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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers BD and the metaphor of chess, particularly the way in which the rules of the game are remediated in the action of the poem. Looks at gender-crossing in relation to BD, but transcends previous arguments focusing on the chess allegory. Considers the game&#039;s &quot;polychronic meanings&quot; as a model for other medieval chess scenes. Claims that the queen&#039;s return as the male pawn links reanimation with gender fluidity, as does her alternate title as &quot;fers.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Statues, Bodies, and Souls: St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses SNT as Chaucer&#039;s only hagiographical work to evaluate the medieval perception of art. Contrasts the medieval devotion to earthly relics in relation to St. Cecilia&#039;s desire to shed the physical and enter the spiritual, while paralleling her life with artistic representations of her cult.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Zenobia&#039;s Objects.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the exchange of objects in the Zenobia/Cenobia story in MkT not as a punitive measure for pushing back on gender constructs or a validation of the Monk&#039;s blatant misogyny, but rather as a moment of empowerment.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Object of Miraculous Song in &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on materiality and objects in PrT, specifically the corpse, the antiphon, and the &quot;greyn,&quot; and their &quot;transcendence of the miraculous object.&quot; Claims that these objects illustrate Carolyn Bynum&#039;s notion of material objects involved in miraculous change. Concludes with a look at the &quot;greyn&quot; and the Tale itself, both of which are purposefully inserted into a mouth (the clergeon&#039;s/the Prioress&#039;s), and considers connections between the object and the oral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Objects of the Law: The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s thematic thread of accessibility of legal rights to women in FranT and PhyT. Dorigen, in FranT, and Virginia, in PhyT, are women trapped as objects of medieval law, or as properties whose control or outright ownership is the subject of dispute between men. Focuses on the contractual restrictions placed on women and the patriarchal lens through which women are objectified.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Thyng Wommen Loven Moost&quot;: The Wife of Bath&#039;s Fabliau Answer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the power of WBT, though it is commonly regarded as a lai,&quot; comes from an underlying subversion by the use of fabliau, which makes the tale a &quot;hybrid story.&quot; The &quot;question of what women most want&quot; has surprising affinities with the extravagantly obscene fabliaux &quot;Les quatre souhaiz de saint Martin&quot; and &quot;Les trois dames qui troverent un vit&quot;--not only in Alisoun&#039;s fabliau-like asides about friars and Midas&#039;s wife, but even in its narrative core.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274699">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Women and Their Objects.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays that represents multifaceted views of gender and material culture in late medieval France and England. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Medieval Women and Their Objects under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Final &quot;-e&quot; in Gower&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s Monosyllabic Premodifying Adjectives: A Grammatical/Metrical Analysis.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers several factors (apocope, compounding, etymology, and metrical environment) in the presence or absence of final &quot;-e&quot; in Gower&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s monosyllabic adjectives, clarifying Gower&#039;s relative regularity by identifying the paucity of exceptions to his usual practice.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274697">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spatial-Temporal Systems in &quot;A Treatise on the Astrolabe.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Conducts a &quot;systematic analysis of the synchronic spatio-temporal systems&quot; in Astr, taking &quot;deixis into consideration,&quot; defining terms, and analyzing the interactions of &quot;pronouns, demonstratives, adverbs, tense forms, and modals,&quot; along with temporal markers such as &quot;now&quot; and &quot;forseide,&quot; and describing the dynamics of variation between &quot;proximal and distal perspectives.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes papers from the eighth International Conference on Middle English, University of Murcia, Spain, 2013. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Old Words in Chaucer Dictionaries as the Linguistic Heritage of Great Britain.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the tradition of English &quot;old word&quot; and &quot;hard word&quot; dictionary- and glossary-making, locating Chaucerian compilations (e.g., Greaves, Speght, Urry, etc.) at the beginning of the tradition and tracing developments in practice into the twentieth century. Calls for a more comprehensive reference work that documents and exemplifies the history of linguistic and encyclopedic information pertaining to difficult words in Chaucer&#039;s lexicon.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274694">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer &amp; Shakespeare Glossaries: Do Modern Users Still Need Them Today?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the hard-word tradition of lexicography in Chaucer and Shakespeare studies, particularly in editions of their works, and suggests that new works are still needed to serve twenty-first-century users.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274693">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gender and Social Status in Chaucer&#039;s Language.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer&#039;s literature, e.g., &quot;knyght,&quot; &quot;lady,&quot; &quot;leche,&quot; &quot;wyf &#039;,&quot; focusing on MerT, FranT, ABC, and TC, but addressing most of Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Introducing the &quot;Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature&quot;: A Corpus for Culturomics and Stylistics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces a &quot;Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature&quot; (CCWL) based on Harold Bloom&#039;s &quot;The Western Canon&quot; and utilizes corpus stylistics to &quot;operationalize&quot; the argued coherence of the western canon. Using CT as an example, illustrates how tagging was less accurate with texts written before 1800. Also reveals that TC was found to have one of the shortest mean word lengths and narrowest vocabulary ranges in the poetry analyzed in the CCWL, while CT had one of the longest mean sentence lengths.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune: Chaucer&#039;s Vocabulary of Mischance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s extensive and subtle use of &quot;the full vocabulary of &#039;chance&#039; and &#039;mischance&#039;.&quot; Shows how his use of privatives and negative prefixes with these words &quot;inflect[s] his larger concerns with Fortune (usually personified as an agent) and the mutability of the world.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Apartheid&quot; in Tolkien: Chaucer and &quot;The Lord of the Rings,&quot; Books 1-3 (1925-1943).&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the roles of apartheid and linguistic queerness in the class-based characterizations of various hobbits in Tolkien&#039;s &quot;The Lord of the Rings,&quot; suggesting that Tolkien&#039;s scholarly study of Chaucer&#039;s literary dialects and his glossary for the never-published &quot;Clarendon Chaucer&quot; reflect similar concerns with race- and class-based linguistic features.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Final -e in Gower&#039;s English Poetry, in Comparison with Chaucer&#039;s.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates evidence of the greater regularity of stress in Gower&#039;s verse than in Chaucer&#039;s, particularly in nouns and adjectives that feature the apocope of final unstressed -e. Attributes this regularity to the influence of Gower having written French verse, and calls for more thorough exploration of this and related phenomena.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Silent Discourse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the :speaking face&quot; depicted in Chaucer&#039;s works (TC, Buk, BD, and ClT), discussing the trope as a subset of facial expression in the history of emotions. The first writer in English to do so, Chaucer has his characters and narrators translate facial discourse into speech and thereby show us &quot;how we can make emotional and cognitive connections with each other.&quot; Comments on the history of the trope in Boccaccio and Machaut, and explores the dialects and registers of silent speaking.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality: Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes that in Chaucer&#039;s short-line verse, headless lines are much more common than initial inversion, whereas in his iambic pentameter the exact opposite occurs. Argues that Chaucer and his predecessors used such metrical license &quot;very deliberately, not only for emphasis and rhetorical effect but also to clarify narrative and syntactical organization.&quot; Notes in particular its appearance &quot;in the context of non-indicative moods, lists and catalogues, direct speeches and changes of addressee, transition between narrative sections, and enjambement.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Historical Present: A Discourse-Pragmatic Perspective.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer&#039;s &quot;discourse pragmatic&quot; uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of &quot;present and past tenses in discourse&quot; where the narrator &quot;dynamically synchronises the story with the here and now of the hearers with the aid of the present tense, while employing the past tense to signify a segment of discourse.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Everyday Wonders and Enigmatic Structures: Riddles from Symphosius to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the use of riddling and the structure of riddles as a means of representing &quot;the wondrous in the everyday.&quot; Specifically considers Chaucer&#039;s use of this in BD and PF. Additionally suggests that the &quot;Secretum philosophorum&quot; is an intertext in HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese&quot;: An Integrated OT-Maxent Approach to Syntactic Inversion in Chaucer&#039;s Verse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks to &quot;account for constraints governing Chaucer&#039;s syntactic inversions with a purpose to uncover Chaucer&#039;s underlying metrical principles,&quot; employing a combination of &quot;optimality theory&quot; and &quot;Maxent Grammars&quot; and analyzing &quot;every tenth line&quot; of the pentameter verse in the Riverside edition of Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sometimes We Tell the Truth.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A young-adult novel, modeled on CT, in which senior high school students on a bus trip from Canterbury, Connecticut to Washington, D.C. share stories about their awakening sexuality. Characters&#039; names (including the primary narrator, Jeff Chaucer) and their tales are modernized adaptations from CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chivalric Men and Good(?) Women: Chaucer, Gender, and John Bossewell&#039;s &quot;Workes of Armorie.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Looks at how Bossewell&#039;s &quot;Workes of Armorie&quot; uses LGW, WBT, and BD in exploration of the construction of masculine identity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath and &quot;All&#039;s Well that Ends Well.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that details and attitudes depicted in WBPT and in the description of the Wife in GP influenced various aspects of Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;All&#039;s Well that Ends Well.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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