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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interjections in Middle English: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates, describes, and analyzes the interjections used in RvT, summarizing their functions, etymologies, morphologies, and semantics, and using the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse to explore the extent to which the usage in RvT is characteristic of the Reeve, Chaucer, or Middle English more generally.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Greetings and Farewells in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the pragmatic complexities of greetings and farewells and the limitations of using edited literary examples to explore their history. Tabulates and analyzes 140 instances of greetings and farewells in CT, attending to concerns of social class and function, the latter including well-wishes, identification, blessing, health inquiries, leave-taking, and dismissal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Collocations in Law Texts in Late Middle English: Some Evidence Concerning Adverbs Ending in -&quot;lī.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts late medieval English adverbial usage in a number of legal texts with those found in a &quot;Reference Corpus,&quot; the latter including a number of examples from Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a chapter entitled &quot;Chaucer&#039;s English&quot; (pp. 56-71) that focuses on the growth of the dominance of the East Midland dialect over other dialects of Middle English, with commentary on Chaucer&#039;s English and CT, the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet, Wyclif, the plague, and Caxton. Includes a sidebar featuring discussion of the word &quot;gentilesse.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist&#039;s Guide to Britain.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the heritage of English from locations throughout Britain. Chapter 20, &quot;Talbot Yard, London SE1: Chaucer and Middle English,&quot; comments on Chaucer&#039;s influence on the English language.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;As Thin as a Rake&quot;: But What Is a Rake?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that &quot;rake&quot; in the proverbial simile &quot;thin as a rake/rail&quot; (first attested in English in the GP description of the Clerk&#039;s horse, I.288) means a fodder crib.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Lietuvà,&quot; &quot;Lithuania,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Lettow.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the etymology and pronunciations of &quot;Lithuania&quot; in English, including an explanation of why Chaucer renders it &quot;Lettow&quot; in the GP description of the Knight (CT 1.54).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[You&#039;ve Read &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot; Prepare to Play the Board Game.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Announces a forthcoming board game, &quot;The Road to Canterbury&quot; (Gryphon Games), created by Alf Seegert. The game focuses on the Pardoner, who is traveling with &quot;seven of Chaucer&#039;s pilgrims, each of whom is afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Saturn and Soliloquy: Henryson&#039;s Conversation with Chaucerian Free Will.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Cresseid&#039;s maturation in Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot; includes an evolving contemplation of free will, as one finds in Boethius and in Chaucer&#039;s depiction of Troilus in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare and Chaucer: Influence and Authority on the Renaissance Stage.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Shakespeare&#039;s intersections with Chaucerian works (e.g., KnT and TC) with regard to the idea of plays gaining regard as literary works in and of themselves.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lydgate&#039;s Retraction and &quot;His Resorte to His Religyoun.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the use of secular and sacred topics in Lydgate&#039;s corpus, arguing that his expressions in his late poems of regret for writing secular verse in mid-career are sincere. Contrasts Lydgate&#039;s &quot;retractions&quot; of his poetry in &quot;Testament&quot; and &quot;Prayer in Old Age&quot; with Chaucer&#039;s in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274064">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure: Using Literature to Inspire Literacy Learning for Ages 8-12.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Practical handbook to literacy training, with exercises that include using lines from GP to inspire literacy, from a chapter titled &quot;Exploring Geoffrey Chaucer: A Start&quot; (pp. 181-84).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274063">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Tweets the South by Southwest Festival.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a satire of &quot;hipster pilgrims&quot; at a modern music festival, rendered in faux Middle English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How to Handle with &quot;Bliss&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; in Turkey.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;multilayered constitution&quot; of TC &quot;as a polysemous text&quot; that celebrates &quot;the flesh and the divine simultaneously,&quot; reading the poem as the recreation of the &quot;suppressed sexual experience&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s youth in his old age, an opportunity for his audience to participate in the &quot;bliss&quot; of both.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Postmodern Chaucer or a Postmodern Coloring? &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys commentary on Chaucer&#039;s uses of postmodern techniques in CT, focusing on his experimentation and evasiveness, and his concern with meaning and with the possibilities whereby literature may or may not be considered literal. Discusses metafictive aspects of CT as &quot;a cavalcade of language users.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructing (a Male) Parenthood for Medieval English Literature: Literary Fathers and Absent Mothers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;construction of parenthood&quot; in medieval literature and criticism, focusing on Chaucer&#039;s role as &quot;father&quot; of English literature, which lacks a parallel &quot;mother&quot; figure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274059">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[IDEA: Studies in English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes forty-six papers presented at the fifth international IDEA conference, held at Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey in 2010. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for IDEA: Studies in English under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer in Contemporary Mystery Novels: A Case Study in Genre Fiction, Low-Cultural Allusions, and the Pleasure of Derivative Forms.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the status and functions of mystery novels as a form of popular culture, employing distinctions posed by Pierre Bourdieu and exploring the use of allusion in the genre. Then investigates three mystery novels by Philippa Morgan that feature Chaucer as a detective employed by John of Gaunt.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chronicling the Fortunes of Kings: John Hardyng&#039;s Use of Walton&#039;s &quot;Boethius,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde,&quot; and Lydgate&#039;s &quot;King Henry VI&#039;s Triumphal Entry into London.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how in the first version of his &quot;Chronicle&quot; John Hardyng was influenced by Lydgate in his descriptions of royal power and social harmony--moments of &quot;great joy and triumph&quot;--while depending upon Chaucer and Walton for his concern with &quot;great tragedy, loss, and change.&quot; He also followed others in using Chaucer&#039;s rhyme royal stanzas to write &quot;commemorative&quot; verse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274056">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Good to Think With&quot;: Women and Exempla in Four Medieval and Renaissance English Texts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Dante in Eliot&#039;s &quot;Waste Land&quot; and Other Observations.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsiders CT as the source of the opening line of T. S. Eliot&#039;s &quot;The Waste Land,&quot; exploring intertextual relations with the opening of Dante&#039;s &quot;Divine Comedy&quot; as well. Also clarifies the importance of Chaucer&#039;s role in the English tradition of translating Dante and argues that Eliot, aware of this role, alludes to Chaucer&#039;s (MkT 7.2407ff.) as well as to Dante&#039;s Ugolino in his reference to the key turning in the door (&quot;The Waste Land,&quot; 412).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To Yield or Die&quot;: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Views CT as one of several works that provide examples of the definition and theorization of the captive in late medieval and early modern texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paradise Walk.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A novel of suspense mystery in which historian Lizzie Manning follows the steps of the Wife of Bath and learns that Alisoun and her descendants had impact on English art and on the location of the bones of Thomas Becket.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What Chaucer Did to Shakespeare: Books and Bodkins in &quot;Hamlet&quot; and &quot;The Tempest.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Shakespeare&#039;s reading of Thomas Speght&#039;s edition of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Works&quot; (1598) provoked his creative imagination as well as providing source material, looking closely at how Chaucer&#039;s depiction of Julius Caesar&#039;s death in MkT affected Shakespeare&#039;s treatments of political assassination or overthrow in &quot;Julius Caesar,&quot; &quot;Hamlet,&quot; and &quot;The Tempest,&quot; and observing more generally the influence of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;voiced set of personal performances.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Refutation of Robert Byrne: John Kennedy Toole&#039;s &quot;A Confederacy of Dunces,&quot; Chaucer and Boethius.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides evidence that much of John Kennedy Toole&#039;s knowledge of Boethius, important to his novel &quot;A Confederacy of Dunces,&quot; came through the Chaucer class that he took from Robert Lumiansky.]]></dcterms:description>
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