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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: Early Manuscripts and Relative Popularity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions Germaine Dempster&#039;s 1948 suggestions about the production of &quot;manuscripts postulated as heads of genetic groups&quot; and lines of descent for CT witnesses, offering several alternative explanations. Includes attention to the change of ink in the Hengwrt manuscript at MerT 4.2318, and offers surmises about the relative popularity of individual tales in early reception history.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277314">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Name of Chaucer&#039;s Friar.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the Friar&#039;s name, &quot;Huberd&quot; (GP 1.269), &quot;may be an ironic literary allusion, to Hubert &#039;l&#039;escoufle,&#039; the kite, a bird of prey, and a lewd cleric and confessor in the Old French poems of the &#039;Renart&#039; tradition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: A Meaning of &quot;Philosophye.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;Of Aristotle and his commentators and disciples&quot; to be the &quot;most worthy&quot; of several possible meanings of &quot;Aristotle and his philosophye&quot; in the description of the Clerk&#039;s books in GP 1.295.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner, the Scriptural Eunuch, and the Pardoner&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Follows W. C. Curry (1926) in understanding the Pardoner to be a eunuch, and explores the Biblical and exegetical implications of this characterization, reinforced by animal imagery, and associated with the Pauline &quot;vetus homo&quot; (Old Man), arguing that together they convey unregenerate cupidity, pride, and spiritual danger to those who follow the path to which he leads. Includes recurrent contrasts between the Pardoner and the Parson.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Interpretation of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how the theme of common profit and the figure of tolerant Nature bridge the opposing views of the love among the high- and low-class birds in PF. Other contrastive pairs in the poem--the two sides of the gate, Priapus and Venus, etc.--anticipate the idealistic and realistic attitudes of the birds.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale,&quot; 2257-2261.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that &quot;double meaning seems deliberate&quot; in a pun on &quot;lecher&quot; and &quot;healer&quot; in Pluto&#039;s use of &quot;lechour&quot; (MerT 4.2257) when he pledges to restore January&#039;s eyesight.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Summary of Statius&#039; Thebaid II-XII.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quotes, translates, and anatomizes the Latin &quot;arguments&quot; of the &quot;books&quot; found in Statius&#039; &quot;Thebaid&quot; that underlie Cassandra&#039;s summary of the Statius&#039; work in TC 5.1457-1533, with its twelve-line Latin summary interpolated in most TC manuscripts. Comments on manuscript witnesses, and shows that Chaucer used the arguments found in Statius as source material.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Canterbury Tales,&quot; F 1541-44.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that a portion of Dorigen&#039;s speech in FranT (5.1541-44) has wrongly been ascribed to her by various editors, indicating why it should better be assigned to the Franklin as narrator. Also suggests that the reference to a &quot;clerk&quot; (Fran 5.1611) by the &quot;philosophre&quot; is a correct reading, despite counter-suggestions by Manly and Rickert.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canterbury Tales A 11.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that editors consider capitalizing &quot;nature&quot; in GP 1.11, arguing that Chaucer personifies Nature as &quot;virtually the patron saint of birds&quot; in PF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masterplots: 510 Plots in Story from the World&#039;s Fine Literature. 2 vols.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes (vol. 2, pp. 1030-31) a summary of the plot and main characters of TC, categorizing it as a &quot;Chivalric romance,&quot; and praising it as an &quot;almost perfectly constructed narrative poem&quot; with &quot;effective depiction of character&quot; that &quot;forecast[s] the shrewd observations of human nature made in&quot; GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and Mediaeval Canons of Seemliness.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes medieval and modern notions of &quot;seemliness&quot;--a sociological concern distinct from legality and morality--and clarifies medieval ideas of linguistic, sartorial, aesthetic, and marital propriety in CT, observing a &quot;gap&quot; between what is &quot;seemly&quot; and what is &quot;morally acceptable&quot; concerning marriage. Explores standards of seemliness as they are reflected in Th and Mel, in the views of other tales expressed by Chaucer-narrator, and in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Of Sondry Folk: The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the CT as a sustained dramatic narrative, following the Chaucer Society order of the tales, and paying particular attention to the GP and the links among the tales. Focuses on characterization of the pilgrims, especially the Host, and their professional antagonisms, personal motives, and self-revelation. Categorizes the pilgrims by &quot;three stages of dramatic development or three techniques of characterization: simple suiting of tale and teller; suiting of tale and teller, &quot;plus an externally motivated dramatic situation&quot;; and suiting of tale and teller, external dramatic motive, plus &quot;internally motivated and extended self-revelation of which the teller is not fully aware.&quot; Includes a portrait of each character discussed, line drawings by Malcolm Thurgood.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Gildsmen and Their Cook.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies satiric elements in the description of the Guildsmen in GP--stylistic jibes and social critique, including the association of them with the Cook, who is later identifiable as the historic Roger de Ware, of ill repute.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277302">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Noble Savage&quot; until Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites Bo and quotes portions of &quot;The Former Age&quot; as evidence of medieval transmission of ancient ideas about &quot;about the happy age before the coming of civilization.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Medieval Miller.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the typicality of Chaucer&#039;s Miller by identifying characteristics that &quot;were commonly ascribed to millers in late-medieval literature.&quot; Like analogous miller&#039;s, he is &quot;is red-haired, coarse-featured, socially ambitious, muscular, well-armed, vulgar, drunken, stupid, and dishonest; and he associates with the reeve.&quot; Despite &quot;many individual traits and a convincing personality,&quot; the Miller &quot;conforms to the medieval concept of what a miller should be.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seven Centuries of Poetry: Chaucer to Dylan Thomas.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes in chronological order poems and extracts from English poetry written in Britain, including selections from Chaucer in Middle English (pp. 5-8): &quot;Now welcome, somer&quot; (PF 680), &quot;At the gate&quot; (TC 5.1114-1183), and &quot;The fresshe flour&quot; (LGWP-F 115-24), no notes and few glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as Psychologist in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the characterizations of Troilus and of Criseyde in Freudian, psychological terms--Troilus as weak-willed and perhaps the &quot;victim of an Oedipal tie to his mother&quot;; Criseyde, strong-willed and &quot;adept in the psychological handling of others,&quot; particularly Troilus with &quot;his childish submission to a woman&#039;s mother-role.&quot; Focuses on &quot;their decision to allow Criseyde to leave Troy&quot; in TC 4.1128-1701 as evidence that the poem presents &quot;their complex personalities and behavior patterns&quot; in the &quot;first psychological novel in the English language&quot; and a depiction rather than an analysis of emotions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277298">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bibliography of Chaucer, 1908-1953.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer studies published between 1908-1953; some entries include brief indications of content and/or lists of book reviews. Arranged in topical categories such as Chaucer&#039;s life, works, modernizations and translations, style and versification, language, etc., along with selected studies of various social, aesthetic, and intellectual backgrounds. Lists M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as published studies and, generally, each study is listed only once, with light cross-referencing. Contains an index of authors.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277296">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Note on Henry Vaughan.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes an influence of KnT 1.1995 (&quot;dirke ymaginning&quot;) on Vaughan&#039;s &quot;The importunate Fortune, written to Doctor &#039;Powel&#039; of Cantre,&quot; and accounts for Vaughan&#039;s confusion of Mars and Saturn.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court of Venus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits (with facsimile pages) &quot;three sixteenth-century fragments of a poetical miscellany&quot; found in different extant manuscripts and, in early attributions, was credited to Chaucer. The Introduction explains why these attributions are inaccurate, athetizing the work from Chaucer&#039;s canon, and clarifying the nature of the fragments and their place in print history and English literary tradition. Also clarifies that &quot;The Pilgrim&#039;s Tale,&quot; included in one of the manuscripts, was also misattributed to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277294">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Love Visions, with Particular Reference to the &quot;Parliament of Fowls.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the conventionality and originality of PF in form or genre, matter, and rhetorical style, arguing that the poem is a &quot;delicately ironical fantasy on the theme of love,&quot; both courtly and natural, presented largely through a &quot;series of contrasts&quot; (rhetorical &quot;contentio&quot;). Clarifies how Chaucer&#039;s adaptations of his sources leads up to the parliament of birds, itself a convention which he adapts from French love vision poetry and fuses with Latin and Italianate materials.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks a &quot;fuller understanding of Chaucer&#039;s meaning,&quot; exploring the &quot;numerous small additions, arrangements, omissions, [and] constant alterations&quot; made in his uses of Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; in TC. Focuses on the vivifying, individuating characterizations of the three main characters as they relate to &quot;issues and forces that concern all mankind&quot;--fate, fortune, and destiny--evoked in highly rhetorical passages and those derived from Boethius.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Essays on Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects seven essays by Everett on topics in Middle English studies, some previously published and some unpublished, plus a &quot;Memoir&quot; about Everett by Mary Lascelles, and a Bibliography of Everett&#039;s publications. For two previously unpublished essays that pertain to Chaucer, see Everett&#039;s &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Love Visions, with Particular Reference to the Parliament of Fowls&quot; and &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Chaucer Borrowing in &quot;Kristin Lavransdatter.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recognizes the influence of the Prioress&#039;s table manners (GP 1.128-35) in a description of the nuns of the Nonnester convent in the first part of Sigrid Undset&#039;s &quot;Kristen Lavransdattir&quot; trilogy and observes other quotations of and references to Chaucer in Undset&#039;s writings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Shipman and the Integrity of his Cargo.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies nuances of the title &quot;shipman&quot; and the seriousness of the Shipman&#039;s lack of conscience about his cargo (GP 1.396-98) in light of late-medieval English maritime law.]]></dcterms:description>
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