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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beyond the Lines: Materiality and Non-Linear Time in Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses &quot;mostly . . . a phenomenological approach&quot; to explore &quot;how objects in Medieval English Literature disrupt individual linear time.&quot; Addresses various texts and, in a chapter on TC, argues that &quot;Criseyde is representative of Freudian melancholia&quot; and &quot;that she embodies the revolt of the Lemnian women (&quot;Thebaid&quot; 5) . . . extracting what for her is the truth content&quot; of the episode.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Kynaston Translating Chaucer: The Untimely &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Kynaston&#039;s Latin translation of Books I and II of TC, published in 1635, exemplifies &quot;heterochrony&quot;--a &quot;temporal counter-site located in the present and indicative of alternative modernities.&quot; Addresses the &quot;perceived outdatedness of Chaucer&#039;s English,&quot; the &quot;timelessness&quot; of Latin, Kynaston&#039;s effort to &quot;ensure Chaucer&#039;s relevance,&quot; and the translator&#039;s &quot;engagement with the various layers of pasts&quot; in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Good Traders in the Flesh&quot;: Pandarus and the Audience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the scene of &quot;intimacy&quot; between Pandarus and Criseyde in TC and its excision from Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Cressida,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s expansion/embellishment of the original in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; compels the audience to identify with Pandarus and share the narrator&#039;s voyeuristic enjoyment. Shakespeare&#039;s play effects similar audience identification in Pandarus&#039;s Epilogue, implicating the audience in Pandarus&#039;s ongoing &quot;reduction of sexuality to commodification.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Mythology of the Daisy and the Remigian .]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Centers on LGW, 212-18, where Alceste, the Queen of Love, has an appearance similar to a daisy, and suggests that a source for this could be Remigius of Auxerre&#039;s &quot;Commentum in Martianum Capellam.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Suffering between the Lines: Trauma and Witnessing in Old and Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies modern trauma theory to medieval English texts: &quot;Beowulf,&quot; &quot;Dream of the Rood,&quot; &quot;Pearl,&quot; and LGW. Addresses sexual abuse and the witnessing of such abuse in LGW, focusing on &quot;tropes of indirection, silence, and repetition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Charismatic Heroines in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Legend of Good Women.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the female protagonists of LGW are heroic in their combinations of strength and suffering, and, &quot;adapting a notion of charisma from Joseph Roach,&quot; characterizes their heroism as &quot;charismatic.&quot;&quot;The &quot;extraordinary virtues and qualities&quot; of these women combine with their vulnerabilities and pathos-laden suffering to produce &quot;a complex, specifically feminine charisma&quot;--aligned with the rhetorical tradition of &quot;ethopoeia&quot; and with the practices of affective piety.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277550">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Do Al Andalus a Dante Alighieri: A Receção do &quot;Livro da Escada de Maomé,&quot; de Afonso X, na Europa [From Al Andalus to Dante Alighieri: The Reception of the &quot;Book of the Ladder of Muhammad,&quot; by Alfonso X, in Europe].]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys &quot;the wide influence exerted by the Islamic eschatological narrative known as &#039;Mohamme&#039;s Ladder&#039; on European literary production until the 17th century.&quot; Discusses the possibility that Chaucer knew the work, and assesses correspondences between the &quot;Escada&quot; and HF (also &quot;Pearl&quot; and &quot;Paradise Lost&quot;), perhaps mediated by Dante&#039;s &quot;Commedia.&quot; In Portuguese,<br />
with an abstract in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing with the Grain: Form, Flow, and the Environment in Late Medieval Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;late medieval poets envisioned the environment as a participant in the production of poetry,&quot; reading HF for the ways that it represents &quot;creativity born within the whirl of the Aristotelian world of fluctuation.&quot; Also assesses Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot; &quot;alongside&quot; TC, disclosing &quot;a view of poetic production characterized by human-environmental correspondences, where poets follow forms that are latent in the environment itself.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277548">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Langland, Gower, and Chaucer--who approached Ricardian prophetic discourse in different ways--were later co-opted as prophets of various events and outlooks: Langland foretelling the English Reformation, Gower predicting the deposition of Richard II, and Chaucer anticipating &quot;modern rational scepticism.&quot; Chapter 4 focuses on how, in HF, Chaucer&#039;s adaptation of the dream-vision form and the Dantesque role of biblical prophet underlies understanding of him as harbinger of skepticism and how &quot;various editorial missteps and . . . deceptions&quot; led to the apocryphal &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Prophecy&quot; being considered evidence that the poet was &quot;ahead of his time.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Words of the Wounded: Traumatic Grief and Narrative Therapy in Middle English Dream Visions.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses &quot;the frameworks of illness narrative, narrative medicine, and trauma theory&quot; along with the model found in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; to &quot;examine the doctor–patient relationship&quot; in BD, Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;assessing how well each therapist-figure attends to his or her patient.&quot; Investigates therapeutical versus penitential confession in BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Driving the Night Away: Early Chapters in the History of Reading.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the history of silent reading and commercial manuscript production for private reading, starting with Chaucer&#039;s BD and including considerations of the Auchinleck manuscript and British Library, MS Harley 978, to suggest that meditative consideration of conscience and silent reading may have been linked social practices. A revised address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2004;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hinged, Bound, Covered: The Signifying Potential of the Material Codex.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how the material book is a &quot;metaphorically rich signifier&quot; in contemporary culture and in a selection of English narratives, including BD and PF--where the narrators&#039; books, serving as portals to the dream experience, result in &quot;poetic output&quot; and reveal how books Aallow such creative thinking&quot; as a &quot;byproduct of physically grounded reading.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Betrayal in &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions claims that BD is a poem of consolation, arguing that it is instead a &quot;renewal of grief,&quot; focusing its three units of &quot;reading, dreaming, [and] remembering,&quot; attending to source materials, and suggesting that the Black Knight may have been forgetful or &quot;unfaithful to the memory of his love.&quot; Includes comments on &quot;the difficulty of sustaining an extremity of grief&quot; in FranT and on the fears that grief can engender.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Forest in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Book of the Duchess,&quot; Ll. 416-426: Echoes of the Nave and Tower of Old St Paul&#039;s Cathedral.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the forest described in BD, 416-26, is &quot;both topographical and ekphrastic,&quot; comparing details of the forest with aspects of Wenceslas Hollar&#039;s engravings of the nave of Old St. Paul&#039;s Cathedral, reproduced in William Dugdale&#039;s history of the cathedral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mourning Becomes the Duchess: Chaucer, Text, Tomb.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s BD in the context of the material and ritual aspects of Blanche&#039;s death, using Freud&#039;s concept of the work of mourning to address the public, political, social, and economic work of John of Gaunt&#039;s mourning. A revised version of an address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2014.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Occasion of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the &quot;dominant paradigm&quot; for the date and composition of Bo, dismantling &quot;several doubtful propositions&quot;--influence on Usk&#039;s &quot;Testament,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s use of Bo in his other works, Chaucer as a &quot;poor Latinist.&quot; Analyzes Bo as a &quot;late-medieval academic translation&quot; that combines various sources, intermingling text, glosses, and commentaries in a late-career, politically sensitive product, perhaps a &quot;gift to some person of power.&quot; Also assesses Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.3.21, as &quot;A Presentation Copy in the Making?&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Translation of Boethius&#039;s &quot;The Consolation of Philosophy&quot;: A Modern English Rendering.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates Bo into modern idiomatic English, with text based on &quot;The Riverside Chaucer,&quot; 3rd ed. (1986), and bottom-of-page notes, a glossary of proper names, and a citation glossary of Middle English words in Bo accompanied by Latin equivalents. Introductory materials include a brief life of Boethius, comments on the structure and content of Bo, and the influence and legacy of Boethius&#039;s Consolation in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dancing Descriptions: Choreographing Middle English Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;how late-fourteenth and fifteenth-century [English] poets use dance to experiment and play with descriptions of motion.&quot; Includes discussion of Anel as well as Osbern Bokenham&#039;s &quot;Legend of Holy Women,&quot; Thomas Chestre&#039;s &quot;Sir Launfal,&quot; John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book&quot; and &quot;Siege of Thebes,&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;moral value for Chaucer&#039;s audience&quot; of CYPT and articulates &quot;alchemical connections&quot; elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman&#039;s final rejection of alchemy as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s disclosure of &quot;the misuse of power and human intellect and the impact of moral blindness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CYP in the context of late medieval English concerns about waste as &quot;ecosystemic misconduct par excellence,&quot;  linking to the plague the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s social contagion and the damage done to him by his working environment. Explicates the lexical, sonic, and rhythmic nature of the Yeoman&#039;s lists to show how they evoke &quot;ecosystemic danger&quot; in &quot;weird&quot; and &quot;wonderful&quot; ways.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Concept of Destiny and Free Will in Chauntecleer&#039;s Dream]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that NPT &quot;shows how free will and destiny . . . mysteriously connive together to form what can be called &#039;conditional free will&#039;,&quot; arguing that the combination of Chauntecleer&#039;s dream and the outcome of the plot compromise Augustinian, Bradwardinian, and Boethian ideas so that while the dream destines the encounter between fox and rooster, the cock&#039;s escape depends upon his will to survive and Russell&#039;s will to speak. Surveys related criticism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Lady Philosophy or a Concealed Wife of Bath: Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Prudence in the &quot;Tale of Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces &quot;similarities between Boethius&#039;s Lady Philosophy and Chaucer&#039;&#039;s Prudence&quot; in Mel regarding &quot;the authority of women over men as the source of knowledge and wisdom.&quot; Comments on female empowerment and Prudence as a &quot;Wife of Bath in disguise.&quot; Includes an abstract in Turkish.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pilgrim&#039;s Carnivalesque: The Textual Chaucer and the Negation of Narration in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Th through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin&#039;s concept of the carnivalesque as a dismantling of the religious and moral authority established by PrT in order to reassert the carnivalesque as the organizing principle of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In/Verse Britain: The Poetics of the Post-Nation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a subsection titled &quot;Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi&#039;s &#039;Telling Tales,&#039;&quot; arguing that Agbabi successfully detoxifies CT&#039;s &quot;ideologeme of othering, most obviously in religious, sexual and racial dichotomies.&quot; Uses case-study comparison of PrT and Agbabi&#039;s &quot;Sharps an Flats,&quot; considering style as well as matter, with attention to reception of PrT by the pilgrim audience through to Robert Lumiansky&#039;s 1948 prose summary.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Blood Cries Out: Negotiating Embodiment and Otherness in the Premodern World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses &quot;medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons.&quot; Chapter 4 considers &quot;the concepts of ritual murder libel, blood libel, and Jewish male menstruation&quot; in PrT, Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;The Merchant of Venice,&quot; and Marlowe&#039;s &quot;The Jew of Malta.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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