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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beauty and the Beast: Catalogues of Good Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tradition of listing good women, dissociating them from their backgrounds, reveals varying attitudes toward woman&#039;s nature and rhetorical shifts from florilegia to debates; LGW is treated.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268653">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beauty and the East, a Modern Love Story: Women, Children, and Imagined Communities in The Man of Law&#039;s Tale and Its Others]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Heng assesses MLT as an account of a &quot;feminized crusade&quot; that involves &quot;sexual martyrdom&quot; on the part of Custance and reveals the power of her &quot;reproductive sexuality.&quot; The fusion of hagiography and romance in MLT is also evident in ClT, but while both Tales show how the &quot;politics of emotion undergirds the nationalist imaginary,&quot; MLT also indicates how (as in &quot;King of Tars&quot;) race challenges ideas of community.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265729">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beauty, Unity, and the Ideal: Wholeness and Heterogeneity in the Kelmscott &#039;Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Morris&#039;s attempt to produce the ideal book &quot;fails to match form with content.&quot;  The harmonious presentation of his Kelmscott &quot;Chaucer&quot; disguises the diversity of tales and conceals unresolved problems of text and structure.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  The choice and character of Edward Burne-Jones&#039;s illustrations (those for KnT are discussed in detail) give a misleading impression of &quot;frozen sanctity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276115">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becket&#039;s Wounds and Canterbury: Echoes of Trauma in a Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on CT as a &quot;text born in trauma,&quot; observing &quot;numerous wounds&quot; in KnT and MkT and linking them with James Comey&#039;s 2017 testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277092">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming England: The Northumbrian Conversion in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;temporally heterogeneous portrayals of an emerging sense&quot; of &quot;Engelond&quot; in the scenes of Saxon conversion in the Constance narratives of Trevet&#039;s &quot;Cronicles,&quot; Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and MLT. These scenes are &quot;sites where the power of linguistic difference to form community becomes a central concern.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276337">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the ontogeny (rather than ontology) of medieval western humanness, focusing on gestation, birth, childhood, and the social and cultural coming-into-being of the child. Links various aspects of &quot;posthumanist, ecological, and materialist thought,&quot; and locates medieval antecedents to postmodern questions and theories of humanness and becoming. Examines a variety of medieval objects and texts, with particular attention to Middle English poetry, including discussion of &quot;literary miniaturization&quot; and childishness in Th and PrT; toys and science in Astr, and the dining etiquette and cultural materialization of the Franklin&#039;s &quot;table dormant&quot; (GP 1.353). ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266404">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming Male in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eighteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics ranging from Old English penitentials to Sir David Lindsey. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Becoming Male in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming One Flesh, Inhabiting Two Genders: Ugly Feelings and Blocked Emotion in the &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue and Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the Wife&#039;s presentation of her conduct in WBPT to the conduct book&quot; Le ménagier de Paris,&quot; and shows how the Wife&#039;s record of her activities and the presentation of negative emotions function as essentially a reversal of the &quot;Ménagier.&quot; By using Sianne Ngai&#039;s concept of &quot;ugly feelings&quot; to contextualize this examination, offers the Wife&#039;s texts as a kind of alternative model of heterosexual and married identity to that depicted in &quot;Ménagier.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268701">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming Woman in Chaucer: &#039;On ne nat pas femme, on le meurt&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gilbert&#039;s anthropological reading of BD and LGW emphasizes how in BD Blanche is represented as having successfully left the land of the living for the land of the dead. In LGW, the female protagonists resist this rite of passage and, in doing so, resist the social conventions that underlie it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277008">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays, an introduction by the editors, and an afterword by Ren Navarro &quot;describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer production, and examine how gender intersects with beer production and consumption.&quot; For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Before Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Language of Place, the Place of Language in &#039;Decameron&#039; 8.1 and 8.2]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts how Boccaccio&#039;s two analogues to ShT evoke differing senses of locale and the signifying potential of language.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Before the &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot;: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Teseida&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Boccaccio&#039;s use of Statius&#039;s &quot;Thebaid&quot;--his &quot;systematic transformation&quot; of the epic in the historical context of Boccaccio&#039;s day--and Chaucer&#039;s reshaping of the epic in KnT.  Chapter 4, &quot;Imitation of the &#039;Thebaid&#039; in the &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale,&quot; examines the epic characteristics of KnT, refutes the theory that the &quot;Teseida&quot; was a &quot;failed epic,&quot; and modifies critical perceptions of Chaucers use of the &quot;source.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines same-sex love in English literature and culture between 600 and 1200, with commentary on later tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Contains recurrent references to Chaucer&#039;s works, including GP, RvT, ParsT, and, especially, MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Chaucer &quot;made nothing of&quot; the love between Custance and Hermengyld, &quot;it is same-sex love.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269165">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Before-Chaucer Evidences of an English Literary Vernacular with a Standardizing Tendency]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pearsall surveys traditional accounts of the rise of an English standard and comments on recent emphases and remaining issues. Considers the Auchinleck Manuscript as evidence of the London literary culture that precedes Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268147">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Befriending the Medieval Queer: A Pedagogy for Literature Classes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizations of Grendel, the Green Knight, and Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner can be used for a &quot;queer pedagogy&quot; based on the theories of Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz. Zeikowitz suggests discussions and written assignments that encourage analysis of the instability of &quot;normal&quot; values in medieval literature, an activity that can help students produce a more just society.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276699">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Begging the Question: Critical Reasoning in Chaucer Studies, Book Study, and Humanistic Inquiry. Mythodologies II.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat record includes an abstract: &quot;This book examines cases of [question-begging] reasoning in Chaucer studies, book history, and in other humanistic fields.&quot; In it, Joseph Dane critiques &quot;himself and his own formulation of problems and issues&quot;--those found in &quot;Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History (2018). Includes discussions of FranT and the Breton lai, seventeenth-century Chaucerianism, and the attribution of Purse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262282">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beginning Well: Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Basing her work on a study of 189 poems, Davidoff analyzes common features of &quot;framing fictions.&quot;  With attention to Chaucer&#039;s sources and literary tradition, she offers readings of BD, demonstrating relationship of meaning to structure; of HF, showing how reader expectations are frustrated; of FrT, focusing on dramatic irony; and of GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275635">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beginning with the Ending: Narrative Techniques and Their Significance in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that various narrative and stylistic devices in KnT evoke the question &quot;Does human life have a final meaning?&quot; The poem begins with an ending and ends with a beginning, these complemented throughout by stoppings and startings and various shifts in style, tone, mood, and chronological perspective. Comedy and tragedy combine with epic and romance, conveying a sense that they cannot be resolved until human &quot;aventures&quot; come to a final conclusion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being a Crip Professor in the Time Covid-19: A Modern Game of Medieval Chess.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Personal reflections on having multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, describing changes that these conditions brought to (re)reading BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being a Man in &#039;Piers Plowman&#039; and &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focusing on failures of the male body depicted in the consummation scene of TC  and in the autobiographical episode of the C-text, Calabrese compares Troilus of TC and Will of &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; as masculine questors in search of truth.  Pandarus &quot;roughly corresponds&quot; to Langland&#039;s Recklessness and Criseyde to his Lady Meed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276522">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being a Medievalist in the Age of the Pandemic.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports on the author&#039;s completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the &quot;clear parallel&quot; between teaching Chaucer&#039;s works and teaching online courses generally.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being Alone in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the concept of solitude is considered a Renaissance phenomenon, it occurs often in Chaucer&#039;s works as &quot;alone&quot; or &quot;privity&quot; and in the concept of private space, such as Nicholas&#039;s room in MilT.  The &quot;struggle for personal space&quot; was an ongoing issue in the complex fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being Boethius: &quot;Vitae,&quot; Politics, and Treason in Thomas Usk&#039;s &quot;Testament of Love.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies that Boethius was a model for &quot;medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own.&quot; Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his &quot;Testament&quot; with Boethius, although his depiction of his own &quot;seditious activities&quot; is mediated by Chaucer&#039;s TC, particularly Criseyde&#039;s betrayal and self-accusation. Although Chaucer ignores Boethius&#039;s political situation in Bo, he moves &quot;treason deep into the heart&quot; of TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being Dialogic with the Pragmatic Literacies of Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how Chaucer&#039;s oeuvre offers many glimpses of readers&#039; and listeners&#039; encounters with the written word, but that last wills and testaments offer more direct insights into &quot;the ways the majority of people interacted with and interpreted &#039;English&#039; (i.e. literature) in this era.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Being Green in Late Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on forerunners of ecocritical thinking in medieval literature, and explores the connotations of &quot;green&quot; (often in contrast with &quot;blue&quot;) in Wom Unc, SqT, FrT, WBT, and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; arguing that medieval usage reflects a &quot;system of . . . values . . . which prizes changeability and an ability to adapt.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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