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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spelling Practices in Three Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses graphic representations of selected features of spoken language to show the &quot;dialectical homogeneity&quot; of the Ellesmere manuscript (London), Cambridge Gg 4.27 (East Midland with Northern elements), and British Library Additional 5140 (East Midland).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What He Heard and What He Saw : Past Tenses and Characterization in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates Chaucer&#039;s uses of grammatical tenses in GP, especially in the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Yeoman, distinguishing how various tenses and narrative points of view direct readers&#039; reactions to the pilgrims. Considers indirect discourse, free indirect discourse, datable and undatable simple present (I am, I do), datable and undatable present perfect (I have done, I have been), and precise and vague dated past (I did in 1400, I did once), etc.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Corpus-Based Study of Non-finite (Infinitive) Complementation in Chaucerian English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines semantic and syntactic features of infinitive clauses used as nominals in GP and NPT. Makes several diachronic observations: in this stage of the development of English, to was becoming the standard infinitive marker, although there were others (e.g., for to); passive constructions were relatively rare; there was an increase in infinitive complement clauses in cantenative constructions following matrix verbs; there was an increase of periphrases to indicate aspect (with gan, bigan, etc.); and there was a fixing of word order.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Policy and Polysemy : A Case Study of &#039;Silly&#039; in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lexicographical information on sely is inconsistent and often based on the assumption that there was no historical overlap between &quot;pious-good&quot; and &quot;foolish-simple.&quot; Chaucer&#039;s uses of the term capitalize on uncertainty of tone in LGW, making it difficult to determine whether love&#039;s martyrs are silly or holy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Blood, bloody, bleed et leurs collocations dans l&#039;oeuvre de Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the terms in the title are not the most frequently used in Chaucer&#039;s vocabulary, their collocations enable us to explore associations and meanings of colors, the gushing of blood from wounds, the physiology of emotions, devotion to Christ&#039;s body, and Chaucer&#039;s versification.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Micrological Aggregates&#039; : Is the New Chaucer Society Speaking in Tongues?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Confronts questions of canonicity, the &quot;value&quot; of literature, and the relations between language and literature, encouraging members of the New Chaucer Society to help revitalize the role of language study. Equipped with a historical sense of how no language or literature is universal, Chaucerians can promote mastery of the &quot;crafts of reading and composing in English&quot; as the goals of their pedagogy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Justice et injustice au Moyen Âge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors exploring the theme of justice and injustice in Medieval English literature and society. One essay (Gloria Cigman on the notion of authority in Chaucer and in Shakespeare) pertains to Chaucer in general; two others also treat fourteenth-century literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Topics include depictions of virginity, widowhood, and their intersections in medieval romance, hagiography, and drama, with recurrent references to other literary genres and historical documents. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Dreams : The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six essays by various authors on dreams in medieval and early modern literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Reading Dreams under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267148">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267147">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Promoting the Text : Teaching Chaucer through the Kress Collection]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how visual aids and a trip to a medieval collection in a museum (in this instance the Kress collection in Birmingham, Alabama) can help students confront medieval literature with greater depth and involvement.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at a symposium on &quot;The Body and Soul in Medieval Literature.&quot; Most of the essays focus on Middle English literature, including some comparisons with medieval French and Italian works and some later literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Political Allegory in Late-Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A series of studies that explore how William Langland, John Gower, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, and Sir Thomas Malory all &quot;practiced an allegorical art, partly as a result of their similar educational backgrounds and also because political pressures encouraged and indeed necessitated indirection in writing about matters of public concern&quot; (5). Chapter 4, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Ricardian Allegories&quot; (pp. 94-116), compares allegorical depictions of Richard II: as a royal eagle in PF, as the God of Love in LGWP, and &quot;in various guises&quot; in Mel, MkT, and NPT. Mel promises the political advice given in MkPT, with its reference to King Edward (7.1968-72), and in NPT, with its recapitulation of the revolt of 1381.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interpreting Dreams: Reflections on Freud, Milton, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Unlike the dream interpretations in the works of Freud and Milton, dreams in Chaucer&#039;s poems reveal the strategies of power and gender that shape the interpretation of dreams. Discusses WBP, NPT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Interpretation of Dreams : Chaucer&#039;s Early Poems, Literary Criticism and Literary Theory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses criticism of Chaucer&#039;s dream visions and lyrics for how it has &quot;predicted&quot; the present state of Chaucer scholarship and as a &quot;test case&quot; for various critical approaches. Issues include the subject and subjectivity; resistance to new critical approaches; and adaptability to historicist, feminist, and psychoanalytic approaches.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Endityinges of Worldly Vanitees&#039; : Truth and Poetry in Chaucer as Compared with Dante]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although only seventy years separated Dante&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s creative peaks, different philosophies affected their attempts to communicate divine truth through poetry. Reflecting Augustinian philosophy, Dante believed that all things divine could be reflected and revealed through language. That more skeptical philosophies influenced Chaucer may explain why his poetry strives to unmask human folly rather than to affirm virtue.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Understanding Chaucer&#039;s Intellectual and Interpretative World : Nominalist Fiction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s fictions are opaque and self-conscious. Neither ordinary ironist nor allegorist, Chaucer is a nominalist &quot;philosophical poet&quot; for whom &quot;divine truth is stable; human knowledge is provisional; and fiction is the means by which nominalist dispositions provide the testing ground for our comprehension of the world&quot;-as exemplified in HF, BD and PF. In CT, social paradigms, rhetorical methods, genres, and authorities offer partial &quot;tellable&quot; truths along the way, but no total explanation of unknowable Truth. In TC, Troy is the wrong world for a normal romance hero, and love is pursued &quot;by &#039;conditional necessity.&#039;&quot; As in CT, the palinode in TC emphasizes the contingency of human understanding, while gesturing toward a divine world beyond our experience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Teehee&#039; and Teaching Chaucer Cross Culturally in Kansas, Denmark, and Bulgaria]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes experiences and experiments in teaching Chaucer in several venues, noting how Chaucer&#039;s language and humor seem to transcend cross-cultural boundaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267139">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to Chaucer that surveys critical issues and concentrates on how oppositions are posed in his poetry rather than resolved. Topics include the following: The Chaucer Business; Life, Works, Reputation; Dream, Text, Truth; Society, Sexuality, Spirituality; Readers, Listeners, Audience; Nature, Culture, Carnival; Wives and Husbands; Law and Order; and &quot;The Father of English Poetry,&quot; which emphasizes Chaucer&#039;s internationalism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dumb Chaucer : The Aesthetics of Stupefaction in the Love Visions and &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In his love visions, Chaucer initially claims to be stupefied by love and love poetry. Dalton analyzes this topos-deriving from many sources, including Boethius, the Roman de la Rose, and poems of Machaut-in BD, HF, PF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267137">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Lady in Medieval England, 1000-1500]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defines the late-medieval idea of a &quot;gentilwoman,&quot; its evolution, its relation to male gentility, and its representations in medieval art and literature. Briefly considers Chaucer&#039;s Prioress as a depiction of the &quot;behavioural traits&quot; of a medieval lady and the Wife of Bath as a realistic portrait of a woman who lives within the &quot;institutional and ideological parameters&quot; of late-medieval society.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Joan of Kent and Noble Women&#039;s Roles in Chaucer&#039;s World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Chaucer&#039;s &quot;circle&quot; has generally been considered wholly masculine, it may well have included contemporary women such as Joan of Kent. Joan was a prosperous and powerful woman, an interceder and a mediator: a model for a character such as Prudence in Mel. A careful reading of the household registers for women in this category might provide a different context for Chaucer&#039;s works: a &quot;clearer and better shaped image&quot; of his circle.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sixty-Four Years of Polish Academic Writing on Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Polish academic writing on Chaucer follows a political pattern. Retreating from politically charged topics, students and professors have concentrated on linguistics topics, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, and loanwords. Most &quot;literary&quot; subjects have stressed a strong anti-imperialist or anticapitalist bent. American students studying in Poland have chosen religion and philosophy, poetics, gender, and love over language.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267134">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Covert Operations : The Medieval Uses of Secrecy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the implications of secrecy represented in several topics and depicted in medieval texts: confession in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, gossip in WBPT and HF, occulted science in Pseudo-Aristotle&#039;s Secret of Secrets and Pseudo-Albert&#039;s The Secrets of Women, the legal designation of the &quot;covered woman&quot; in MilPT, and the discourse of sodomy in John Gower&#039;s Confessio Amantis. In these manifestations, medieval secrecy &quot;structured gender ideology.&quot; In both medieval and modern times, secrecy &quot;supports masculine regimes of knowledge, discourse, and power,&quot; while abjecting both men and women.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer in Perspective : Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty essays by various authors, plus a forward (pp. 13-25) by Lester that describes the career and lists the publications of Norman Blake. The essays consider Middle English language, literature, editing, and publishing, with eleven essays pertaining to Chaucerian materials. For the essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer in Perspective under Alterative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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