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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Canterbury: A Medieval City]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of essays by various authors on the cultural history of Canterbury. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury: A Medieval City under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bloom&#039;s How to Write About Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pedagogical introduction to Chaucer&#039;s works, presented as advice for writing college-level essays (written by Sauer with Laurie A. Sterling, with a sample essay on male physiognomy in GP by Timothy Richards) and writing about Chaucer more particularly. Individual chapters summarize selected Chaucerian narratives and lyrics and identify themes, characters, historical contexts, genres, imagery, etc., accompanied by suggested topics for writing. The volume provides a bibliography for each chapter and includes a cumulative index. Works considered are GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBPT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, PrT, NPT, TC, and five complaints (Pity, Lady, Mars, Venus, and Purse).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Companion to Medieval Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirty-four essays by various authors, with an introduction and an epilogue by the editor, all on topics pertaining to English poetry from its origins through the fifteenth century. Each essay includes suggestions for further reading, and the volume has a cumulative index. References to Chaucer occur in many essays. For nine essays that discuss Chaucer at length, search until the title of this volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Saunders studies medieval understandings of &quot;magic, enchantment, the demonic, marvel and miracle.&quot; Surveys these topics in biblical and classical precedents, focuses on a range of romances in Middle English, and provides an epilogue that looks toward the English Renaissance. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer, his romances, and his commentaries on magic and magicians, with sustained attention to SqT and FranT, which &quot;make clear distinctions&quot; between natural magic and &quot;less acceptable practices.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Late Fourteenth-Century Poetry (Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Their Legacy)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Scase summarizes the Latin, French, and English traditions of poetry in late medieval England, describing how major poets of the era engaged these traditions and created a new legacy. Chaucer engaged tradition by posing as an &quot;inadequate&quot; poet, by enlivening his work colloquially, and by disparaging native English verse forms.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Allegory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines allegory as a mode in English and American literature (and art), surveying its roots in classical and medieval traditions, exploring its relations with other literary devices and forms (irony, personification, apostrophe, prosopopoeia, etc.), and examining several attempts to theorize the mode (Maureen Quilligan, Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, etc.). Considers literary uses of allegory from Saint Paul to postmodernists, including discussion (pp. 52-55) of Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner as an adaptation of Jean de Meun&#039;s personification False Seeming.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270752">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes an introduction (pp. 58-61) to Chaucer and his works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s American Accent]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Matthews considers ways of distinguishing between &quot;medieval studies&quot; and &quot;medievalism&quot; (relating the latter to &quot;antimodernism&quot;) and assesses how late nineteenth-century American study of Chaucer &quot;problematizes&quot; the terms. The article contrasts American and British involvement in the Chaucer Society and comments on how the recent &quot;turn to affect&quot; in Chaucer studies parallels earlier treatments of the poet. See Bruce Michelson&#039;s &quot;A Response to David Matthews.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Response to David Matthews]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the intensity of America&#039;s involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in &quot;Chaucer&#039;s American Accent,&quot; focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of Chaucerian pastoralism and democracy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270749">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by Morgan, reprinted to clarify trends in the development of English literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270748">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cambridge History of English Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifty-three individual essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English poetry to various movements, individual poets, and postmodern concerns. Arranged chronologically, with a cumulative bibliography and an index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge History of English Poetry under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The lyf so short, the crafts so long to lerne&#039;: Reading Chaucer in Translation in the British Literature Survey Class]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Advocates the use of translation and translation exercises in teaching Chaucer&#039;s works in surveys of British literature. Criticizes major anthologies for promoting original-language study only and offers a syllabus, description of in-class activities, and discussion questions that pertain to GP, WBP, MerT, and FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by Patterson on historical criticism, teaching medieval studies, Clanvowe, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Chaucer, Saint Francis, etc.; nine of the ten essays are reprinted. For the one essay published here for the first time that pertains to Chaucer, see &quot;Genre and Source in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Twinned Deviance: Women and Disability in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arguing that medieval thought links disability with the feminine, Pearman examines &quot;medieval female disability&quot; in works of Chaucer (WBPT, MerT), Marie de France, Henryson, and Margery Kempe, among others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women and Disability in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Theorizes how medieval medical and social discourses link the &quot;categories of &#039;woman&#039; and &#039;disabled,&#039;&quot; a linking anchored in the notion that women are defective men. Compares the notion of reproduction in MerT and &quot;Dame Sirith&quot;; punishment of women in WBP and Geoffrey de la Tour-Landry&#039;s &quot;Book of the Knight&quot;; enchantment and punishment in &quot;Bisclavret,&quot; &quot;Sir Launfal,&quot; and Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot;; and motherhood and disability in the &quot;Book of Margery Kempe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Postscript/Postlude/Afterword]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summary commentary on the collection of essays, with remarks on maternal grief in PrT, ClT, MLT, and other works, especially Lydgate&#039;s &quot;A Lamentacioun of Our Lady Maria.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270742">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight essays by various authors. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Courtly Love and Christian Marriage: Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Henry VIII]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chrétien&#039;s &quot;Erec and Enide&quot; does not celebrate courtly love but provides a &quot;model for rightly ordered desire.&quot; Chaucer highlights the &quot;social and spiritual value&quot; of marriage in CT, PF, TC, and various lyrics. Henry VIII&#039;s own theatrics, however, &quot;strip the . . . literary conventions of their irony.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literary History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Justice explores &quot;historicism&#039;s liabilities&quot; and their consequences for the prospects of an aesthetic &quot;turn.&quot; Traces the interactions between historicism and &quot;theory&quot; in debunking formalism and comments on this process in medieval studies, particularly Chaucer studies. Calls for a &quot;fully literary history,&quot; one attentive to &quot;what is made and received as &#039;the literary&#039; in a given historical moment,&quot; anchored in a substantial &quot;conception of poetic form,&quot; and capable of adjudicating between a specifically literary history and those histories that subordinate literature to politics, economics, or institutional change.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270739">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Intention and the Idea of the Literary in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s declarations of &quot;entente&quot; and their uses in his works, concluding that Chaucer&#039;s deployment of the term compels the reader to interpret the texts as &quot;intentional acts&quot;--rather than an arrangement of &quot;exemplary narratives&quot;--thereby expanding the range of interpretation beyond mere &quot;moral use.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Incarnation Theology and Its Others: Female Embodiment in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses dream visions (including HF and &quot;Pearl&quot;) and dramas of the period to explore ideas of a &quot;feminized&quot; Christ in the medieval period, ultimately contending that any such feminization is problematic and &quot;no simple affirmation of female bodies or female authority takes place.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270737">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Law and Religion in Chaucer&#039;s England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints twelve of Kelly&#039;s studies that pertain to Chaucer and his historical contexts, with an introduction, some addenda and corrigenda, and a cumulative index. The essays are reproduced in their original typefaces and with their original pagination.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Humor in Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Commenting on the paucity of studies that directly address humor in Chaucer, Kendrick explores modern theories and medieval attitudes toward humor, especially as related to notions of tolerance. She examines instances in Chaucer, Deschamps, and medieval visual art where humor depends on &quot;seeing and reading close-up,&quot; including examples from CT, especially GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Authority, Constraint, and the Writing of the Medieval Self]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kerby-Fulton looks at autobiography and &quot;writing the self&quot; in medieval literature, with particular focus on how and to what extent political constraint prompts expression of self. Draws examples from Chaucer, Langland, Christine de Pizan, Thomas Usk, and others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Complex Identities: Selves and Others]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lavezzo considers the &quot;complexities of medieval identity formation by surveying the depiction of Jews and Saracens in English&quot; between Bede and the late fifteenth century. Includes comments on MLT and its presentation of Britain as a medieval &quot;global backwater,&quot; analogous to Syria in its relation to Rome.]]></dcterms:description>
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