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Doctoral
Degree Earned by Franciscan Sister
August 10, 2000. Silver Spring,
Maryland.
Sister Lucia Treanor
of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist will be granted a doctorate
in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York
on October 1, 2000.
Sister Lucia's doctoral
dissertation is entitled "Wings: A Comparative Study of
Franciscan Characteristics in Boccaccio's Decameron, Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron."
It considers the conversion of the traditional fourfold exegetical
structure from its interpretive function to a new compositional
function that relies on the radical pun. It traces the development
of the interdependent pair (structure and pun) in the works of
Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure, Dante and Nicolas de Lira, and
compares its application in selected stories of Boccaccio, Chaucer
and Marguerite de Navarre.
An avid teacher of literature,
Sister Lucia has received two Masters degrees: a Master of Arts
in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University
(1987), and a Master of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from
the City University of New York (1997). As an undergraduate, she
studied at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, where
she majored in English and participated in a Medieval Special
Studies Program.
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