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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Communities of Otherness in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In MerT, the marginal communities of females and Jews maintain ambiguous statuses, serve as subtext to the &quot;Tale,&quot; and assert the seductiveness of the suppressed.  The ambiguity of the garden--exciting but exclusionary--is associated with female bodies and derives from the Jewish &quot;Song of Songs.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Januarie and May in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Medieval texts on the ages of humankind (such as &quot;The Parlement of the Thre Ages&quot;) indicate that January of MerT is not extremely old or about to die; he is at the transition between middle and old age.  May is in early stage of adulthood.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Regimes of the Visual in Premodern England: Gaze, Body, and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ClT is about visual investigation.  Contemporary manuscript illumination, panel painting, and statuary are instructive for understanding Chaucer&#039;s representations of lines of sight framing the female body.  Relying on complex tensions between an eroticized body and repression of its own eroticizing hints, ClT presents Griselda&#039;s body as inflected by doubled and contradictory codes governing how bodies, sacred and profane, can be seen and known.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dynamics of Law in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ClT is neither an affirmation of traditional hierarchies nor a critique of them, but rather an exploration of the ways individuals interact with social, marital, and spiritual authority.  Michel de Certeau&#039;s notions of &quot;intextuation&quot; and &quot;incarnation&quot; help explain how ClT &quot;represents the subject&#039;s continuing struggle for definition in a world where identity is not fixed but produced through interaction.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266528">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nominalism and the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039; Revisited]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer intensifies the voluntarist diction found in sources of ClT, thus urging a reconsideration of the &quot;Tale&#039;s&quot; principal characters and of the will of God as it was understood in late-fourteenth-century England.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266527">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Translating the Female]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The link of Griselda and Job in ClT recalls Saint Gregory&#039;s &quot;Moralia&quot; in Job, which &quot;translates&quot; Job as feminine.  In casting Job as a female figure, Chaucer reveals the contradictions and misogyny of Gregory&#039;s exegesis.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266526">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Le probleme d&#039;ars-metrike du &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A late-fifteenth-century French riddle about the dividing of a fart cites Chaucer as the solution, evidence that SumT was known at the time in France.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tale&#039; and &#039;the firste smel of fartes thre&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[SumP and various puns in SumT not only transform Friar John into a fart but also indicate that his prayers invert the Pentecostal wind and &quot;suggest that his brethern share his odious nature.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266524">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norm in Medieval Europe]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon&#039;s court and its officers were &quot;bitterly disliked,&quot; in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Fiend and the Summoner, Statius and Dante: A Possible Source for the &#039;Friar&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The questioning of the fiend by the Summoner in FrT echoes &quot;Purgatorio&quot; 25.  Both humans (Dante and the summoner) ask material questions of their supernatural guides; both guides direct the questions to the realm of the spiritual.  The place of both humans in the afterlife depends on their ability to understand what they are being taught.  Dante, however, ascends to Paradise; the Summoner descends into Hell.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266522">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What the Man of Law Can&#039;t Say: The Buried Legal Argument of the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In WBP, the Wife delivers not a sermon but a mock legal case.  Her reasoning is typical of courtroom reasoning, and (like lawyers) she buries her argument in rhetoric. Her unwritten law of marriage triumphs over the written laws of St. Paul, thus aligning her with the &quot;new order of things&quot;--legal negotiation and interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266521">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Quest and Question in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comparison of WBT with its analogues reveals Chaucer&#039;s manipulation of generic expectations to create a sequence of &quot;evocations and subversions of romance optimism.&quot;  The hero&#039;s conventional quest is supplanted by &quot;a textual quest on the part of the reader.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266520">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the manuscript variants of the so-called added passages of WBP, concluding that the passages were composed by Chaucer and that they extend from a single exemplar, probably an unfinished authorial draft.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266519">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath Debates Jerome]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In WBP, the Wife takes not an extremist position on marriage but rather a centralist one, often adhering to the doctrine of Augustine.  By burning Jankin&#039;s book and by according husbands bliss after she attains &quot;mastery,&quot; Alisoun refutes the misogynistic diatribes and opts for reconciliation between the sexes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266518">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath and St. Paul&#039;s Teachings on Marriage: &#039;Th&#039;apostel, When He Speketh of Maydenhede&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the presentation of polygamy, virginity, and sexuality in WBT, using St. Paul&#039;s teachings as a background.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266517">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as Evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that two distinct scribal attitudes toward the Wife of Bath can be perceived:  a misogynous scholarly response typical of one manuscript family, and a more sympathetic popular response typical of another.  Considers evidence from WBP, including spurious links, glosses, minor variants, and the &quot;two major variants&quot;--the renumbering of the Wife&#039;s husbands and the so-called added passages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266516">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apprentice Janekyn/Clerk Jankyn: Discrete Phases in Chaucer&#039;s Developing Conception of the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Working through WBP at various points in his writing career, Chaucer conceived of changing the character &quot;Janekyn&quot; to make him &quot;Jankyn,&quot; the Wife&#039;s fifth husband.  Thus, the character changes from an apprentice to a scholar boarding with the Wife to a scholar boarding with her &quot;gossip.&quot;  The Jankyn passages reveal alterations in Chaucer&#039;s initial conception.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266515">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Old Wives&#039; Tales and Masculine Intuition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In drafting learned sources (Ovid, Boethius, Dante) onto the core of a popular story, WBT generates a form of romance with appeal for &quot;serious&quot; readers; the appeal of this genre rests not on marvels and adventure but on individual fulfillment through identification with the passion and compatiblility of the heterosexual couple.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266514">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ballad and the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys ballad scholarship and argues that exploration of medieval ballads has value for broader study, suggesting, for example, that &quot;King Henry&quot; provides useful contexts for the gentility speech in WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266513">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sacred and Secular Exegesis in the Wyf of Bath&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The sources for the Wife of Bath&#039;s performance as exegete--and the authorities she cites in her &quot;Tale&quot; (in particular Ovid,for the Midas story)--make clear that the underlying theme and conflict in WBPT concern &quot;surface and substance, letter and spirit.&quot;  Other interpretive starting points, such as realism or misogyny, operate as subsets of this dynamic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266512">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath and Molly Bloom: Self-Portrait of Two Women]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares Molly Bloom&#039;s concluding monologue with WBP, assessing the two characters&#039; views on sexuality and euphemism and their relations with their husbands.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266511">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nominalism and the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the Wife of Bath&#039;s admissions of lying, her glossings of Scripture, and her sexual punning as &quot;nominalistic discourse&quot; underpinned by her preference for the empirical and experiential over the universal.  Disagrees with feminist readings of WBP and argues that Chaucer satirizes the Wife.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266510">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath: Sexuality vs. Symbol]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Commentary on the Wife of Bath as a vital character who reflects Chaucer&#039;s distate for antifeminist categorization of women as saints or whores.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266509">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Man of Law&#039;s&#039; Custance: Administrator of Frankalmoign]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Citing examples from feudal law and practice, Silar argues that MLT 2.168 has a specific legal sense and should be translated &quot;[Custance&#039;s] hand, in which the right to grant estates in the feudal tenure of frankalmoign.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266508">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Noon Englissh Digne&#039;: Dante in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arguing that Chaucer was more deeply influenced by Dante than is generally accepted, Shoaf demonstrates Chaucer&#039;s dependence on Dante in MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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