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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canacee&#039;s Mirror: Gender and Treasons in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the context of spheres of male and female acts of treason, suggests that women&#039;s disloyalty (e.g., Criseyde) was typically seen as simultaneously political and romantic, whereas a male traitor&#039;s action could be more easily compartmentalized, as in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Truth and the Real in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Places HF in the intellectual and philosophical contexts of its era, particularly the tradition of Boethius and Wyclif, arguing that Chaucer supports the existence of universals.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Reading List: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English Romances in Translation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In an effort to rehabilitate the medieval romance, argues that Th, when read through the prism of the Auchinleck MS, shows more affection for the form than is generally believed.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Auralities: Sound Cultures and the Experience of Hearing in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents PrT as one of several texts that are considered as performed/heard experiences, and as instruments of &quot;late medieval identities and communities.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses how the late medieval Church encouraged and participated in &quot;fraternal corrections,&quot; and establishes connections with major English reformist writings, including &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe&quot; and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot; Brief mention of Chaucer&#039;s character of the Parson on pp. 54 and 81.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Anxiety of Exclusion: Speech, Power, and Chaucer&#039;s Manciple]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CYP and ManPT in light of Agamben&#039;s theories of sovereignty and exclusion and de Certeau&#039;s notion of a &quot;person in-between,&quot; considering as well several instances of slander and accusation in late-medieval London records. London, the Host, and Phebus are all sites of sovereign power (defined by the ability to except), while the Manciple&#039;s mother embodies a &quot;critique of sovereignty&quot; (216), part of Chaucer&#039;s concern with the &quot;insecurity of public utterance&quot; (191).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;I ne kan nat bulte it to the bren . . . &#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This introduction to a collection of essays on &quot;Representing the Middle Ages&quot; begins by providing an overview of representations of experience in the NPT.  After presenting an overview of key criticism, the article asserts that the tale seeks to provide &quot;an appreciation of the intrinsically human desire to create meaning.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Matter of Spain]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The program of illustrations in the unique witness to &quot;La Crónica Troyana de Alfonso XI&quot; inadvertently undermines Alphonso XI&#039;s efforts to situate his people and himself within a &quot;heroic, even mythical, past&quot; and predicts the tragedy that would befall his kingdom during the reign of his son Pedro. Chaucer&#039;s reference to Pedro I in MkT reflects both his awareness of political events in Spain and &quot;the centrality of Spain to English interests during the period.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What&#039;s Wrong with the Pardoner? Complexion Theory, the Phlegmatic Man, and Effeminacy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the context of medieval humoral symptomatology, Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner fits the profile of a phlegmatic male. This diagnosis explains, in turn, his corrupt character, for &quot;incontinence, excess, deceitfulness, cowardice, and negligence&quot; in a man were all thought to be symptoms of excessive phlegm.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jean Gobi&#039;s Pardoner Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[While vernacular precedents for Chaucer&#039;s satirical portrait of a pardoner have so far eluded scholars, five Latin exempla in a fourteenth-century French Dominican&#039;s collection, &quot;Scala coeli,&quot; suggest that &quot;the pardoner was already a type of the avaricious trickster&quot; well before Chaucer wrote his PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Physician&#039;s Tale: Authority, Sovereignty, and Power]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analysis of PhyT and its connection with the storyteller through the notions of authority, sovereignty and power. In the post-plague context, when doctors had become broadly distrusted, a story that stresses these aspects would help to restore the confidence in them.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mutual Masochism and the Hermaphroditic Courtly Lady in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Jacques Lacan&#039;s and Slovoj Žižek&#039;s discussions of courtly love, focusing on the hermaphroditic potential of the Courtly Lady, and discusses FranT for the ways that hermaphroditic and masochistic tendencies inhabit the main characters&#039; &quot;performances of amatory submission&quot; (177). Also, comments on the Franklin&#039;s submission to the Host and his queering of that position by foreclosing &quot;masculine pleasure in climax&quot; at the end of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Holy and the Unholy in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the SqT draws on missionary accounts of Mongol culture in which religion and magic, the &quot;holy&quot; and the &quot;unholy,&quot; are seen as confused, the Tale itself treats magic as something manmade, a technological marvel, eliciting admiration and promoting community.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A &#039;Wrangling Parliament&#039;: Terminology and Audience in Medieval European Literary Studies and Lesbian Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the validity and applicability of the critical concepts of &quot;reading lesbian&quot; and &quot;reading queer,&quot; briefly suggesting the implications of imagining lesbian and queer audiences for readings of MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Austin, Joyce, O&#039;Brian, and Chaucer&#039;s Squire: Bakhtin and Medieval Narratology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Unlike &quot;free-indirect discourse,&quot; Bakhtin&#039;s &quot;hybrid discourse&quot; readily allows analysis of written and spoken language in narrative, especially in texts before 1900. The portrait of the Squire, hybridizing both estates satire and &quot;Le Roman de la Rose,&quot; thus narratorially balances inherently mixed evaluations of his character.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How Source Study Works: The Sergeant in The Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes varying treatments of the &quot;sergeant&quot; character in Chaucer, the Anonymous French, Petrarch, and Boccaccio by considering the character&#039;s rhetorical effect in each. Rather than imitating a character either cruel (as in the French) or not-cruel (in Petrarch), Chaucer focuses on Grisilde&#039;s perception of the sergeant&#039;s behavior.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Sum Moribundus&#039;: Prolegomenal Forays into the Realm of Despair]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considering such works as &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Cressida,&quot; and PardPT, the author identifies finitude and nothingness as the roots of despair in late medieval and early modern works, as well as in modern theory.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boccaccio and Myth: Eros, Psyche, and Classical Myth in the Fourteenth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues for the influence of the Eros and Psyche myth on Boccaccio&#039;s Griselda tale, and thereby on ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historical analysis of early women&#039;s speech; describes early modern England&#039;s regulations of women&#039;s speech and women&#039;s subversive strategies to represent themselves as subjects in masculine discourses (including court depositions).  Examines speech and silence in ClT; argues that Harry Bailly addresses the Clerk in the same ways women are addressed, and the Clerk code-switches in order to question how linguistic ideologies enforce gender norms.  ClT challenges the association of women&#039;s silence with femininity and sexuality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Demonism, Geometric Nicknaming, and Natural Causation in Chaucer&#039;s Summoner&#039;s and Friar&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nicknames for geometric propositions occur in TC (&quot;dulcarnon,&quot; &quot;flemyng of wrecches&quot;) and one seems to be at play at the end of SumT (&quot;figura demonis&quot;), where the squire&#039;s &quot;natural&quot; solution to the problem of dividing the fart opposes the supernatural causation that operates in FrT. The opposition between natural and supernatural causation helps to unify Part 3 of CT and reflects the contemporary concerns of some Lollards and intellectuals, such as Nicholas of Oresme.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the tradition in which God speaks through humans and the proto-reformation implications of literary texts where the laity use speech usually reserved for priests. Chapter 4, &quot;Cursed Speakers,&quot; considers the carter&#039;s and old woman&#039;s curses in FrT as parodies of Eucharistic prayers. Chapter 5, &quot;Belly Speech,&quot; explores divine speech eminating from parts of the body other than the mouth, with discussion of the ailing man&#039;s fart in SumT as an instance of this non-vocal divine speech.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fairies in Medieval Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses fairies and elves within medieval romances and folklore. Analyzes Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;fayrye&quot; in the MerT, &quot;fairy mistresses&quot; in Th, and the &quot;fairy woman&quot; in the WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hamlet and Lameth]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[References to &quot;Lameth&quot; in WBT and SqT comprise links in a sturdy chain connecting the tragic actions of Shakespeare&#039;s prince of Denmark to Lamech, a &quot;(pseudo-)biblical figure associated with murder, rage, and vengeance.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Formation of Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: A Study of Italian and English Mystics, Christine De Pizan, Boccaccio, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers WBPT and SNPT, along with woman writers of the 13th-15th centuries, as part of the development of a female &quot;subject consciousness.&quot; Also examines Grisilde in ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of Disability]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;cultural geography&quot; of blindness in medieval literature, art, and religious texts of England and France. Includes discussion of MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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