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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Text Estranged: Topographies of Irony in Chaucer and Milton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bedford explores the development of the term &quot;irony&quot; and interpretive issues surrounding its use, focusing on Chaucer&#039;s use of irony as reflected in Milton&#039;s interpretations of SqT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer&#039;s Squire&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Canacee&#039;s kindness toward the formel eagle shows Chaucer&#039;s sympathy for women and appreciation of female friendship. The formel, like other females in Chaucer, has been abused by men--and warns Canacee against them. In creating a painted mew for the falcon (an ekphrasis), Canacee expresses her pity and affection for the injured bird. Their friendship is brief but ideal, crossing apparently formidable borders.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Solving Dorigen&#039;s Trilemma: Oath and Law in the Franklin&#039;s and Physician&#039;s Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dorigen in FranT has more than the two options of shame or death: she can also choose to break a bad law, even though the decision to let bad law stand &quot;seems somehow, tragically, to have been taken long before the characters became conscious of choosing.&quot; In PhyT as well as in FranT, characters respond to their situations in ways that legitimize bad law.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[New Contexts for the Classics: Wanderers and Revolutionaries in the Tales of the Franklin and the Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[From a feminist perspective, Fernández Rodríguez compares FranT and ClT with Fanny Burney&#039;s &quot;The Wanderer&quot; (1814) and Maria Edgeworth&#039;s &quot;The Modern Griselda&quot; (1805). Dorigen&#039;s and Griselda&#039;s domestic constraints contrast the ones depicted by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female writers who lived surrounded by conduct books and the cult of sensibility.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alice on the Couch: A 21st Century Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Mruk mines details and perspectives in the Wife of Bath materials to imagine the Wife as a real patient undergoing therapy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Illicit Country: The Loathly Lady and the Imaginary Foundations of Medieval English Land Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the &quot;Loathly Lady&quot; is an anthropomorphic representation of the land, linking human vagaries with the uncertain product of working any given land and underscoring the impossibility of human attempts to control and regulate the natural world.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sayers reviews commentary on the Wife of Bath&#039;s deafness; suggests that we treat it more literally than metaphorically; and posits that, through the deafened Wife, Chaucer &quot;does not resolve the opposition between experience and authority, but rather forces its abandonment.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contested Authority: Jerome and the Wife of Bath on 1 Timothy 2]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both Jerome and Chaucer follow Paul in deploying &quot;provocative women&quot; to dramatize contemporary controversies over who may interpret scripture. The Wife of Bath performs exegesis even as she effectively likens her husbands to &quot;exegetes whose sins discredit their sermons&quot;; however, her comedic embodiment of the literary &quot;unruly woman&quot; neutralizes any threat to domestic and institutional hierarchies.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s Marginal Authority]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys and assesses the manuscript glosses and notes to WBP, arguing that scribal commentary affirms the Wife&#039;s orthodoxy as an exegete. The glosses and notes in Oxford, New College 314 (Ne), and related manuscripts grant authority to her uses of scripture and &quot;other learned discourses.&quot; The glosses in British Library Egerton 2864 (En3) reflect, perhaps, anxiety about female authority, but both sets of comments &quot;grant her an authoritative grounding in canonical scripture and call attention to her lessons on marital sexuality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Novelized, Carnivalized Exemplum: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Friar&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through its &quot;metafictional dialogue&quot; between the teller and pilgrim narrator; its &quot;inter-illumination&quot; of genres, including anticlerical satire, oath making, and fabliau; and its depiction of a &quot;carnival hell,&quot; FrT parodies and thus undermines the authority of the sermon exemplum as a genre.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Epstein argues for a nuanced understanding of money in SumT, reading its significations in light of the thirteenth-century Franciscan treatise &quot;Sacrum commercium,&quot; medieval commercial practice, and deliberations on quality and quantity among the &quot;Oxford Calculators&quot; of fourteenth-century Merton College. Focuses on the &quot;long denouement&quot; of SumT and its underlying concerns with spirituality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;It may nat be&#039;: Chaucer, Derrida, and the Impossibility of Gift]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Similar to gift giving as theorized by Jacques Derrida (in response to Marcel Mauss), the dividing of the fart in SumT is &quot;an impossible&quot; that prompts logical deliberation and logocentric reflection. Linked via punning, the giving of money in SumT is analogous to fart dividing, so the fart scene is an apt &quot;coda&quot; to the Tale. Both gifts-that-are-non-gifts align with the concerns of exchange, gifting, and language in FranT, occupatio in SqT, and the tale-telling contest of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Motif of the Patient Wife in Muslim and Western Literature and Folklore]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides comparative analysis of the modern Tunisian tale &quot;Sabra,&quot; an analogue of ClT, told by a woman to an exclusively female audience. Includes summary of and commentary on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;ambivalent and ironic version,&quot; plus other medieval European analogues, exploring how context affects interpretation of the basic folkloric narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Natural Feeling and Unnatural Mothers: Herod the Great, &#039;The Life of Saint Bridget,&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the depictions of grief over lost children in the Wakefield mystery play &quot;Slaughter of the Innocents&quot;; a Middle English life of Saint Bridget; and ClT. The depictions present grief as variously natural, unnatural, and a response to conflict; however, grief transforms the mother figure in each work.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes the GP description of the Sergeant of the Law (ll. 309-30) in an anthology of 100 lyrics and poetic excerpts that pertain to lawyers and legal practice. Brief notes at the end of the work.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law and the Argument for Providence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Skilled in the law and both learned and adept in poetry, the Man of Law crafts a tale of sin, free will, and providence. Though Custance is steadfast, her will is free and consequential, the foundation of true judgment. MLT proposes a concept of providence in a mutable world &quot;as the idea of things ordained to an end pre-existing in the divine mind.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sovereignty Matters: Anachronism, Chaucer&#039;s Britain, and England&#039;s Future&#039;s Past]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The &quot;temporal disorder&quot; and &quot;internationalism&quot; of MLT--combined with its examination of competing familial and institutional loyalty--depict sovereignty as a redemptive governmental form capable of healing the ills of late medieval England, including &quot;its language . . . and its institutions of marriage, Church, and law.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Man of Law&#039;s Tale and Rome]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For Chaucer, Rome is an ancient imperial capital, a goal of medieval pilgrimage, and a center of trade--trade in devotions, indulgences, and pardons that allies mercantilism and religion. Such a Roman transaction also involves relics or monuments, and in MLT its most Christian &quot;commodity&quot; is Custance herself, the object of exchange, who becomes &quot;an alternative to devotional images and relics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that racial differentiation--generally associated with the early modern period--was not necessarily secondary to religious distinctions in the late medieval period, using MLT and other texts as evidence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The BBC Man of Law&#039;s Tale: Faithful to the Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The BBC&#039;s 2003 adaptation of MLT updates Chaucer&#039;s Tale, incorporating plot, character names, and thematic elements such as faith, exile and return, trauma and healing, and time and repetition. Constance, a Nigerian refugee, finds love and fellowship in modern England but is wrongly accused of murder. Once exonerated, she is voluntarily deported, but her mother-in-law attempts to prevent her return to England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What Women Really Want: The Genesis of Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews scholarship that discusses analogues of WBT and hypothesizes the nature and date of the archetype of these tales, focusing on the relative chronology of major motifs, shared and unshared. A hypothetical summary of the archetype--presented as a basis for gauging Chaucer&#039;s originality--concludes the work.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower&#039;s Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[All of the recensions of the Prologue to &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot;--especially the Ricardian recension--reflect Gower&#039;s economic concerns. His Tale of Florent also engages commercial concerns, particularly those of marital contracts, although to a lesser extent than does Chaucer&#039;s WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents where wife beating was both allowed and forbidden in medieval canon and civil law, often presented in analogies to bishops&#039; treatment of clerics and lords&#039; treatment of slaves. Kelly comments on instances in CT, particularly in WBP. Reprinted in Kelly&#039;s Law and Religion in Chaucer&#039;s England (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Encoding of Subjectivity in Chaucer&#039;s The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale and The Pardoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Testing the premise of A. C. Spearing&#039;s &quot;Textual Subjectivity&quot; (2005), Klitgård explores the dramatic monologues of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner and uses of narrative personae.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Obscenity and Fastidiousness in The Miller&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s intentional contrasting of the language of the Knight and that of the Miller challenges his readers&#039; openmindedness. The Miller&#039;s obscene language is cleverly applied and should on no account be censored from prudishness.]]></dcterms:description>
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