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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alcestis: Euripides to Ted Hughes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that &quot;Alcestis enters English literature&quot; in LGWP, briefly summarizing her appearance there, indicating that Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Genealogiae deorum gentilium&quot; is Chaucer&#039;s likeliest source, and observing that &quot;Alcestis&#039; metamorphosis into a daisy (&#039;day&#039;s eye&#039;), whence her outfit, is a nice, Ovidian touch of Chaucer&#039;s own.&quot; Also cites Chaucer&#039;s four other references to Alcestis at TC 7.1527 and 1778, MLP 1.75, and FranT 4.1442.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Summoner and His Concubine.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies several possible ambiguities of pronoun reference, syntax, and punning in the GP description of the Summoner (1.649-52), suggesting that they may make the character even more immoral and unreliable than he is usually understood to be.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Friars.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers history of the rise of the mendicant orders and details the development of anti-fraternal criticism as background to the characterizations of Chaucer&#039;s Friar and the friar in SumT. Compares &quot;point by point&quot; Chaucer&#039;s characters with the &quot;chief documents in the attack&quot; on friars, identifying many parallels and showing that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s treatment of the friars&quot; echoes the Latin writings of William St Amour and Richard FitzRalph and related vernacular works]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wyatt, Chaucer, and &quot;Terza Rima.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Qualifies scholarly claims that Sir Thomas Wyatt was the first to use &quot;terza rima&quot; in English poetry, observing that Chaucer used the verse form in a brief passage of &quot;The Complaint to His Lady.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law as a Literary Critic.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Man of Law in the GP as only apparently wise and busy, concerned with acquiring wealth, and gifted with an &quot;unusual memory.&quot; Further, his opinion of Chaucer&#039;s writings expressed in MLP is &quot;somewhat pretentious and condescending.&quot; Argues that the Man of Law&#039;s views on literature are generally &quot;to be taken with a grain of salt,&quot; not as Chaucer&#039;s views of his own works or those of John Gower.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scribal Errors in Manly and Rickert’s &quot;Text.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a number of &quot;accidental errors&quot; in John M. Manly and Edith Rickert&#039;s 1940 &quot;The Text of the Canterbury Tales&quot;--some typographical; others, errors in data.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer’s &quot;The Canterbury Tales,&quot; D. 1746-1753.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Glosses &quot;blanket&quot; in SumT 3.1751 as a &quot;ragout made of the breast or shoulder, generally of veal&quot; rather than a piece of cloth, and suggests that the context where it appears indicates &quot;the gourmet tendencies&quot; of the Summoner&#039;s friar.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale&quot;: The Monsters and the Critics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques earlier opinions on ClT, finding them to be flawed by imposition of irrelevant standards and failure to treat the tale&#039;s success in evoking &quot;compassionate wonder.&quot; Explores the developments of characterization in the tale and a growing sense of marvel in its three parts, with attention to the role of its scriptural echoes in this &quot;secular saint&#039;s legend&quot; and its development of sentimentality and &quot;comfortable pathos.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sex and Money in Chaucer&#039;s Shipman&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares SumT with analogous tales of the &quot;Lover&#039;s Gift Regained,&quot; arguing that the comparison reveals the &quot;sardonicism&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s account. Suggests that this tone culminates in the sexual punning on &quot;tallying&quot; and &quot;tailing&quot; in 3.416 and 433-34 which equate sex and money. Comments on links with WBPT and MerT in detail and tone.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Manciple&#039;s Tale as Part of a Canterbury Group.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that ManPT combines with ParsPT and Ret to make a thematic grouping in CT, arguing that the fundamental theme of ManT is avoiding &quot;jangling&quot; or &quot;loose speaking,&quot; including &quot;frivolous story-telling.&quot; Also considers the dating of ManT and the potential for irony in the narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer’s Black Knight.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Resists the emendatory tendency to adjust the Black Knight&#039;s age from 24 to 29 in order to align it with the age of John of Gaunt when Blanche died, suggesting that the poem is universal not &quot;merely occasional.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Unity of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.”]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the unifying concern of HF is &quot;the relationship of men to the mutable world through the agency of Fame,&quot; assessing similarities with BD and PF as love-visions, the influences of Dante and Boethius, and connections among the &quot;sister goddesses&quot;--Love, Fortune, and Fame--in HF. Also assesses various ideas about the identity of the unnamed man of great authority, suggesting Boethius as the most likely.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Hevenlich Mede&quot; in Chaucer’s &quot;Truth.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Glosses &quot;hevenlich mede&quot; in Truth (line 27) as &quot;heavenly meadow&quot; rather than &quot;heavenly reward,&quot; adducing phonology and puns elsewhere in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of the Narrator in the &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses in PF the narrator&#039;s limitations as a lover, his inability to &quot;interpret or evaluate what he sees,&quot; and his &quot;naïveté&quot; as a poet--a reflection of Chaucer&#039;s own &quot;amused understanding of the limitations of the love vision as a form for poetic expression.&quot; Also argues that the poem expresses Chaucer&#039;s conviction that humans are &quot;free to choose.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Crucial Passages in Five of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: A Study in Irony and Symbol.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores five passages from CT that stylistically and thematically &quot;expose the limited vision of created character and creating narrator,&quot; pose the comic &quot;contrast between what &#039;is&#039; and what men see--of themselves and of others,&quot; and serve a &quot;symbolic and unifying function&quot; for the entire work. Analyzes Dorigen&#039;s rash promise (FranT 5.988-98), January&#039;s praise of marriage (MerT 5.1319-36), the loathly lady&#039;s demand that the knight marry her (WBT 3. 1062-66), the rioters; decision to stop pursuing Death (PardT 6.772), and Chauntecleer&#039;s praise of Pertelote&#039;s beauty (7.4347-61).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277768">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Definition by Comparison: Chaucer, Lawrence and Joyce.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges Matthew Arnold&#039;s claim that Chaucer lacks &quot;high seriousness,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Christian point of view&quot; reflects seriousness beyond either comedy or tragedy, expressing pity and love for the human condition and humble acceptance of human folly. Compares nuances of Chaucer&#039;s and Dante&#039;s perspectives, assesses the &quot;vitalism&quot; of NPT and D. H. Lawrence&#039;s &quot;The Man Who Died,&quot; and explores the &quot;haunting vision of ideal and pure love&quot; in BD and James Joyce&#039;s &quot;The Dead.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Works of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sets Chaucer in the context of English literary history, comments on his biography, and commends &quot;his two great masterpieces,&quot; TC and CT, summarizing plots and themes and commenting on his &quot;poetic art&quot;: &quot;he lacks sublimity,&quot; but &quot;his sympathetic understanding and interpretation of life has kept him green through the centuries.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Patristic Influence in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the influence on Chaucer&#039;s works (mostly TC and CT) of the writings of the Church Fathers, especially Jerome and Augustine, focusing in separate chapters on shared notions of &quot;the treatment of marriage and virginity,&quot; divine and profane love, and virtues and vices. Links these concerns with the more pervasive notion of &quot;&#039;charitas&#039; in the Augustian sense.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nun’s Priest in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes the role of Harry Bailly in Chaucer&#039;s characterization of the Nun&#039;s Priest, reading &quot;broad irony&quot; in NPE, despite its limited manuscript support. Addresses many of Harry&#039;s comments throughout Part 7, focusing on how the Host&#039;s displeasure with MkT underlies his interactions with the Priest in NPP and NPE, and arguing that NPT evinces agreement with Harry&#039;s disapproval of the Monk. Overall, reads the Priest as physically weak and somewhat fawning in his agreement with the Host&#039;s sentiments (including antifeminism) but otherwise intelligent and well-educated. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Gracious Conqueror.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the sequence and nuances of the terms used to justify Henry IV&#039;s claim to the English throne--election, inheritance, and conquest--in Chaucer&#039;s Purse and John Gower&#039;s &quot;Cronica Tripertita,&quot; comparing them with historical documents that clarify &quot;conqueror&quot; could mean &quot;the acquisition by peaceful means of an inheritance vacant through the misconduct and ineptitude of his predecessor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt on Chaucer and a Chaucerian.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quotes from published letters of Theodore Roosevelt (8 Volumes, 1951–1954) which express his opinions about Chaucer (e.g., SumT is &quot;filthy&quot;) and Chaucer studies, especially that of Thomas R. Lounsbury (1892).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Browning on Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quotes two allusions to Chaucer in letters by Robert Browning from 1845 and 1846.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Narrator of the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses &quot;various appearances of the narrator&quot; in CT to &quot;determine how far the narrator can be taken as a contribution to our knowledge of Geoffrey Chaucer.&quot; Comments most extensively on GP and ThP, with attention to first-person pronouns, and on similarities between the CT narrator and those of other works by Chaucer, concluding that in CT &quot;Chaucer does not seem to have been much interested in his narrator, much less to have been trying to express through him his own personality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Seith Moyses by the Devel&quot;: A Problem in Chaucer&#039;s Parson&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Locates precedent for the Parson&#039;s claim about the growth of sin among humans in Richard de Wetheringsett&#039;s &quot;Summa de Officio Sacerdotis&quot;--specifically, its reference to the &quot;Canticum Exodi&quot; in Exodus 15.9. Suggests more broadly that an &quot;English manual for parish priests&quot; such as Richard&#039;s thirteenth-century work may be a source for the ParsT.  ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Fraternal Kiss in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Summoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Confirms that the friar&#039;s kiss of Thomas&#039; wife in SumT is unseemly, adducing passages from Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox Clamantis&quot; and the &quot;Regimen Animarum&quot; that express concern about dangers of clerical kissing.]]></dcterms:description>
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