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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Perced to the Roote&#039;: Challenges in Teaching Chaucer at UK Universities]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys pedagogical tools for teaching Chaucer to secondary and undergraduate students, maintaining that &quot;the future looks promising for medieval studies.&quot; Includes a summary of studies that address the topic and contrasts practice in the United Kingdom and the United States.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269833">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Practicing Women: The Matter of Women in Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes Aristotelian affiliations of women with matter (rather than form) and, following Bourdieu, explores how this affiliation and its &quot;practices&quot; are enacted in Middle English literature. Chaucer engages &quot;contemporary historical practices about the law, marriage, and contemporary debates about preaching women&quot; in WBT, MerT, and SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art, Politics, or Religion? (Allusions to the Virgin Mary in The Canterbury Tales)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Chaucer&#039;s Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Theory Wars: Attack of the Historicists? The Psychologists Strike Back? Or a New Hope?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys recent historicist and psychoanalytic approaches to Chaucer&#039;s writing, positing an impending turn toward &quot;an emerging norm of multi- and post-theoretical criticism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269830">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sisk contends that a number of late medieval works, including Fragment 8 of CT, &quot;obliquely&quot; address contemporary religious issues. These works mark a departure from more traditional (and clearly didactic) religious treatises and may even suggest that these texts merit further consideration as witnesses to intellectual history.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269829">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Stanbury describes late medieval English attitudes toward images, icons, and devotion, exploring how the tensions among these attitudes are represented in art and literature. Reformist distrust of images co-existed with newly intensified devotional practice to produce awareness and anxiety about the &quot;premodern fetishes&quot; of devotional art. Against this backdrop, Stanbury assesses John Capgrave&#039;s Katherine, Walter Hilton&#039;s &quot;Merk Ymage,&quot; Nicholas Love&#039;s Mirror of the Life of Christ, the Book of Margery Kempe, and several aspects of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;sacramental poetic&quot;: his ekphrastic descriptions, the Pardoner&#039;s relics, daisy worship in LGWP, the &quot;translation&quot; of Griselda in ClT, and the tension between private devotion and public spectacle in PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269828">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance and the Construction of Heterosexuality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates how medieval romances have shaped heterosexual gender roles, studying the role of language in constructing sexuality. In close readings of TC, MilT, and MerT, Sylvester analyzes &quot;transitivity&quot; and maps dialogue between male and female characters, particularly in scenes in which characters meet and in which intercourse is initially offered. Forceful heterosexual masculinity is required for heterosexual intercourse to occur in fabliau and romance. Includes discussion of rape in medieval romance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Isn&#039;t the Gaze Male?: Gender and the Visual Experience in the Romances of Chaucer and Malory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Using the medieval concepts of &quot;intromissive optics&quot; and the passive viewer, Martin suggests that Chaucer in TC, KnT, and MerT employs conventions from outside the romance genre at the moment of sight. She contrasts this technique with that of Malory, who works within and &quot;validates&quot; the romance genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269826">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Old Age in Middle English Literature: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the Gawain-Poet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the representation of old age in WBPT, MerT, PardT, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Confessio Amantis, and the Book of Margery Kempe, arguing that the motif of old age falls into three distinct categories: &quot;the comical figure of the impotent lover, the ugly witch[,] or the disturbing reminder of death&quot; (p.37). Instances of &quot;the realities of ageing&quot; are rare, but traces of this experience can be found in Chaucer and Langland and particularly in the Book of Margery Kempe.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269825">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines frames of cultural reference (legal, domestic, physical, and literary--especially romance), arguing that &quot;two versions of masculinity defined the socially performed lives of men in late medieval England.&quot; The first version was normative and stabilizing, based on trust and honesty among males.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The other--more &quot;rebellious, aggressive, sensual&quot;--coexisted with the first, creating tension between exterior social performance and internal desire. Neal discusses several Middle English romances and refers at times to Chaucer&#039;s RvT, Pardoner, and Parson.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Niebrzydowski documents &quot;significant attention,&quot; positive and negative, paid to wives and wifehood in the literature and architecture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. The volume is structured to &quot;follow the life cycle of a wife,&quot; from the canon law of eligibility to topics such as marital contracts, sex education, childbirth and motherhood, and depictions of life with a husband--drawing on art, literature, and history for examples of the freedoms and constraints of female marital life. The wide variety of texts (conduct literature, homilies, historical records, cycle plays, the Book of Margery Kempe, and more) indicates how wifehood was &quot;constructed by patriarchal textual discourses.&quot; Includes sustained discussions of ClT, MerT, MLT, and especially WBPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269823">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Passions of Sir Gawain: Patience and the Idiom of Medieval Romance in England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses Chaucer (selections from CT) and Langland to contextualize &quot;patient heroism&quot; in medieval romances, especially &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269822">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pugh theorizes &quot;the compulsory nature of queerness in creating heterosexuals,&quot; exploring how a number of masculine characters in Middle English literature are &quot;rendered queerly normative due to external forces that reimagine their masculinity as little more than a phantastically inadequate performance.&quot; Individual chapters discuss the Dreamer in &quot;Pearl,&quot; the Host in CT, Walter and the audience in ClT, the protagonist of &quot;Amis and Amiloun,&quot; and that of &quot;Eger and Grime.&quot; The discussion of the Host was previously published in 2006 (see SAC 30 [2008], no. 167).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269821">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer and the Poetics of Disguise]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies how and where Chaucer&#039;s poetry engages contemporary society and politics, as well as how it adjusts to changes in these arenas. As a court poet, Chaucer was knowledgeable about worldly affairs but unwilling to comment or criticize openly. Close reading of BD, HF, and PF shows how Chaucer used the dream-vision form to speak out &quot;without seeming to.&quot; In TC, LGW, and Anel, he used &quot;the distant past as a cover for his reflections on his own time.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Developing &quot;new forms of disguises&quot; in CT, he strove to avoid censure while commenting on courtly imbroglios and general ethical concerns. Quinn discusses several of Chaucer&#039;s short poems (especially Pity, Mars, Purse, and the Boethian poems) and comments on the chronological development of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;poetics of disguise.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269820">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Confessional Literature, Vernacular Psychology, and the History of the Self in Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys recent discussions of the role of confession in constructing a vernacular sense of self in late medieval English writing, with recurrent references to Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thou sittest at another boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This festschrift includes twenty-five essays. For the four that pertain to Chaucer, search for Thou sittest at another boke under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269818">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A festschrift for Paul Szarmach, celebrating the internationalization of medieval studies. Twelve essays by various authors, on topics ranging from Old and Middle English language and literature to the Narnia Chronicles of C. S. Lewis and the Mayan epic  &quot;Popol Vuh.&quot; For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269817">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Aesthetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies Kantian aesthetic principles to &quot;display the interanimation of sensible detail with intelligible order&quot; in TC and CT and considers the two poems in light of Hans-Georg Gadamer (on art of the past), Ludwig Wittgenstein (intellectual play), and Antonio Damasio and Daniel Dennett (cognitive theory).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Why Aesthetics?&quot; is the topic of the initial chapter, and the second chapter explores Augustinian roots of Chaucer&#039;s ideas of beauty in verisimilitude, coherence, proportionality, clarity, and usefulness, along with distrust of imagination. Five subsequent chapters apply these concerns to TC and CT, focused on topics of play and genre, &quot;individual personhood&quot; and typicality, the lures and joys of female beauty, humor and disinterestedness, and community and nuances of social good.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269816">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lacan&#039;s Medievalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan&#039;s &quot;methodologies follow those established by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential for the human subject to know and represent real universal categories&quot;; and his seminars engage medieval discourses on universals, realism, and nominalism. Labbie assesses Boethius, troubadour verse, Marie de France&#039;s &quot;Bisclavret,&quot; Jean d&#039;Arras&#039;s &quot;Melusine,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s ClT and Astr.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Griselda as &quot;singular, sovereign and universal,&quot; while Walter is a &quot;dependent, dialogically engaged, figure&quot;--two aspects of desire. Astr (along with Chaucer&#039;s many scientific allusions) presents a &quot;complex struggle with the potential for science to solve or create human problems&quot;; the focus is on the incompleteness of the treatise and on its stated goal: &quot;to slay envy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer and the Mother Tongue, 1387]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Appreciative commentary on CT. Chaucer&#039;s &quot;cheery and companionable writing&quot; in the vernacular &quot;sets out the ideas&quot; for the rest of Lacey&#039;s volume of anecdotal history.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors explore topics related to the &quot;Consolatio&quot; of Boethius and its impact within vernacular traditions. The essays are divided equally under two headings: &quot;Consolation and Desire&quot; and &quot;Consolation and Loss.&quot; For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, see nos. 45 and 320.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval English Poetry and Performance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s works in the context of medieval poetry, approached here as &quot;instantiations of performance,&quot; i.e., understood as interplay among author, performer, audience, and the material form of the texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;In another kynde&#039;: Modes of Recognition in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses KnT and TC (among other works) as case texts for a study of recognition within various forms of medieval romance. In particular, Manion argues that these Chaucerian texts use recognition as a means of speculating on the limits of interpersonal knowledge.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269811">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Heterosexual Subject of Chaucerian Narrative]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports on how notions of heterosexual normativity can be used in classroom discussions of BD, TC, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269810">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays in French and English that examine factual and fictive female pilgrims, focusing on their representation in spiritual and courtly literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Femmes et pèlerinages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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