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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Histoire de la litterature anglaise du Moyen Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to literature written in England from Gildas&#039;s Latin chronicle to Sir Thomas Malory, including, among others, separate chapters on Chaucer (pp. 148-61) and Chaucer&#039;s influence and apocrypha (pp. 187-201).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The chapter on Chaucer emphasizes his relations with Continental literature and his modernity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer et les cultures d&#039;expression française: Catalogue de l&#039;exposition en Sorbonne, juillet 1998]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the &quot;boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer&quot; and the &quot;scholarly contribution in French to Chaucerian studies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Facing-page English and French.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Missing Children]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As in late-medieval lyrics and drama, the suffering of mothers and children in Chaucer&#039;s works is presented as analogous to the suffering of Mary and Jesus. Surveys the presence and absence of references to children in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La ronde des saisons: Les saisons dans la litterature et la societe anglaises au Moyen Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors exploring the four seasons in      medieval English literature and society. Includes an essay by Sandra Gorgiewski about David Fincher&#039;s movie &quot;Seven&quot; in relation to ParsT and Dante. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for La ronde des saisons under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reves et propheties au Moyen Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266777">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Introduction to Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A &quot;radical revision&quot; (xi) of Brewer&#039;s 1984 &quot;Introduction to Chaucer&quot; (SAC 8 [1986], no. 55a); like its predecessor, a general introduction intended for specialists and first-time readers of Chaucer alike. Carried over from the first edition, the biographical and social history is retained largely intact.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The expanded discussions of Chaucer&#039;s works are marked by Brewer&#039;s interests in social anthropology and his belief in what is &quot;common to human nature.&quot; Brewer views Chaucer as a great artist and a sensitive and humane person.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Courtliness and Literature in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historical survey of the language and actions of courtly behavior as evident in Anglo-Norman and Middle English writings, with some corroboration from Latin. Traces the emergence of aristocratic courtliness in the eleventh century through to its appropriation by the merchant class in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, examining intersections between courtliness and ideals of personal beauty, notions of nobility, individualism, courtly love, and religion.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on concepts such as pity, graciousness, largesse, honesty, measure, reverence, service, and (by contrast) villainy. Contains frequent references to Chaucer&#039;s works, including Rom, BD, and several lyrics, as well as TC and CT. Also treats several French and English romances, courtesy books, hunting manuals, and didactic works, including the Auchinleck Manuscript and works by Chrłtien de Troyes, Marie de France, John Gower, and others.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266775">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how Middle English metrical romances reflect &quot;proximity to orally transmitted legends.&quot;  Treats the &quot;Tale of Gamelyn&quot; and related outlaw ballads as &quot;fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition,&quot;Havelock the Dane&quot; as an early experiment in literary retelling of oral material, &quot;The Seege of Troye&quot; as a failed effort to assimilate oral story to literary form, and &quot;King Alisaunder&quot; as a successful application of oral-based method to literary material.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 5 (&quot;Chaucerian Mistrelsy: &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;,&quot; pp. 175-201) assesses ways TC was &quot;profoundly influenced by English minstrel-style romance,&quot; considering relations between oral story and &quot;old books&quot; as a significant theme of the work. Also assesses how Th reflects Chaucer&#039;s and his audience&#039;s knowledge of the conventions of metrical romance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Body Politics : Otherness and Representation of Bodies in Late Medieval Writings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines various ways gender, ethnicity, and disease interact with social class in selected texts.  In MLT, race is less important than place in salvation history.  The tale of Lucrece (LGW) seeks to keep women virginal for marital traffic.  Erotic fabliaux like MilT warn elite young men of transgressive boundaries.  Blum also discusses leprosy in Henryson&#039;s &quot;Cresseid&quot;.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Late Medieval World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s works for the ways they reflect the &quot;conflicting realities he confronted in his world.&quot;  An opening section on &quot;The Poet and His World&quot; introduces the &quot;double vision&quot; of the intellectual world Chaucer inherited and describes his balanced &quot;conception of his task as a poet.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Subsequent sections introduce social and historical backgrounds   to the following topics and then examine how the subtopics are reflected in     Chaucer&#039;s works:  Religion (hierarchy and heresy, quest for perfection, and     popular religion), Class Commerce (chivalry, social unrest and economy), and    Gender and Sexuality (views of women, love, and marriage).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bisson focuses on CT and TC but mentions all of Chaucer&#039;s major works, concluding that CT is especially marked by the carnivalesque tensions between high and low, sacred and profane, and serious and comic characteristics of Chaucer&#039;s age.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266772">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Shock of Medievalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;contemporary consequences of the methods used to initiate medieval studies as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century,&quot; particularly how the discipline is &quot;still intimately bound&quot; to the &quot;fathers&quot; of medieval studies.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of WBPT as medieval discourse that resists or disrupts the distinction between commentary and documentary writing theorized by Steven Justice.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Envoys and the Poet Diplomat]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s envoys should be examined not within the context of history but within the context of the art of letter writing, the medieval concept of friendship, and the description of late medieval diplomacy. Chaucer&#039;s is a &quot;public stance,&quot; which simultaneously imparts counsel, not policy, and allows the moral messages of his texts to suggest possible solutions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266770">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction by the editor, plus seventeen essays by various authors.  The collection includes one essay on the Host, thirteen on CT, and three on TC. For the individual essays, search for Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266769">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seventeen essays by various autors, focusing primarily on Old English language and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Words and Works under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266768">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literature in English Society Before 1660. Volume 1: The Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A traditional literary history of Britain from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons until 1500, introducing major writers (including Chaucer) and works, with summaries and brief quotations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a brief outline of French and Italian backgrounds.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Designed as an introduction for Korean students.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian &#039;Rekenynges&#039;: Modeling Authority]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s uses of political discourse intersect with his concerns about poetic authority.  In PF, &quot;commune profyt&quot; represents both an equivocal political ideal and an idealized community of readers.  In KnT, just as Theseus aestheticizes his reign, the narrator casts his narrative as a foundation myth.  ClT comments on political tyranny and the tyranny of poetic authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266766">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Stranger in Medieval Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors on representation of and attitudes toward strangers in medieval literature and society. Topics include merchants as strangers, Jews in France, Wolfram von Eschenbach&#039;s &quot;Wolfram, Renaut de Montaubon,&quot; the German poet Kelin, and renown as a form of identity in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot; For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Stranger in Medieval Society under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266765">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Productivity of the Suffixes -ness and -ity : The Case of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the distribution of the two suffixes and compares their semantic functions.  A revision of an essay originally published in &quot;Studies in Modern English 19 (1993): 1-255.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Gerund in Chaucer, with Special Reference to Its Verbal Character]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Like most of his contemporaries, Chaucer used gerunds primarily as nominals.  Yet his usage is marked by a penchant for &quot;determiner + gerund + &#039;of&#039;-adjunct&quot; and by an unusual number of gerunds with verbal properties, especially in his prose.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A revision of an essay originally published in &quot;Poetica&quot; (Tokyo) 21-22 (1985).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Đin&#039; in Late Middle English and Its Contemporary Reflex in Instructional Settings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that certain English pronominal forms are &quot;durable over time&quot; when used in instructions.  Assesses cookbooks and Astr as Middle English samples and compares their usage with modern American cookbooks.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spatial Relations in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Treatise on the Astrolabe&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the spatial prepositions in Astr, arguing that the availability of the instrument to the audience of Astr made it possible for Chaucer to use imprecise indicators of space, that the prepositions used are &quot;semantically transparent,&quot; and that Astr marks a stage in the conceptual separation of &quot;in&quot; and &quot;on.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266761">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Romance Vocabulary of Chaucer&#039;s Romances]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Using the electronic Glossarial Database of Middle English, Lay analyzes Chaucer&#039;s habits of combining native English vocabulary with Romance vocabulary in doublets and puns, a reflection of his bilingual imagination.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the tradition of such collocations in rhetorical tradition and compares Chaucer&#039;s usage with that of analogous English and Continental narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266760">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Word and Deed: Studies in Chaucer&#039;s Words]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects previously printed essays, all here translated into English.  The essays explore various relationships between diction and characterization as the key to Chaucer&#039;s literary craft.  Concludes that Chaucer composed poetry as if he were building a cathedral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Notes on the Word Order in Chaucer&#039;s English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Charts word order in various editions of CT and TC with reference to manuscripts on which they are based. Although the evidence in CT is obscure, Root&#039;s edition of TC shows a marked tendency toward modern subject-verb-object syntax.  Includes an abstract in Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Roles of ME Preverbal &#039;y-&#039;, with Special Reference to Chaucer&#039;s English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Chaucer&#039;s prose, where usage is unaffected by metrical considerations, the presence or absence of the &quot;y-&quot; prefix in past participles is not random.  Chaucer uses &quot;y-&quot; for stylistic variations and to convert nouns to verbs, and it almost always occurs in grammatical environments in which the participle has verbal rather than adjectival force.]]></dcterms:description>
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