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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Moral Superiority of Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Asks why the Pardoner &quot;always preaches against his own sin&quot; and why he admits to doing so to the Canterbury pilgrims, using the questions to argue that he is a con-man rather than a hypocrite, and one who considers himself morally superior to his members of his audience who, as &quot;self-hypocrites&quot; who &quot;want it both ways,&quot; fall victim to him, the &quot;unhypocritical emblem of hypocrisy.&quot; ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273824">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Squire in Wonderland.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes patterns of &quot;elaborate inconsequence, incongruity and downright bathos&quot; in SqT, attributing them to the Squire&#039;s naïve efforts to be impressive and, by extension, Chaucer&#039;s skillful weaving of character and theme.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273823">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Concern of Chaucer&#039;s Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Chaucer criticism produced between 1950 and 1964 and, treating Chaucer&#039;s work as a &quot;single fiction,&quot; reads it as a &quot;complex examination of what it means to love&quot; in earthly and spiritual ways. An &quot;abyss exists between&quot; the two kinds of love, but &quot;one can go from here thither.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Gentilesse&quot; and the Franklin&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;aristocratic, moral, and Christian&quot; understandings of &quot;gentilesse,&quot; listing the entailed ideals of truth, benevolence, mildness, etc. as expressed in ParsT, Gent, and in French courtly tradition. Argues that a complex understanding of gentility organizes and highlights FranT, its characterizations, and its thematic concerns, and contrasts the depiction of &quot;gentilesse&quot; in FranT with that in the WBPT and the GP description of the Wife. Also considers how and to what extent &quot;gentilesse&quot; suits the character of the Franklin.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Proverbs, &quot;Sententiae,&quot; and &quot;Exempla&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s Comic Tales: The Function of Comic Misapplication.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Illustrates Chaucer&#039;s &quot;comic misapplication&quot; of &quot;monitory elements&quot; as a device of characterization in CT, discussing how the misapplied expressions of traditional wisdom can be used cleverly (as with Nicholas in MilT), foolishly (John in MilT and January in MerT), cynically (the friar in SumT), etc. At times, the issue of intention complicates the characterization (Wife of Bath); at others, effort to impress is involved (Chaunticler in NPT). Generally, Chaucer exploited the &quot;comic contradiction&quot; between the potential for wisdom in pithy sayings and its ironic undercutting when misapplied or manipulated. Also comments on Mel and RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Artistic Use of Pope Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De Miseria Humane Conditionis&quot; in the Man of Law&#039;s Prologue and Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer uses portions of Pope Innocent&#039;s &quot;De Miseria&quot; in MLPT to &quot;further characterize&quot; the Man of Law, deepening the &quot;concern with wealth&quot; found in the GP description of the Sergeant. Furthermore, the portions from &quot;De Miseria&quot; unify the Man of Law&#039;s concerns with merchants, lend moral seriousness to the Tale deepening Custance&#039;s misfortunes, and help us to understand Chaucer&#039;s composition, revision, and patterned episodic construction.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Biblical Parody in the &quot;Summoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contributes to discussions of the effectiveness of SumT by describing its &quot;pattern of biblical parody&quot; centered on Pentecost, arguing that the Summoner uses the pattern to attack the claim that friars, like the apostles, &quot;have a special divine grace.&quot; The wheel image, the theme of wrath, and the alignment of anal imagery in SumP and SumT help to criticize fraternal arrogance and effectively spite the Friar.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273818">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love and &quot;Foul Delight&quot;: Some Contrasted Attitudes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the attitude toward sexual love expressed in Andreas Capellanus&#039;s &quot;De Arte Honeste Amandi,&quot; contrasting it with the &quot;innocent sincerity in sexual love&quot; that is characteristic of Chaucer&#039;s Troilus (and Shakespeare&#039;s), also considering the casuistry of love depicted in &quot;The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: A Reconsideration.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the discontinuities and disunities of TC for the ways that they reveal the &quot;growth and release&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s creative imagination, reading them as evidence of his &quot;dissatisfaction&quot; with the characterization of Criseyde and the nature of love depicted in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot; In Books 1-3 Chaucer develops the &quot;unsuspected potential in his sources,&quot; while Books 4-5 reveal the &quot;process of disenchantment&quot; and submission to the authority of tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Courtesy and the &quot;Gawain&quot;-Poet.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the meaning and significance of &quot;courtesy&quot; in the works of the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet, and includes comments on characterization (as a matter of role rather than personality) in Chaucer&#039;s works, along with an excursus on &quot;hende&quot; that focuses on Chaucer&#039;s uses of the term, especially in MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273815">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes ten essays by various authors and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Patterns of Love and Courtesy under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273814">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale&quot;: The Poem Not the Myth.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges psychoanalytic approaches to ClT and rejects the approaches that read the poem either as a Christian parable of authoritarianism or a rejection of authority as a &quot;disease of monarchy.&quot; Argues that Chaucer creates the Tale as an expression of the &quot;conscious unlogic&quot; of the Clerk, a &quot;master rhetorician and disputant,&quot; who wittily engages the Wife of Bath and satisfies the expectations of his audience. Chaucer, typically, offers an &quot;aesthetic resolution of the fundamentally irreconcilable conflicts of the sexual life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales: The Prologue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[School-book edition of GP, with interlinear Middle and Modern English, and sidebar commentary, notes, and illustrative drawings. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale,&quot; F. 942.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates the phrase &quot;withouten coppe&quot; (FranT 5.492) as meaning &quot;outside of the cup,&quot; conveying that Aurelius drank his penance to the fullest extent.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273811">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: Chaucer Theodicy.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the rocks of FranT as a representation of natural evil, only apparently avoided in the plot, and an opportunity for the operations of both &quot;gentilesse&quot; and unearned providential grace.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Prologue and Tale from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents MerPT in Middle English (following Robinson&#039;s 1957 edition), with notes and glossary at the end of the text. The Introduction (pp. 1-34) comments on the GP description of the Merchant, the relations between MerT and ClT and between MerT and FranT, courtly love, garden imagery, source material, the character of January, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;handling&quot; of English idioms, proverbs, ironies, and other stylistic features, concluding that the Tale is &quot;one of Chaucer&#039;s masterpieces.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273809">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid&#039;s Priapus in the Merchant&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains the sexual resonances latent in the reference to Priapus in MerT 4.2034-37, citing tales in Ovid, the commentary tradition, and PF. January&#039;s statue of Priapus &quot;constitutes a kind of devotion to the obscene god who was the true patron saint of old age.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273808">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid and the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Ovid inspired the structure, narrative complexities, and thematic focus of CT--its tales-within-a-tale structure, its multiple narrators characterized by their tales, and its concern with two kinds of love, higher and lower--and shows that a large number of specific echoes of &quot;Amores,&quot; &quot;Ars Amatoria,&quot; &quot;Fasti,&quot; &quot;Heroides,&quot; and, especially &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; are manifest in GP, KnT, MilT, MLPT, WBPT, SumT, MerT, SqT, FranT, PhyT, Mel, MkT (Hercules), and ManT, demonstrating these specific influences by providing parallel passages from Chaucer&#039;s texts, Ovid&#039;s texts, and medieval analogues and commentaries.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; Prologue of the Auchinleck MS.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer was influenced by the now-lost Prologue to &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; of the Auchinleck manuscript, evident in similarities in &quot;concept, diction, and syntax&quot; between the FranP and the extant versions of the &quot;Orfeo&quot; prologue and between the Franklin and Orfeo, even though Chaucer&#039;s &quot;own poetic intention&quot; consistently &quot;tempered&quot; his work.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The St. Joce Oath in the Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the &quot;Joce&quot;/&quot;croce&quot; rhyme in WBP 3.483-84 is not just a convenient rhyme but a set of sexual puns, dependent upon the association of St. Joce with a staff.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273805">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Epic Tradition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the epic elements of KnT and its sources, arguing that in placing love at the thematic center of his poem (replacing traditional political concerns), Chaucer was &quot;attempting to make something entirely new&quot; out of his material. By emphasizing the importance and parallels of love and lordship, Chaucer draws attention to &quot;the private as well as public qualities of the noble hero&quot; and the need for internal as well as external order.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273804">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Study of Prosody.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the assumptions about stress that underlie prosodic scansion, and demonstrates that Chaucer&#039;s decasyllabic verse is built upon a contrastive rather than an absolute distinction between stressed and unstressed syllables. Considers elision, the pronunciation of final-&quot;e,&quot; the influence of French accent, and Chaucer&#039;s artful manipulations of various &quot;conditions&quot; of spoken Middle English, drawing examples for various works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Sampsoun&quot; in the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer Adapting a Source.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that a possible source for the references to &quot;Sampsoun&quot; in PardT 6.549-61 and for aspects of the account of Samson in MkT 7.2914-94 is &quot;Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273802">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Another French Source for &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that aspects of the beginning of MerT (including January&#039;s ill health, the names Placebo and Justinus, etc.) may have been inspired by details and sentiments found in &quot;Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273801">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale:&quot; Boethian Wisdom and the Alchemists.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the concern with the &quot;basic duality between material and spiritual values&quot; in CYPT is based in Boethius&#039;s admonitions against pursuing false felicity in his &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; manifested in the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s concern with false versus true alchemy. Like Boethius, the Canon&#039;s Yeoman advocates pursuing the &quot;perfection of the uncreated good.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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