Carolyn Collette

Carolyn Collette
Carolyn Collette
Occupation	Professor
	Writing career
Genre	Medieval literature
Notable works	Species, Phantasms and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales

Carolyn P. Collette is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature, particularly Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. She was Professor Emerita of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College between 1969 and 2013 and is 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 in 1967 and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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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.

Notes

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Carolyn Collette
Occupation	Professor
Writing career
Genre	Medieval literature
Notable works	Species, Phantasms and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales