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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[It All Comes Together in &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;moral lesson&quot; of MerT is &quot;self-deception and spiritual blindness&quot; which result from January&#039;s efforts to &quot;create a paradise on earth.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Discussion of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the anti-Semitism of PrT and suggests that it does not lessen the beauty of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Gradus Amoris&#039;: The Five Steps of Lechery]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aligns the five fingers of lechery (ParsT 10. 852-64) with the conventions of courtly love and those of mystical love, using them to assess several lovers of CT (Palamon and Arcite of KnT, Nicholas and Absalon of MilT, and Aurelius of FranT).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270505">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Knighthood, Chaucer&#039;s Knight and Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on medieval knighthood and the appropriateness of KnT to the Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270504">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Introduction to the Music of Chaucer&#039;s Time]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introductory comments on late-medieval musical notation, melody and harmony, rhythm and meter, instruments, and forms, with notes for an accompanying tape recording.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dumb, the Deaf, and the Insane and the Female . . .]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval attitudes towards women, with comments on Chaucer&#039;s depictions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Papers on the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-one papers on CT by various authors. For individual essays, search for Papers on the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute under Alternative Title. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270501">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;General Prologue&#039; as Prologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the narrative techniques of the GP as they set up and anticipate those of the entire CT:  the suggestiveness of pilgrimage and frame narrative, the impressionistic variety of the pilgrims and their juxtapositions, the naïve but subjective narrative persona and his reliance on memory, the emphasis on chance, disorderliness, and varieties of love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boring Virtue and Interesting Vice: The Literary Conflict Between Morality and Vitality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches a range of evaluative criteria (moral, social, hedonistic, materialistic, and artistic) to explore how in literature--and in the GP in particular--&quot;moral judgements are largely subverted by artistic judgements,&quot; in part the result of the reader&#039;s &quot;escape from real life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ambiguous Icons: Chaucer&#039;s Knight, Parson and Plowman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on several stylistic device of characterization in GP and the effects they produce: the Knight is earnest by obsolete, and spiritually ambiguous; the Parson, an exaggerated stereotype, cut off from people by lack of realistic details; the Plowman, hard to visualize because of abstraction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270498">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Art of Portraiture: Subject, Author and Reader]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges how subject, author, and reader &quot;interact with varying degrees of subtlety in the GP descriptions of the pilgrims:  the &quot;snapshot&quot; (Yeoman), idealization (Parson), caricature (Summoner), balance between ideal and caricature (Wife of Bath), and descriptions inflected by the narrator&#039;s naivety (Guildsmen) or irony (Prioress).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270497">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Two &#039;Corages&#039;: Moral Balance in the &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the balanced opposition between the sacred and the secular in the opening and closing sections of the GP encourages readers to be tolerant and cautious in judgment.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Shipman&#039;s Knife]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates the Shipman&#039;s knife in GP, and explores how similar details unfold to characterize the Canterbury pilgrims.  Details of &quot;aggression and assertion&quot; recur in the descriptions, as do commercial concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Critique of the Church in the &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers three groups of ecclesiastical figures in CT, categorizing them by religious role and descriptive technique:  1) members of religious orders (Prioress, Monk, and Friar), who the narrator &quot;damns by faint praise and irony&quot;; 2) servants of the institutional Church (Summoner and Pardoner), &quot;condemned for veniality and corruption&quot;; and 3) the idealized pairing of sacred and secular (Parson and Plowman). Significant attention to GP and the theme of pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270494">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Character and Caricature in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates numerous details of GP to demonstrate Chaucer&#039;s techniques of characterization. Includes significant attention to the Wife of Bath, the Physician, the Host, and others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poet as Pilgrim: The Narrator of the &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the narrator of the GP as &quot;naïve but all-seeing,&quot; used variably by Chaucer to guide reader response and provoke unsettled reactions. Not wholly consistent, the narrator is a device that evokes &quot;complex, contradictory attitudes&quot; that seem to be shared by Chaucer himself.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;A compaignye of sondry folk&#039;: The Structure of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the interplay of literal and symbolic implications in GP, reading pilgrimage as a &quot;metaphor for a society in the act of &#039;being itself&#039;.&quot;  The poem &quot;declares its intention to deal less with what &#039;should be&#039; in society than what is actually &#039;going on&#039;.&quot; Significant attention to how the description of the Knight in GP sets up and challenges readers&#039; expectations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270491">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays concerning GP addressed to a student audience, each essay followed by brief &quot;Afterthoughts,&quot; intended for purposes of study and review. The volume also contains a &quot;Practical Guide&quot; on writing student essays (pp. 121-37). For individual essays, search for Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales  under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270490">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer: Curriculum Unit]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pedagogical materials for high school teachers, including ten lessons on CT, topics for assignments, handouts, report forms, and instructions on how to use these materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270489">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Classroom text of GP in Middle English with facing-page notes, study-guide Introduction, a brief glossary, and brief bibliography. The Introduction includes commentary on Chaucer&#039;s life, the &quot;Framework&quot; of CT, &quot;how to read&quot; Chaucer, and &quot;Further Considerations,&quot; including comments characterization and social categories.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270488">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kanteboli gushiji [The Canterbury Tales]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ Item not seeen. WorldCat records indicate that this Chinese translation of CT was reprinted multiple times.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Short Oxford History of English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys English literature from the Old English period to &quot;Post-War and Post-Modern Literature,&quot; including a chronology and a comprehensive index. The section on Chaucer (pp. 55-63) emphasizes his &quot;delight in the concept of cosmic, natural, and human order,&quot; even though he &quot;subverts certain received ideas of degree,&quot; particularly undermining the medieval idea of the &quot;natural inferiority of women to men.&quot; Comments generally on CT and TC, with more focused discussion of the Wife of Bath, Criseyde, BD, and LGW. Chaucer &quot;assumes a deliberate androgyny,&quot; and is the &quot;least egocentric of poets&quot;--the first English poet to display &quot;negative capability.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Introduction (pp.1-15), entitled &quot;Poets&#039; Corner: The Development of a Canon of English Literature,&quot; describes the history of the memorial site in Westminster Abbey, the seminal role of Chaucer&#039;s grave in this history, and its relationship with the idea of an English literary canon.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chanticleer and the Fox]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[NPT, adapted and illustrated for juvenile audience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270485">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Oxford Book of Comic Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Selections of comic verse in English, from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell. The Chaucer selection (pp. 1-4) includes the descriptions of the Monk, Summoner, and Pardoner from the GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments generally on Chaucer&#039;s scientific knowledge, explains his use and understanding of &quot;Aristotelian cosmology,&quot; and describes the astronomical and astrological systems that underlie the details and structures of many of his works. Assumes that Equat was written by Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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