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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the active role of women in medieval albas, or dawn-songs, as indications of women in society.  Defines the lyric genre and its history, exploring its relations with courtly tradition, the fantasies reflected in the genre, and the sexual politics that underlie it.  Considers, among other works, FranT and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Star System in Literary Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts the &quot;star system&quot; of contemporary critics (e.g., Derrida) with the previous paradigm of dominant but nonstellar scholars in Chaucer studies.  George Lyman Kittredge, John M. Manly, and John Livingston Lowes serve as examples.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Texts and Their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays initially presented at the first three conferences of the Early Book Society:  Durham, 1989; Trinity College, Dublin, 1991; and Sheffield, 1993.  The essays consider texts and books produced between the late fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries, available to English readers. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer search for Texts and Their Contexts: Papers from the Early Book Society under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Richard II]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A biography that assesses Richard II, the quality of his rule, and the events of his reign.  Uses Shakespeare&#039;s play as a point of departure and argues that Richard&#039;s accomplishments and excesses resulted in large part from the fusion of &quot;exercise of power&quot; with a narcissistic &quot;sense of being.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[References to Chaucer are few, concentrated in a section on the status of the arts in the court of Richard, who favored visual over verbal arts as a means of image-making.  Chaucer had little or no royal patronage from Richard.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dwelling on Women: Reading the Spatial Discourses of Medieval Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies spatial metaphors from contemporary feminist scholarship to medieval texts of various genres, including &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Chretien&#039;s &quot;Yvain,&quot; TC, the &quot;Life of Christina de Markyate,&quot; the &quot;Ancrene Wisse,&quot; and the &quot;Book of Margery Kempe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cyberspace, Theory, and Power in the Classroom: A Non-Techie Guinea Pig Tries Out the World Wide Web in His Undergraduate Chaucer Class]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Personal chronicle of problems in dealing with technology in teaching, including inadequate facilities, poor student preparation, and time-consuming searching and class preparation.  Includes two appendices: a &quot;Labyrinth&quot; assignment and student responses.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, Their Scribes and Readers. Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by various authors, a celebratory introduction of testimonials, and a bibliography of publications of M. B. Parkes. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Of the Making of Books under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anglo-Latin in the Ricardian Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how English displaced Latin as a literary language in the court of Richard II and assesses meter, Anglicization, and historical topics as common features of Anglo-Latin verse by Gower and Thomas Barry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Chaucer? Some Implications for Teaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Jill Mann&#039;s approach to Chaucer&#039;s treatment of women is more helpful for classroom application than is Elaine Hansen&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstock zum 65 Geburtstag]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Bright Is the Ring of Words under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by different authors examine the achievements of frequently neglected works, exploring the quality of the poems, their relations to various traditions and genres, and their poetic methods.  Brief references to ABC, BD, GP, MilT, and RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literary Nominalism and Medieval Sign Theory: Problems and Perspectives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nominalism and literature were never parts of a single, seamless discourse; influences between them are at best complex and indirect.  Penn surveys research on literary nominalism in late-medieval (mostly Chaucerian) texts, arguing that sources other than nominalist philosophy better explain the ambiguities, linguistic playfulness, and similar symptoms of &quot;nominalist&quot; tendencies in late-medieval literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Humor in British Literature, From the Middle Ages to the Restoration: A Reference Guide]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chronological description of humor in British literature, with individual discursive bibliographies on literary humor in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and on individual writers in these periods.  Surveys the criticism of humor in Chaucer&#039;s works (pp. 16-27).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine essyas, by various authors, on English historical and developmental linguistics; includes a list of publications by Rissanen. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for To Explain the Present under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics literary, historical, and social, all pertaining to sexuality in Europe before 1700. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, The Queen&#039;s University of Belfast, 26 J]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirty-seven essays by various authors arranged under five headings:  Contexts for Courtliness, Fashioning History and Romance, Negotiating a Courtly Voice, Texts and Readers, and Limits of Courtliness. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Court and Cultural Diversity under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From &#039;Ricardian Poetry&#039; to Ricardian Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the history and reception of J. A. Burrow&#039;s term &quot;Ricardian&quot; as an alternative to &quot;Age of Chaucer,&quot; considering its use and its future in light of the present critical climate.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sixteen essays by various authors on Anglo-French, Latin, and (especially) English literature produced during the reign of Richard II.  Includes bibliography of Burrow&#039;s publications. For eleven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Ricardian Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Looking for a Sign: The Quest for Nominalism in Chaucer and Langland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Belief in the salvation of virtuous pagans (the &quot;&#039;facere quod in est&#039; principle&quot;) has been associated with nominalist thought.  Minnis examines Chaucer&#039;s praise of Cambuyskan in SqT to argue that there is no real evidence of nominalist influence on the poet.  Langland&#039;s treatment of Trajan is likewise not distinctly nominalistic]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Author&#039;s Two Bodies?: Authority and Fallibility in Late-Medieval Textual Theory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;complicated medieval matrix of ideas concerning the relationship between authority and fallibility,&quot; commenting on representations of the topic from Petrarch&#039;s depiction of Cicero to Chaucer&#039;s depiction of the Pardoner. As a preacher and an author, the Pardoner reflects late-medieval questions about the authority of immoral clerics, questions confronted in Archbishop Arundel&#039;s efforts to eradicate Wycliffite opinion in 1409.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Metrics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays (plus an introduction) from the 1991 G. L. Brook Symposium on Old and Middle English Metrics. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Metrics under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reading Chesterton&#039;s &#039;Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[G. K. Chesterton&#039;s &quot;Chaucer&quot; makes the &quot;spaciousness&quot; and capacity of Chaucer&#039;s writings available to twentieth-century readers.  Chesterton associated Chaucer&#039;s sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian views on sin, freedom, and joy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ensayos Chaucerienses]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes six essays about Chaucer by Leon Sendra and a summary-introduction by Jesus L. Serrano Reyes.  The first essay proposes a sociolinguistic approach to Chaucer&#039;s works, based on the textual-linguistic theory of M. A. K. Halliday, and the other essays apply some aspect of this approach.  In HF, the relation between sign and style encourages the audience to reach beyond interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critical responses to Criseyde reflect how ambiguities in TC promote the reader&#039;s participation.  In PardT, ClT, WBT, and FranT, the personal topic of love engages the audience.  Halliday&#039;s systemic-functional approach to style makes clear the various levels of discourse and the particularly English features of Th.  Chaucer&#039;s references to Spain in GP, MkT, PardT, HF, and Rom capitalize on common assumptions about Spain.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Spanish.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Criticism in 1996: Report to the Plenary Session of the New Chaucer Society, July 29, 1996]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the interdisciplinary character of Chaucer studies generally, with specific interest in historicism and word-image relations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Representations of Exile in Early English Literature, 1100-1500 A.D]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A cross-generic study (excluding drama) of the effects of exile on such diverse characters as the Christian or the secular hero, the lover, and the pilgrim.  Discusses works by Chaucer, Gower, and Langland.]]></dcterms:description>
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