R D Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R D Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anticipatory Trauma and Medieval Horror in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship
Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale" and the Logic of Literature
This essay discusses the fart joke that ends Geoffrey Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale." It argues that the joke uses the language of medieval philosophy to satirize the work of medieval Scholastic philosophers. The essay begins by examining Chaucer's relationship to philosophy more broadly and the scholarly controversies over Chaucer's familiarity with this field of knowledge. It focuses on the way Chaucer uses disciplinary-specific jargon from philos…
Lydgate’s Virtual Coteries: Chaucer’s Family and Gower’s Pacifism in the Fifteenth Century
The Nation in Pain
Lydgate’s Danse Macabre and the Trauma of the Hundred Years War
This essay argues that the foundational traumatic lacuna behind John Lydgate’s Danse Macabre is the social agon between those who wage the Hundred Years War and those who fight in it. Drawing from the insights of trauma theory to discuss the poem’s form, the essay uncovers Lydgate’s persistent concern with the damage caused by the war and the concomitant political unrest it causes. It argues further that Lydgate theorized this agon using the emer…
"The Solitude of Hawthorne's "Wakefield
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"The Solitude of Hawthorne's "Wakefield
The Nation in Pain
Lydgate’s Danse Macabre and the Trauma of the Hundred Years War
This essay argues that the foundational traumatic lacuna behind John Lydgate’s Danse Macabre is the social agon between those who wage the Hundred Years War and those who fight in it. Drawing from the insights of trauma theory to discuss the poem’s form, the essay uncovers Lydgate’s persistent concern with the damage caused by the war and the concomitant political unrest it causes. It argues further that Lydgate theorized this agon using the emer…
Lydgate’s Virtual Coteries: Chaucer’s Family and Gower’s Pacifism in the Fifteenth Century
Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale" and the Logic of Literature
This essay discusses the fart joke that ends Geoffrey Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale." It argues that the joke uses the language of medieval philosophy to satirize the work of medieval Scholastic philosophers. The essay begins by examining Chaucer's relationship to philosophy more broadly and the scholarly controversies over Chaucer's familiarity with this field of knowledge. It focuses on the way Chaucer uses disciplinary-specific jargon from philos…
Anticipatory Trauma and Medieval Horror in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Joseph Conrad and Literature (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)