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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[That Which Chargeth Not to Say: Animal Imagery in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC includes references to animals through frequent analogy and extended imagery, but these are often generically inappropriate. Dreams about animals are largely unexplored. Comparison of Troilus to the horse Bayard not only emphasizes the hero&#039;s animal nature but also raises the horse to the level of rational being, suggesting the commonality of beings on earth.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Talking Animals, Debating Beasts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores anthropomorphism and the &quot;connaturality&quot; of human and nonhuman animals in PF and Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep,&quot; noting the comments of medieval and modern philosophers on the traditional animal-human binary. Lydgate&#039;s poem was as popular as Chaucer&#039;s in the Middle Ages, and it is more &quot;radical&quot; in its &quot;sympathy for animal suffering.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the cuckoo-merlin dialogue in PF deconstructs the traditional human-animal binary by presenting a &quot;fleeting realization of anthropomorphism gone awry.&quot; The cuckoo&#039;s &quot;brood parasitism . . . resolves itself into a mode of communal profit&quot; and the poem becomes a &quot;parody of overclassification.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and &#039;The Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the birds of PF to birds in medieval scientific texts, in sources or analogues (especially Alan de Lille&#039;s &quot;De planctu Naturae&quot;), and in the observable environment. Chaucer fills PF with birds known in England, classifying them by diet but also by class. The birds represent diverse species native to England as well as the diversity of human society, anticipating the estates satire of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contemplating Finitude: Animals in The Book of the Duchess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Animals figure prominently in BD but are more than mere symbols. Ceyx&#039;s dead body is also an &quot;unnatural animal.&quot; The birds, horse, whelp, and hart invite, but also resist, interpretation. The juxtaposition of death and animalistic vitality evokes grief, which itself is the simultaneous awareness of being present in life and of death. The animals in the poem help us to &quot;think about finitude.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Animal Agency, the Black Knight, and the Hart in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although anthropocentric, BD emphasizes the similarity of animals and humans under the law of &quot;kynde.&quot; They share an &quot;embodied state and an ethical system as a result of their shared creation.&quot; The hart, object of the hunt, parallels the Black Knight&#039;s heart, and Chaucer uses this parallel to counsel John of Gaunt to overcome his grief.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feathering the Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the specific appearance of vellum, the types of quills used in creating a medieval manuscript, and animal-inflicted damage to manuscripts by mice, bugs, etc. Intersperses discussion of NPT with regard to Chauntecleer&#039;s appearance and animals&#039; desires for sex and for freedom.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Chauntecleer and Animal Morality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[NPT demonstrates the danger of reading &quot;for a single abstract moral&quot; by means of its emphasis on Chauntecleer&#039;s humanlike qualities. Among his most human attributes are experiencing and expounding a dream. If &quot;men&quot; refers to both humans and chickens, the tale treats both Chauntecleer and the widow as leading good, virtuous lives; the poem&#039;s &quot;moralite&quot; calls readers to live an engaged but reflective life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in &#039;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Pardoner is compared to a hare, goat, and horse, and PardT refers to smaller animals usually considered vermin. The three gluttonous rioters are appropriately called shrews, and the poison used to kill them is ostensibly bought for rats and a polecat. In the exemplum, however, animals are innocent and it is the rioters, and the Pardoner himself, who are &quot;vermin.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Avian Hybridity in &#039;The Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;: Uses of Anthropomorphism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In SqT Chaucer practices a form of anthropomorphism that acknowledges its representational limits. The relationship of Canacee and the falcon shows &quot;a commonality among living creatures&quot; and offers a model of female friendship. Canacee nurses the falcon and the falcon warns Canacee about &quot;male betrayal,&quot; providing an example of &quot;protective and reciprocal care.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Foiled by Fowl: The Squire&#039;s Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin&#039;s Dorigen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Themes of &quot;trouthe&quot; and &quot;gentillesse,&quot; as well as the threat of suicide, in the SqT falcon episode (5.409-631) anticipate major themes of FranT. Because SqT is prior in the narrative sequence, the human language of FranT parodies avian language rather than vice versa. The falcon episode is a &quot;foil&quot; for Dorigen&#039;s complaint (5.1355-1456).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reimagining Natural Order in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Classical and medieval antifeminist texts disparagingly compare women and animals. In WBP, Alisoun &quot;redeploys animal similes&quot; to claim the privileges of animal-like status because she is naturally crafty and sly, impatient, and cannot be held responsible. Alisoun also &quot;animalizes&quot; Jankyn by comparing him to a lion and sheep, &quot;deflating notions of masculine supremacy&quot; and celebrating humans&#039; animal nature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;A beest may al his lust fulfille&#039;: Naturalizing Chivalric Violence in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In KnT, warriors are compared to animals, a seemingly desirable condition that would allow warriors to &quot;discharge at will their power and violence.&quot; However, several references to shackled, confined, or endangered animals create a contrast between warrior self-identification with animals and animals&#039; subjugation in the realm of chivalric warfare.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271895">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in &#039;The Knight&#039;s Tale,&#039; &#039;The Squire&#039;s Tale,&#039; and The Parliament of Fowls]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although some falconers were female, the activity of training (often female) falcons is highly gendered. The necessity of the falcon to be tamed is paralleled in the need for Emelye in KnT to submit to heterosexual marriage, and for Canacee in SqT to be &quot;managed&quot; by powerful males.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In some modern views, and in John of Trevisa&#039;s &quot;On the Properties of Things,&quot; animals have feelings and communicate. Similarly, CT and PF demonstrate &quot;the value and pleasure of minds speaking to other minds,&quot; whether human or avian. Late medieval interest in encyclopedic listings of things, including animals, may be a cultural result of the plague.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sixteen essays by various authors examine animals in Chaucer, with an Introduction and Afterword that describe the grounds for challenging the &quot;anthropocentric perspective&quot; and align this challenge with feminism and the rejection of hierarchical classifications. The volume includes an index. For the individual essays, search for Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts under Alternative Title]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271892">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Details the patience genre in medieval literature. Chapter 5 focuses on Chaucer&#039;s female patience figures, including Griselda in ClT and female characters in LGW, and compares how Christine de Pizan and Chaucer treat the patience literature genre differently in their works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Autographies: The &quot;I&quot; of the Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests we cannot necessarily assume that, in medieval texts, every instance of an &quot;I&quot; must represent a fictionalized narrator who has a persona that can be analyzed and ultimately held responsible for various details of, or problems within, the text. Refers to Chaucer throughout, particularly in Chapter 3, &quot;Chaucerian Prologues and the Wife of Bath.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies clothing in imaginative literature, arguing that writers of romances redirect the negative depictions of the courtly body found in clerical chronicles and penitential writings into positive images that convey virtue. While religious and political documents decried the immorality inherent in sumptuous clothing and attempted to restrain the behavior of individuals wearing stylish garments, writers (including Marie de France, Heldris of Cornuälle, the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet, and Chaucer) reimagine fashion-savvy aristocrats as models of morally sound behavior in a pedagogical program advanced not by preachers but by poets.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271889">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Obscenity in the Court of Public Opinion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses how Chaucer&#039;s bawdiness is perceived in the United States. Includes issues of censorship related to CT, with focus on curricula changes over the past few decades.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Animals of the Hunt and the Limits of Chaucer&#039;s Sympathies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies Chaucer&#039;s depictions of hunting in BD, LGW, and FranT, and argues that these, in contrast with other works in Middle English, show a &quot;marked lack of sympathy for animals as quarries.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Patronazgo literario en la Inglaterra medieval (ss. VII-XIV): Una visión panorámica]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analysis of literary patronage from the Anglo-Saxon times until the end of the fourteenth century, when royal patronage was essential for authors such as Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Makere of this Boke&#039;: Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Ret elevates Chaucer&#039;s status as author, and creates the &quot;illusion of Chaucer&#039;s presence and agency&quot; for the reader of CT. Connects Chaucer&#039;s use of Ret to French literary culture, which helped define Chaucer&#039;s own sense of authorship.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Manciple&#039;s Tale&#039; as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Gower&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;metaphorical and historical connections to Richard II,&quot; as reflected in ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays related to medieval concepts of authorship, focusing on a variety of vernaculars, languages, and literatures, and the &quot;relationship of authorship to readership.&quot; For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Author, Reader, Book under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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