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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Alexander the Great and the &quot;Monk&#039;s Tale&quot;: Reconsidering the Fourteenth-Century Reception of a Pagan&#039;s Tragedy.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes that Chaucer&#039;s treatment of Alexander in MkT is largely consistent with how Alexander is depicted in fourteenth-century romances and monastic allusions. Suggests that Chaucer declines to condemn Alexander as an unworthy pagan, despite being familiar with these traditions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274830">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[c. 1390: England. Rain Check.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints Nevill Coghill&#039;s modern translation of Mk 7.2727-66 (Croesus), included here among a variety of literary samples and commentaries on the theme of luck.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274829">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading the Neighbor in Geoffrey Chaucer and Pere Lopez de Ayala.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats as &quot;neighboring texts&quot; Chaucer&#039;s account of Pedro I of Castile and Leon (MkT 7..2375-90) and that of Pere Lopez de Ayala in &quot;Cronica del rey don Pedro,&quot; theorizing the notion of &quot;neighbor&quot;; exploring the inclusions, omissions, and enigmas of the two texts; clarifying the political conditions underlying these depictions; and investigating the ethical dimensions of them as ambiguous historicizations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274828">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;This litel tretys&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Mirror for Princes &quot;The Tale of Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that as a mirror for princes Mel offers an &quot;implicit critical view of Richard II,&quot; especially when read in the context of CT, which elsewhere provides a &quot;complex analysis of advisers, advice, and the handling of counsel.&quot; Comments on the advice given in NPT as well as in Mel, and the contrast between literary parody in Th and &quot;serious pragmatic literature&quot; in Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274827">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Sir Thopas&quot;: A Story for Young Children.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Th is an entertaining, nonpedagogical story written for children, the earliest example in English literature. Explores how details of the tale might appeal to a young audience and posits that its manuscript layout was &quot;calculated to appeal&quot; to youth. Labels Part 7 of CT the &quot;Children&#039;s Group,&quot; in which Chaucer explores how an adult &quot;might choose to speak to children.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Describing the Link between Orality and Literacy: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Tale of Sir Thopas&quot; in the Transitional Period.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Places CT in the transitional period from oral to literal culture, and argues that the change of vocabulary from &quot;herken&quot; in Th&#039;s initial sections to &quot;listen&quot; in its third fitt indicates different functions of these sections in Chaucer&#039;s parody of metrical romance. Analyzes what the visual divisions of the text made in manuscripts tell us about the structure of Th.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacraments, Gender, and Authority in the &quot;Prioress&#039;s Prologue and Tale&quot; and &quot;Pearl.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that although &quot;Pearl&quot; and PrPT treat the Eucharist as orthodox, they nonetheless evoke religious debates concerning Lollardy and, relatedly, continental female mysticism. Argues that both the works feminize sacramental work, preach in ways that particularly parallel the life of St. Birgitta of Sweden and female Lollard instructors, and champion vernacular Scripture.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Prioress&#039;s Prologue&quot;: Dante, Liturgy, and Ineffability.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the use of Dante&#039;s &quot;Paradiso&quot; 53 in the initial presentation of faith in PrT reflects Chaucer&#039;s sophisticated engagement with the ways humans try to articulate transcendent truth.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boy Crucifixion, Sainthood, and the Puzzling Case of Harold of Gloucester.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that the clergeon in PrT invokes Hugh of Lincoln, one of a number of Christian boys purportedly crucified by Jews in mockery of Christ&#039;s Passion. Addresses why the victims in such stories are boys, not adults as Jesus was when he was crucified, and argues that peculiarities in Harold of Gloucester&#039;s story suggest that the boy victim arises primarily from Christian interpretation of Exodus 12:3–9, the Passover narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the anti-Semitism of PrT, producing &quot;a discussion animated by the ways in which antisemitism has emerged as the problematic that organizes scholarly response,&quot; and resists dismissing or excusing prejudice and hate in PrT. Tracks history of PrT criticism, its sources and the potentially problematic methodology of traditional source studies, the history of antifeminism linked to anti-Semitism in criticism of PrT, and the reception of PrT in the fifteenth century. Combines a detailed history and analysis of criticism to &quot;help scholars break free of some old patterns and seek out fresh modes of engagement&quot; regarding the understanding and teaching of PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274821">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Fantasye and curious bisynesse&quot;: &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;The Shipman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes how May in MerT and the wife in ShT &quot;evade the oppressions&quot; of marriage and &quot;subvert their subjugation through negotiating and challenging the mercantile narration.&quot; Each female protagonist &quot;generates her own meanings and pleasure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274820">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Old Way to Pay New Debts: Opera in One Act (Un vecchio modo di pagare I nuovi debiti).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this facsimile of Dove&#039;s musical score includes a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on ShT, and Italian singing translation by Adam Pollock. Also published as the third part of Dove&#039;s trilogy: :Racconti di speranza e desiderio (Tales of Hope and Desire).&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Texts: Finitude before Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in PardT &quot;allegory and form straddle the boundaries of finitude in order to raise the question of how finitude is constituted,&quot; thereby sharing or anticipating several concerns and questions raised by object-oriented, materialist philosophy. Paradoxically concerned with death and the mundane transcendence of relics, PardPT explores the boundaries and continuities between sign and signified, finitude and infinity, and singularity and form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274818">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a chapter, &quot;Sharing Laughter&quot; (pp. 205-32), that identifies examples from late medieval art and literature where laughter constitutes &quot;moral censorship&quot; of same-sex desire or actions, then focuses on the Pardoner; his relation with the Summoner in GP; and the grotesquery, mockery, and laughter generated by his offer of his relics at the end of PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274817">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner and the Jews.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the Old Man of PardT as a figure of the Wandering Jew, exploring relations between the figure and the transtemporal materiality of relics, and linking it with &quot;other explicit and implicit references to Jews&quot; in the depiction of the Pardoner (especially his hare-like glaring eyes) and his Tale. Includes attention to oathtaking and the Host&#039;s threat to the Pardoner.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsiders the possibility that the Pardoner is a woman passing as a man in PardT, which raises anxieties about the relation of outward appearance and inner substance. These parallel anxieties about the authenticity of relics and the validity of religious speech acts, including those involved with the transubstantiation of the elements of the Eucharist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274815">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What Is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions the &quot;narrator theory of narration,&quot; critiquing the &quot;concept of the internal, potentially unreliable narrator&quot;; examining &quot;the history of the term narrator&quot;; studying &quot;the theories of narration implied by scribal annotations in some medieval manuscripts&quot; (including manuscripts of TC); and challenging narrator-based (or &quot;dramatic&quot;) readings of PhyT, suggesting that the Tale should be read as &quot;one of Chaucer&#039;s several thought-experiments in the exploration of pagan worlds.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274814">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading like a Jew: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Letter of the Law.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads PhyT as a conflict between Jewish literal hermeneutics and a more metaphorical Christian reading of faith.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the narrator&#039;s comments on poachers and governesses in PhyT are not digressive, but part of a broader &quot;biopolitical&quot; concern that &quot;clearly condemns the parental absolutism that leads to Virginius&#039;s murder of his daughter&quot; and aptly cultivates &quot;a politics of life&quot; as an alternative to the traditional &quot;thanatopolitical status quo&quot; of legalistic authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274812">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To hange upon a tree&quot;: A Didactic Catharsis of Crucifixion through Moral Subversion in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the Jewish and Christian understandings of crucifixion, arguing that the image underlies the &quot;didactic nature&quot; of PhyT where &quot;repeated images of injustice&quot; are &quot;placed in dialogue with the symbolism of the cross,&quot; reminding the reader of &quot;divine grace.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274811">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking &quot;Amys&quot; in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: Rhetoric, Truth, and the &quot;Poetria nova.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the concept of manipulation in language and magic in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274810">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how &quot;knights are reformed&quot; and some are &quot;even saved by the women who tempt them&quot; in several medieval romances, including Chretien&#039;s &quot;Knight of the Cart&quot;; Marie de France&#039;s &quot;Lanval&quot;; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot;; and FranT, where Dorigen is &quot;the temptress and the protector, all rolled into one complicated package.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of FranT (pp. 282–93), tabulating historical astronomical data and arguing that Chaucer &quot;used the configuration of the Sun and Moon in December 1340 as the inspiration for the time of year [late December] and for the central plot device [high tide]&quot; of the Tale. Suggests that the date may have caught his eye because it was his birth year.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274808">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Supernatural and the Limits of Materiality in Medieval Histories, Travelogues, and Romances from William of Malmesbury to Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of FranT as one among several examples of late medieval English romances that explore &quot;noble identity and chivalric values&quot; and use magic to place these values in starker relief than can be accomplished realistically.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274807">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Trouthe&quot; or Illusion: Masculine Honor vs. Feminine Honor in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the alignment of &quot;trouthe&quot; and freedom in FranT, particularly as they relate to gendered honor, arguing that Dorigen&#039;s efforts to honor her marital &quot;trouthe&quot; limit her freedom.]]></dcterms:description>
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