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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of the Catalogue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Chaucer&#039;s use of rhetorical lists or catalogs as an indication of his growth as a poet, from BD and its use of lists as &quot;pure amplification&quot; to PF where listing is &quot;occasionally but not always subjected to the artistic needs of the entire work.&quot; to TC where it is &quot;an integral part of the poetic context in which it appeared,&quot; serving characterization, theme, and tone. Includes comments on various kinds of lists: in descriptions of beauty (parodied in Th and most effective in MilT), litany-like apostrophes, aubades, &quot;ubi sunt,&quot; and more.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274930">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Natural Law as Chaucer&#039;s Ethical Absolute.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies references in Chaucer&#039;s works to &quot;natural law,&quot; or &quot;law of kynde,&quot; describing its status in medieval legal theory and philosophy, including Boethius, and exploring Chaucer&#039;s possible experiences with the practices of &quot;law merchant&quot; and &quot;quick justice.&quot; Works considered include BD, PF, Bo, TC, and CT, where the Friar and Summoner flout natural law, while the Parson, Knight, and Plowman observe it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274929">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ending of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;literary value&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;pretended inferiority complex on the subject of poetry,&quot; commenting on the &quot;modesty convention&quot; (or humility topos) in the GP description of the Prioress, the moralization of NPT, the question of Providence generated by the &quot;demande d&#039;amour&quot; of KnT, and elsewhere. Then explicates through close reading how in the last eighteen stanzas of TC (the so-called Epilogue) Chaucer manipulates his narrator, who is &quot;capable of only a simple view of reality,&quot; to achieve an &quot;extraordinarily complex one,&quot; and conveys the paradox that humans can move &quot;towards heaven through human experience.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274928">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes 187 English lyric poems and lyrical excerpts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, arranged in chronological order, with an Introduction (pp. 13-49), on-page glosses, end-of-text notes, an appendix of Types and Titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and a first-line index. Includes six selections from Chaucer (nos. 52-57, pp. 132-39): the &quot;roundel&quot; from PF (ll. 680-92), Ros, the &quot;ballade&quot; from LGWP (ll. F249-69), Truth, Purse, and MerB.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; and &quot;The Tragic Comedians.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads George Meredith&#039;s novel &quot;The Tragic Comedians&quot; as &quot;a modern version&quot; of TC, an &quot;adaptation of Princess Helen von Racowitza&#039;s &#039;Autobiography,&#039; overshadowed by Chaucer&#039;s great work,&quot; particularly influenced by his characterization of Criseyde.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transitions and Meaning in &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the transitions in BD as devices Chaucer uses to &quot;direct the reader toward the hard statements [the poem] makes about deprivation, consolation, the hazards of fortune and the consequences of decision.&quot; Divisions in the conversation between dreamer and Black Knight are &quot;stages in an exploration of the fortune-free will theme.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274925">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Goddes and God in the &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares TC with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato,&quot; and explores Chaucer&#039;s &quot;controlled use of the gods and the Christian God&quot; as they &quot;function ambiguously and symbolically&quot; in contributing to the &quot;ultimate meaning of the poem.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274924">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three Notes on &quot;The Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies references to St. Neot, St. Frideswide, and St. Thomas in MilT; provides historical and topographical information about Oseney Abbey and Oxford as setting for the tale; and explores Absolon&#039;s habit of not wearing a tonsure, despite the regulatory expectation that as a &quot;parish clerk&quot; he should.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274923">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sovereignty in Love or Obedience in Marriage: An Analysis of the Sovereignty-Obedience Theme and Its Relationship to the Characterization of Women in the Major Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the &quot;antagonistic and contradictory views on women&quot; held by the medieval Church, and explores Chaucer&#039;s views of women by examining his uses of the motifs of sovereignty and obedience in marriage from BD through CT, focusing on three types: the &quot;traditional sovereign lady of the courtly romance,&quot; the &quot;conventional authoritarian lady&quot; of allegorical poetry, and the &quot;victim of men and fortune, apparently Chaucer&#039;s own invention.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Disgruntled Cleric: &quot;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;artistic unity&quot; of NPT is evident in &quot;light of the [Nun&#039;s] Priest&#039;s personality,&quot; a man who is dissatisfied with &quot;his position in life as a servant to a group of women.&quot; Differences between NPT and its source in the &quot;Renart&quot; tradition; characterizations of Chantecleer, Pertelote and the widow; and the so-called &quot;digressions&quot; of the Tale all are intended by the Nun&#039;s Priest to &quot;embarrass the Prioress&quot; or to &quot;establish intellectual and moral superiority to her.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274921">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Who Hath No Wyf, He Is No Cokewold&quot;: A Study of John and January in Chaucer&#039;s Miller&#039;s and Merchant&#039;s Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts John of MilT with January of MerT as &quot;ridiculous figures&quot; and &quot;gulls of courtly love,&quot; the first &quot;senex amans&quot; naïve, the second lascivious. Both men violate &quot;an existing societal order&quot; and the ideals of &quot;sexual propriety and moderation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274920">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Pulling Finches and Woodcocks&quot;: A Comment.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the ambiguity of the phrase &quot;a finch eek koude he pulle,&quot; a detail in the GP description of the Summoner (CT 1.652).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: &quot;CT&quot; X(I), 42-46.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the statement about alliterative verse in ParsP 10.42-46, arguing that the &quot;rum, ram, ruf&quot; sequence has its source in French and helps to constitute a &quot;meaningful . . . and technically adroit comment on alliterative poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274918">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Educational Expectation and Rhetorical Result in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in his &quot;mature work&quot; and in &quot;the service of greater realism,&quot; Chaucer used rhetoric &quot;dramatically rather than ornamentally.&quot; Then gauges the degree of appropriateness of tales to tellers in light of the percentage of rhetoric in a given tale and its teller&#039;s presumed level of education, &quot;special circumstances&quot; of the teller&#039;s background or character, or the supposition that the tale was reassigned from one teller to another.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274917">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Problem of Criseide&#039;s Character.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews studies of Criseyde&#039;s character by G. L. Kittredge, George Mizener, and C. S. Lewis, and argues that she is &quot;the finger pointing in accusation against the code of courtly love.&quot; She shows us that &quot;we mortals are fools to think that by our secular religion we can make a law of fidelity which can preserve love beyond anything more than a passing moment.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274916">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Major Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A teaching edition that includes BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP-F and the legend of Cleopatra, CT (without Mel or ParsT), and eight short lyrics (Ros, Adam, Gent, Truth, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse), with bottom-of-page notes and glosses, and a glossarial index. Individual poems are preceded by introductory essays, and the volume includes a life of Chaucer, descriptions of his language and versification, and a brief bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274915">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Irony in Troilus&#039; Apostrophe to the Vacant House of Criseyde.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes a variety of astrological and sexual puns, allusions, and emphases in Troilus&#039;s address to Criseyde&#039;s house (&quot;paraclausithyron&quot;), distancing the reader from Troilus&#039;s grief and emphasizing sensual love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274914">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968--editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two Venuses, her two sons, Ovid&#039;s &quot;twin Loves&quot; and Augustinian &quot;caritas&quot; and &quot;cupitas&quot;), applying the concept analytically to KnT and commenting on it elsewhere in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274913">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Afterword on the Prologue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the functions of prologues in Middle English literature, commenting on nuances of &quot;prohemye,&quot; &quot;prefacyon,&quot; &quot;preamble,&quot; etc., and exploring how prefatory works &quot;disorganiz[e] the categories of center and periphery, &#039;theoria&#039; and &#039;praxis&#039;.&quot; Includes recurrent comments on GP, WBP, and ClP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274912">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Politics of Middle English Writing.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides a history of vernacular writing in English from ca. 1300-1500, reducing traditional emphasis on the importance of Chaucer and his works by adding complementary emphasis on religious writing--Lollard and anti-Lollard, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; works prompted by confessional pedagogy, and more. Addresses political, social, and dialectical concerns, along with the roles of Latin and French, in describing the development of the prestige and standardization of written English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274911">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[City.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers cities as a &quot;mode of thought&quot; for critical analysis, describing a walk-through pedestrian perspective and a from-on-high omniscient perspective in late-medieval English works that include &quot;The Stores of the Cities,&quot; &quot;St. Erkenwald,&quot; and HF, the latter paralleled with Michel de Certeau&#039;s theorization in &quot;Marches dans la ville.&quot; Also comments on the critical tradition of absent London in CT. Explores how these perspectives and others capitalize on the complexities of cities to suggest new &quot;critical modes and processes&quot; across and between literary, historical, and theoretical boundaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274910">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Class.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Middle English nuances of a set of related concepts: class, estate, identity, calling, and &quot;clayme,&quot; investigating them in light of Pauline distinctions between use and possession and between old and new, discussed by Giorgio Agamben. Focuses on &quot;how far social conditions are fixed or provisional&quot; in WBPT, and comments on parallel concerns in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; and John Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox Clamantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274909">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sovereignty.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes sovereignty in CT (particularly ParsT) as &quot;a legitimate means of exercising power, distributed hierarchically but founded on the idea of mutual responsibility and equality in the eyes of God.&quot; Explores how, in light of this concept, &quot;Havelock the Dane&quot; conceals &quot;beneath the façade&quot; of distinguishing between &quot;good and bad rule&quot; that &quot;politicization of life&quot; is a &quot;means of realizing power.&quot; Uses theorizations of power and sovereignty by Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and Carl Schmitt, and applies the concept of sovereignty to historical periodization, following Kathleen Davis.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Periodization.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the value and possible necessity of periodization in history and literary history, focusing on particular difficulties in dealing with the use of &quot;middle&quot; in &quot;Middle Ages&quot; and &quot;Middle English,&quot; and arguing that treatments of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate (especially Chaucer) by John Skelton and Stephen Hawes can be seen to disclaim continuity with English antecedents and claim it simultaneously--retrieving while repressing the past.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274907">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canon Formation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes traditional historical arguments for the centrality of Chaucer in the formation of the canon of Middle English literature, identifying &quot;identical aesthetic qualities between Chaucer and the modern&quot; as fundamental to this perspective, and offering a complementary argument (focusing on &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot;) that explains canonicity in terms of the &quot;wonder&quot; that texts generate and refuse to demystify.]]></dcterms:description>
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