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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thomas Hoccleve and Manuscript Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Hoccleve&#039;s relations with the London book trade and the Lancastrian court to explain how his verse &quot;managed to leak so successfully&quot; into the Chaucer tradition. Hoccleve&#039;s manuscripts reflect his autobiographical self-fashioning and his associations with Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Subtle Devices : Machinery and the Limits of Humanism, 1580-1625]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Renaissance elicited mixed responses to machinery. Wolfe discusses reactions to Italian thought by Gabriel Harvey (including the effect on his reading of Chaucer), George Chapman, and Edmund Spenser.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Langland&#039;s Mighty Line]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares paired samples of Langland&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s verse to argue that Langland&#039;s are superior in both sound and sense.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scribal Mismetring]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares authorial and scribal versions of passages from Hoccleve&#039;s verse, focusing on scribal omission of monosyllabic words, spelling variants, and terminal -e. Assesses what Hoccleve&#039;s practice might tell us about Gower&#039;s practice, and how the two may differ from Chaucer&#039;s less-strict habits of meter.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rewriting Langland and Chaucer : Heresy and Literary Authority in Late-Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although many assume that Chaucer and Langland felt compelled to revise their works to avoid anti-Wycliffite censorship, such censorship was restricted to clerical writing. Chaucer drew on Wycliffite translation techniques to improve his skill, as seen in the contrast between Bo and Astr.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Essays on the Art of Chaucer&#039;s Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Prints fourteen pieces, ranging historically from Thomas Tyrwhitt and George  Saintsbury to recent commentary, including new essays by Richard Osberg,  Emerson Brown, and Winthrop Wetherbee. Includes an introduction that summarizes the contributions of the essays, the notes from the original publications, and an inclusive bibliography but no index. Topics include historical and theoretical essays, essays on Chaucer&#039;s prosodic practices, and readings that combine close analysis with history and theory. For the new essays, search for Essays on the Art of Chaucer&#039;s Verse under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Figure of the Singer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the relationship between song and poetry in English tradition, identifying the tenacity of the association until the end of the nineteenth century as evident in poetry and in the statuary of London&#039;s Albert Memorial. Cites evidence from TC and Chaucer&#039;s lyric poems to argue that in the 1300s and 1400s verse was &quot;still steeped in music, but no longer dissolved in it.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Survival of Chaucer&#039;s Punctuation in the Early Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares punctuation in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts with that of other manuscripts to argue that Chaucer&#039;s punctuation survives in the virgules of Hengwrt and Ellesmere, related to his development of the iambic pentameter line.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Partial-Contact Origins of English Pentameter Verse : The Anglicization of an Italian Model]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Stockwell and Minkova argue that Chaucer&#039;s prosodic innovation is rooted in his familiarity with the &quot;Romance decasyllabic model.&quot; The article focuses on duple and triple rhythmic units, suggesting that Chaucer imposed native iambic rhythm on romance models found in Petrarch and Boccaccio.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267673">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fabliaux and Other Literary Genres as Witnesses of Early Spoken English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The realism of fabliaux (and some drama) makes them valuable in studying the history of colloquial language, especially sexual colloquialisms. Blake draws examples from &quot;Dame Sirith,&quot; MilT, RvT, WBP, and MerT, remarking on Chaucer&#039;s self-consciousness and restraint in use of sexual language.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267672">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization : The Case of Anon]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the development of &quot;anon&quot; from Middle English to Early Modern English, using evidence drawn from TC and elsewhere. A revised version of chaper two of Brinton&#039;s Pragmatic Markers in English (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 1996).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267671">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[French and Frenches in Fourteenth-Century London]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges &quot;over-simple dichotomies&quot; between English and French in late-medieval England and illustrates the &quot;pragmatic complexity&quot; of the use of Anglo-French texts. Assesses grammar, style, &quot;speaker attitudes&quot; (with reference to CT and TC), and ambiguities of the word &quot;French.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267670">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Towards Personal Subjects in English : Variation in Feature Interpretability]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites examples from Chaucer and others to show the demise of the &quot;(slight) person split&quot; evident in earlier English impersonal constuctions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267669">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Great Vowel Shift? : The Changing Ideological Intersections of Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Literary History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviewing the traditional narrative of the Great Vowel Shift, with its recognition by Chaucer&#039;s early editors that major changes in prosody were underway, Giancarlo suggests revision of the monolithic GVS model in the direction of a more localized and more scientifically defensible model of Modern English vowel shifts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267668">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What the Clerk&#039;s Tale Suggests about Manly and Rickert&#039;s Edition-and the Canterbury Tales Project]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Morse comments on how the Canterbury Tales Project may reinvigorate textual questions thought to have been answered by the Manly-Rickert edition and latent in the Variorum project. Explores such issues as tale order, tale revision, and manuscript authority, especially as they relate to ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clare Priory, the London Austin Friars and Manuscripts of Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Names written in manuscripts of CT indicate associations between these manuscripts and a number of Austin friars who were scribes; they also indicate that exemplars of some manuscripts were at Clare Priory. Friars may have copied the manuscripts piecemeal when traveling, or the manuscripts may have circulated among fraternal locations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267666">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Observations on the Hengwrt Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the &quot;structural sections&quot; of the Hengwrt manuscript (Hg) to describe the complex process of its copying and construction, concentrating on such matters as hands, inks, running titles, quiring, and the abrupt ending of CkT, and suggesting that the composition of Hg and that of the Ellesmere manuscripts may well have overlapped.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sources of Wynkyn de Worde&#039;s Version of &#039;The Monk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that de Worde&#039;s text of MkT results from collation of Caxton&#039;s second edition with a manuscript probably of the Hengwrt group. There is no sign of editing beyond the evident desire to produce a complete text of MkT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Forto Compleyne She Had Gret Desire&#039; : The Grievances Expressed in Two Fifteenth-Century Dream-Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts the parliaments or courts of love in PF and LGWP with those in Lydgate&#039;s Temple of Glas and the anonymous Assembly of Ladies. The later poems present &quot;idealizing fantasies of social assimilation or integration.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267663">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Amorous Scripture : Ovidian Romance and the Rhetoric of Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Transmission of ancient Greek and Roman culture through Ovid to later tradition affected romance and shaped attitudes in popular literature. Heyworth discusses works by Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer (with emphasis on politics in the court of Richard II), Shakespeare, and Milton.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267662">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[New Perspectives on Lydgate&#039;s Courtly Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critical reception of Lydgate has been prejudiced by negative comparisons with Chaucer. Fuller appreciation of Lydgate&#039;s poetry depends on recognizing that, while moral and political issues in Chaucer are largely exemplary, Lydgate writes to effect moral and political change-reflecting a &quot;new and distinct fifteenth-century poetics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Unpublished Middle English Lyric and a Chaucer Allusion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A three-stanza poem in praise of the Virgin Mary--from a single leaf inserted after Lydgate&#039;s Life of Our Lady in Bodleian Library MS Bodley 120--alludes to or echoes SqT (5.347) and TC (5.1670).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267660">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transportation to Canterbury : The Rival Envisionings by Stothard and Blake]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The treatment of horses and horsemanship helps to contrast the &quot;secular lightheartedness&quot; of Thomas Stothard&#039;s 1809 painting of the Canterbury pilgrims and the &quot;heartfelt religious fervor&quot; William Blake sought to convey in his 1807 engraving.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267659">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Saracen Enjoyment : Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Echoing Chaucer&#039;s poetry while portraying non-Christian, racialized others, the Middle English romance &quot;The Sultan of Babylon&quot; invokes a &quot;Saracen Chaucer&quot; whose status as national poet depends on such markers of difference.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From Hero to Trope: Chaucer&#039;s Dissolution of the Medieval Child Subject]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s representations of the child as pathetic and passive (in Th and PrT) contrasts with images of children in romance (&quot;Havelock the Dane&quot;) and miracle tales (&quot;Child Slain by Jews&quot; and &quot;The Jewish Boy&quot;). Chaucer &quot;canonizes&quot; this negative view of children.]]></dcterms:description>
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