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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of the &quot;Thebaid.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;artistic impact&quot; of Statius&#039;s &quot;Thebaid&quot; on Chaucer, particularly the influence of Statius&#039;s style and his &quot;portrayal of the ideals of Theban antiquity,&quot; tracing Chaucer&#039;s allusions to and uses of the epic in Pity, BD, Mars, HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. Comments on the date of composition of HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Caxton and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges William Caxton&#039;s appreciation of Chaucer&#039;s literature by exploring why Caxton printed the works of Chaucer that he did, how he treated the texts, and to what extent his decisions reflect his own tastes or those of patrons, poets, and the likes of Stefano Surigone. Concludes that Caxton&#039;s views are all &quot;second-hand&quot; (usually derived from Lydgate) and that he treated Chaucer&#039;s texts much as he did other works that he printed, evincing no special reverence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273697">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sources of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Seys and Alcyone.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focusing on the exemplum of Ceyx and Alcyone in BD, illustrates Chaucer&#039;s &quot;early use of multiple sources in close alternating sequence,&quot; discussing source relations with Machaut, Froissart, Virgil, Ovid, Statius, the &quot;Ovide Moralise,&quot; and the &quot;Roman de la Rose.&quot; Also comments on the date of Chaucer&#039;s composition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Apotheosis of Blanche in &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in BD Chaucer &quot;heavily inlays the Black Knight&#039;s long description of his lady with imagery of the Blessed Virgin&quot; and &quot;that the effect produced by such imagery is an apotheosis not inconsonant with the traditional apotheosis of the English elegiac lament.&quot; Considers the rhetorical features of Chaucer&#039;s description of Blanche in light of its sources and analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273695">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Old French Analogue to General Prologue 1-18.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers the &quot;tempting hypothesis&quot; that Adenet le Roi&#039;s &quot;Berte aud Grans Pies&quot; is a source of the &quot;coincidence of . . . three motifs&quot; in GP (&quot;pilgrimage, spring, framing device&quot;); also observes several &quot;interesting verbal similarities&quot; between the two.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273694">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Problem of Free Will in Chaucer&#039;s Narratives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores free will in Mars, KnT, TC, and CT, focusing on the relative balance of astrological determinism and character complexity. The &quot;compulsions of astrology&quot; in Mars are lessened in KnT, replaced by the &quot;searching&quot; for examples of providence in human affairs. In TC the narrator insists on historicity but shows Troilus and Criseyde in decision-making processes that convey their &quot;independence&quot; from cosmic and authorial control. In the drama of CT, &quot;nothing external, neither God nor the poet, compels the characters to will what they do.&quot; Instead, &quot;whatever they will has meaning.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pygmalion in the &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the allusion to Pygmalion in PhyT (6.7-18) as an indication of Apius&#039;s &quot;concupiscence,&quot; drawing on  depictions of Pygmalion in Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; and Jean de Meun&#039;s &quot;Roman de la Rose.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273692">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Calkas in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts the characterizations of Calkas in the Troy stories of Guido, Benoit, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, arguing that in TC he is depicted so as to ridicule &quot;astrology-prophetism&quot; even while contributing to the poem&#039;s &quot;atmosphere of destinal determinism.&quot; Comments on the style of Calkas&#039;s speaking in TC, on the &quot;condemnation of judicial astrology&quot; in Astr, and on Calkas&#039;s role as &quot;a thematic and structural counterpoint&quot; to Troilus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Pamphilus&quot; Tradition in Ruiz and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores parallels of plot and detail found in &quot;Pamphilus de Amore&quot; (or &quot;Pamphilus and Galatee&quot;), &quot;aspects&quot; of the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; &quot;parts&quot; of Juan Ruiz&#039;s &quot;Libro de Buen Amor,&quot; and the first three books of TC, demonstrating that the &quot;&#039;Pamphilus&#039; group&quot; should be included among the &quot;specific sources&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273690">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Complaint,&quot; a Genre Descended from the &quot;Heroides.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the status of the complaint as a formal genre in classical and in medieval French, Provencal, Italian, and English traditions as background to discussing Chaucer&#039;s uses of the genre in BD, TC, Mars, and elsewhere. Focuses on Chaucer&#039;s authenticating techniques, on the influence of Ovid&#039;s &quot;Heroides&quot; on his practices in Mars, and on the similarities and differences between complaint and other genres--the lay, the verse epistle, the &quot;salut,&quot; etc.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273689">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Art of Chaucer&#039;s Franklin.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the Franklin&#039;s grasping &quot;imitation of noble ways&quot; in FranPT and in his GP description. The genre and rhetoric of the Tale are outdated, absurd, and/or obtrusive, while its depictions of ideals of marriage, gentility, and patience are either excessive or hollow, indicating that there is &quot;something foolish and misdirected&quot; in the tale-teller and his Tale. Considers adaptations of material from St. Jerome and echoes from the tales of the Wife of Bath, Clerk, and Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Narrative Art of the &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attributes the aesthetic success of the three-rioters account in PardT to Chaucer&#039;s suggestive &quot;economy&quot; of characterization and narrative and to the double perspective (&quot;drunken fantasy&quot; and &quot;sober calculation&quot;) that irrevocably leads to death, which ironically could not be found when pursued. Includes comparisons with the narrative techniques of PrT and RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Spanish Analogue of the Pear-Tree Episode in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies an analogue to the pear-tree episode in MerT, a folktale entitled &quot;Women Always Get Away With It,&quot; first published in Puerto Rico in 1915-16 but evidently part of oral tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273686">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Current and Recurrent Fallacies in Chaucer Criticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Debunks tendencies in Chaucer criticism to read &quot;too much into the text,&quot; identifying and exemplifying the &quot;realistic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;anachronistic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;schematic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;ideological fallacy,&quot; the &quot;didactic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;allegorical fallacy,&quot; the &quot;christian-clerical fallacy,&quot; the &quot;rationalistic&quot; (or &quot;assumptive&quot;) fallacy, the &quot;intellectualizing fallacy,&quot; the &quot;stylistic fallacy,&quot; and various combinations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273685">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as a Pawn in the Book of the Duchess.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that -- in light of details of Chaucer&#039;s career and of medieval chess-playing -- the significance of &quot;fers&quot; in BD 741 may be &quot;threefold,&quot; referring to Blanche, to the chess piece, and to &quot;Chaucer himself, the commoner promoted from pawn to &#039;fers&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273684">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the sentimental charm of PrT that conflicts with its narrator&#039;s &quot;hatred of the Jews,&quot; and upon the combination of &quot;touching sentiment&quot; and &quot;mechanical&quot; rhetoric in MLT. Then considers the &quot;poignant emotion&quot; and pathos of ClT as they help to convey clearly and effectively the &quot;Christian patience&quot; that is the Clerk&#039;s &quot;doctrine.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273683">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three-Faced Pandarus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Pandarus is &quot;honorable and well-intentioned in each of his three roles&quot; in TC: traditional friend to Troilus, courtly friend to Troilus, and protective and loving kinsman to Criseyde. Chaucer&#039;s efforts to &quot;knit together&quot; these sometimes conflicting roles indicate his approval of Pandarus&#039;s motives and actions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Introduction, Prologue, and Tale: Sermon and &quot;Fabliau.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses PardPT as a &quot;dramatic monologue, in the form of a sermon,&quot; set within a &quot;&#039;fabliau&#039; framework.&quot; Identifies the various parts of the sermon structure and explains similarities between the &quot;framework&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s other fabliaux, particularly the &quot;victimization of an unworthy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;On six and sevene&quot; (&quot;Troilus&quot; IV, 622).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the ambiguities of betting terminology and suggests that Pardarus&#039;s use of such terminology in TC 4.622 means that he is urging Troilus generally to &quot;take his chances.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273680">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Honor in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that parallels between the &quot;sacrifices&quot; in FranT and two analogous ones found in Jean Froissart&#039;s &quot;Chroniques&quot; 2.137-38 encourage us to see the offer of the Franklin&#039;s magician to be illusory and worthless while Arveragus&#039;s offer of the &quot;honor of his wife&quot; is &quot;very generous.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273679">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January&#039;s Caress.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Middle English examples of the word &quot;wombe&quot; to suggest that it may mean genitals as well as belly in MerT 4.2414.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Brief Comparison of the &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on various aspects of KnT and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; (sources, dates, verse forms, etc.), discussing most extensively their uses of rhetorical devices. Finds KnT to be inferior because in it &quot;form dictates to matter&quot; and because the poem lacks the Gawain-poet&#039;s &quot;organic use&quot; of subtle characterzation and structural parallelisms. Focuses on details of the lists in KnT (1.1884ff.) and Gawain&#039;s view of Bercilak&#039;s castle.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273677">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Reeve&#039;s Polemic.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;really profound difference&quot; between the Reeve and the Miller, commenting on the Miller&#039;s rich characterizations in MilT and the vitality and &quot;kind of justice&quot; that underlies the outcome of his Tale. RvT, conversely, is an unwholesome &quot;polemic&quot; with &quot;sterile vengefulness&quot; as its primary motive and a &quot;lack of parity in crime and punishment&quot; that reveals the bitterness Reeve who is &quot;forever calculating,&quot; the &quot;eternal accountant.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Wyf of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads WBPT (with attention to the GP description of the Wife) as a &quot;crucial example&quot; of the way Chaucer &quot;sees the relation between deception and self-deception&quot; and a &quot;median&quot; among the Canterbury pilgrims as a gauge of hypocrisy. Balanced between the robust comedy of the Miller and self-defeating vice of the Pardoner, the Wife perches between truth and deception, or &quot;more precisely,&quot; between &quot;disclosure . . . and concealment of her nature.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Meaning as Transformation: The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads WBT psychoanalytically, exploring its &quot;sexual taboos,&quot; its phallic and vaginal significations, and the sexual fantasy that is &quot;at the heart of the story.&quot; The tension between authority and submission in the Tale conveys meaning equally well for medieval and modern audiences because it is simultaneously mythic and psychoanalytic and because its theme of transformation engages the relation between the conscious and unconscious.]]></dcterms:description>
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