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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mutable Imagination: Time, Space and Imagination in Medieval English Narrative]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the narrative structures of various narrative poems in Old and Middle English, especially as these relate to an &quot;apocalyptic sense of history&quot; and the dislocations it produces. Includes a chapter on TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Radial Categories and the Central Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies medieval understanding of the romance genre by exploring medieval catalogs of romances and applying George Lakoff&#039;s theory of &quot;radial&quot; categories. Includes comments on several of Chaucer&#039;s works and on several medieval lists that do not include them.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mythography or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Mediaeval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores historicity and fictionality in medieval narratives of early. mythic Thebes. Includes brief commentary on the sources of Chaucer&#039;s knowledge of Oedipus and his conflation of Egyptian and Boeotian Thebes in KnT 1.1470ff.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shamed Guiltless: Criseyde, Dido, and Chaucerian Ethics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines shame as a force in identity construction and a constraint on female agency, focusing on Criseyde in TC and Dido in HF, and briefly mentioning LGW. As an historical force, shame also determines narrative possibilities in these poems.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Philosophical &#039;Entente&#039; of Particulars: Criseyde as Nominalist in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Criseyde is a &quot;willful agent,&quot; who reveals &quot;nominalist intentions&quot; and is guided by her own desires and &quot;misdirected will&quot; in her love of Troilus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[To &#039;speken in amphibologies&#039;: Reading Troilus and Criseyde, Book V, 763]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Criseyde, arguing that Chaucer forces the reader&#039;s &quot;active engagement&quot; with the language in Criseyde&#039;s soliloquy, which reinforces the ambiguity of her character.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s Descriptions and the Ethics of Feminine Experience]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of Criseyde challenges the &quot;traditional &#039;descriptio&#039; as a restrictive benchmark of feminine beauty.&quot; Describes Criseyde&#039;s transformations in TC as an &quot;experiential journey through love and war.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;For Goddes Love&#039;: Rhetorical Expression in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on how the idiomatic phrase &quot;for goddes love&quot; is used in TC as &quot;an expression of power&quot; and how the phrase &quot;appeals to a divine system of mercy and justice&quot; when used by Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandarus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La traducción como transición: La huella del Roman de la rose en la poesía chauceriana]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Rom as a translation and also as a key moment in Chaucer&#039;s literary career that will make him the father of English poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nature&#039;s &#039;Yerde&#039; and &#039;Warde&#039;: Authority and Choice in &#039;Chaucer&#039;s Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the relationship between the formel and Nature in PF in light of late medieval practices of wardship, informed by attention to &quot;yerde&quot; as an emblem of authority. Comments on the formel&#039;s decision not to marry and on parallels between the formel and Criseyde in Book II of TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271949">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tools for Tomorrow: The Utopian Function in Middle English Literature, 1350-1420]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that fourteenth-century English allegories and dream-visions &quot;open up utopic spaces&quot; and enable proposals for social change. Considers a variety of texts, including HF, which &quot;discusses the potential inherent in both art and language to shape a better world in birth.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Narrative Play: Medieval Dream Narrators and Poetic Process]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines HF and other medieval dream-visions from a stand-point of performance theory, while considering the role of the narrator/dreamer as perceiver and creator of meaning, with ramifications for how narrative may be viewed as process, rather than as product.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271947">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and &#039;Adam Scriveyn&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the diction of &quot;Adam&quot; indicates that it was not written by Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and Criseyde : A Reader&#039;s Guide]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduction to TC designed for students. Provides scene-by-scene themes, key topics, and commentary, with recurrent attention to Chaucer&#039;s debt to Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Il filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271945">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rumour and Renown: Representations of &quot;Fama&quot; in Western Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the meaning of Middle English &quot;fama,&quot; derived from the Latin, in relation to the spoken word. Chapter 15, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039; and Pope&#039;s &#039;Temple of Fame&#039;,&quot; analyzes relations between the spoken and written word in these poems, as well as other dichotomies within Chaucer&#039;s poems, including truth and rumor as Chaucer compares his dream of Dido and Aeneas with Virgil&#039;s version. Discusses how both Chaucer and Pope engage with the Latin and Greek traditions and examines Pope&#039;s homage to Chaucer, as well as his divergence from Chaucer&#039;s text.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What&#039;s &#039;Myrie&#039; about the Prose of the Parson&#039;s Tale?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the Parson&#039;s use of &quot;myrie&quot; in ParsP in terms of the &quot;internal generic matrix&quot; constructed by the Parson in the ParsT. Focuses on Tzvetan Todorov&#039;s and Paul Strohm&#039;s writings on genre.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apprehending the Divine and Choosing to Believe: Voluntarist Free Will in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Second Nun&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that SNT &quot;presents conversion as a choice stimulated by apprehension of the divine through the senses&quot; and accomplished by a &quot;radical act of the will, unmediated and immediate, if not inherently violent.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;rather be used / than be eaten&#039;? Harry Bailly&#039;s Animals and The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Umberto Eco&#039;s, Jacques Derrida&#039;s, and Marianne Dekoven&#039;s contributions to animal studies, and assesses the Host&#039;s references to &quot;jade&quot; and &quot;trede-fowl&quot; in NPP and NPE as &quot;prime examples&quot; of the &quot;human habit of appropriating the animal world.&quot; Also assesses the chase scene in NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How to Do Things With Fictions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies understanding of literary texts, including Chaucer&#039;s CT, to ideas of everyday life. Chapter 1, &quot;Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics,&quot; addresses the benefits of using NPT, in particular, to teach ethics and issues of morality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Painted Chamber of Westminster, the Fall of Tyrants and the English Literary Model of Governance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses biblical kings represented in the &quot;camera depicta&quot; of the Westminster Chamber, also treated in several literary works on kingship, including MkT and a short passage in ParsT. The Chamber&#039;s murals proclaim the Plantagenet kings to be &quot;ideal just warriors&quot; and warn that immorality in a royal family &quot;becomes a pathology of the state.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Parabolic Narrative: The Prologue to the &#039;Tale of Melibee,&#039; Lines 953-58]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The semantic range of &quot;proverbs,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s emphasis on the word, indicates that Mel is a series of parables, or allegorical narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271938">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: The Pardoner&#039;s Reproduction in His Critics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits the centrality of the Pardoner (rather than the marginality assumed by many critics) to CT. The &quot;confidence game&quot; of his narration parallels Chaucer&#039;s own rhetorical approach and informs those of his critics. Chaucer illustrates the self-negating nature of such rhetoric; the institutions (ecclesiastical, literary, academic) that enable and helpfully obscure narrative hypocrisy will inevitably be destabilized by that narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hyperreal Blessings: Simulated Relics in The Pardoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Viewed in light of Jean Baudrillard&#039;s &quot;Simulacra and Simulation,&quot; the Pardoner&#039;s relics are simulacra, which allows Chaucer to question their &quot;realness.&quot; The textuality of PardT (and CT as a whole) is to be read as a hyperreality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271936">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wordsworth and Chaucer&#039;s Manciple&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Wordsworth&#039;s modernization of ManT, which was commissioned for Thomas Powell&#039;s &quot;The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Moderniz&#039;d&quot; (1841) but eventually suppressed by Wordsworth&#039;s wife.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jepte&#039;s Daughter in the Bible, the &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039; and the &#039;Confessio Amantis&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Unlike their biblical source, Chaucer&#039;s and Gower&#039;s allusions to Jephthah&#039;s daughter indicate concern with pain and emotional suffering. Also considers the illustration in Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.126 that accompanies Gower&#039;s tale of Virginia in &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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