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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sym(e)kyn/&quot;simian&quot;: The Ape in Chaucer&#039;s Millers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the name Simond/Symkyn in RvT &quot;involves a pun on the Latin word &#039;simia,&#039; meaning &#039;ape&#039;,&quot; exploring Symkyn&#039;s multiple associations with apes, along with those of Robin the Miller.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264247">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbol and Meaning in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Many details and images of NPT become obvious symbols of eroticism if compared to more explicitly sensual literary and artistic works of the Midddle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277641">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbol and Theme in Chaucer&#039;s Vision Poems.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the imagery, symbols, and themes of BD, HF, PF, and LGW, focusing on the themes of love (courtly and spiritual) and the poet&#039;s responsibilities in depicting love, with attention to various aspects of style, form, and structure, and recurrent attention to source materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265113">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbole der Initation im Troilus-Roman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The archetype of initiation is the structural principle of TC. The archetype produces a number of images and actions illustrating the physical and spiritual development of the hero.  The archetype is more revealing of the surface structure than of the deep structure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263383">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Ambivalence in &#039;I have a gentil cock&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269720">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kuskin presents a manifesto on history-of-the-book studies as well as on the need to rethink Chaucerian reception. The  volume is divided into three sections: &quot;Capital and Literary Form,&quot; &quot;Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance,&quot; and &quot;Print  and Social Organization.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The second section includes two chapters: &quot;Chaucerian Inheritances: The Transformation of Lancastrian Literary Culture into the English Canon,&quot; a succinct history of Caxton&#039;s two editions of Chaucer; and  &quot;Uninhabitable Chaucer: Patronage and the Commerce in the Self,&quot; an argument that Chaucer&#039;s canonical status in the fifteenth century made it difficult for new writers to claim Chaucer&#039;s legacy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264283">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Stories Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Underlying many traditional stories is the basic structure of the individual emerging into adulthood and establishing his or her identity by destroying parent-images and finding a beloved equal.  A chapter on Chaucer establishes his equivocal and somewhat negative attitude toward this theme.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265030">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbols of Transformation: A Specific Archetypal Examination of the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Jungian terms, the experiences of the knight in WBT express a psychic interaction with the mother archetype, leading to the ultimate goal of finding the anima.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symkyn Koude &quot;Turne Coppes&quot;: &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale&quot; 3928.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces an historical account from 1862 concerning a drinking game that involves turning over cups to suggest that &quot;turne coppes&quot; at RvT 1.3928 may indicate Symkyn caroused in similar fashion. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268648">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symkyn&#039;s Place in the Reeve&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[RvT is &quot;concerned with breaking the ranks of social hierarchy&quot; and what causes individuals to desire such breaks. The clerks, the women, Bayard, and especially Symkyn all experience &quot;frustrated desire,&quot; which leads Symkyn &quot;to expand into outer or inner space, because he is unable to accept the nature of his own small space.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sympathy for the Monastery: Monks and Their Stereotypes in &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of the Monk and of the monk in ShT is complex and sympathetic.  Contemporary expectations about monks are clear in the Host&#039;s reactions to the Monk.  Daun John fits the stereotype but may be motivated by a desire to chastise gently the wife and the husband.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272890">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symposium on Love]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is a compilation of literary works and extracts from the classical era to the twentieth century, including WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptom and Surface: Disruptive Deafness and Medieval Medical Authority.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how deafness is represented in some medieval medical treatises as a social phenomenon, &quot;not an ill in itself&quot;; in Teresa de Cartagena&#039;s autobiography as a &quot;deaf gain&quot; rather than &quot;hearing loss&quot;; and in Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath as a mark of her &quot;disruption&quot; of patriarchal &quot;modes of textual authority.&quot; Together these medieval outlooks reflect the constructedness of ideas of disability and the need for modern diagnostic reform.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276093">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies medical language and the &quot;etiological imagination&quot; of late medieval England, i.e., the &quot;envisioning, arbitrating among, and emplotting [of] intricate causal chains&quot; that seek to represent or explain the &quot;frictional interface of causation and embodied agency.&quot; Treats depictions of medicine and causation in literary satires (including NPT), exempla, KnT, Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot; (compared with TC), Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Series,&quot; and &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe.&quot; Chapter 5, &quot;The Metaphysics of &quot;Phisik&quot; in the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;,&quot; argues that the combination of &quot;the seemingly gratuitous medical language used to describe Arcite shortly before his death&quot; poses an alternative to the &quot;monotheistic order of the prime Mover&quot; in Theseus&#039;s final speech.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271516">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptomatic Subjects: Diagnosis, Narrative, and Embodiment in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits a connection between literature, subjectivity, and the diagnosis of medical symptoms in the late Middle Ages. Uses CT and other literary and medical works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270570">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Synoptic Readings in A&#039;Level Poetry: Tennyson, Chaucer, African Poetry, Appreciation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style.  The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer&#039;s goals of moral and social reform and his techniques of description, characterization, and uses of irony and humor.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268233">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntactic Ambiguity in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the syntactic fluidity that parallels Criseyde&#039;s shifting psychology.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273800">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntax and Poetry in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attends closely to the syntax of three stanzas of PrT, describing their intricacies and &quot;strong effects,&quot; by commenting on predication, modification, rhyme, grammar, and related prosodic concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264226">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntax and Style in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concentrates on &quot;colloquialism&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s syntax in the context of popular romance and poetry, including some examples from Old English, finding that &quot;discontinuous patterns of word-order&quot; and &quot;negative forms of emphatic expression&quot; contribute to vigorous poetic syntax. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes chapters on word order, idiomatic usage, pleonasm, ellipsis, relative clauses, and coordination and parataxis. Includes bibliography, general index, and an index of Chaucer quotations.  No footnotes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264616">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Synthesis and Orthodoxy in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Parson&#039;s Tale&#039;: An analysis of the concordance of different authoritative &#039;sententiae&#039; according to the principles of the medieval &#039;artes praedicandi&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s treatment of &quot;sententiae&quot; in ParsT is best understood in terms of the schema provided by Thomas Walleys in his 14th-century &quot;De modo componendi sermones.&quot;  The Parson adopts many of Walleys&#039; 14 methods of linking &quot;senteniae&quot; to control logically the 160 biblical and patristic quototations and paraphrases used in his sermon, and to oppose the misleading use of &quot;sententiae&quot; by pilgrims like the Wife and Pardoner.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274287">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Synthesis and the Double Standard in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Dorigen and Arveragus&#039;s agreement at the beginning of FranT &quot;to marry and remain courtly lovers&quot; reflects the Franklin&#039;s illusory &quot;double standard&quot; that falsely assumes compatibility between marital and courtly love, symbolically undercut by the stark contrast between rocks and garden. The plot of the Tale reveals the incompatibility of the two views of love and the Franklin&#039;s inability to perceive it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275335">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Szenischer Bildwechsel in Chaucers &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the style and techniques of Chaucer&#039;s quasi-optical, quasi-cinematic (&quot;quasi-optische,&quot; &quot;quasi-filmescher&quot;) scene changes in CT, with particular attention to those in MerT. Focuses on relations between external and internal drama in such transitions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270331">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[T. S. Eliot&#039;s Allusive Technique: Chaucer, Virgil, Pope]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the allusions to Chaucer&#039;s GP, Virgil&#039;s &quot;Aeneid,&quot; and, most extensively, Pope&#039;s &quot;Rape of the Lock&quot; in Eliot&#039;s &quot;The Waste Land&quot; as signals to his rejection of the &quot;Classical/Christian tradition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266706">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[T. S. Eliot&#039;s Harvard College Senior Year: The Medieval Curriculum]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Eliot&#039;s senior-year courses at Harvard for their medieval focus (in art, literature, and philosophy) in the light of primary materials (including Eliot&#039;s annotated Chaucer textbook).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts CT and &quot;The Waste Land&quot; and analyzes medieval elements in Eliot&#039;s oeuvre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268947">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[T&#039;assaye in thee thy wommanheede : Griselda Chosen, Translated, and Tried]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In ClT, Chaucer expands notions of female power, helping to shape an idea of womanliness, especially as manifested in submissiveness, production of heirs, and self-sacrifice. Williams analyzes the linguistic and cultural category of &quot;womanhood&quot; in late medieval England.]]></dcterms:description>
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