea898525e1ab Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621870/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:47:47 -0400 Late medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]

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