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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Bihoold the Murye Wordes of the Hoost to Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that &quot;popular superstition&quot; of &quot;ill-luck&quot; underlies the Host&#039;s reference to &quot;fynde an hare&quot; in Th-MelL 7.696, supported by his use of &quot;elvyssh&quot; at 7.703.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tradition and Moral Realism: Chaucer&#039;s Conception of the Poet.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Ret, the ending of TC, the claims of accurate reporting in GP 1.730-43, and Chaucer&#039;s comments on poetry and the rhetorical arts in HF, LGW, and PF, arguing that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;seems to have conceived of the poet&quot; as a &quot;moral realist&quot; who writes &quot;within the framework of his craft and his cultural tradition,&quot; a &quot;highly serious&quot; view of poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Friar and the Man in the Moon.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies associations of the name &quot;Huberd&quot; (Hubert) with the Man in the Moon, the magpie, Cain, and theft, arguing that Chaucer&#039;s use of it for his Friar (GP 1.269) reveals the character&#039;s &quot;inherently evil nature&quot; and the &quot;incongruity&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s praise of him--a technique similar to his naming the Prioress &quot;Madame Eglentyne&quot; (GP 1.121).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Real &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale&quot;; or, Patient Griselda Explained.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents ClT as an &quot;elaborate academic joke,&quot; concerned primarily with proper submission to &quot;God&#039;s law,&quot; reading Griselda as &quot;pathetic rather than virtuous,&quot; satirized by the Clerk for submitting herself and (as she thinks) her children to Walter, who is cruel and sinful. The tale is a &quot;counterpiece&quot; to the WBPT and engages the other tales of &quot;Marriage Group,&quot; even though sovereignty in marriage in not the essential focus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Venus, Chaucer, and Peter Bersuire.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers evidence that the &quot;Ovidius Moralizatus&quot; of Peter Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius) was the source of iconographical details associated with Venus in Chaucer&#039;s descriptions of the goddess in HF 131-39 and KnT 1.1955-66.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Saint Jerome in Jankyn&#039;s Book of Wikked Wyves.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses medieval manuscripts that combine materials from Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Valerius,&quot; the &quot;golden book&quot; of Theophrastus, and excerpts from Jerome&#039;s &quot;Adversus Jovinianum,&quot; focusing on the seven manuscripts that include the latter two, and showing how Chaucer uses them, first, in WBP to characterize the Wife and Jankyn, and then, in FranT, to contrast the Wife with Dorigen, putting &quot;to shame the Wife of Bath&#039;s callousness, lasciviousness, and promiscuity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Adam&#039;s Hell.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the juxtaposition of the accounts of Lucifer and Adam in the opening of MkT (7.1999-2014), surveying medieval theological and Old and Middle English literary traditions of Adam&#039;s time in hell or, alternatively, limbo, and arguing that Chaucer&#039;s version assumes that Adam&#039;s ages-long suffering was relieved by Christ&#039;s descent into hell after his crucifixion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetic Justice in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;static portraiture&quot; in MilT establishes &quot;character traits precisely&quot; for the main characters so that the plot may &quot;punish&quot; these traits and convey &quot;comic moral justice.&quot; Explores connections between Carpenter John and Oswald the Reeve, between Robin, John&#039;s servant, and Robin the Miller, and between Alisoun and Alison of Bath, as well as viewing John, Absolon, and Nicholas as types of avarice, pride, and lechery, respectively.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Etas Prima.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets Form Age as a topical, even occasional, poem, rather than as a translation from Boethius, investigating its manuscript contexts, identifying echoes from Tibellius, Ovid, Jean de Meun, Eustace Deschamps, and Sted, and arguing that the poem was written late in Chaucer&#039;s life in response to his discontent with Richard&#039;s rule.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: Motive and Mask in the &quot;General Prologue.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in the GP Chaucer offers an &quot;analysis of social rank in terms of economic behavior,&quot; consistently evident in the descriptions where a &quot;pilgrim&#039;s characteristic behavior is defined in every case in terms of the acquisition and use of wealth&quot; and the order of the descriptions is &quot;a clear, socio-economic ranking based upon an analysis of the origins of income.&quot; Furthermore, the characters of the pilgrims are revealed ironically, not by &quot;depiction of personality,&quot; but by &quot;unmasking of self--the very inner self&quot;--of individual pilgrims.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion to Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that members of the &quot;School of Christian Interpreters&quot; err when seeing the transcendent ending of TC as implicit throughout the poem, and evaluates the actions of Troilus and Criseyde in terms of courtly love and the operation of Fortune, attributing perceived inconsistencies in the ending of the poem to be due to the narrator&#039;s &quot;lack of sophistication.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274945">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Corones Tweyne&quot;: An Interpretation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets Pandarus&#039;s reference to &quot;corones tweyne&quot; (TC 2.1735) as &quot;a highly complex symbol of the two main pillars of mediaeval law and authority--the spiritual and temporal powers of the church and the state,&quot; forbidding Criseyde from killing Troilus by refusing him.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274944">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Yeoman Again.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Yeoman attends the Knight rather than the Squire in GP, considering evidence of dress and character, and adducing William Caxton&#039;s &quot;The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274943">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Christian Classicist&#039;s Dilemma.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the dilemmas experienced by Criseyde, Troilus, Chaucer, and the reader in TC, relating them all to the conflicts between classical beauty and Christian truth.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274942">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Fable.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a variety of tones in NPT, identifying interplay among the voice of the &quot;rhetor,&quot; a &quot;sermonizing&quot; voice, and the outlook of a &quot;sophisticated fabulist,&quot; exploring the &quot;quality of their combination&quot; by observing their relations with traditional fables, school exercises, and moralizations, and explaining how their shifts and tensions generate comedy, irony, and serious message.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274941">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Warton&#039;s History and Early English Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Commends Thomas Warton for his appreciation of Chaucer in his &quot;History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century&quot; (1774-81), acknowledging that the critic largely ignored Old English, denigrated much Middle English literature, and treated the CT &quot;more as an important document of social history than as a subject for the literary critic.&quot; Yet he was also &quot;more responsive to the rhythms and cadences of Chaucer&#039;s verse&quot; than were earlier critics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274940">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Medieval Allegory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews D. W. Robertson&#039;s &quot;A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives&quot; (1962), providing a brief survey of the &quot;prevailing criticism&quot; that challenges the exegetical, patristic, or historicist criticism that Robertson champions, and identifying several critical presuppositions that suggest Robertson&#039;s method is too universalized. Includes extended examples of analysis of literary realism in WBP (1-162), &quot;conscience&quot; in the GP description of the Prioress, and the psychological subtlety of Chaucer&#039;s characterization of Criseyde in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Non-Dramatic Disunity of the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MerT as a composite of &quot;various comic attitudes toward lust and marriage,&quot; not as the bitter vituperation of an angry narrator, arguing that the latter, conventional view results from seeking to impose &quot;organic unity&quot; on four &quot;strikingly incongruous&quot; sections of the Tale. Examines the &quot;rhetorical debate on marriage . . . , the courtly romance centering in the garden, the episode of Pluto and Proserpina, and the raucous fabliau episode of the conclusion&quot; for their &quot;exploitation of the comic possibilities inherent in impropriety and incongruity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274938">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fruyt and Chaf: Studies in Chaucer&#039;s Allegories.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets BD and PF as allegories, offering &quot;An Approach to Medieval Poetry&quot; (pp. 3-31) as an introduction to exegetical or patristic criticism and a justification of the method. Explores the imagery, structures, ironic juxtapositions, and meanings of the two poems as, respectively, Christian consolation and a Christian alternative to worldly love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Custance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes various motifs in MLT, observing that it &quot;includes features common to the early form of the &#039;märchen&#039; combined with relatively late developments,&quot; and claiming that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;most important addition to his source,&quot; Trevet&#039;s &quot;Cronicle,&quot; is his &quot;vitalization&quot; of Constance as a &quot;woman of strong and singular personality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274936">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Puns on &quot;Brotel.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in Chaucer&#039;s three uses of &quot;brotel&quot; and its derivatives in MerT (4. 1279, 2061, and 2241), the poet plays punningly on sexual implications of the term in addition to the primary meaning, &quot;brittle&quot; or &quot;fragile.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale&quot;: Parody and Critique.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses ManT in light of its sources and analogues to reveal a &quot;tissue of comic devices--of controlled incongruities, of hyperbole, of antiphrasis, of equivocations, allusions, and purposeful distortions&quot; that &quot;produce a parodic version of the romanticized moral fable&quot; such as those found in the &quot;Ovide Moralisé&quot; and Guillaume de Machaut&#039;s &quot;Voir Dit.&quot; In particular Chaucer targeted John Gower&#039;s tale of Phebus and the crow in the &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274934">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Secree of Secrees&quot;: An Alchemical &quot;Topic.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the phrase &quot;secree of secrees&quot; in CYT 8.1447, cast as a &quot;superlative genitive,&quot; suggests a &quot;whole class of alchemical expressions identical in form&quot; and thereby &quot;sharply emphasizes Chaucer&#039;s ironical denunciation of the oracular pretensions of alchemical philosophers.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274933">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thematic Opposition of Fortuna and Natura in Chaucer&#039;s Narratives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the &quot;dynamic relationship&quot; between Fortuna and Natura in Chaucer&#039;s works, focusing on the depictions in ClT, PhyT, and KnT]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274932">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Summoner&#039;s Occupational Disease.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces medieval and modern medicine to argue that the Summoner&#039;s disease described in GP 1.623-66 can best be diagnosed as &quot;a rosacea-like secondary syphiloderm with meningeal neurosyphilitic involvement, with chronic alcoholism playing an important part.&quot; The medieval audience would have associated the symptoms of this venereal disease with lechery and leprosy, ironic in a man who was commissioned to oppose sexual sins.]]></dcterms:description>
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