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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine New Historicist essays by various authors, assessing the intersections of legal history and literature and addressing Robin Hood, the N-Town Trial play, The Owl and the Nightingale, alliterative poetry, Lollard preaching, and works by Chaucer, Gower, Henryson, and others. The appendix is Thomas Favent&#039;s account of the Merciless Parliament (1386), translated by Andrew Galloway. For the two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Letter of the Law under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historicizing the &quot;commonplace&quot; conception that women writers stand in opposition to literary tradition, Summit assesses how the conception itself &quot;dialectically fashioned both &#039;the woman writer&#039; and &#039;English literature&#039; in the medieval and early modern periods.&quot; In Chaucer, &quot;&#039;the lost woman writer&#039; embodies the disjunction between vernacular writing and the classical canon.&quot; Women writers &quot;embody textual loss and cultural instability&quot; in HF, Anel, TC, and LGW, and through them Chaucer &quot;explores the problems of writing outside authoritarian models of literary tradition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For later writers and critics (Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Elizabeth I, John Bale, Thomas Bentley, George Puttenham), the figure of the female writer serves similar functions and thereby &quot;becomes central to English literature&#039;s very invention,&quot; especially under Elizabeth I.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268078">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six essays by various authors treat the Old English &quot;Judith,&quot; Veronica in Anglo-Saxon England, the treatment of women in Middle English romances, and three tales in CT. For the three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Also published as Essays and Studies 22 (2002)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines critical discourses from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century that have constructed Chaucer for, and mediated his poetry to, subsequent readers. Trigg explores &quot;Chaucer&#039;s status as an exemplary canonical author for English literary tradition,&quot; models of Chaucerian authorship, and fifteenth-century constructions of the &quot;open&quot; Chaucerian text. She surveys the importance of Dryden&#039;s translation of Chaucer and the nature of writing about Chaucer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers various &quot;recent attempts to &#039;reform&#039; Chaucer studies.&quot; She contends that the field &quot;still has the capacity to be an exemplary topic in our meditations on similarity and difference with other cultures.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268076">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The New Medievalization of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trigg explores how efforts to introduce philology and recent challenges to canonicity complicate Chaucer pedagogy and its relations with the teaching of other medieval authors, contemplating questions of Chaucer&#039;s continuing appeal despite these challenges.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the nineteenth- and twentieth-century development of Chaucer study in Germany and Austria and examines the reception of this study in England and America. German philological practice established a standard that was distrusted after World War I, but it continues to have influence. The book includes a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of German Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Translationes Imperii: Swan Songs, Adaptations, and New Beginnings in Third-Reich Chaucer Philology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the German reception of Chaucer&#039;s works between 1934 and 1947, specifically the role of philological approaches and their adaptability or resistance to Nazi ideologies. Utz stresses Ernst Robert Curtius&#039;s role in re-establishing prestige and continuity for philology in post-war Germany and Europe.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268073">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey the Unbarbarous: Chaucerian &#039;Genius&#039; and Eighteenth-Century Antimedievalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions why Chaucer was not more popular with late-eighteenth-century &quot;antiquarians and pseudomedieval dabblers,&quot; arguing that Chaucer had already been &quot;co-opted&quot; by earlier Enlightenment culture, &quot;de-coupled&quot; from his age, and valued for his satire rather than for Gothic genius.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Idol of the Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For Chaucer and other medieval writers, &quot;the figure of the idol is a means of focusing on problematic aspects of imaginative textuality and its contexts&quot; (44). The sculptures in HF and Lollius in TC are partially represented or broken figures of disrupted textuality. In PF, frozen idols &quot;emblematize&quot; the sterility of courtly love, and the sterile Pardoner embodies idolatry itself. Zeeman also discusses works by Macrobius, Alain de Lille, and Jean de Meun.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Orientation and Nation in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on such terms and concepts as &quot;nacioun,&quot; &quot;degree,&quot; &quot;countre,&quot; race, and geography in KnT, SqT, MLT, and WBT, indicating that in CT the world is ordered by the principles of geography and nation. Nationalism is emergent in CT, but Orientalism is not.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268070">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;As I Yow Devyse&#039;: The Role of the Frame Narrator of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the first-person narrator of CT as a &quot;portrayal of a poet in the act of constructing a poem,&quot; focusing on how diction and syntax call attention to the narrator.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transforming Experience into Tradition: Two Theories of Proverb Use and Chaucer&#039;s Practice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combining cognitive and ethnographic approaches to proverb study, Bradbury examines proverb use in Fragment 1 of CT. She explores the limitations of the cognitive theories of Richard Honeck, on the one hand, and George Lakoff and Mark Turner, on the other.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Al is for to selle&#039;: Money, Language, and Gender in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Language, money, and gender are &quot;signifying systems&quot; that underlie notions of law and order in medieval tradition. Cady examines how Chaucer presents the interactions of these systems in WBPT, MerT, and PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Estereotipos Femeninos y Sexismo en The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes female sexual stereotyping in Chaucer&#039;s depictions of the Wife of Bath, Griselda (ClT), Custance (MLT), Dorigen (FranT), and the Prioress (GP).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268066">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Image of the Church Minister in Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chronological survey of representative depictions of church ministers in a variety of works, from Chaucer to Morris West, briefly considering works by Shakespeare, Trollope, John Henry Newman, George Eliot, Ibsen, Edmund Gosse, Joyce, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Emerson. Heidt notes that Chaucer&#039;s Monk, Friar, Pardoner, Summoner, and Parson (pp. 7-28) anticipate the Reformation and later literary ministers.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Wyclif: God&#039;s Miracles Against the Clergy&#039;s Magic]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In CT (especially WBT, PardT, CYT, PhyT, SNT, and MLT), Chaucer shares with Wyclif the belief that the Church had lost its miraculous power and its focus on salvation, and he stresses the importance of the individual&#039;s role in personal salvation. For both men, the schism is less an institutional divide than a division between &quot;self-sacrificing spirituality and self-serving materialism, between miracle and fraud.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268064">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the historical, religious, social, literary, and linguistic contexts necessary to understand Chaucer&#039;s subtleties and subversions throughout CT, but especially in GP. Includes close reading of GP 1.1-18.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268063">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mercantile (Mis)Reader in The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[By fitting merchants directly into his larger exploration of the relationship of sentence and solaas, Chaucer uses them to test the limits of the satiric form that dominated previous literary discussions of trade. Portraying merchants as consistently unable to separate fruyt from narrative chaff, Chaucer ultimately questions whether merchants can reform themselves and thus challenges the very basis of the satiric form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268062">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading for the Moral: The Ethics of Exemplarity in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers moral casuistry in Gower and CT, arguing that Chaucer and Gower pose for the reader&#039;s discovery &quot;practical precepts&quot; that rely on the &quot;rhetoric of exemplarity and the deliberation of readers,&quot; rather than relying on hard-and-fast religious or ideological structures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gentelesse und Gentils: Der Weltliche Adel und Seine Werte in Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of the ethical and social dimensions of gentilesse and gentils in KnT, WBT, ClT, MerT, SqT, FranT, Th, Mel, MkT, NPT, ManT, and SumT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268060">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors explore the activities and significance of pilgrimage in medieval and early modern England, focusing on &quot;shrine-seekers,&quot; Thomas Becket, regional and international practice, and related topics. None of the essays pertains to Chaucer directly, although CT is mentioned passim.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268059">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Biheste is dette&#039;: Marriage Promises in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nelson assesses medieval conceptions of marital &quot;debt&quot; (reflected in ParsT) in light of modern Speech Act Theory (Austin and Searle). The Wife of Bath&#039;s focus on the husband&#039;s contribution and the Merchant&#039;s focus on the wife&#039;s contribution reveal misunderstandings of the concept. Similarly distorted are Dorigen&#039;s obligation in FranT, Valerian&#039;s conditioned promise in SNT, and the extremes of promise and commitment in ClT. Much of CT is concerned with promise and obligation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268058">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English from Caedmon to Chaucer: The Literary Development of English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A linguistic history of Old and Middle English that uses several Chaucerian examples to explain changes in morphology and phonology. Chapter 12 discusses Chaucer&#039;s contributions to English, to poetry, and to prosody. The apparatus indexes the literary works cited and provides a number of useful Internet links. Works considered include Astr, Adam, TC, BD, GP, KnT, NPT, ParsT, SqT, WBT, and Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268057">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Future of Language Study]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hanna encourages more refined analysis of Chaucer&#039;s lexical practice, especially examination of patterns of choices between English and French synonyms.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Language: On What Is Possible in Stylistic Analysis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hoad challenges critical discussions of specific words and syntactical emphases in Chaucer on the grounds that modern linguistic intuition is unreliable, comparison of medieval uses is often flawed, and medieval commentary can be misleading. Considers claims about emphasis deriving from word order and about connotations of &quot;stalketh,&quot; &quot;hende,&quot; &quot;derne love,&quot; &quot;lemman,&quot; &quot;boystous,&quot; and other words.]]></dcterms:description>
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