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    <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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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Development of Non-Assertive Any in Later Middle English and the Decline of Multiple Negation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines occurrences of &quot;any&quot; in four Middle English texts, including CT. The word occurs more frequently in negative contexts in formal tales (KnT, ClT, Mel, and ParsT) than elsewhere.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[But What Does the Fleming Say?: The Two Flemish Proverbs and their Contexts in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Flemish proverbs in CkP and ManT &quot;trigger a whole series of contradictions and reversals of meaning that mirror the complexity of Chaucer&#039;s comedy.&quot; They also contribute to a pattern in CT in which Flemings are associated with misused language.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and the Middle English Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenging suggestions that individuals like Chaucer are agents of linguistic change, Machan argues that they cannot foresee history and therefore cannot work to a future end. The article surveys political factors in late-medieval English linguistic change.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Stylistic Variation in Verbs of Saying in The Canterbury Tales: A Tell-tale Variety]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Classifies Chaucer&#039;s verbs of &quot;verbal activity&quot; (gestural, onomatopoetic, and performative), treating verbs of saying as a subset of performative verbs.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nineteen essays by various authors, divided into three sections--Millennial Perspectives; Phonology and Metrics; and Morphosyntax/Semantics-and an envoy. Includes author and subject indexes. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Modality and Ambiguity in Chaucer&#039;s Trewely: With Focus on Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nakao tabulates the frequency of epistemic &quot;trewely&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s major works and compares its semantic frequency in Chaucer with that in several contemporary poetic texts. Investigates the significance of the modal adverb &quot;trewely&quot; in TC, particularly its role in prompting readers&#039; awareness of Criseyde&#039;s untrouthe.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Semantics of Chaucer&#039;s Moot/Moste and Shal/Sholde: Conditional Elements and Degrees of Their Quantifiability]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;quantifiability&quot; of the elements that condition the semantics of moot/moste and shal/sholde modals. Although conditions deriving from proposition and clause structure are quantifiable and machine-readable, pragmatic conditions require reader input.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Discourse of Seduction and Intrigue: Linguistic Strategies in Three Fabliaux in the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;politeness strategies&quot; (ye/thou) and emotional language in light of genre expectations and characterization. In MilT, MerT, and ShT, wives use various linguistic strategies to manipulate their husbands and others, but the linguistic consistency of the wife in ShT indicates social mastery from the outset; Alison and May may achieve such mastery through the events of their plots.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Cosyn to the Dede&#039;: Further Considerations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Linguistic and philosophical notions underlying the idea of &quot;cosyn to the dede&quot; fascinate Chaucer and Jean de Meun, who follow Plato and Augustine in accepting that signs reveal ultimate meaning and that myths relate to eternal ideals.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Language of Politeness in Chaucer: An Analysis of the Use of Linguistic Features Reflecting Social and Interpersonal Relationships]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the indicators of politeness and social categories (class, degree of intimacy, etc.) in the speech of romance characters in CT and TC, with attention to forms of address and second-person pronouns (ye/thou). Also considers politeness strategies in relation to literary genre and pragmatic function (e.g., pleas and imperatives), arguing that formal description without attention to conditioning factors cannot succeed in capturing the nuances of politeness. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield, 1992.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Invention of English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sociohistorical commentary on the rise of prestige markers in English writing and speech, focusing on accent as a marker in Chaucer&#039;s time and soon after, in particular the pronunciation of final -e, the Great Vowel Shift, and northern dialect features of RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Adverbial Function in English Verse: The Case of Thus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The article assesses the range of function and the frequency of &quot;thus&quot; in representative samples of English poetry from Old English through the twentieth century. Data derived from electronic searches (1000-line samples) confirm relations between style and function in the epic mode. Chaucer&#039;s use of the word is unusually low.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: Folk Poet or Littrateur?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s decasyllabic lines are based on metrically significant, statistically normative feet, with clear and significant caesuras. Chaucer&#039;s and Shakespeare&#039;s iambic lines deviate from prototypical lines in similar ways. See Thomas Cable, &quot;A Rejoinder to Youmans and Li.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Worse Than Bogery&#039;: Incest Stories in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the Catholic Church in the twelfth century had developed &quot;extraordinarily rigorous&quot; prohibitions against intermarriage by persons related by blood, by the thirteenth century these standards had to be relaxed. Archibald discusses various Middle English texts, including MLT, PrT, ParsT, and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Brief History of the NCS]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the founding of the Chaucer Society (1868), the New Chaucer Society (1977), and their accomplishments.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268040">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Holy Fear and Eloquence in the Age of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the link between fear of God and literary expression, usually manifested as &quot;overwhelming prolixity.&quot; Considers several of the tales in CT as part of this exploration.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Impressionistic praise of Chaucer&#039;s ability to combine human sensitivity with comedy, his refusal to be cowed by Dante, his characterizations, and his irony.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the functions and significances of &quot;non-verbal signs&quot; (glancing, pointing, winking, hand-clasping, kissing, bowing, etc.) in medieval literature, concentrating on Dante&#039;s Commedia, the romances of Chrtien de Troyes, Froissart&#039;s Chronicles, the Prose Lancelot, Langland&#039;s Piers Plowman, Gower&#039;s Confessio Amantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory&#039;s Morte Darthur, and Chaucer&#039;s TC. Chaucer increases the amount of &quot;gestural behaviour&quot; that he found in his source, Boccaccio&#039;s Il Filostrato, producing &quot;one of the richest&quot; of all medieval narratives for understanding the &quot;part played by non-verbal communication in familiar private exchanges.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clerical Training and Lay Instruction in Chaucer&#039;s England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the English educational system in Chaucer&#039;s time, tracing the paths from parish schools to the universities indicated in the GP portraits of the Clerk and the Parson.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Over: Medieval to Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors, on topics relating to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Petrarchan tradition, Renaissance ballads and drama, and George Herbert. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Writing Over under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lay Readers and Hard Latin: How Gower May Have Intended the Confessio Amantis to Be Read]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Constructs a model for the reception of Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; that accommodates its combination of English, marginal Latin glosses, and very difficult Latin prefatory verses. Clerk-prelectors probably studied the work before performing interpretations of portions of it for a court audience that included members (such as Chaucer) who knew little Latin. Gower wrote his text &quot;for a variety of potential performances.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Chaucerian Year]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Month-by-month (April to March) commentary on the significance of dates and months in Chaucer&#039;s life and works, with occasional quotations. Initial version posted April 2001. An addendum includes the transcript of a &quot;Question and Answer Session&quot; with Martin Starkie, producer and director of the 1964 musical version of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Self-Fashioning]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;doubleness&quot; in critical tradition results from combinations of self-deprecation and extravagant claims to poetic authority in his works. In 1592, Robert Greene depicted Chaucer as short, whereas the frontispiece of Speght&#039;s 1598 edition depicts the poet as tall. These apparent contradictions have been sustained throughout critical tradition, resulting from Chaucer&#039;s own claims to be multitudinous and nothing at all. Cooper discusses authorial self-fashioning in BD, HF, TC, and CT (especially Th and Mel).]]></dcterms:description>
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