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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Moving Image in Pre-World War II America.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the limited presence of Chaucer in the early American films, commenting on a Motion Picture Academy educational promotion and a &quot;distorted&quot; version of PardT, &quot;On Borrowed Time&quot; (1939). Offers five reasons for this scarcity: &quot;Americanization,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s lack of concern with &quot;futurity&quot; in heterosexual coupling (children), his association with the past, a lack of &quot;massification&quot; of his works, and Hollywood&#039;s disregard of key audiences--academic, women, and children--in favor of the appeal of Douglas Fairbanks&#039;s &quot;vigor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264052">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Muse of History: A Presumption of Objectivity in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses poet-narrator ambiguity in four TC prologues and the Epilogue and in the narrator&#039;s guise as historian.  The narrator is detached and didactic but also compassionate and helpless.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Mystical Marriage in Medieval Political Thought.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces in biblical, classical, and political sources the development of the idea that the Pope and other rulers gain sovereignty through &quot;mystical marriage&quot; to their respective institutions, arguing that WBT &quot;bears a striking similarity to [this] theory of political marriage.&quot; Comments on Irish analogues to the WBT and focuses on &quot;four elements&quot; of the Tale that indicate it is political &quot;propaganda&quot; addressed to Richard II: the rape motif, the &quot;dual nature of the hag-wife,&quot; the &quot;marriage compact&quot; between knight and loathly lady, and the conferral of sovereignty through God&#039;s grace.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Mystics: &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot; and the Genre of Devotional Prose]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Similarities between Chaucer and the Middle English mystics do not imply a conscious intention on his part either to imitate the mystics or to parody them ironically.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer may or may not have known the works of Pseudo-Dionysius, Margery Kemp, Richard Rolle, and Julian of Norwich, but these mystics were part of the cultural, social, and political circumscriptions that helped shape his texts.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[CT shares specific ideas, &quot;topoi,&quot; and motifs with the large body of Middle English mystical and devotional treatises.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In addition, the mystics&#039; doubts about the valency of language may partially explain Chaucer&#039;s persistent fragmentation and his tendency toward simultaneous affirmation and denial, as demonstrated by Chauntecleer&#039;s mistranslation of his Latin tag in NPT and by the spiritual erasure of a series of tales in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265018">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nature of Chivalric Ideas]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[There is a tradition which views the knight&#039;s pursuit of love as an inversion of responsibility to God and to society.  In CT, the Knight embodies spiritual and social duty whereas the Squire represents a subversion of proper knightly functions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269142">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nineteenth-Century City]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The warm acclaim the Victorians gave to Chaucer reflects the nineteenth century&#039;s anxious and conflicted responses to rapid urbanization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262275">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Noise of the People]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer represents popular discourse as analogous to social, historical, and even apocalyptic disruption.  He thus variously attempts to contain and to release its power:  In TC, disruption can be temporarily contained by heroic action; in KnT, it functions as an uncontrollable historical agent; in NPT, it is presented comically in animal form but is nonetheless powerful; and in MilT, it is articulated as a festive release.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nominalist Questions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As a nominalist, Ockham is aware of the limitation of human perception and the weakness of language to convey ideas without distortion.  In a different way, Chaucer, too, is concerned with these problems, though as a poet he tends to emphasize (not denigrate) ambiguity and paradox.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268903">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revives the idea that Chaucer visited Ireland between 1361 and 1366, placing new emphasis on the date of the Statute of Kilkenny. Identifies sources for Chaucer&#039;s works in Irish and Norse literatures. Observes parallels for HF in the &quot;Topographia Hibernie&quot; of Gerald of Wales, Snorri Sturluson&#039;s &quot;Edda,&quot; and the Old Irish sagas &quot;Fled Bricrend&quot; and &quot;Togail Bruidne Da Derga.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the journey as framework for a collection of tales in CT with Snorri&#039;s &quot;Edda&quot; and the Middle Irish saga &quot;Acallam na Senórach.&quot; Argues that &quot;Laxdœla Saga&quot; and WBT descend from an Irish version of the Loathly Lady story and surmises that Chaucer&#039;s five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhrán.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268578">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nouvelle]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the origins of the &quot;nouvelle: in &quot;news&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s interest in tydynges.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271855">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys rhetorical approaches to Chaucer and documents the &quot;renaissance in rhetoric&quot; in late fourteenth-century England by surveying manuscripts that contain rhetorical treatises. The impact of this renaissance is evident in Chaucer&#039;s poetry: while his early poetry was relatively unconcerned with rhetoric, it is clearly evident in TC; present in NPT and SqT; and underlying the characterizations of the Franklin, the Pardoner, and the Monk.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264775">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pagan Gods]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pagan gods represent planetary influences, alchemic symbolism,psychological allegory of emotional states, and historical examples of virtues or vices.  They also dramatize the worldliness of Chaucer&#039;s characters and relate it to the condition of pagans and apostates reviled in the Bible and denounced by the early Christians.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pillars of Hercules.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;some unnoticed passages&quot; that shed light on Chaucer&#039;s references to &quot;Trophee&quot; and the Pillars of Hercules (MkT 7.2117-18), identifying no specific source but showing that parallel information was available in medieval accounts such as the Irish &quot;Togail Troi&quot; and John Ridewell&#039;s commentary on Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum.&quot; Also discusses a gloss to MkT in the Ellesmere manuscript.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270201">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poems of &quot;Ch&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revised, reformatted version of 1982 edition (see SAC 8 [1984], no. 14) of the poems signed &quot;Ch&quot; in University of Pennsylvania Manuscript 15. Includes an updated, expanded introduction; revised commentary on the poems and Chaucer&#039;s relations with his French contemporaries; and a newly introduced numbering system for the edited poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poems of &quot;Ch&quot; in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This fourteenth-century MS carries the notation &quot;Ch,&quot; perhaps for &quot;Chaucer,&quot; before fifteen of its 310 French lyrics.  Wimsatt edits the &quot;Ch&quot; poems and ten others from the collection to illustrate the kind of French poetry that Chaucer might have written in his youth.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274100">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poetics of Gold.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Draws on connections between &quot;Chaucerian poetics and the properties . . . of gold,&quot; and maintains that &quot;gold is a deep metaphor for poetry.&quot; Examines Chaucer&#039;s poetic references to gold and &quot;sumptuous description&quot; in CT, particularly in KnT. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261286">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poetics of Utterance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The characters of individual pilgrims are revealed through their speech, which often serves to underline their philosophical viewpoints.  Chaucer&#039;s awareness of language and its creative powers reflects a general skepticism regarding the effectiveness of utterance through poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poets of the Pieno Tricento]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tension between sensual love and orthodox truth in TC can be seen in nascent form in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filocolo,&quot; even though Chaucer depends for his plot on &quot;Filostrato.&quot; The tension is rooted in Dante&#039;s &quot;Comedy&quot; and in the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; but Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarch negotiate it in ways that can be thought characteristic of the late-medieval period.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263831">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of literary allusion in the &quot;Troilus,&quot; with specific reference to the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; Virgil, Ovid, Statius, and Dante.  Suggests that the poet-narrator of the poem evolves from a writer in the tradition of courtly romance to a poet in the tradition of the classical &quot;poetae.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Chaucer&#039;s narrator is sympathetic to the hero of TC, Troilus&#039;s &quot;stellification&quot; contradicts our expectations because he values his own desires over the welfare of the polis.  Chaucer&#039;s &quot;political and moral judgment against Troilus&#039;s behavior&quot; may reflect guarded criticism of the courts of Edward III and Richard II.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A recurrent concern in Chaucer&#039;s works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists.  In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF indicate the &quot;instability of discourse.&quot;  In PF, the Ciceronian ideal of a discursively ordered society is challenged by the birds&#039; cacophony.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC examines how speech itself is a way of understanding human behavior and human interactions.  The authoritative discourse of KnT is challenged by MilT and RvT and contrasted by Walter&#039;s hidden intentions in ClT.  WBP demonstrates that discourse cannot be restrained.  In SqT and FranT, speech misused and speech misunderstood are counterpointed.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The responses of the Knight and the Host to MkT--itself a     rhetorical tour de force--indicate a &quot;tension between discourse and its receivers.&quot;  ManT indicates the necessity for poetic artfulness and perhaps  for guile.  Throughout his career, Chaucer emphasized the uncertain nature of   social discourse by imitating orality and resisting closure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267872">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through the tree catalog and the &quot;unassimilated voices of the lower birds&quot; in PF, Chaucer records his awareness that distinctions between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman are &quot;species-ist&quot;--an awareness similar to modern environmental and ecological perspectives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271072">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Penance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer&#039;s LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II&#039;s use of exempla to suppress political dissent.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264578">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worstede]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that GP 259-62, 642-43, and TC II, 36-37 are allusions to the Great Schism:  the Friar like a pope in his &quot;&#039;double&#039; worstede&quot;; the pope like a popinjay (of two voices?), and the proverb that more than one way leads to Rome.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266556">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Postures of Sanctity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revises, and reprints as one, the following essays:  &quot;Inverse Counsel: Contexts for the &#039;Melibee&#039;&quot; and &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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