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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reflects on how GP yields patterns for writers to emulate, since the first line concerns the cycle of nature, patterns of order and hierarchy, and the theme of regeneration, in a syntactically complicated periodic sentence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women&#039;s Authority, Religion, and Power in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes SNT, MLT, and ClT to find forms of women&#039;s authority and determine how women&#039;s authority is constructed. Argues that women in these tales possess &quot;charismatic, positional, and spiritual&quot; authority as a result of their confrontations with religious and secular power structures within medieval society.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the emergence of earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including well-known texts, such as &quot;Beowulf&quot; and CT, and less familiar manuscript and print works. Includes discussion of CT, LGW, and TC. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274148">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Views &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Malory&#039;s &quot;Morte Darthur,&quot; and CT through the lens of ecopoetics, contending that they all rely upon the interdependence of author, text, and audience; employ metonyms rather more than metaphors; play with &quot;time and nontime&quot;; and suggest that land possesses ethical subjectivity. Includes analysis of the &quot;green world&quot; evident in the opening lines of GP and the concern with &quot;elvishness&quot; in WBPT and MLT in response to the destruction of nature in KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274147">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Comic Mode in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Today.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes and assesses the presence of the comic mode in English literature, including a discussion (pp. 42-51) of portions of CT (especially MilT, RvT, and WBP) that explores how Chaucer achieves comedy without negating the &quot;seriousness of the pilgrimage itself.&quot; Describes how Chaucer uses irony and ambiguity in his layered narration to leave his perspective &quot;amusingly undetermined.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contesting Individuality: Pryvetee and Self-Profession in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how Chaucer&#039;s characters in CT challenge the medieval social norm of community over &quot;pryvetee&quot; by telling tales that expose others&#039; &quot;pryvetee and obscure their own; by profession as a means of asserting individual power over one&#039;s pryvetee; and by uncontrollable speech. Refers to GP, MerT, WBPT, PardT, FrT, SumT, NPT, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274145">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Images of Medieval Old Man as Portrayed in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses medieval concepts of aging and Chaucer&#039;s depictions of old men in CT. Claims that Chaucer displays a balanced attitude in his depictions of old men, which differs from how medieval society tended to view the elderly in a negative light.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274144">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the theological and comical elements of CT and its &quot;beatific vision.&quot; Claims that Chaucer &quot;provides a lyrical vision of the possibilities of poetry and pilgrimage&quot; in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274143">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[120 Banned Books, Second Edition: Censorship Histories of World Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Originally published in 2005. Treats CT (pp. 474-77) in a section called &quot;Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds,&quot; describing the pilgrimage and the social variety of the pilgrims, claiming that &quot;Risqué language and sexual innuendo pervade most of the tales,&quot; and summarizing the censorship history of the work in the USA, from the expurgated 1908 edition to the impact of the &quot;Red Scare&quot; in 1953 (because illustrator Rockwell Kent was charged as a communist), to later court proceedings concerned with sex and scatology (1986-95).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274142">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boccaccio y Chaucer: Paisaje de Otoño en el medievo Europeo.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Part of a nine-volume compilation of Henriquez Ureña&#039;s writings, describing CT and Boccaccio&#039;s Decameron; reissued as an e-book in 2011.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274141">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the political motivations of Ovid&#039;s &quot;frame narratives&quot; and how they appealed to and influenced medieval writers. For a chapter on Chaucer see Chapter 4, &quot;Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhetoric and the Unstable World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores similarities between ambiguity and rhetorical invention in rhetorical tradition from Plato to the twenty-first century. Then discusses three examples of &quot;conscious exploitation of the potential of ambiguity&quot;: &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; CT, and a speech by Barak Obama (&quot;A More Perfect Union&quot;)--all of which present material that &quot;allows audiences to make choices.&quot; Comments on Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;controversia&quot; (ambiguity), generic hybridity, and rhetorical questions to compel ethical choices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274139">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teaching Legal Fictions: Law and &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a pedagogical unit in which advanced students explore similarities between CT (especially GP) and manor court records, capitalizing on Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with legal proceedings. Suggests that the &quot;manor court seems to have influenced Chaucer&#039;s narrative structure&quot; more than did Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; or Sercambi&#039;s &quot;Novelle.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274138">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La figure du cheval dans la littérature médiévale anglaise: réalité et motif.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies how horse figures function in telling, traveling, and space definition in &quot;Les quatre fils Aymon,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, GP, SqT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274137">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, the Chaucer Tradition, and Female Monastic Readers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers ways that female monastic readers in Amesbury and Syon may have read and used works by Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. Claims that these &quot;Chaucerian tradition&quot; writings helped influence the devotional culture of female monastic communities.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how John Arderne, Chaucer, and Thomas Hoccleve use the language of illness and healing in a wide range of texts, noting that the narrators present themselves as &quot;flawed and sick&quot; and that their narratives, like their bodies, are &quot;not wholly under their control.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The English and Their History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a comprehensive history of England and argues that shared language is a key component of an English national identity that was developed by the end of the Middle Ages. Credits Chaucer, Langland, and Wyclif with the revival of English in the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274134">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Memory and Impact of Oral Performance: Shaping the Understanding of Late Medieval Readers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the shifts from orality to literacy and from manuscripts to printed books in late medieval English book culture, examining the range of implications about audiences evident in various versions of the lyric &quot;Erthe upon erthe.&quot; Opens with &quot;Preliminary&quot; observations about Chaucer as an &quot;experimental&quot; writer &quot;fully aware of the fictional potential of documenting these changing times for contemporary writers and audiences,&quot; commenting on MilP and on the short verses embedded in his longer narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues in Chapter 2, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and the &quot;Legend of Good Women&quot; (pp. 76-110), that RvT taps the subversive potential of the fabliau to critique masculine rivalry and sexual coercion. RvT challenges both KnT and MilT, particularly their entrenchment of the status quo by echoing the classical legend of Ariadne, understood in part through LGW. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274132">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses &quot;the power of affect on minds and bodies&quot; and the &quot;psychology of love and loss&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works. Explores relationship between women&#039;s literary culture and roles of women in BD, KnT, TC, and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dearest Ladies: The Idea of Writing for Women in Late Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the course of examining changing ideas of female readers, considers Chaucer&#039;s self-definition as a &quot;writer of feminine genres&quot; (e.g., devotions, saints&#039; lives, and conduct literature).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274130">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Feminine Pretexts: Gendered Genres in Three Frame Moments.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores what Chaucer&#039;s use of genres strongly associated with female readers--such as vernacular devotional writing, conduct literature, and hagiography--suggests about his attitudes toward women. Examines the significance of the catalogue of Chaucer&#039;s works, including a lost translation of Pseudo-Origen&#039;s &quot;De Maria Magdalena,&quot; in LGW. Addresses Harry Bailly&#039;s response to Mel and its relationship to conduct literature, and the Man of Law&#039;s characterization of Chaucer as a writer of female saints&#039; lives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274129">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Knight&#039;s Earnest Game in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;game–earnest topos&quot; in KnT to understand better Chaucer&#039;s many uses of games in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects interdisciplinary essays focusing on the breadth and depth of games in medieval literature and culture. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kit&#039;s Sneeze: Bodily Communication, Gender Roles, and the Performativity of Literature in the Prologue to the &quot;Tale of Beryn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the extent to which a &quot;literary text may disturb the social drama of gender roles by staging characters deliberately enacting their normative gender roles &#039;as&#039; enacted gender roles,&quot; focusing on Kit in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn, but also investigating the narrator and the Pardoner in the poem as they perform their roles. Briefly contrasts Kit&#039;s agency with Alisoun&#039;s lack of it in MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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