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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boccaccio&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s Cressida]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Boccaccio&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s attitudes toward their sources by examining the relations of their narrators with Cressida in &quot;Filostrato&quot; and TC.  Cressida&#039;s legendary status as dishonest and inconstant had been established before Boccaccio and Chaucer were writing, but other antecedents are reflected in her character. Cressida&#039;s literary heritage owes much to female characterizations in Virgil and Ovid, as well as to Dante&#039;s readings of Virgil and Ovid, all of which provide compelling models for the Cressida of the High Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Clerkes, Poetes, and Historiographs&#039;: Chaucer, Langland, and the Literature of History]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identified by Caxton as &quot;historiographs,&quot; Chaucer and Langland write as historians and consider the meaning of writing history.  In TC, Chaucer discusses sources and antiquity as marks of authority and hindrances to reading.  The English literary canon is also a historical canon.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Contextual Meaning of &#039;Penaunce&#039; in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Whereas Boccaccio uses the straightforward word &quot;tradimento&quot; of Criseyde, Chaucer uses the roundabout phrase &quot;hire hertes variaunce.&quot;  In TC, &quot;in gret penaunce&quot; means both that &quot;Criseyde was in great misery&quot; and &quot;Criseyde was in hell for her sins.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Description of Nature Through Adjectives in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC, descriptions of nature, including natural objects, plants, and animals, reflect the characters&#039; emotions.  When characters &quot;act in harmony with nature,&quot; things go well; when they act against nature, they are destroyed by its &quot;uncontrollable power.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; 4.210: A New Conjecture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads &quot;thus seyde here and howne&quot; (TC 4.210) as &quot;everyone agreed,&quot; a reading supported by reference to Henry Knighton&#039;s &quot;Chronicle,&quot; in which Howne&#039;s army (&quot;Hownher&quot;) may have connoted wide consensus in popular tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nature as Destiny in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aristotelian natural philosophy, specifically the doctrines of natural place and natural motion, lie at the heart of the structure and meaning of TC.  Troilus and Criseyde are bodies in motion toward their natural resting places; their natures--her slidingness and his steadfastnees--are their destinies.  The poem&#039;s Christian ending is appropriate to the ultimate destiny of human beings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Von der Historie zur Tragoedie: Macht und Ohnmacht des Schicksals uber Troilus and Cressida]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the theme of Fortune&#039;s influence in treatments of the story of Troilus and Criseyde from Boccaccio to Dryden, including TC and the versions of Henryson and Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye&#039;: The Theme of Incest in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Readers who refuse to recognize Pandarus&#039;s incestuous desire risk participating in the denial of such desire in patriarchal societies; they also risk colluding in society&#039;s invocation of the incest taboo, which underlies traffic in women.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dangers and Promises of Reading, Two Medieval Viewpoints: Wolfram von Eschenbach and Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the scholastic idea of the book and applies the concept of the written word (book) as &quot;essential epistemological instrument&quot; to Wolfram&#039;s &quot;Titurel&quot; fragments (ca. 1220) and to TC.  Chaucer presents Troilus as a misreader of texts who only at the end of the romance--and tragically--learns to read accurately.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mythological Authorization of Kingship in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores political implications of PF, commenting on the theme of common profit and on Chaucer&#039;s political situation.  Examines the role of Nature as an advocate of hierarchy and a suppresser of rebellion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Where&#039;s the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and the Reading/Writing Between the Lines]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the letter as a means of spoken and written transmission and demonstrates how the most important elements and functions of the letter prescribed by the &quot;artes dictaminis&quot; were put to creative use in medieval literary texts such as the &quot;Chanson de Roland&quot; and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Chaucer&#039;s narrator is sympathetic to the hero of TC, Troilus&#039;s &quot;stellification&quot; contradicts our expectations because he values his own desires over the welfare of the polis.  Chaucer&#039;s &quot;political and moral judgment against Troilus&#039;s behavior&quot; may reflect guarded criticism of the courts of Edward III and Richard II.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poetics of Religious Conversion in Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers biblical, historical, traditional, and hagiographical accounts of conversion, exploring Chaucer&#039;s appropriation of them to psychologize courtly love or &quot;&#039;fin&#039;amors&#039; as a surrogate religion&quot; in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde: A Poet&#039;s Response to Ockhamism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Ockhamism and Chaucer&#039;s exposure to it.  Through both a &quot;philosophical interpretation of character&quot; and a close analysis of images, words, and discourse, Andretta maintains Chaucer&#039;s allegiance to &quot;manifest truths that are skeptical, and only probable.&quot;  Considers the epilogue to TC as revealing &quot;the entire poem&#039;s message:  one must look up beyond thus world to behold the real truth.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spirit, Psyche, and Self in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Criseyde, Troilus, and Pandarus as figures of Spirit, Psyche, and Self respectively, suggesting that the interactions among the three characters in TC depict a &quot;false theology&quot; that is made right in Troilus&#039;s translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Visions of Inclusion: Universal Salvation and Vernacular Theology in Pre-Reformation England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The belief that all humanity will attain salvation occurs with surprising frequency in Middle English writings.  Though influenced by Latin theology, the sentiment was generated primarily by English and Anglo-Norman vernacular culture.  PF shows the limits of such universalism, as well as the potential power of the motif.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Freedom Through Renunciation? Women&#039;s Voices, Women&#039;s Bodies and the Phallic Order]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The formel eagle in PF, Emily in KnT, and Margery Kempe seek to delay or renounce sexual activity.  The eagle&#039;s blush embodies her later request to delay a choice of mate; Emily&#039;s desire to remain unmarried is marked by her desire to reject the &quot;physical effects of heterosexuality.&quot;  In these works, as in Margery Kempe, female choice is constrained by masculine discourse.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court of Nature and the Nature of Courts: An Inquiry into the Function of Natura in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the depiction of social order in Aristotle&#039;s &#039;Politics&#039; with that in PF.  Chaucer&#039;s Natura is a figure of &quot;communal order&quot; who properly subordinates the drive for procreation to the need for social hierarchy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anne of Bohemia and the Making of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsiders what role Anne may have had as a patron of Chaucer, examining her literary interests and political career and assessing the relation between these and the depiction of Alceste in LGWP.  From Lydgate forward, the construction of Chaucer as &quot;masculinized&quot; master poet has obscured the possibility that Anne had an impact on Chaucer&#039;s career.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Revision of the Prologue to &#039;The Legend of Good Women&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the original (F) version with the revised (G) version of LGWP, commenting on stages of transmission of G--from its composition to the extant manuscript Cambridge University Library Gg 4.27.  Hypothesizes that Chaucer revised LGWP as a separate work after Henry IV&#039;s usurpation, imitating Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and motivated by political and aesthetic concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trahison d&#039;amour et trahison d&#039;auteur: A propos du Troile et Crisede et du Legendier des dames vertueuses de Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In LGW, Chaucer reflects on his role as poet, his relation to past and present, and his responsibility to his readers, comically exploring how literature must betray its sources through the accusation that the dreamer betrays courtly values.  TC and LGW reflect Chaucer&#039;s discovery of a new literary world in Bocaccio and a new treatment of source.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266586">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Love of Thy Neighbor]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lacanian analysis of LGW that considers the hope of redemption as a function of charity in Aquinas and in Freud&#039;s commentary on Daniel Paul Schreber.  Though beautiful and concerned with love, LGWP promises but does not fulfill the desire it creates, leaving the legends as enactments of the &quot;failure of metamorphic promise.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Classicizing and Medievalizing Chaucer: The Sources for Pyramus&#039; Death-throes in the &#039;Legend of Good Women&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer drew on Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; and the &quot;Ovide moralise&quot; rather than on Geoffrey of Monmouth for his description of Pyramus&#039;s death in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reallocation of Hermeneutic Authority in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The chaos in HF is partly the result of multiple interpretations of texts and massive disagreement among the characters.  Geffrey may curse the individual who &quot;misinterprets&quot; his writing, but he is partly joking.  Only those authors whose texts are unread can expect to have complete control over their art.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Els Castells Humans&#039;: An Architectural Element in &#039;The House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer visited Catalonia sometime between 1365 and 1366.  Exposure to the country&#039;s folklore results in Chaucer&#039;s description of folk &quot;alle on an hepe&quot; in HF (2149).  Serrano Reyes provided contemporary pictures of this type of &quot;human tower&quot; to support his hypothesis.]]></dcterms:description>
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