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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Naughty by Nature: Chaucer and the (Re)Invention of Female Goodness in Late Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s presentation of women in TC, LGW, and CT (especially MLT) for the various ways that he invigorates them as characters to give them voice and dimension.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mothers of Exile: Gender and Identity in Medieval Narratives of Foundation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Custance of MLT to be an exception to the medieval stereotype of the barbarous female founder of a society.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From Trevet to Gower and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer and Gower both adapted the story of Constance from the Anglo-Norman chronicle of Trevet. A comparison of the proper names, institutional terms, and speeches shows that Gower closely follows Trevet while Chaucer modifies the story in MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ahoy! and Jury-Rigging: Etymologies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s use of the interjection &quot;Oo&quot; in KnT (2533) is adduced as a stage in the history of &quot;Ahoy&quot; going back to the Anglo-French verb &quot;oir&quot; (to hear, listen).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on Anglo-Saxon architecture and poetry and draws connections between physical spaces and literary texts. Argues that Anglo-Saxon buildings should be viewed as &quot;dynamic spaces&quot; to enrich an understanding of development of Anglo-Saxon literature. Chaucer&#039;s KnT is mentioned in the notes, pp. 325-327.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal--and Patron of the Gower Translations?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Coleman argues that Philippa of Lancaster, oldest legitimate daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal from 1387, sponsored the Portuguese and Castilian translations of Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio&quot; Amantis. Philippa may also have been responsible for an analogue to Chaucer,s Pardoner,s Tale that turns up in Hermengildo de Tancos&#039; &quot;Orto do esposo.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Interiority in the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues against reading Emelye as absent or purely symbolic and instead posits her as having a more complex subjectivity that can be more fully accessed when reading KnT alongside Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Teseida.&quot;  Close reading of Emelye&#039;s prayer to Diana shows her potential for resisting male authority and indicates her nuanced interiority.  Despite this moment of autonomy, Emelye loses agency in the text once her body functions as the site for fulfillment of male desire.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows in Three Middle English Narratives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;The King of Tars,&quot; &quot;The Siege of Jerusalem,&quot; and KnT in order to demonstrate that identity, however embodied, was unfixed in these works and perhaps in the later Middle Ages at large.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Stubborn Against the Fact: Literary Ideals, Philosophy and Criticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses KnT as a sample premodern text to support a critical approach &quot;equally as concerned with literary ideals as it is with projects of subversion.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271524">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Representations of Human Behavior: Determined and Free Action in the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039; and the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue and Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates issues of determinism and free will in KnT and WBPT. KnT is viewed as &quot;deterministic,&quot; which in turn is countered by the Wife, as well as ClT and SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[More on Blake&#039;s &#039;Auguries&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the context of the biblical passages alluded to in a couplet evoking &quot;gem-encrusted plows,&quot; it is worth noting that in Blake&#039;s depiction of the Canterbury Pilgrims, &quot;he represented the Plowman as a medieval version of himself.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271522">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A sourcebook of &quot;fifteen centuries of history&quot; about the historical, social, political, and religious development of pilgrimages.  Includes a section on &quot;Pilgrimage and Piety in the Late Middle Ages,&quot; with an abridged version of GP, pp. 325-30. Discussion and study questions follow each of the sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271521">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer&#039;s hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to portray pilgrims as &quot;ideal &#039;types&#039;&quot; rather than &quot;individuals.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Fame and Nurture of Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Spurr cites A. E. Housman&#039;s lecture &quot;The Name and Nature of Poetry&quot; and calls upon the makers of the Australian National Curriculum not to excise CT and other canonical texts from the program.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271519">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Termes of Phisik&#039;: Reading between Literary and Medical Discourses in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039; and John Lydgate&#039;s &#039;Dietary&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer and Lydgate&#039;s appropriations of medical discourse (as in GP and KnT) and their introduction of such discourse into the larger English literary culture, including the ramifications for the history of medicine in England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African-American Literary Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests parallels between medieval literature and African-American literature, with particular attention to Layamon and August Wilson (stories of origin), Gloria Naylor&#039;s &quot;Linden Hills&quot; and Dante (a suppressive desire for harmony), and Naylor&#039;s &quot;Bailey&#039;s Café&quot; and CT (polyvocality).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tradesmen, Traitors, Pirates and Prostitutes: Depictions of the Flemish in Later Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers representations of the Flemish in such works as &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; the Paston letters, and CT, with a particular eye toward the use of negative stereotypes and the use of Flemish people as an Other for the purpose of developing an English identity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271516">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptomatic Subjects: Diagnosis, Narrative, and Embodiment in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits a connection between literature, subjectivity, and the diagnosis of medical symptoms in the late Middle Ages. Uses CT and other literary and medical works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[My Child and My Life: Sacrificial Obligation and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arguing for the prominence of the Biblical account of Abraham&#039;s sacrifice of Isaac in medieval culture, the author observes the presence of children as sacrificial figures in MkT, PrT, PhyT, MLT, and ClT, and notes the rewards of faith in those sacrificial circumstances.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271514">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Telling Time: Temporality and Narrative in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores use of temporality (&quot;the experience of living in time&quot;) in CT and Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; suggesting that CT is present-centered and considers the relationship of past to present, while Gower &quot;focuses on the present as it becomes the future.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271513">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Middle English writers employ gendered terms at moments when they are probing new ideas about women&#039;s roles; writers &quot;invented womanhood&quot; to describe women&#039;s experiences beyond their relation to men.  KnT and ClT use gendered language to examine how Emelye, Hippolyta, and Grisilde test whether women can be simultaneously powerful and feminine.  Chaucer uses &quot;gendered language to examine how characters reconcile feminine virtues and social power.&quot;  Comments on FranT, MLT, PrT, SNT, WBT, ABC, Anel, BD, HF, LGW, PF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Works in the English Renaissance: Editions and Imitations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the early editions of Chaucer (Caxton-Speght), and argues that editorial direction may have led to an emphasis on Chaucer&#039;s moral &quot;gravitas,&quot; at the expense of attention to his comedic aspects. The reception of those texts, in turn, may have led to his imitators (e.g., Spenser) overbalancing on the side of sententiousness.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Lessons Fairer than Flowers&#039;: Mary Eliza Haweis&#039;s Chaucer for Children and Models of Friendship.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Haweis&#039;s book (1876) included edited versions of six of the CT and four shorter poems, in Middle English and translation.  Addressing mainly an audience of boys, Haweis placed special emphasis on the theme of friendship, both in the poetry and in Chaucer&#039;s life, as illustrated by his relationship with John of Gaunt and the gift for friendship implied by his pilgrim character in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271510">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harry Bailly: Chaucer&#039;s Critic?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through Harry Bailly in CT, Chaucer explores the literary tastes of his new audience.  Although the Host&#039;s interpretations of Chaucer&#039;s tales are usually wrong-headed, Chaucer uses the Host to suggest appropriate audience reactions to various medieval literary forms.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve&#039;s Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses temporality and &quot;cultural imaginings&quot; of time in Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Chaucer. Refers to Chaucer&#039;s use of narrative and seasonal time and memory in CT, BD, PF, HF, and Astr.]]></dcterms:description>
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