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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alice of Bath&#039;s Astral Destiny : A Re-Appraisal]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Medieval astrological-medical texts underlie the characterization of the Wife of Bath in both GP and WBP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bedtrick : Tales of Sex and Masquerade]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A cross-cultural, transhistorical anatomy of one motif in the &quot;mythology of sex&quot; in literature and film--the &quot;story of going to bed with someone whom you mistake for someone else.&quot; Discusses structuralist and psychoanalytic explanations of variations on the motif. Assesses the faithful/unfaithful choice in WBT in contrast with the day/night choice in medieval English analogues of Chaucer&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Rhetoric of &#039;Experience&#039; : Explorations in &#039;Experience&#039; as a Key Term in Feminist Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Experience, here defined in the context of feminist criticism, gives women the capacity to differentiate themselves from others as well as to identify with them. Gendered experience is examined in the works of many authors from antiquity to the twentieth century, including Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cut of Genealogy : Pedagogy in the Blood]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reading the loathly lady&#039;s discourse on gentilesse (WBT) against the Statutes of Kilkenny (imposed by the English crown on the Anglo-Irish in 1366) highlights the conflict of nobility as defined either by blood line or by behavior (sanguinity or disciplinarity, in Foucauldian terms), but the Wife&#039;s conclusion refuses this clean interpretive segmentation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath&#039;s &#039;Foot-Mantel&#039; and her &#039;Hipes Large&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In GP, the Wife&#039;s &quot;foot-mantel&quot; is not a &quot;skirt,&quot; but a set of leggings or riding chaps, pulled up over the feet and legs from the bottom. &quot;Large&quot; refers not to the size of the Wife&#039;s hips, but to the loose drapery of the garment. The Wife may be smaller and more vulnerable than previously thought.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Custance as God&#039;s Merchant in the Man of Law&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MLT as an &quot;allegory of will,&quot; a Christian response to the &quot;Boethian stoicism&quot; of KnT that transcends mundane mercantilism by dramatizing an &quot;investment of self.&quot; As &quot;God&#039;s merchant,&quot; Custance transforms herself and converts others through a spiritualized form of commercial exchange.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aspects of Lexical and Morphosyntactical Mixing in the Languages of Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the &quot;York Memorandum Book&quot; for examples of the ways Latin, French, and English &quot;intertwined&quot; in medieval England. Rothwell opens with commentary on the vocabulary of a passage from MLP in which Chaucer &quot;Englishes&quot; several French words and makes hybrid words from the two languages.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Angels on the Edge of the World : The Geography of English Identity from Aelfric to Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The remoteness and insularity of England led to the belief that its people were different, both barbarian and angelic. Lavezzo discusses Aelfric, Higden, Chaucer (MLT), and the alliterative &quot;Morte Arthure.&quot; Use of the English language contributed to the sense of alterity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Custance and Ciappelletto in the Middle of It All : Problems of Mediation in the Man of Law&#039;s Tale and Decameron 1.1]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both The Man of Law&#039;s Tale and Decameron 1.1 consider the problematics of mediation inherent in the use of language. MLT is an exercise for the teller to impress the other pilgrims with his authority and wisdom.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Time Behind the Veil : The Media, the Middle Ages, and Orientalism Now]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemporary orientalism is based on a paradoxical notion of the Middle Ages as both the precursor of modernity and an unchanging alterity. Davis identifies this paradox in Edward Said&#039;s &quot;Orientalism&quot; and Diane Sawyer&#039;s television documentary, &quot;Behind the Veil&quot; (1996). Davis argues that MLT, in its depiction of the gendered role the Orient plays in defining Europe and England, reflects a self-aware, medieval orientalism unacknowledged by modern postcolonial theorists.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women&#039;s Power in the &#039;Tale of Constance&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In a deliberate move to fit Constance of MLT to the genre of &quot;hagiographic romance,&quot; Chaucer minimizes or eliminates the network of genealogical relations that gives the heroine significance and agency in Trevet&#039;s &quot;Les cronicles,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s source.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Androgynous Nun&#039;s Eye View : Feminine Pity and Masculine Determination in The Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Prioress of GP and PrT as &quot;psychologically androgynous,&quot; a combination of &quot;feminine on the outside&quot; and &quot;masculine on the inside.&quot; This combination is evident in the Prioress&#039;s fusion of sentimentality and cruelty and her other inconsistencies, making it difficult for critics to categorize her.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Imaginable Audience and the Oaths of The Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the six oaths by saints--Martyn, Denys, Peter, Yves, Austyn, and Jame--in ShT, arguing that familiarity with details of the saints&#039; lives provokes the audience to condemn the characters in the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267344">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron : Or, Bringing the Shipman&#039;s Tale Out of Limbo]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Boccaccio&#039;s Decameron 8.1 was Chaucer&#039;s primary source for ShT, even though scholars have been reluctant to treat Decameron as a source for any of The Canterbury Tales. Posits definitions of source, hard analogue, and soft analogue.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner and Gender Theory : Bodies of Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the Pardoner as an example of the &quot;fixities and fluidities of fourteenth-century discourses about gender.&quot; Potentially subversive, the Pardoner is also a patriarchal figure and &quot;anxious to assume the signs of a phallic and authoritative masculinity.&quot; Chaucer&#039;s presentation of these conflicts is similar to much discourse about the Rising of 1381. Sturges establishes three kinds of discourse latent in the Pardoner material: the sexed body, gender construction, and erotic practice. Although the three were not separated in Chaucer&#039;s time, and though they are not continuous in the Pardoner&#039;s material, they make possible a &quot;chain of associations&quot; through which a &quot;cultural Imaginary&quot; can be identified.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Carnival Confession : The Archpoet and Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In its carnivalized parody of the sacrament of confession, the &quot;calculated self-portrait&quot; of the Archpoet&#039;s &quot;Estuans intrinsecus&quot; foreshadows PardPT. Each speaker creates a &quot;mythopoeia of self&quot; by manipulating sacred topoi; the Pardoner draw his topoi from the tradition of preaching, ars praedicandi.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Who Is Afraid of the Pardoner?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses critical responses to the Host&#039;s verbal assault on the Pardoner at the end of PardT, identifying the common assumption that the Host fears the Pardoner&#039;s sexuality. Such readings are complicitous in the &quot;abjection&quot; of the Pardoner and thereby fail to counteract underlying phobia(s).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;For Though Myself Be a Ful Vicious Man, a Moral Tale Yet I Yow Telle Kan&#039; : La Vertu au Service de Vice Chez le Pardonneur de Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the relationships between moral virtue/vice and physical beauty/ugliness in PardPT, focusing on the Old Man and the Pardoner.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267339">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner as Female Eunuch]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Pardoner is not a male homosexual but a cross-dressed female through whom Chaucer reveals the constricting gender roles available to women of his time. PardPT metaphorizes the social relations forced on a female trapped in the ambivalence of dealing with those relations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner&#039;s Prologue and Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In PardPT, Chaucer inverts three major precepts of Augustinian sermon rhetoric (&quot;De Doctrina Christiana&quot;): the preacher must pray before preaching, the preacher must maintain a grave and appropriate demeanor, and the preacher must maintain Christian instruction as his goal. Breaking each of these, the Pardoner is an inversion of the ideal Augustinian preacher.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Hypocrisy of His Subjectivity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the almost ubiquitous assumption that hypocrisy is reflected in PardPT and suggests an alternative reading in which the Pardoner&#039;s words do not reveal his morality but parody WBPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Story and Wisdom in Chaucer : The Physician&#039;s Tale and The Manciple&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how narrative and sententiousness interact in The Physician&#039;s Tale and The Manciple&#039;s Tale as examples of Chaucer&#039;s explorations of the nature of this interaction. PhyT is a &quot;story in search of a moral,&quot; while  ManT is a &quot;collection of morals in search of a story.&quot; The two Tales enable us to see Chaucer&#039;s interest in the &quot;clash and contest&quot; of these two kinds of discourse. Welsh contrasts the tales with their analogues in Gower&#039;s Confessio Amantis.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Parfit Praktisour&#039; or Quack? : Chaucer&#039;s Physician and the Literary Image of Doctors After the Black Death]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that critical interpretations of Chaucer&#039;s Physician as a quack have been based on the moral outrage and stock literary character of a later age.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sentencing of Virginia in the Physician&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[PhyT is concerned with texts, whether &quot;historical&quot; or the &quot;fable.&quot; Virginia is compared to a text--a &quot;book&quot;--and the concerns with governance and authority in the Tale pertain to interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Compulsions of Honour]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval and modern understandings of honor as background to discussing the concept in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Malory&#039;s &quot;Le Morte Darthur,&quot; and PhyT. Virginius &quot;rightly kills&quot; Virginia &quot;to protect his own honour as well as her virginity, because they are the same thing.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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