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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study of Character Motivation in Chretien&#039;s &#039;Cligés,&#039; Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; and Malory&#039;s &#039;Morte D&#039;Arthur&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes that the private motivations of Chaucer&#039;s Troilus help us to understand why critics have &quot;tended to exclude&quot; TC from the romance genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272033">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The English Fabular Tradition: Chaucer. Spenser, Dryden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the use of similar techniques by Chaucer, Spenser, and Dryden constitutes a &quot;distinctive English fabular tradition,&quot; discussing ManT, PF, and NPT, as well as Spenser&#039;s &quot;Shepheardes Calendar,&quot; &quot;Mother Hubberds Tale,&quot; and &quot;Muipotmos,&quot; and Dryden&#039;s &quot;The Hind and the Panther.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272032">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis and Classification of Four Critical Approaches to Chaucer in the Twentieth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses critical approaches to Chaucer&#039;s poetry using M. H. Abrams&#039; categories of literary theory (mimetic, objective, pragmatic, and expressive) and commenting on the criticism of D. W. Robertson Jr., Robert M. Jordan, Robert O. Payne, and Charles Muscatine.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272031">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pilgrims as Artists]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the performances of the Canterbury pilgrims by their relative balance between self-will and common will, basing the distinction on patristic notions of pilgrimage and successful progress toward God, as well as Horace&#039;s aesthetic criteria of teaching and delight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272030">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study of &#039;Invidia&#039; in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s (and others&#039;) treatment of envy as a Deadly Sin as background to the Renaissance understanding of the vice, which was influenced by classical tradition as well.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272029">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of the Poet in Chaucer&#039;s Early Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the narrators of BD, HF, PF, and LGW for the ways that Chaucer uses them to examine &quot;the task of revivifying the past&quot; and explore the truth value of poetry and poetic traditions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272028">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Influence of Rhetoric on Chaucer&#039;s Portraiture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the models of verbal portraiture in the &quot;Rhetorica ad Herennium&quot; and works by Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Matthew of Vendôme and their impact on Chaucer, arguing that the portraits of Fortune and Blanche in BD reflect the Black Knight&#039;s state of mind; that the portraits of Diomede, Troilus, and Criseyde in TC reflect the &quot;growth of Troilus&#039; character and the decline of Criseyde&#039;s&quot;; and that the portrait of Virginia in PhyT indicates the &quot;limitation of the Physician.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272027">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gesture in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the uses of gestures in Chaucer&#039;s poetry: &quot;simplistic&quot; uses in HF and PF, broad variety in CT, and the complex characterization of Pandarus in TC. Focuses on expressive movements and postures of body and face, along with laughing, moaning, and the like.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272026">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Noble Rhetor: Chaucer and Medieval Poetic Traditions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the importance of classical and medieval rhetorical theories that underlie late medieval poetry, and discusses the &quot;flowering of rhetorico-poetic technique in Chaucer&#039;s verse,&quot; analyzing samples of his poetry in light of Geoffrey of Vinsauf&#039;s &quot;Documentum de arte versificandi.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272025">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Way with a Proverb: &#039;Allas! Allas! That Evere Love Was Synne&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the lament in WBP 3.614 with the more familiar proverb &quot;Lechery is no sin,&quot; recurrently used by traditional &quot;demonic&quot; figures in early literature. The Wife&#039;s use is richer with &quot;complex ironies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272024">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Franklin&#039;s Prologue, 716-721, Persius, and the Continuity of the Mannerist Style]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Chaucer&#039;s use of the humility topos in FranP as an example of &quot;mannerist style,&quot; focusing on his uses of the terms &quot;crude&quot; and &quot;excused&quot; and his reference to Mount Parnassus. Exemplifies the rich classical background of these features, and suggests that the device signals that the Franklin &quot;will not be telling the truth,&quot; and that Chaucer did not know Persius&#039;s &quot;Satires&quot; firsthand.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272023">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Truth of a &#039;Vache&#039;: The Homely Homily of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Truth&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the figural implications of cow/ox imagery in &quot;Truth,&quot; punningly evident in &quot;Vache&quot; and in references to beasts and stalls.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272022">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde, IV, 295-301]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Troilus&#039; allusion to Oedipus at 4.300, and rejects the suggestion that it reflects psychological understanding; Troilus refers to Oedipus as an exemplar of someone victimized by Fortune.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272021">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nun&#039;s Priest and Canto V of the &#039;Inferno&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Dante&#039;s account of Paolo and Francesca underlies the reference to the book of Lancelot in NPT 7.3212.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272020">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What is a Canterbury Tale?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks to define the phrase &quot;Canterbury tale,&quot; by exploring the relative usefulness of various critical approaches to Chaucer&#039;s tales. Comments on how the tales engage their respective genres in &quot;unpredictable&quot; ways, how they characterize their tellers, how they &quot;comment on the nature of communication,&quot; and how, despite their &quot;relative literalness,&quot; they typically present complex relations between literal and allegorical meanings.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272019">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and His Narrators: The Poet&#039;s Place in His Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer adapts his first-person narrators throughout his career in order to explore aspects of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. Chaucer achieves a greatest sense of objectivity when his subjective narrator is most apparent. Considers BD, HF, PF, TC, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272018">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reflections on a Gloss to the &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039; from Jerome&#039;s &#039;Adversus Jovinianum&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critical discussions of Chaucer&#039;s authorship of the &quot;substantive&quot; glosses that appear in his manuscripts, shows that the glosses to PrT 7.579-85 derive from Jerome&#039;s &quot;Adversus Jovinianum&quot; rather than from the liturgy of the Holy Innocents, and argues that these glosses were written by Chaucer and provide evidence of his &quot;creative process,&quot; especially his intention to set the view of virginity in PrT in counterpoint to that in WBP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272017">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Forum: The Man of Law&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques Morton W. Bloomfield&#039;s &quot;The Man of Law&#039;s Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy,&quot; commenting on the artistic quality of MLT and the Man of Law as narrator.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272016">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Forum: The Man of Law&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Responds to K. J. Hughes&#039; forum letter about the artistic and dramatic qualities of MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272015">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Alliterative Ancestry of Dunbar&#039;s &#039;The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that William Dunbar&#039;s debt to Chaucer (WBPT) in his &quot;Tua Meriit Wemen and the Wedo, &quot;although &quot;important and considerable, is often exaggerated beyond helpfulness.&quot; The poem owes a great deal to earlier alliterative poetry, in particular &quot;Pearl&quot; by way of the mediating poem, &quot;Tayis Bank.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272014">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contemporary Chaucer Criticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys major works of Chaucer criticism, focusing on works published between ca.1960-1970 and identifying trends. The bibliography lists some 40 works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272013">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Humility and Obedience in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale,&#039; with the Envoy Considered as an Ironic Affirmation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes structural and thematic parallels between ClT and its Envoy, arguing that both refute the Wife of Bath&#039;s attitudes, one through alternative perspective and the other through mockery.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272012">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Prosody]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews Ian Robinson&#039;s book-length study, &quot;Chaucer Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition&quot; (1971).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272011">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ending of the &#039;Monk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers manuscript variants of MkT and NPP, historical contexts of various details, and the dramatic effectiveness of the interruption that bridges the two. Argues that the so-called &quot;Modern Instances&quot; should conclude the Monk&#039;s sequence of tragedies, and considers the &quot;long form&quot; of NPP to be Chaucer&#039;s final intention. The Monk is interrupted by the Knight, who had served in a campaign that connects him with Pedro of Cyprus, one of the modern tragic figures.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272010">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Traductio&#039; on &#039;Honde&#039; in the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the &quot;stylistic and ironic aspects of &#039;honde&#039;&quot; in WBP, showing how uses of the word and related imagery anticipate the Wife&#039;s mastery of Jankyn.]]></dcterms:description>
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