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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aspects of Form in the Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses principles of Kenneth Burke&#039;s rhetoric of form to analyze NPT, commenting on aspects of its progressions (syllogistic, inverted, and repetitive), aspects of its genre conventions, and examples of its rhetorical ornamentation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canterbury Tales = Tales of Canterbury.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Middle English text with Modern English translation, line-by-line, of GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, MerPT, FranT, PardPT, PrPT, and NPT, with a brief glossary of names and terms and a bibliography appended. The Introduction describes Chaucer&#039;s life and the tales included, followed by an explanation of Chaucer&#039;s language. Reprinted recurrently with altered title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274450">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Elegiac Knight.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the relationship between reality and romance in KnT, comparing the Tale&#039;s presentation of details and ideals with those found in Froissart&#039;s &quot;Chronicle,&quot; and arguing that the Knight operates with the &quot;assumptions of chronicle history&quot; and &quot;the literary matter of romance,&quot; a &quot;striking contradiction&quot; that unsettles the Boethian consolation of the Tale&#039;s ending and leaves unresolved the role of human nobility within Providence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274449">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Hert-huntyng&quot; in the &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies parallels between the effects of grief on the Black Knight in BD (486-512) and late-medieval medical descriptions of the &quot;falling of the heart&quot; due to sorrow or distress, quoting parallels from John of Gaddesden and Jacopo Berengario Da Carpi. Argues that Chaucer was influenced by writings on medicine and hunting when he depicted the Knight&#039;s grief in the context of a successful hert-hunt, suggesting a degree of consolation for lost love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274448">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Characterization of the Canon and His Yeoman.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies details of the characterization of the Canon and his Yeoman in CYP that derive from alchemical practice and materials, including the Canon&#039;s &quot;distillation&quot; (perspiration) and &quot;mercurial&quot; personality and his Yeoman&#039;s transformation and ruddy visage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274447">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Gentilesse&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the lexical and thematic nuances of &quot;gentilesse&quot; in TC, exploring how subtle changes in meaning and usage help to characterize Troilus and the other main characters. tracing the &quot;evaporation of the ideal of &#039;gentilesse&#039;&quot; as &quot;moral vertu,&quot; and arguing that the poem is a &quot;tragedy of [Toilus&#039;s] &#039;gentilesse&#039;,&quot; even though he is recurrently comic and pathetic as well as tragic in his distortions and misunderstandings of the ideal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Chaucer&#039;s Cybele and the &quot;Liber Imaginum Deorum.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the explanation of Cybele as the &quot;flower of spring&quot; in the &quot;Liber Imaginum Deorum&quot; of  Albricius I (also known as Mythographer III, perhaps Alexander Neckham) may be the source of Chaucer&#039;s reference to Cybele in his praise of Alceste in LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274445">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the &quot;Thebaid&quot; Scholia.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the commentaries and glosses that are included in medieval manuscripts of Statius&#039;s &quot;Thebaid,&quot; and shows that Chaucer was influenced by such glosses in details and passages of HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. The influence of Statius and the glosses indicate Chaucer&#039;s &quot;intimate acquaintance, familiarity, and fondness&quot; for this material.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274444">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Manipulation of Sources and the Meaning of the &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the &quot;active tension&quot; between the characterization of the Manciple and the nature of ManT, analyzing differences between the Tale and its sources and analogues (especially characterizations and moralizations) to show how Chaucer ironically undercuts his narrator&#039;s efforts to manipulate his audience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274443">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Daun Piers: One Monk or Two?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the characterizations of the Monk in GP and in MkPT are consistent, and attributes their differing tones to the Monk&#039;s decision to &quot;change his image&quot; in the eyes of his fellow pilgrims while requiting the Host&#039;s derision with the boredom of a dull, redundant &quot;sermon.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274442">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the narrative devices used by modern and premodern writers of fiction to establish &quot;an air of truth or plausibility&quot;--first-person point of view, intimate tone, details drawn from the real world, and various &quot;tricks&quot; used to compel readers to suspend their disbelief. Comments on Scriptural realism and that of saints&#039; lives and dream visions, examining Chaucer&#039;s techniques in BD, TC, and CT, particularly their framing devices, with attention to the &quot;circumstantial realism&quot; of the frame of CT and its productive tensions with ideals expressed in the tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274441">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; X (I) 424: &quot;The hyndre part of a she-ape in the fulle of the moone.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the &quot;proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274440">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers HF to be an occasional poem, perhaps &quot;written for Christmas Revels at the Inner Temple,&quot; and reads its three parts an &quot;an allegorical representation of the trivium&quot; that pertains to poetry, &quot;testing the trivium, and rejecting it, and thereby enabling Chaucer to write write his mature poems with different styles and themes.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Appropriateness of &quot;The Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; to Its Teller.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the PhyT was &quot;specifically adapted especially to the Physician as teller,&quot; arguing that the opening of the Tale and  its rhetoric reflect the arts training common to late-medieval physicians, that various details reflect the teller&#039;s &quot;professional interest in medicine,&quot; and that these details are found in portions of the Tale original to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274438">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Welsh &quot;Troelius a Chresyd&quot;: Edited with Text, Parallel Translation, Notes, Glossary and a Critical Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits the early modern Welsh play, &quot;Troelius a Chresyd,&quot; with commentary on its relations with TC, Robert Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament,&quot; and early modern drama, treating the Welsh drama as a &quot;secular mystery play.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274437">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethian Philosophy as the Informing Principle in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats TC as an &quot;exemplum of&quot; Bo, focusing on the extent of Boethian influence, the character of Criseyde, the ironic narrator, and the &quot;appropriateness of the epilogue.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274436">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reason and Revelation in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the Canon of CYP as &quot;one of the men of Antichrist,&quot; and examines the sustained opposition of CYPT and SNPT, emphasizing their contrasting depictions of reason and revelation as ways of knowing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274435">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Landscape and Dialogue: A Study of Allegorical Tradition in Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the uses and functions of allegory, dialogue, and symbolism in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation,&quot; Alan of Lille&#039;s &quot;De Planctu Naturae,&quot; landscapes in twelfth-century literature, and PF, arguing that the latter is a &quot;triumph of allegorical technique made possible by Chaucer&#039;s mastery&quot; of the &quot;ideas and methods&quot; of his predecessors.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274434">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Pope Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De Miseria Humane Conditionis.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes the &quot;intellectual background&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s translation of Innocent&#039;s &quot;De Miseria Humane Conditionis&quot; as his &quot;Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde,&quot; explores Chaucer&#039;s uses of the treatise in MLPT and PardT and their manuscripts glosses, and seeks reconstructs the version of the treatise that Chaucer may have used while translating.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274433">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid and &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;nature and extent&quot; of Ovid&#039;s influence on CT, identifying wide-ranging allusions to various Ovidian works and providing parallel passages, assessing Chaucer&#039;s emulation of Ovidian techniques and considering Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; as a handbook of mythology, Chaucer&#039;s respect for Ovid as an &quot;ethical philosopher,&quot; and the influence of moralized commentaries on Chaucer&#039;s understanding of the Roman poet.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274432">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Chaucerian Narrator.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Derives a composite &quot;Chaucerian narrator&quot; from the poet&#039;s various works, characterized by &quot;naiveté or dull-mindedness,&quot; the traditional pose of a &quot;slyly comic writer.&quot; Then explores how this nuances of this figure are used to effects in individual narratives in the &quot;four dream poems&quot; TC, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Use of Religious Phraseology in Medieval Love Poetry: Provençal and French Poems and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;Christian phraseology&quot; in troubadour verse, the poetry of Chrétien, the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; and TC, focusing on uses by the narrator, Pandarus, and Troilus in Chaucer&#039;s poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274430">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Moral Vision in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses ParsT as a standard by which to assess the morality of CT, discussing the &quot;ubiquity of sin in the Canterbury pilgrims,&quot; the &quot;prominence of Pride&quot; in especially the Wife of Bath and Pardoner materials, and the balancing virtues found elsewhere in the tales, particularly KnT, MLT, and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clauses in Chaucer Introduced by Conjunction with Appended &quot;That.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies, tabulates, and analyzes the clauses introduced by conjunctions in Chaucer&#039;s works (except Th and his lyrics), with or without pleonastic &quot;that,&quot; attending to stress (verse and prose) and meter, and concluding, generally, that Chaucer achieved a &quot;more finished form&quot; when he &quot;availed himself of &#039;that&#039;,&quot; and he used it more often in his decasyllabic than in his octosyllabic verse,]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women in Uniform: Dress and Performance in Medieval and Court Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes several historical and literary representations of the clothing and ornaments of late-medieval processional &quot;women in groups,&quot; commenting on Chaucer&#039;s depictions in his works,  and focusing on depictions in &quot;The Floure and the Leafe&quot; and in &quot;The Assembly of Ladies,&quot; particularly as they express &quot;individuation&quot; or &quot;collective court identity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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