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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Dealings with a Stanza of &quot;Il Filostrato&quot; and the Epilogue of &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Close comparison of passages in TC and their sources in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; discloses how Chaucer &quot;sets in motion&quot; early in his poem &quot;a train of events whose implications go far beyond the immediate moment, perhaps beyond the love story itself,&quot; evoking Boethian inevitability and the &quot;divinely implanted tendency of the human soul to strive to return to its true source.&quot; In this light, the epilogue is a &quot;logical conclusion&quot; to the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the Augustinian &quot;figurative implications&quot; of PrT, identifying a &quot;clear symbolic pattern&quot; evident in interpreting it Scripturally--the &quot;childishness&quot; of the teller and her protagonist, the literalness of the Jews, echoes of the liturgy of the Holy Innocents, the &quot;pit of misery,&quot; the multivalent symbolism of the &quot;greyn,&quot; the clergeon&#039;s &quot;speaking in tongues,&quot; and the glorification of Mary. Comments on resonances between PrT on the one hand, and ShT, NPT, and PardT on the other.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Promises in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that FranT is one of Chaucer &quot;satiric masterpieces&quot; and that it reveals &quot;how ludicrously and inadequately the Franklin grasps the essence of gentle behavior.&quot; The Franklin is well intended, but the morality and reasoning of his Tale are flawed, evident particularly in his treatment of &quot;trouthe&quot; and promising. The &quot;ludicrous ethical acrobatics&quot; of the characters reveal the &quot;affectedly &#039;gentil&#039; values&quot; of the narrator, Chaucer&#039;s ironic target.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Gower: Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the development of John Gower&#039;s critical reputation, his life records, his literary career (including attention to manuscripts, sequence of composition, and revisions), the major social and political themes of his works, and his relationship with Chaucer as a friend and a literary influence. Discussion of Chaucer recurs throughout the volume, and the last section (pp. 204-302) focuses on Gower&#039;s influence on Chaucer, particularly the latter&#039;s development as a social critic in imitation of the older poet, even though he replaced Gower&#039;s complaints against the estates with more fully realized estates satire. This latter section aligns each of Chaucer&#039;s major works with those by Gower, exploring their crossing influences and exchanges.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Troilus&#039;s ascent through the spheres at the end of TC and the narrator&#039;s comments on it with the analogous materials in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and &quot;Teseida&quot; (with nods to Dante and Christian liturgy), explaining Troilus&#039;s placement among the fixed stars and exploring the combination of his joy and sorrow in his new-found perspective. Throughout the poem, Chaucer expresses &quot;the divine blessedness of human love.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of Astrology for Poetic Imagery.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes medieval understanding of astrology and examines the &quot;technical side of astrological passages in Chaucer&quot; as well as their &quot;meanings . . . in their poetic contexts. Includes discussion of FranT, Mars, GP, MilT, WBP, MerT, MLT, and ParsP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Eagle&#039;s Speech in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the diction, style, and substance of the Eagle&#039;s disquisition on sound in HF (606-863) illustrate the &quot;techniques of Ciceronian persuasive rhetoric on a relevant science, the physics of sound,&quot; part of the poem&#039;s unifying concern with the medieval pedagogical trivium and their relations to poetry and poetic composition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274470">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; as an Impetus for Pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the KnT is &quot;especially suitable for the beginning of the pilgrimage&quot; in CT because it &quot;presents the continual subversion of noble efforts to bring order out of disorder&quot; and because, in comparison with its sources,&quot; it poses a &quot;pagan outlook&quot; rather than Christian consolation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Relationship of the &quot;Monk&#039;s Tale&quot; and the &quot;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Regards MkT and NPT as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s highest literary achievement in the construction of pairs of tales,&quot; arguing that the faults of the MkT are &quot;redeemed&quot; by juxtaposition with the &quot;brilliant&quot; NPT insofar as the pair pose several &quot;arresting contrasts&quot;: a dull sermon versus a vital one, a compendium of tragedies versus a comedy, and &quot;the old and new concepts of Fortune.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274468">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wyatt&#039;s Boethian Ballade.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Thomas Wyatt&#039;s ballade &quot;If thou wilt mighty be&quot; translates directly from Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; unmediated by Chaucer&#039;s Bo; his use of the ballade form, however, may have been inspired by Chaucer&#039;s Truth. Compares and contrasts Wyatt&#039;s translation of Boethius with those of Chaucer and John Walton.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Genre of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&quot;: A Reappraisal.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that MLT is neither saints&#039; legend nor romance, but that its &quot;heroic theme, setting, and characters suggest strongly that . . . it belongs to the literary genre of epic and to the sociological genre of myth.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale and Her Fantasy of Fulfillment.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the knight&#039;s decision in the marriage bed of WBT to that of the analogous one in the more mythic &quot;Marriage of Sir Gawain,&quot; arguing that in the context of Chaucer&#039;s relatively realistic Tale, the decision to return the choice to the loathly lady is &quot;utterly incredible,&quot; a reflection of the Wife of Bath&#039;s fantasy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274465">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: A Plea for a Reliable Text.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques the editorial practice of &quot;smoothing&quot; Chaucer&#039;s verse to produce iambic pentameter rhythms by adjustments to final-&quot;e,&quot; and advocates following medieval scribal practice of using the &quot;&#039;punctus elevatus&#039;--the medial mark&quot; to indicate the &quot;two (occasionally three) phrasal units&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s verse lines. Summarizes the history and practice of editorial emendation of Chaucer&#039;s verse patterns, and exemplifies differences between lines edited for regularized pentameter and those using the medial marks found in manuscripts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Narrator of the &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: A Study of the Prohemia and Epilogue.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;compassion&quot; of the narrator of TC as his dominant attitude, &quot;paradoxically allied&quot; to his &quot;helplessness&quot; before &quot;inexorable fate,&quot; and modified by his didactic intent, &quot;historical perspective,&quot; and &quot;ironic detachment.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274463">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Archetype of Bondage: Five Clusters of Imagery in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the archetypal imagery of bondage and liberation from bondage in five &quot;clusters&quot; in CT: chivalric prison, animal confinement, &quot;juridical bondage with its emphasis on &#039;wit,&#039; entrapment, and hell and purgatory.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale,&quot; 2680-83.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets &quot;chiere&quot; of KnT 1.2683 as &quot;frame of mind&quot; or &quot;state of feeling,&quot; and maintains that this obviates the question of the whether or not the preceding two lines on the fickleness of women are spurious.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of the Narrator in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Organizes the narratorial passages of TC into six groups, and examines them in light of this classification: occupation, courtly love, humor, characterization, Boethian philosophy, and &quot;medievalization,&quot; finding that the narrator is most important to the characterization of Criseyde and &quot;the medieval and the courtly love aspects of the poem.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274460">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tradition and Chaucer&#039;s Unfaithful Women.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the opposition between idealized women and overt antifeminism in Christianity, Neoplatonism, and western literary tradition, using it as background to argue that Chaucer maintained in CT a successful &quot;tension of opposing viewpoints,&quot; even though his &quot;unfaithful women&quot; are more complex than his idealized ones.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Number Symbolism and the Idea of Order in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the &quot;metaphysical associations&quot; that numbers had in medieval imagination, and explores Chaucer&#039;s uses of number symbolism in his verse forms, the dates and astronomical calculations within his works, numbers associated with his characters, and clusters of signifying numbers. Comments on numbers and numerology in BD, SNT, TC, KnT, MLT, WBP, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, Mel, NPT, ParsPT, and Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Look at Chaucer and the Rhetoricians.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the &quot;status of rhetoric in England&quot; during Chaucer&#039;s lifetime, documenting the &quot;ubiquity of grammatical texts and the paucity of rhetorical texts.&quot; Tabulates Chaucer&#039;s uses of the terminology of rhetoric and style, analyzes his usage of these terms (characterizing it as &quot;loose&quot;), and explores Chaucer&#039;s allusions to Cicero, Petrarch, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf, arguing that they are conventional or written in imitation of French models, with purported echoes of Vinsauf likely derived from Nicholas Trevet&#039;s &quot;Annales.&quot; Concludes that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s use of certain &#039;rhetorical&#039; terms merely indicates a generalized knowledge of rhetoric rather than a technical acquaintance with it.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Worthiness of Chaucer&#039;s Knight.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the characterization of the Knight in GP, cast into relief by the Squire and Prioress, especially in the application of words such as &quot;curteys&quot; and &quot;worthy.&quot; Distinguishes between moral virtue and professional efficiency throughout the GP, and claims that the Summoner and Pardoner &quot;stand at the pole of extreme evil&quot;; the Parson and Plowman, &quot;extreme good&quot;; and the Knight and Squire &quot;midway between the two poles and drawn toward both.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pandarus: Patterns of Persuasion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the rhetoric of Pandarus&#039;s speeches in TC, exploring how they align with Chaucer&#039;s changes to Boccaccio&#039;s Pandaro and how they reflect the emphases and concerns of medieval rhetoricians. Explores the different techniques of persuasion Pandarus uses on Troilus and on Criseyde, and how Pandarus&#039;s defective rhetoric mirrors his defective philosophy, helping to unify the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alice of Bath: Her &quot;Secte&quot; and &quot;Gentil Text.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Accepts that the first eighty-eight lines of WBP are a late addition, and argues that they reflect comic awareness of the unorthodox movement, the Brotherhood of the Free Spirit, echoing its valorization of sexual activity and multiple marriages, especially as it interprets the Biblical enjoinder to &quot;wexe and multiplye,&quot; (WBP 3.28), and part of the reason that the Clerk responds so directly to the Wife.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274454">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Freud, the Clerkes Tale, and Literary Criticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the main characters of ClT &quot;have Oedipal fixations&quot;: Griselda, a masochistic form that correlates with &quot;an incestuous quality in her relationship with her father,&quot; and Walter, a sadistic version that reverberates with the Cupid/Psyche myth, with a &quot;conflict between his desire and dread of incest,&quot; and with his morbid fear of death. In psychoanalytic terms, both are compulsive neurotics, and in staging his second, mock marriage, Walter is &quot;abreacting&quot; and beneficially returning Griselda to the &quot;point of her childhood fixation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Legend of Lucrece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies changes that Chaucer&#039;s made to his source, Ovid&#039;s &quot;Fasti,&quot; when shaping his version of the story of Lucrece in LGW, changes that &quot;Christianized&quot; the account.]]></dcterms:description>
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