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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon : Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors, a bibliography of Bolton&#039;s publications, and an index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[History of European Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprehensive survey of European literatures, writers, genres, motifs, and themes, from Homer to contemporary figures and trends. J. Smith, &quot;Chaucer (c.1340-c.1400),&quot; pp. 142-46, describes Chaucer and his works, discussing him as a humanist and a man &quot;difficult to identify with any one culture: he embodied the transition between two ways of looking at the world.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ending in the Middle : Closure, Openness, and Significance in Embedded Medieval Narratives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concerned with issues of closure in texts of Guillaume de Lorris, Dante, and Boccaccio. Introduction notes recent criticism treating Chaucer&#039;s &quot;open endings.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267479">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Spirit Is Willing&#039; : T. S. Eliot and English Literary Religion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the development in English literature of attempts to &quot;establish a poetic language mimetic of God&#039;s Logos.&quot; Explores writers from Chaucer to Eliot.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Eating the Book : Reading and the Formation of the Devout Subject in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the English laity became increasingly literate, in part because readers consumed religious literature to increase their devotion and to achieve personal relationship with God. PrT and SNT, among other medieval works, demonstrate the Christian laity&#039;s need for vernacular reading ability.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267477">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Inscribing the Hundred Years&#039; War in French and English Cultures]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays examining the reciprocity between literature and history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Inscribing the Hundred Years&#039; War under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267476">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography : Speaking the Saint]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the voices in medieval vernacular saints&#039; lives: the controlling masculine voice and the submerged and subversive feminine voice. Defines female hagiography as a genre separable from male hagiography. French feminist critics (Cixous and Irigaray), however, help reveal tensions and fissures within the genre, evident in how the texts speak through silences, the presence of the feminine body, and the expression of these bodies. Includes discussion of MLT, ClT, and SNT, among other saints&#039; lives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267475">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Engaging Words : The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes depictions of reading in books of hours and assesses the theme of reading in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, examining a new &quot;reflexive relationship&quot; between &quot;reading habits and the shaping of identity&quot; in the late Middle Ages. Challenging the notion of a static authoritative text, Chaucer encouraged his audience to recognize that selves are &quot;textually constructed&quot; and that reading is fundmentally ethical.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[HFdefines Chaucer&#039;s assumptions about reading, and TC portrays reading as a &quot;private act with social ramifications.&quot; In CT, the Wife of Bath&#039;s attitudes toward texts contrasts with the &quot;unreflective attitudes&quot; of the Prioress. The Clerk exemplifies self-conscious uses of texts, and Chaucer promotes awareness of the roles of texts in creating subjectivity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267474">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A narrative introduction to English literature from Old English to postmodernism, designed for the general reader. The discussion of Chaucer (pp. 55-62) emphasizes biography, PF, TC, and the ironies of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267473">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Les veuves dans les textes de l&#039;angleterre du Moyen Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines medieval English widows. While Old English literature shows a general lack of interest in marriage and widowhood, Middle English literature is rich in various forms of testimonies. None of the widows surveyed shows true sorrow after the death of her husband.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prostitute Figure in Medieval English and French Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the medieval whore figure as rebel, outlaw, and heretic through historical and sociological analysis of the Norman Latin poem &quot;Jezebel.&quot; Chaucer and Langland consider the whore evil but also emblematic of this world&#039;s carnal pleasures. Christine de Pizan and François Villon treat her as a social outsider with whom they sometimes identify.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Compound Nouns : Patterns and Productivity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents that compounding was an active process of word formation in Middle English, tabulating Chaucer&#039;s compound words and showing that he favored combinations of two Old English nouns rather than combining a noun with another word form or Old English with French.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267470">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Grammaticalization in Early English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys words (e.g., &quot;very&quot;) that shift from lexical to grammatical function. Includes several citations of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267469">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Quid est veritas?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses &quot;treuth&quot; in Chaucer, treating Buk, GP, Truth, and Gower&#039;s Confessio amantis.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dissimilarity : Literary Comparisons in Chaucer and Other Late-Medieval Writing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of Chaucer&#039;s simultaneous employment of, and challenge to, comparative language and thinking. Chapter 1 explores dissimilarity and its &quot;taxonomic force&quot; in academic and religious traditions, while chapter 2 focuses on this subject in HF. Chapter 3 looks at the uses of similes in Chaucer and other medieval authors, arguing that Chaucer creates a &quot;dialectical play of simile and context.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The following two chapters focus on TC and the contexts and persuasive capabilities of comparisons in it. Chapter 6 deals with Chaucer&#039;s strategies for preventing readers from categorizing his fictions easily or comfortably. The book argues, finally, that the &quot;most characteristic features of language as Chaucer uses it in poetic fiction . . . are similaic not tropic&quot;; importantly, though, Chaucer sees the &quot;creative and subversive effect of dissimilarity.&quot; McGavin gives recurrent attention to KnT, WBP, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267467">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invention of Middle English : An Anthology of Primary Sources]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects excerpts documenting how &quot;the modern study of Middle English became the way it is.&quot; Thirteen excerpts discuss language, from George Hickes (1642-1715) to James A. H. Murray (1837-1915), and nineteen consider literary criticism and commentary, from Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) to Walter Willam Skeat (1835-1911). The excerpts are preceded by brief descriptions of their authors&#039; careers and impact; the excerpts include modern notes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267466">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer-1381]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer criticized the Peasants&#039; Revolt of 1381, treating the medieval status of the Parson; Lollardy; and Chaucerian concern with people of the lower classes.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Philosophical Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s dream visions confront contemporary philosophical debates, which also shape his poetics. BD is concerned with the status of universals, the relationship of universals to singulars, and the certainty of human knowledge. HF mocks &quot;the logical systems that attempt to organize and give meaning to worldly diversity&quot; (p. 64). Discussions of human will by Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Bradwardine, and Wyclif shed light on PF, which begins in a world without will but concludes with the formel eagle&#039;s acting freely. Like HF, LGW is about competing truths. The F prologue is the likely revision because its tension and ambiguity are important elements of Chaucer&#039;s style. In LGW, Chaucer creates a world where external verification is very difficult; both male and female characters commit the liar&#039;s paradox.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267464">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifteen essays and an introduction introduce the reader to &quot;the voyages, transformations, and interrogations of romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600.&quot; For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Dreme He Barefot, Dreme He Shod : Chaucer as Performer of Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer was well aware that he was writing for an audience that read his poems aloud. In his four dream poems, he familiarizes his audience with the subject matter through communication strategies, including conversational interjections such as &quot;that is to seyn.&quot; The poems are thus highly suited for oral performance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ockham, Chaucer, and the Emergence of Modern Poetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s narrative persona is related to the Ockhamist controversy in that his narrator struggles with questions of experience and authoritative knowledge and of whether experience can convey truth. Particularly in Chaucer&#039;s dream-vision poems, nominalist ideas provide the basis for Chaucer&#039;s examination of literary authority.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Animating the Letter : The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores various &quot;developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries,&quot; concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather than secular texts. Includes discussion of the frontispiece to TC in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (pp. 196-97), plus an appendix suggesting that the links, prologues, and epilogues of CT be considered analogous to the jesting/jousting borders (&quot;bourdes&quot;) of medieval manuscripts: &quot;The Jesting Borders of Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales and of Late Medieval Manuscript Art&quot; (pp. 217-25).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267460">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Class-Cultural Aspect in Chaucer&#039;s Early Works : From a Perspective of &#039;Authority&#039; and &#039;Experience&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the relationship between orality and literacy and between authority and experience in the context of medieval folk culture, dealing with BD and HF.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267459">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[After Relativism : Literary Theory After the Linguistic Turn]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[With the linguistic turn from mimetic to generative properties of language, the traditional understanding of many aspects of literary and intellectual history has been denied. Jolliffe questions this extreme position in the light of writers such as Heloise, Chaucer, and modern authors.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-six essays by various authors, with eight that pertain to Chaucer.  For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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