Background
Chance, Jane was born on October 26, 1945 in Neosho, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Donald William and Julia (Mile) Chance.
(Essays reflecting the interests of scholars currently at ...)
Essays reflecting the interests of scholars currently at work on mythography in selected poets and mythographers. Tracing the survival of pagan myth in the work of both scholar and poet or dramatist of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the essayists focus specifically on seminal literary contributions to the mythographic tradition.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813009847/?tag=2022091-20
(The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in ...)
The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in Anglo-Saxon literature investigates English secular and religious prose and poetry from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Given the paucity of surviving literature from the Anglo-Saxon period, the works which feature major women characters - often portrayed as heroes - seem surprisingly numerous. Even more striking is the strength of the female characterizations, given the medieval social ideal of women as peaceful, passive members of society. The task of this study is to examine the existing sources afresh, asking new questions about the depictions of women in the literature of the period. Particular attention is focused on the failed, possibly adulterous women of 'The Wife's Lament' and 'Wulf and Eadwacer' the monstrous mother of Grendel in 'Beowulf' and the chaste but heroic figures and saints Judith, Juliana, and Elene. The book relies for its analysis on recent and standard texts in Anglo-Saxon studies and literature, as well as a thorough grounding in Latin and vernacular historical documents and Anglo-Saxon writings other than the focal literary texts.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597522600/?tag=2022091-20
(" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Ri...)
" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"–that is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813190177/?tag=2022091-20
( Winner of the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize!! This study of...)
Winner of the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize!! This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed “unhomely” spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality—the homely female space—to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403969108/?tag=2022091-20
Chance, Jane was born on October 26, 1945 in Neosho, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Donald William and Julia (Mile) Chance.
Bachelor in English with honors and highest distinction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1967. Master of Arts in English, University Illinois, Urbana, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Illinois, Urbana, 1971.
Lecturer, U. Saskatchewan, Canada, 1971-1972;
assistant professor, U. Saskatchewan, Canada, 1972-1973;
assistant Professor of English,, Rice U., Houston, 1973-1977;
associate professor, Rice U., Houston, 1977-1980;
professor, Rice U., Houston, since 1980;
honorary research fellow U. College, U. London, 1977-1978. Secretary, Scientia, 1982-1983, acting director, 1983-1984. Director National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1985, National Endowment for Humanities Institute for College Teachers on Medieval Women, summer 1997.
President TEAMS, 1986-1989. Director medical studies program Rice U., 1986-1992. Resident Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 1988.
Mem.Sch. History Studies Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1988-1989. Visiting research fellow Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, U. Edinburgh, summer, 1994. Eccles fellow Humanities Center, U. Utah, 1994-1995.
Plenary speaker Rocky Mountain Medical and Renaissance Association, 1995. 2d annual lecturer on Italian archaeology Friends of Archaeology U. St. Thomas/Federation Italian Assns., Houston, 1997. Semi-plenary speaker 4th annual meeting International Society for the Classical Tradition, 1998.
( Winner of the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize!! This study of...)
(The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in ...)
(The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of fl...)
(Essays reflecting the interests of scholars currently at ...)
(" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Ri...)
(Woman as Hero in Old English Literature)
(Book by Chance, Jane)
(New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)
(Reprint)
Board directors Rice University Press, 1981-1988, International Chaucer Studio, since 2003. Member American Association of University Professors (Rice University chapter secretary, treasurer 1975-1976), Modern Language Association (Roth Scaglione Prize Committee, 2007-2009, chair, 2008-2009), SCMLA, Scientia (acting director 1983-1984, secretary 1982-1983), Texas Faculty Association (executive committee 1995-1999, vice president 1998-2000, Achievement award 1998), New Chaucer Society, Medieval Academy American, International Arthurian Society.
Married Dennis Carl Nitzsche, June, 1966 (divorced March 1969). 1 child, Therese; Married Paolo Passaro, April 30, 1981,(divorced May 2002). Children: Antony Damian, Joseph Sebastian.