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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;almoost a spanne brood.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Glosses &quot;almoost a spanne broode&quot; in the GP description of the Prioress (CT 1.155) as &quot;almost four inches high,&quot; exploring its ironic implications.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Weaving Wife.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces evidence from various sources to show that the Wife of Bath has characteristics of the archetype of the old bawd, itself rooted in the earlier figure of &quot;sorceress-intermediary&quot; and associated with aging, trade, extravagant dress, and weaving. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Romaunt of the Rose&quot; and &quot;Le Roman de la Rose&quot;: A Parallel-Text Edition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Facing-page edition of Rom (based on Thynne&#039;s edition) and its sources passage in the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; with the text of the latter drawn from various manuscripts that provide readings closest to Rom. Includes textual notes and an Introduction which explores the text of Rom, its three fragments, and the &quot;construction&quot; of this edition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and His World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introductory summary of Chaucer&#039;s life and social context, illustrated with numerous b&amp;w photographs of objects from the late fourteenth century: buildings, coins, artifacts, manuscripts, etc. Draws examples of social, political, and religious life from Chaucer&#039;s poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the French Love Poets: The Literary Backgrounds of the &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates Chaucer&#039;s extensive dependence upon French love poetry, tracing the development of &quot;dits amoreux&quot; from Guillaume de Lorris&#039;s portion of the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s contemporaries and identifying where in BD Chaucer was influenced by the &quot;Roman&quot; and works by Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart. In images and details, the &quot;Roman&quot; is pervasive and Froissart&#039;s &quot;Paradys d&#039;Amours&quot; inspired Chaucer&#039;s &quot;dream machinery.&quot; Four of Machaut&#039;s poems are the models or sources of sections of BD. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273344">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reading of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interpretive, evaluative, tale-by-tale reading of CT, focusing on how Chaucer&#039;s &quot;mingling&quot; of various styles, tones, genres, conventions, source materials, and world views come together as a unifying perspective that supersedes any one perspective . Considers several tales as pairings (FrT and SumT, Th and Mel, ManT and ParsT), and offers opinions of how and where individual tales succeed or fail, often gauged in light of recurrent themes presented as timeless concerns. The Introduction (pp. 1-53) justifies appreciative criticism, remarks on Chaucer&#039;s other works (especially TC), comments on questions of unity in CT, and praises the vitality and spirituality of GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dramatic Time, Setting, and Motivation in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts MerT, PrT, and PardT with their respective analogues, contending that Chaucer&#039;s Tales are inconsistent in time, setting, and character motivation, reflecting &quot;Chaucer&#039;s lack of concern for real people and real objects.&quot; Similarly in TC, Chaucer&#039;s characters operate &quot;within a framework of deliberate aesthetic stylization&quot; because he is more concerned with didactic persuasion than realistic depiction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273342">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Personality of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a &quot;psychography&quot; of Chaucer, using biographical records, contemporaneous events, and Chaucer&#039;s works to describe his appearance, habits, personality, opinions, and attitudes.  Focuses on the personae in Chaucer&#039;s literary works; on his treatments of love, virtue, and religion; and on his satire and his sympathies, describing ways that they indicate his &quot;large and generous acceptance of life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird Lore and the Valentine&#039;s Day Tradition in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces several passages from &quot;thirteenth century &#039;De Arte Venandi cum Avibus&#039; of Frederick of Hohenstaufen&quot; to argue that in the setting and details of his bird parliament in PF Chaucer &quot;may have been concerned as much with authentic bird lore as with fable or literary convention.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Second Meanings in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the thematic implications of several verbal ambiguities or double meanings in KnT:  &quot;array&quot; (dress and predicament), &quot;hert&quot; (heart and hart), &quot;wele&quot; (joy and wheel), nuances of &quot;turne,&quot; &quot;boone&quot; (reward and bone), and &quot;righte way&quot; in emotional and geographical senses,]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement of Foules&quot;: Aesthetic Order and Individual Experience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses the &quot;intentional ambiguity&quot; of PF, arguing that it results from the tension between &quot;discursive&quot; and &quot;non-discursive&quot; aspects of the poem, a distinction derived from Susanne Langer. Uses a variety of lexical patterns and oppositions to show how the narrator comically struggles to find order in chaos, while Chaucer the poet asserts (particularly in the roundel) that poetic tradition is itself a form of order.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Christian Irony: The Relationship of Character and Action in the &quot;Pardoner&#039;sTale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how the &quot;tavern vices&quot; of PardT (gluttony, blasphemy, gambling) &quot;delineate the characters&quot; of the three revelers and reveal their stupid and immoral inability to recognize the literal and the figurative meanings of death, properly understood by the boy and the Old Man. Ironically, the &quot;unholy trinity&quot; of revelers belies Christian brotherhood and inverts Christ&#039;s redemption.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Attitudes of the Narrator in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Chaucer&#039;s use in TC of the &quot;Editorial Omniscient&quot; point of view, comments on the relationship between the narrator and the writer, and exemplifies the various and changing attitudes of the narrator: compassion, helplessness in the face of events, detachment, and didacticism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress&#039;s Disobedience and the Benedictine Rule.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies details in the GP description of the Prioress that are inconsistent with the Benedictine Rule and indicate satirically that she is courtly, a &quot;worldly woman dressed in a Prioress&#039;s habit.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273335">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Further Puns from the &quot;Prologue&quot; and &quot;Tale&quot; of the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses four sexual puns in WBPT: on purse/chest, candle-lighting, flour and grinding, and &quot;borel&quot; or coarse cloth.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s She-Ape (&quot;The Parson&#039;s Tale,&quot; 424).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides context for the Parson&#039;s image of a she-ape in the &quot;fulle of the moon&quot; (10.424), showing how the image deprecates the &quot;purpose as well as appearance&quot; of the &quot;fashionably-dressed man.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Contrary Tales of the Second Nun and the Canon&#039;s Yeoman.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides point-by-point contrasting details and themes from SNT and CYT to argue that they were composed as a pair, wedded by a &quot;theory of contraries.&quot; Focuses on fire, sight, work, the theme of God&#039;s will, the language and imagery of alchemy, and the polarities of charity and cupidity and revelation and reason to demonstrate the unity of part 8 of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gascoigne and &quot;My Master &#039;Chaucer&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that George Gascoigne&#039;s reading of TC inspired aspects of his &quot;Adventures of Master F. J.&quot; [or F. I.]. In particular, identifies parallels to the scene Troilus&#039;s fainting (TC 3.1092), the character of Criseyde, the &quot;self-effacing pose&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s narrator, and Pandarus&#039;s manipulations (echoed in Gascoigne&#039;s narrative perspective).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s London.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An account of London in the late fourteenth century, including descriptions of its historical topography and architecture, the city&#039;s customs, a chronicle of its major events and history, and its role as an intellectual center. Chaucer is mentioned throughout, and aspects of the city (especially its intellectual life) are illustrated and exemplified with quotations from Chaucer&#039;s poetry, identified in the volume&#039;s index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Lawriol&quot;: &quot;CT,&quot; B 4153.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains that Pertelote&#039;s reference to &quot;lawriol&quot; (7.2963) should be glossed as a vomit-inducer rather than a bowel laxative.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Classics Revisited.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprises appreciative discussions of sixty &quot;classics&quot; of world literature, from &quot;Gilgamesh&quot; to the plays of Chekhov, including a discussion of CT (pp. 141-45) that emphasizes Chaucer&#039;s skills of characterization and comments on relations between tales and tellers (&quot;The Tales judge the narrators&quot; ), describing the poem as the &quot;perfect model&quot; for would-be writers.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273328">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and the Failure of Understanding.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions whether Troilus has gained wisdom by the end of TC and explores what is evident as true wisdom in PF. Although Troilus&#039;s laughter indicates his contempt for the world, the hero does not realize fully the hierarchical nature of love that is expressed in PF and elsewhere in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273327">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Symbolic Surface of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: The Monk&#039;s Portrait. Parts I and II.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the generally negative connotations and nuances of the lexicon, details, and imagery of the Monk&#039;s description in GP, providing context from medieval literature and exegetical commentary to argue that the Monk is &quot;corrupt, gluttonous, lecherous, bestial, even demonic.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Summoner: Fyr-reed Cherubynnes Face.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces several iconographical, etymological, and punning associations of cherubs with redness, commenting on confusion with seraphs, and suggesting that these associations underlie details of the Summoner&#039;s description in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Entente&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Friar&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the repetition of the word &quot;entente&quot; in FrT affects the Tale&#039;s &quot;characterization, plotting, and pervasive irony,&quot; and indicates &quot;one of the fundamental theological dimensions of the piece&quot;--disguised evil. ]]></dcterms:description>
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