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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aggressive Chaucer: Of Dolls, Drink and Dante.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that, despite the critical tradition of Chaucer&#039;s self-effacing persona, there are significant assertions of his own poetic authority in ThP and HF, and perhaps even challenges to Dante. Explores details of diction and imagery (&quot;popet,&quot; &quot;elvyssh,&quot; drinking one&#039;s own drink, etc.) to argue that, at times, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s claims to poetic authority are aggressive&quot; or &quot;passive-aggressive.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Autobiographical Selves in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the &quot;presentation of self&quot; in late medieval English literature, gauging the relative degree of &quot;truth value&quot; and describing how authors &quot;entwine life-writing into their larger projects.&quot; Uses Ret and Chaucer&#039;s ironic &quot;playful portrayal of himself&quot; elsewhere as touchstones for discussion of self-portrayals by writers such as the Harley lyricist and Adam Davy, as well as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Is he a clerk, or noon?&quot; Arabic Sources, Vernacular Aristotelianism, and Authorial Responses to the Evolving Social and Intellectual Context of Later Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that authors including Chaucer, Langland, Hoccleve, and Johannes de Caritate employed Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian sources (many derived from Arabic sources) in the course of exploring types of literary and cultural authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274626">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jankyn&#039;s Book of Wikked Wyves, Vol. 2, Seven Commentaries on Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Dissuasio Valerii.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits the seven known commentaries on Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Letter of Valerius to His Friend Ruffinus, Dissuading Him from Marrying,&quot; with Latin-English facing pages and scholarly apparatus. The Introduction (pp. 1–14) clarifies the importance of the material as a source for WBT and for Chaucer&#039;s Friar, placing it in the tradition of fraternal and procelibacy commentaries. Volume 1 was published in 1997.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dante&#039;s British Public: Readers and Texts from the Fourteenth Century to the Present.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the general or &quot;public&quot; familiarity with Dante and his works in British culture, acknowledging his impact on poets such as Chaucer, Milton, and T. S. Eliot, but exploring instead a more pervasive presence. Includes references to Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with Dante&#039;s works, to the knowledge of Dante among clerics in &quot;the time of Chaucer,&quot; and to how Dante&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s canonicity developed in Tudor England. Also comments on possible connections between Chaucer and Adam Easton, an English Benedictine who &quot;possibly anticipated Chaucer as the first English writer to refer to Dante by name.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid&#039;s Wand: The Brush of History and the Mirror of Ekphrasis.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses Chaucer&#039;s works as part of a larger examination of the influence of Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses,&quot; particularly his employment of ekphrasis--the use of poetry to<br />
portray other types of art.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Piers Plowman&quot; and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Approaches Chaucer&#039;s works briefly through contrast with :&quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; which is treated here as the key text in a tradition of literature defined by &quot;a distinctive poetics of enigma.&quot; Observes that Chaucer explores horizontally across the earthly world of humanity and society, as opposed to the &quot;vertical,&quot; spiritual trajectory of :Piers Plowman.&quot; Considers Chaucer&#039;s emophasis to be exemplary of what would happen to enigma if the sacred and the secular were increasingly separated.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marie de France: Poetry, New Translations, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes Th and a selection from MerT in the section called &quot;Backgrounds and Context.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Enditynges of worldly vanitees&quot;: Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses the &quot;bifurcation of philosophy and theology intervening between Dante and Chaucer,&quot; arguing that Chaucer &quot;never demonstrated any confidence that poetry could in any way represent the reality of the divine.&quot; Assesses the &quot;empiricism&quot; of LGW, HF, TC, and CT and maintains that, for Chaucer, &quot;the one and only positive, yet critical purpose&quot; of poetry is &quot;the disillusioning function.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: &quot;Worldly Cares&quot; at St. Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the works of Thomas Walsingham for their importance in the field of late fourteenth-century English &quot;public classical literature,&quot; helping to define this field by focusing on nuances in Walsingham&#039;s treatments of political events in classicized terms, imagery, and allusions, compared with treatments by contemporaneous writers, especially Chaucer. Includes discussion of Chaucer&#039;s Monk and his tale as an ironic commentary on Walsingham, revisions of previously published discussions of MLT and TC in relation to Walsingham&#039;s writing, explorations of the political vocabularies of Anglo-Latin and vernacular writings of the time, and a description of differences between &quot;classisizing&quot; literature and humanism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[By the Will of the King: Majestic and Political Rhetoric in Ricardian Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines CT and Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; as part of an imaginative reaction to the political circumstances following the Second Barons&#039; War, arriving at a new role in &quot;speaking to and for&quot; the Henrician community.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Faces in Gower and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that ClT, using &quot;distinctively Gowerian terms&quot; such as &quot;corage&quot; and &quot;visage,&quot; is Chaucer&#039;s response to Gower&#039;s perceived challenge at the conclusion of the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; for Chaucer &quot;to drop his well-known political reticence and take a personal stand on the sorry state of English political affairs in the last decade of the fourteenth century.&quot; Perceives ClT as turning the table on Gower by pointing to Genius&#039;s advice in Book 7 of the &quot;Confessio&quot; for a king to &quot;shape his face so as to control what it expresses to others&quot; as &quot;inconsistent with Gower&#039;s commitment to plainness and transparency, both ethical and referential&quot; in the education of a king.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower, Lydgate, and Incest.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;alone of the three &#039;fathers of English poesy [Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate],&#039; Gower openly grapples with an acute awareness of the cultural centrality of a concept that extends from a betrayal of love&#039;s intimacy to social, political, and even poetic, dysfunction.&quot; Concludes that &quot;Gower&#039;s exploration of incest posed a problem that Chaucer felt impelled to address, and that Lydgate felt impelled to try to solve.&quot; In exploring the divergences between Gower and Chaucer, regards Gower&#039;s examination of incest as &quot;fuller and more searching,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s treatment--as addressed in MLH, MLT, and ClT--as falling on the side of &quot;dominant repression.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ends of Storytelling.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Finds &quot;ideas of mortality, the end of life, and the end of storytelling . . . closely linked&quot; in Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot; Argues that the work leads the narrator, the poet, and the audience to a conclusion in which all &quot;can share in his hope of joy on the other side of the apocalypse, the end of the world, the end of story.&quot; Reflects how this shared understanding and vision are presented in CT, especially in GP, KnT, ParsT, and Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274615">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower: Others and the Self.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects sixteen essays from the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society and divides into three groups: Part 1, &quot;Knowing the Self and Others&quot;; Part 2, &quot;The Essence of Strangers&quot;; Part 3, &quot;Social Ethics, Ethical Poetics.&quot; The collection contains numerous references to Chaucer and his works, some illustrating common threads between Gower and Chaucer, others pointing to differences between the two poets. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for John Gower: Others and the Self under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274614">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower Copies Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the ways in which Gower and Chaucer use their source material differently. Gower uses Ovid to emphasize morality while Chaucer uses Ovid to explore both the courtly and the romantic.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; and the Origin of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses connections between Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a &quot;hermeneutic argument&quot; that explores areas including &quot;alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny&quot; in works of Boccaccio and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Matter and Form in Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Aristotelian theories of matter, form, and substance interact with medieval poetics, particularly in such works as ManT, SqT, &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and those of Hoccleve and Metham.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274611">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ellesmere Dragon.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the two marginal dragons found in the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, arguing that, like dragons in bestiaries and iconography, they &quot;symbolize the marvelous,&quot; but in addition they also &quot;prompt readers to attend to the marvelous aspects of Chaucer&#039;s poem.&quot; Includes 4 color illus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Not Diane: The Risk of Error in Chaucerian Classicism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores scribal errors in copying and comprehending details regarding classical characters and classical allusions in poetry, and how poets&#039; phrasing implies awareness of those risks and seeks to mitigate them. These problems in transmission reveal how classicism, which later became a monumental tradition, was a risky interaction in some of its earliest phases. These problems also suggest the risks of writing for scribal transmission in general.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Initial Position in the Middle English Verse Line.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes that scribes are less likely than otherwise to introduce their own spellings of words that occur in initial position in verse lines, exploring why in psycholinguistic terms, and suggesting several implications for manuscript study. The discussion is based on data derived from ten manuscripts of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274608">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[(In)completeness in Middle English Literature: The Case of the &quot;Cook&#039;s Tale&quot; and the &quot;Tale of Gamelyn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers literary completeness, its relations to philosophies of perfection, and &quot;the ways in which incompleteness is a special characteristic of Middle English literature,&quot; particularly in manuscript studies. Surveys kinds of incompleteness in CT, and focuses on scribal responses to the fragmentary CkT, suggesting that digital editions can &quot;equip readers to explore the constant elaboration, the polyvalent properties and voices of manuscript texts.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Compilational Reading: Richard Osbarn and Huntington Library MS HM 114.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;compositional choices&quot; made in the compilation of the texts included in San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, and maintains that TC (among others) was copied early and incorporated into this larger collection in response to a purchaser&#039;s request.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Codex Theory: Codicology and the Aesthetics of Reading in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the treatment of books as physical objects in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve, suggesting that this treatment may create a way of perceiving the text on the part of the reader.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Bibles: Late Medieval Biblicism and Compilational Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on how manuscript compilations, especially biblical materials, are evoked in CT. Argues that a strictly historical arpproach to this material is inadequate and examines how an author can use the material form of books for specific literary purposes.]]></dcterms:description>
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