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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Life in The Prioress&#039;s Tale: A Child Martyrdom and Its Expression Through Senses]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines as ritual murder the death of the clergeon in PrT. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266809">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the development of the doctrine of purgatory in medieval art and literature, focusing on Middle English homiletic and didactic writings on death and the necessity of intercession for souls in purgatory.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Such works encourage pragmatic, prudential preparation before death to alleviate postmortem suffering.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Occasional references to Chaucer&#039;s works, particularly PardPT.650::Pardoner and His Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262980">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Staleness in the &#039;Son-Less&#039; World of the &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In SumT 1851-53, the Friar smoothly transforms the mother&#039;s concern for her own dead child into his own self-aggrandizement.  Hints of the son&#039;s death appear throughout SumT to reinforce the Friar&#039;s failure with Thomas.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Texts: Finitude before Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in PardT &quot;allegory and form straddle the boundaries of finitude in order to raise the question of how finitude is constituted,&quot; thereby sharing or anticipating several concerns and questions raised by object-oriented, materialist philosophy. Paradoxically concerned with death and the mundane transcendence of relics, PardPT explores the boundaries and continuities between sign and signified, finitude and infinity, and singularity and form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269559">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Violence in Old and Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the degree of &quot;heroism&quot; in death scenes in a variety of narratives, considering in individual chapters &quot;The Battle of Maldon,&quot; &quot;Beowulf&quot; and &quot;Judith,&quot; Layamon&#039;s &quot;Brut,&quot; the &quot;Alliterative Morte Arthure,&quot; the death of Arcite in KnT, the &quot;near-death experience&quot; in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and several death scenes in Malory&#039;s &quot;Le Morte Darthur.&quot; The later works question the heroic ethos and reflect a particular horror of death. Foreword by Sarah L. Higley.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268124">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death Effects: Revisiting the Conceit of Franklin&#039;s Memoir]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kennedy analyzes Benjamin Franklin&#039;s self-presentation in his Memoir, commenting on his validation of his surname by reference to Chaucer&#039;s GP sketch of the Franklin and other early sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276582">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death Hunters: An Adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. Citation derives from WorldCat record.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274011">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects essays that focus on the theme of death from the later heroic era to the eighteenth century. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271661">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death is a Pilgrim: A Canterbury Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275579">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death Is Money: Buying Trouble with the Pardoner.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers relations between PardPT and the Museum of London&#039;s carved wooden panel that depicts details of the tale. Calculates the &quot;absurdity of the hoard&quot; in the tale, and explores possible responses of the &quot;London economic elite&quot; to the differing depictions of avarice in the tale and on the panel. Includes a color photograph of the panel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277143">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death, Negation, and the Problem of Absence in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Highlights that BD conveys the inevitability and incomprehensibility of death, offering a reading of the poem that moves beyond consolation of poetry and memory.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261723">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death, Prudence, and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s pragmatic claims for salvation are part of a larger &quot;question of Christian worldly prudence&quot; in CT.  His &quot;response to his own tale . . . alerts us to the growth of a pragmatic attitude toward individual death and salvation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271023">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death&#039;s Trick: Based on &quot;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale&quot; from Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Modern prose adaptation for staging of PartT (without PardP), designed for child or adolescent actors, with illustrations by Mike Spoor.  A simultaneously published pamphlet of &quot;Play Teaching Notes,&quot; also titled &quot;Death&#039;s Trick,&quot; by David Calcutt and Sue Calcutt (8 pp.), offers suggestions for teaching the play to cover NLS (National Literacy Strategy of the UK) objectives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267505">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seven essays by various authors who challenge &quot;orthodox views about dialects and dialectology&quot; while discussing topics of dialect and &quot;standard&quot; in English, especially British English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Debating Dialect under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271308">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[December]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that a woodcut by Margaret Lock accompanies an excerpt from part 5 of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270245">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deception and Self-Deception in &#039;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Dorigen of FranT with the biblical Eve: where Eve falls because of her desire for knowledge, Dorigen nearly falls for lack of knowledge, particularly her lack of self-knowledge as is evident in her complaint against the rocks and her playful promise to Aurelius. Both the complaint and the promise deviate from Augustinian notions of the place of humanity in divine order.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277222">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deciphering the Manuscript Page: The &quot;Mise-en-Page&quot; of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes analysis the &quot;mise-en-page&quot; of twenty-four Chaucer manuscripts, including assessment of &quot;borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes,&quot; and arguing that--like Gower and Hoccleve manuscripts--they evince scribal attention to poetic form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263132">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deciphering the Middle English Narrative Poem: Two Approaches]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Review article comparing John M. Ganim&#039;s discussion of Middle English narrative in TC and other Middle English works with Lynn Staley Johnson&#039;s treatment of the subject in the &quot;Pearl&quot; poems.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267976">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Declaiming Chaucer to a Field of Cows : Three Twentieth-Century Glimpses of the Poet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates works by three twentieth-century poets who have made Chaucer the subject of their work: Benjamin Brawley&#039;s sonnet &quot;Chaucer&quot; (1922), e. e. cummings&#039;s untitled sonnet from his collection &quot;Xaipé&quot; (1950), and Ted Hughes&#039;s &quot;Chaucer&quot; (1998). These diverse poets present Chaucer as an emblem of &quot;what poetry can and should be&quot; (18).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Declarations of &#039;Entente&#039; in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC is a drama of &quot;entente,&quot; concerned more with why people do things than what they do.  Chaucer uses &quot;entente&quot; here much more heavily than in any of his earlier works and evokes its numerous meanings.  As the poem progresses, there is a &quot;slippage of meaning,&quot; focusing the reader on the &quot;unreliability of stated intentions and the difficulty of interpreting them.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276333">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Decline and Fall of Interjections.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys uses of primary and secondary interjections (i.e., exclamations and oaths) in Anglo-Saxon through modern English, exploring how the &quot;inventive ability is more marked in some centuries than in others.&quot; Comments on oaths based in religion (God, Mary, saints, and demons) and colloquial phrasing in CT as well as in Middle English drama and legal records.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262937">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deconstructing &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;: Con]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Though deconstruction is a useful tool for breaking down troublesome parts of CT, its &quot;wholesale use&quot; in the interpretation of Chaucer&#039;s poetry does great discredit to the author.  Deconstructive criticism tends to place any author in a position subordinate to the critic in its suggestion that the author is a slave to the subconscious implications of language.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Faith in the poet&#039;s ability to master the constructive and instructive uses of language should never be replaced by the inherent skepticism of deconstruction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262936">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deconstructing &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;: Pro]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deconstructive readings of CT can reopen the study of historical &quot;particulars,&quot; allowing readings from various interpretative communities.  Instead of generalized acceptance of &quot;the medieval world view&quot; or of direct historical references suggesting authorial intention, the new task will entail a &quot;reimagining of the past.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261429">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deconstructing Chaucer&#039;s Retraction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ret is an example of a Derridean &quot;parergon,&quot; simultaneously marginal to and an important element of CT.  It allows for both humanistic and exegetical readings, producing a &quot;hermeneutic double-bind,&quot; separated by an aporetic gap that generates new meanings and interpretations while denying interpretive closure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269703">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deconstruction and the Medieval Indefinite Article: The Undecidable Medievalism of Brian Helgeland&#039;s A Knight&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[D&#039;Arcens addresses Helgeland&#039;s film as an entry point for deconstructing medievalist studies. Such studies, she suggests, reflect a latent Platonism that regards the Middle Ages as a stable standard against which to measure texts and contemporary textual adaptations.]]></dcterms:description>
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