<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268631">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Dialectic : How the Establishment Theology Is Subjected to Scrutiny in Five Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ManT reflects Chaucer&#039;s awareness of the dangers of challenging authority, yet he repeatedly challenges Christian and Boethian orthodoxies concerning evil. KnT does not reconcile the existence of evil, and the orthodoxy of Christian Providence in MLT is &quot;exceedingly crude and naive,&quot; immediately rejected through the Wife of Bath&#039;s assertion of experience. ClT raises again the question of why evil exists, and in FranT human agency is sufficient to maintain truth. Tovey also discusses belief and skepticism in the opening lines of LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268630">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Textual Performance : Chaucerian Prologues and the French &#039;Dit&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques &quot;dramatic&quot; or Kittredgean readings of the prologues in CT, especially those &quot;newly oiled by Lacan,&quot; and considers the prologues in light of the French dit--loosely defined as &quot;speech imitated in clerkly writing&quot; or the &quot;illusion of speech created in writing.&quot; Spearing comments on GP, RvP, MLP, FranP, and PardP and discusses WBP as an extended &quot;textual performance&quot; by &quot;Chaucer in drag.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268629">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Paul and the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Biblical Pauline notions of pilgrimage recur throughout CT, evident in imagery drawn from Paul&#039;s letters, although often in &quot;parody and travesty&quot;: old men and new men, doctrine amidst enigma, iconography of wells, vessels, widows, musical instruments, and various concepts of time, heritage, and the &quot;search for grace.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268628">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Travels in The Canterbury Tales : Their Structure and Meaning]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nakao discusses traveling as physical movement through space and mental movement through time. A dual space-time scheme is central to the structure of CT and contributes to the rise of dualistic interpretations of such words and phrases as &quot;licour&quot; (1.3), &quot;engendred&quot; (1.4), and &quot;nature&quot; (1.11) in GP and &quot;Bobbe-up-and-doun&quot; in ManT (9.2).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268627">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the ethics of exemplarity in &quot;Confesso Amantis&quot; and in CT, arguing that reading for the moral--deliberating ethically--is improvisatory and reflexive and aims at practice rather than theory. Exemplarity involves the reader in its moral rhetoric, inviting a taxonomic practice of considering similar cases and an act of reduction to make a decision.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapters 1 and 2 consider the intuitive recognition of a moral, the reader&#039;s extracting of meaning from exempla, the use of example in classical rhetoric, and the rise of homiletic compilations in the Middle Ages. Chapters 3 and 4 argue that Gower, like Chaucer, challenges univocal meaning by offering readers contrary exempla--the morals of which readers determine according to their personal circumstances and conscience.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapters 5-7 examine WBP, FrT, SumT, PardP, PardT, ClT, Mel, and ParsT, arguing that Chaucer critiques the misuse of exemplarity (but not the genre) and analyzing how readers derive morals from the tales and tales within tales, the teller, or a combination of these features.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268626">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[El tema del matrimonio en The Canterbury Tales de Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes medieval attitudes toward gender relations in marriage and comments on the diverse range of representations of marriage in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268625">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts : From Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six related essays on the interaction of words and images in English literary tradition: a theoretical introduction, plus essays on the Ruthwell Cross, Anglo-Saxon art, the Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts, the manuscript of &quot;Pearl,&quot; and the Ellesmere manuscript of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The latter essay (pp. 160-99) shows how Ellesmere illustrations &quot;advance concepts of good government&quot; and encourage viewers to regard the real goal of pilgrimage as spiritual, expanding their &quot;aristocratic space&quot; in ways that imply &quot;celestial space.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268624">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tit for Tat: The Canterbury Tales and The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Higgins explores the &quot;incidental affiliations&quot; between CT and &quot;The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy,&quot; demonstrating how flyting tradition informs CT, especially Part 1 and the debate between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk. The tale-telling contest is related both to flyting and to the debate tradition of &quot;Wynnere and Wastoure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268623">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Walking to Canterbury: A Modern Journey Through Chaucer&#039;s Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A personal travelogue of a walking trip from Canterbury to London following the Pilgrims&#039; Way--interspersed with brief summaries of portions of CT and musings on medieval social history and folk wisdom, the United Kingdom and the United States, contemporary spirituality, and people met along the way.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268622">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ancestor&#039;s Tale: The Dawn of Evolution]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dawkins uses the frame-and-tale structure of CT to organize a series of excurses on evolution and the development of biological life. Recurrent references to Chaucer and CT, with brief discussion on evolutionary biology as a model in the Canterbury Tales Project.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268621">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Subtil Engyn&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches the range of Chaucer&#039;s diversity in CT and suggests that Chaucer abandons artistic diversity for the Parson&#039;s warning against sinful excess.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268620">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the &quot;representations of, and responses to&quot; France and Frenchness in BD and Chaucer&#039;s Prioress, the Corpus Christi plays, Caxton&#039;s publishing career, the poetry of Stephen Hawes and John Skelton, and Shakespeare&#039;s history plays. English identity is marked throughout this literature by efforts to &quot;emulate French culture&quot; in conflict with a desire to &quot;articulate a distinctively English voice.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[BD is Chaucer&#039;s meditation on his earlier imitations of French poetry-an English manifesto and a nostalgic elegy. The GP Prioress and PrT reveal a desire to identify with French culture and a simultaneous inability to read cultural codes accurately. Williams also discusses the role of Chaucer in Caxton&#039;s output.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268619">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Conflicted cooperation between authority and authorization is a manifestation of the fundamentally hybrid nature of the preacher&#039;s calling, one recognized in medieval handbooks as standing between earth and heaven. Significantly, women&#039;s preaching was a formative influence on ideas of men&#039;s preaching, particularly because theorists&#039; discussions of women preachers raise and examine questions about personal authority and the body&#039;s role in that authority without directing those questions toward male preachers.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 argues that Chaucer&#039;s CT, with its intense emphasis on speech, embodiment, and authority, illuminates central issues in preaching theory by presenting them in concentrated and personified forms. The Parson and the Pardoner encapsulate a central ethical and moral issue: the appropriate relationship between the preacher&#039;s human body and his spiritual task.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wallace contemplates and reconstructs historical understanding of several locations, using visual and verbal texts to recapture perspectives of medieval and early modern witnesses or visitors.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Calais as an English outpost and Flanders as its neighbor, drawing upon Th, ShT, and PardT, as well as works by Deschamps, Hakluyt, and others. Also considers the early modern reception of Dante at Wells in Somerset, medieval slave trade in Genoa, Italian humanist imagining of the Canary Isles as the classical Fortunate Isles, and the letters of Héoise and Abélard and the works of Aphra Behn in the colonial representation of Surinam.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268617">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight essays by various authors selected from the Seventh International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, July 2001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Topics range from cook books to Lollard arguments. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268616">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Liturgy and Vernacular Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Vitz surveys the influences and echoes of liturgical wording and practice in a range of medieval literature--English, French, Italian, narrative, lyrical, parodic, etc. Includes focused treatments of &quot;La Queste del Saint Graal,&quot; &quot;The Roman de la Rose,&quot; &quot;The Divine Comedy,&quot; and CT, particularly PrT and Ret. Characterizes Chaucer&#039;s uses of the liturgy as &quot;complex and ambiguous&quot; and &quot;probably ambivalent as well.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268615">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, addressing topics such as rhetorical tradition, accessus, and handbooks, especially their influence on Middle English literature. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268614">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading the Middle Ages: An Introduction to Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to the study of medieval literature, with chapters on &quot;Beowulf,&quot; &quot;Chrétien de Troyes, the &quot;Lais&quot; of Marie de France, &quot;The Romance of the Rose,&quot; &quot;The Tale of Genji,&quot; Jewish literature, sagas, Dante, &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes general discussion of Chaucer&#039;s travels, use of language, sources, and primary themes of love and common profit, as well as manuscripts. Focuses on CT, with brief discussions of HF, PF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268613">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[EcoChaucer: Green Ethics and Medieval Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Depicting nature as an &quot;active force,&quot; Chaucer encourages the reader to explore nature&#039;s &quot;effects on social institutions and human drives.&quot; In so doing, he balances &quot;a dis-enchanted skepticism about nature&#039;s benevolence&quot; with &quot;a canny understanding&quot; of how institutions invoke &quot;&#039;the natural&#039; to justify their own privileges.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268612">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Midrashic Reading of Geoffrey Chaucer : His Life and Works]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads details of Chaucer&#039;s life and works as evidence that he can be viewed as a &quot;fuzzy Jew,&quot; who acquired some kabbalistic knowledge through his travels and contact with Jews in London and who disguised this knowledge in ways that anticipate the writings of fifteenth-century Spanish Marranos.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses cryptic aspects of Chaucer&#039;s life and the ironies of his works, assessing CT, especially PrT and WBPT. Argues that BD was &quot;inspired by kabbalistic letter combinations.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268611">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Freedom from the Press: Reading and Writing in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the works of Chaucer, Langland, and Margery Kempe in the context of the standardization of textual discourse that accompanied the development of printed books.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268610">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Idleness Working: The Discourse of Love&#039;s Labor from Ovid Through Chaucer and Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bakhtinian analysis of the discourse of love&#039;s labor in classical and medieval love literature, focusing on two traditions: one, rhetorical, playful, and concerned with the labor of courtship; the other, serious, philosophical, and concerned with the labor of reproduction. The two combine in the later love poetry, including Chaucer&#039;s, in a steady &quot;embourgeoisement de l&#039;eros&quot; [a making bourgeois of love].]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Constructed by means of a rich array of labor vocabulary and imagery, &quot;work&quot; is presented as a necessary but fulfilling component of human existence, a foreshadowing of the Protestant Work Ethic. The final chapter focuses on Chaucer, particularly PF and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268609">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Narratives of Healing: Emotion, Medicine, Metaphor, and Late-Medieval Poetry and Prose]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores medieval attitudes toward the medical foundations of the emotions in MerT, TC, Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and Diego de San Pedro&#039;s &quot;Cárcel de Amor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268608">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Political Pamphleteer in Late Medieval England : Thomas Fovent, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk, and the Merciless Parliament of 1388]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the identity and political career of Thomas Fovent (Favent), author of the polemical treatise on the Merciless Parliament--&quot;Historia Mirabilis Parliament&quot;--arguing that the treatise is best regarded as a &quot;pamphlet,&quot; an index to the public opinion of the age, not partisan propaganda. Oliver compares and contrasts Fovent&#039;s political savvy and caution with those of Chaucer and Usk.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268607">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Absent Glosses : A Crisis of Vernacular Hermeneutics in Late-Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the lack of extensive glosses and commentaries on late Middle English literature, including Chaucer, arguing that in England, unlike on the Continent, the concern with &quot;translatio studii&quot; (transferring the authority of the ancients to the present) was &quot;tainted by the Lollards&quot; and their promotion of the vernacular.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>