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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Low Seriousness: A Study of the Ironic Structure in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comic irony was used by Chaucer throughout CT, even in the tales generally considered to be serious or pious.  ManT, SumT, FranT, PhyT, MLT, PrT, SNT, and ClT all display Chaucer&#039;s ironic point of view, although the reader&#039;s appreciaiton of this subtler irony depends on his having read GP, MilT, WBT, and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275208">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Lucretia and What Augustine Really Said about Rape: Two Reconsiderations.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s claim in LGW that St. Augustine &quot;hath gret compassioun / Of this Lucresse&quot; is neither ironic nor misinformed, but is an accurate account of Augustine&#039;s position. Situating Augustine&#039;s comments about Lucretia within the broader context of discussions of sin and rape in &quot;City of God,&quot; demonstrates that Augustine sympathizes with Lucretia rather than condemning her suicide. Contends that critics have misread Augustine and thus misunderstood Chaucer&#039;s statement about Augustine&#039;s compassion. Also suggests that Chaucer likely read &quot;City of God&quot; directly rather than through medieval summaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276216">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Lucretia and What Augustine Really Said about Rape: Two Reconsiderations.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attributes Chaucer&#039;s assertion of St. Augustine&#039;s &quot;gret compassioun&quot; for Lucrece as a rape victim (LGW, 1691) to the poets&#039; unmediated first-hand knowledge of Book I of the &quot;City of God,&quot; clarifying Augustine&#039;s sympathy for rape victims, arguing that critics have misread the theologian, and exploring other evidence of Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with Book I elsewhere in the legend, especially Lucrece&#039;s swoon.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263842">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Lyrics and Anelida and Arcite : An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1980]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprehensive from 1900-80 and fully cross-referenced.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272712">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Lyrics: Selected and Edited with Commentary, Canon and Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Evaluates twenty of Chaucer&#039;s standalone lyric poems, considering their prosodic features, poetic qualities, and representations of various &quot;aspects of experience.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Maiden&#039;s Head: The Physician&#039;s Tale and the Poetics of Virginity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates Virginia&#039;s death by reference to patristic definitions of virginity as the desired ideal veiled in substance, a state inevitably transgressed by the gaze.  By extension, the ideal that virginity implies is destroyed by its articulation.  In praising Virginia, Chaucer exposes her to the reader&#039;s gaze, suggesting the poet&#039;s complicity in the violence of rape.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274916">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Major Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A teaching edition that includes BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP-F and the legend of Cleopatra, CT (without Mel or ParsT), and eight short lyrics (Ros, Adam, Gent, Truth, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse), with bottom-of-page notes and glosses, and a glossarial index. Individual poems are preceded by introductory essays, and the volume includes a life of Chaucer, descriptions of his language and versification, and a brief bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272971">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Major Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprises seven essays (three by Stevens; four by Hoy) that discuss eight portions of CT (GP, KnT, PrT and ClT, CYPT, FranT, PardPT, NPT), with brief notes, bibliography, and an index. Recurrent concern with unity, narrative skill, aesthetic order and disorder, medieval rhetoric, idealization, courtly love, sources, free will and determinism, religious satire, the nature of evil, social inequality, and Chaucer&#039;s learning.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265651">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and Boethian &#039;Bad Fortune&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the GP sketch and in MLPT, Chaucer characterizes his Man of Law as one who does not recognize Divine design behind the pattern of natural events, eternal law behind natural law.  The Man of Law errs in focusing on temporal events, failing to perceive Boethian &quot;endes of thynges&quot; that are part of Divine plan.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265285">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and Collusive Recovery]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses GP 313-20 with particular reference to the meaning of &quot;fee simple,&quot; suggesting that it implies sharp practice by the man of Law and that the portrayal of him is critical.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264852">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and His Tale: The Eccentric Design]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Previous criticism often finds an unresolved tension between tale and teller in MLT and in the tale itself, leading a critic like Edward A. Block to declare the work &quot;poor art.&quot; However, the admitted tensions within the tale between a feeling of despair and the slim hope of salvation, ultimately reveal the teller as &quot;an acutely troubled intelligencer.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and the &#039;Muses that men clepe Pierides&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Man of Law&#039;s allusion to the story of the nine daughters of Pierus, as presented in Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; 5, is viewed as literary criticism that emphasizes the fact that the Man of Law is reluctant to be compared to the daughters--who lost their singing contest--because he wishes to win the storytelling contest in which he is engaged.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270818">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and the Argument for Providence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Skilled in the law and both learned and adept in poetry, the Man of Law crafts a tale of sin, free will, and providence. Though Custance is steadfast, her will is free and consequential, the foundation of true judgment. MLT proposes a concept of providence in a mutable world &quot;as the idea of things ordained to an end pre-existing in the divine mind.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and the Constancy of Justice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MLT reflects the occupation of its teller both in its concern for &quot;legal particularities&quot; and in its vision of the beauty and order of the law, in such terms as &quot;prudence&quot; and forms of &quot;govern.&quot;  Constance&#039;s own name suggests &quot;justitia.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and the Tale of Constance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the Man of Law&#039;s materials in CT as an unfolding characterization of the lawyer, commenting on the relationship of tale to teller, the narrator&#039;s use of law and legalistic rhetoric, and the relation of MLT to other rhyme royal tales in CT. The lawyer is concerned with wealth and rank, expedient in what he remembers and how he uses authorities, and tedious in his sentiments and excesses of rhetoric (especially apostrophes and rhetorical questions).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272740">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law As a Purchasour]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the implications of illegality in Chaucer&#039;s GP description of the Sergeant at Law as a &quot;purchasour.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273673">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law as Interpreter.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MLT as a satire on its narrator whose volatile comments on the action of the poem contrast sharply with Constance&#039;s own patient acceptance, and characterize him as &quot;anti-Boethian, anti-humanistic, [and] anti-religious,&quot; a man interested in &quot;temporal satisfaction.&quot; He is a poor literary critic who misinterprets the works of Innocent III and Bernard Silvestris, and he misunderstands the &quot;astrological situation&quot; in the poem. Comparison of MLT with Trevet&#039;s version indicates that Chaucer&#039;s lawyer does not distinguish between romance and hagiography or between Providence and destiny.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268980">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law in Sequence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MLT extends the concerns with wooing and governance that are developed in Part 1 of CT, especially when considered in light of the extended version of CkT found in Bodley MS 686, which is edited and appended to this essay.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276317">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law&#039;s Tale: Rhetoric and Emotion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Resists impulses to denigrate the artistry of MLT and argues that the rhetorical passages--including several of the narrator&#039;s apostrophes--achieve &quot;genuinely intense emotion&quot;  rather than mere sentimentality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267806">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law&#039;s Tale: Teaching Through the Sources]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Use of sources and analogues in the classroom can provide baffled students a point of entry into the complexities of MLT and allow them to appreciate the importance of redaction in medieval literature. In particular, examining Chaucer&#039;s feminization of material concerning Constance and her mothers-in-law from Trevet&#039;s &quot;Cronicles&quot; helps students see the themes of ideal Christian passivity and the maintenance of patriarchal hegemony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265558">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Sorrows: Secular Images of Pity in the &#039;Book of the Duchess,&#039; the &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale,&#039; and &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The portrait of the Man in Black of BD reflects a traditional &quot;imago pietatis,&quot; the Man of Sorrows.  So, to a lesser degree, do the Falcon of SqT and Criseyde.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269384">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland&#039;s A Knight&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The characterization of Chaucer in Helgeland&#039;s film reinforces the film&#039;s concerns with authority and masculinity, ultimately revealing that &quot;canonical authority&quot; is &quot;anachronistic.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266570">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Manciple: Voice and Genre]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The autobiographical character of Chaucer-the-pilgrim&#039;s reportage and of the individual &quot;Tales&quot; in CT intensifies the nuanced contradictions of the Manciple&#039;s portrait in GP,of the competing voices in the lengthy ManP, and of the Manciple&#039;s aggressiveness and lack of assurance in his &quot;Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261422">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Manciple&#039;s Tale and the Poetics of Guile]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ManT examines the kind of language by which a poet can survive.  Given the historical context of Richard II&#039;s reign and the contemporary chronicle literature that warned of the necessity of suppressing one&#039;s speech, the individual must resort to guile in order to talk at all.  Realizing that society &quot;requires a language of poetry roughly attuned to its nature,&quot; the poet must learn to temper truth with delight, conveying passion without &quot;threat.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet&#039;s Les Cronicles]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Because it contains the fewest emendations and corresponds most closely to Chaucer&#039;s MLT, the version of Les Cronicles in the MS Paris, Bibl. Nationale, Franc. 9687, fols. 1va-114va (ca. 1340-50), will serve as a base text for the Chaucer Library edition of Trevet&#039;s work.]]></dcterms:description>
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