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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Parliament of Fowls&#039;: The Narrator, the &#039;Certyn Thyng&#039;, and the &#039;Commune Profyt&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The &#039;certyn thyng&#039; the narrator deludedly pursues through scholarly exploration is the necessity of undergoing experience (i.e., entering the gates &quot;for better of for worse&quot;) to discover the meaning of love.  Nature&#039;s concern for the &quot;commune profyt&quot; shows this meaning:  the process of constant renewal out of disharmony and conflict.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265111">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Parson&#039;s Tale&#039; and the Quitting of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comparison with contemporary documents show ParsT to be a manual for penitents; homiletic elements are minimal and the appeal is to reason rather than the emotions.  Despite numerous minor inconsistencies ParsT has a clear and effective structure.  Parallel passages in other tales indicate late composition.  ParsT and Ret, instead of reflecting back on the tales, represent a progressive withdrawal from fiction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265999">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Parson&#039;s Tale&#039;: Ending &#039;Thilke Parfit Glorious Pilgrymage That Highte Jerusalem Celestial&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ParsT critiques both the tales in CT and life, as well as concluding CT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tales and the Parson&#039;s meditation work together in a &quot;problem-solution relationship.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tales present betrayals and sins through a variety of voices and genres, while ParsT creates a new tone to remedy and exonerate the betrayals in the tales and in life.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268195">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Peynted Process&#039;: Italian to English in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC, Chaucer&#039;s &quot;greater vehemence,&quot; his increase in specificity, and his heightening of emotion characterize his adaptations of Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265931">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the Physician as a skillful practitioner and comments on PhyT, audience response to the tale, sources, arrangement of materials, and Chaucer&#039;s message.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271987">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039; and Love&#039;s Martyrs: &#039;Ensamples Mo Than Ten&#039; as a Method in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies aspects of PhyT that derive from hagiography, particularly its emphasis on Virginia as a &quot;virgin martyr,&quot; not found in Chaucer&#039;s sources. As a result of Chaucer&#039;s various changes and genre modifications, the tale raises &quot;grave questions of absolute and relative moral authority.&quot; Like other Chaucerian tales of victimization (especially ClT and those in LGW), PhyT challenges its audience to reassess moral categories and assumptions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263512">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Doctor of Physic&#039;s Diplomatic &#039;Cure&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Host&#039;s aversion to this tale is a clue to its interpretations:  the narrator, a typical medieval physician, reveals himself and his profession through his narration.  The death of Virginia is emblematic of the Physician&#039;s lack of concern for his patient&#039;s death.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266931">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Povre Widwe&#039; in the &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039; and Boccaccio&#039;s &#039;Decameron&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The vivid details of Decameron 7.3 (the story of Friar Rinaldo)-the corrupt clergy, their obesity and sweating faces, their rich foods and wine, together with the simplicity of the widow&#039;s life-suggest that Boccaccio&#039;s work may have inspired NPT as a pointed satire of the clergy&#039;s failure (especially the Monk&#039;s) to meet the needs of lay people.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273255">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Present Eternite&#039; of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how the Boethian concept of divine (fore)knowledge of eternity underlies various aspects of TC and explores how narrative devices, allusions, the treatment of time, and the epilogue evoke the &quot;illusion of &#039;present eternite&#039; for the reader in relation to the poem.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272491">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale,&#039; Sonorous and Silent]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how song and sound create narrative meaning within PrT. Chaucer&#039;s choice of using the antiphon, &quot;Alma redemptoris mater,&quot; reveals the &quot;transformative force that sound bears.&quot; Discusses issues of performance, voice, and silences; aural reception and community; and societal conflicts between urban Jews and Christians.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271701">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Anti-Semitism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges critics who absolve Chaucer of anti-Semitism by blaming the Prioress instead. Anti-Semitism was rife in Chaucer&#039;s society, and he was likely complicit in the bias. Yet, the topic is a critical distraction in discussions of PrT, which emphasizes the Prioress&#039;s reverence for the Mary and her dramatizes her &quot;indulgence in pathos and sentimentality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Prive Scilence&#039; of Thomas Hoccleve]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses aspects of &quot;Regement of Princes&quot; to demonstrate Hoccleve&#039;s poetic subtlety, especially the ways he capitalizes on the idea that as a member of the &quot;emergent administrative class,&quot; he had &quot;restricted information.&quot; Discusses Pandarus of TC as a precursor to the old man of Regement.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263048">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Prologue&#039; to Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Legend of Good Women&#039; in Cambridge Library MS Gg.4.27 and Johns Urry&#039;s &#039;Works&#039; of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bradshaw was not the first to cite the LGW text in Gg.4.27.  Urry used line 58 from this manuscript for line 56 of the Speght text.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263385">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Queynte&#039; Punnings of Chaucer&#039;s Critics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses bawdy words, obscenities, and euphemisms in Chaucer,exposing fallacies in overzealous scholarly search for obscene puns.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in &quot;Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer:  Selected Studies of Larry D. Benson,&quot; ed. Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney (Aldershot. Hant: Scolar; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1995).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264563">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale,&#039; &#039;Le Meunier et les ii Clers&#039; and the &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s improvements result from adapting source to the framework of CT--giving the tale to the highly individualized Reeve, whose emphasis upon &quot;quitting&quot; the Miller requires that Symkin become the strongest character in the tale.  The most successful changes occur in the fight scene, where Chaucer expedites the action by involving the second clerk and the wife.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272062">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039; and the Comedy of Limitation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads RvP as a &quot;confession of old age&quot; and RvT as a &quot;tribute&quot; to unrestrained passion and an extension of the concern with love in KnT and MilT. Compares RvT with its analogues, and comments on its characterizations, the straightforwardness of its comedy, its style, and its thematic concerns with &quot;space and place&quot; and with the &quot;inescapable reality of the real world.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272540">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039; and the King&#039;s Hall, Cambridge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the literary and historical implications of identifying &quot;Soler Hall&quot; in RvT (1.3990) as King&#039;s Hall, Cambridge. Favors the variant &quot;Scoler.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271738">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039; as a Fabliau]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in its concern with social pretension and its atmosphere of &quot;game and contest,&quot; RvT is better regarded as a comic fabliau than as a tale of vengeance that reflects its teller. Compares and contrasts RvT with several fabliaux, including &quot;Berangier au lonc cul,&quot; &quot;Le Meunier et les deux clers,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s own.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264164">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039;, Symkyn, and Simon the Magician]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Symkyn&#039;s name is diminutive of Simon and thus calls up the story of Simon the Magician as found in the Acts of Peter.  In a larger sense the rise and inevitable fall of pride that is the tales structural skeleton gains resonance when placed against the fate of the archetypal Simon.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262789">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Religion of Love&#039; in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039; and Medieval Visual Art]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Medieval concepts of love and sex were derived from the worship of Venus, the goddess of love.  Art of the period shows men worshipping Venus, as well as men and women trying to win each other&#039;s love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262276">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Roman de la Rose&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Narrators]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A comparison of Chaucer&#039;s narrators and the narrative voices of the &quot;Roman&quot; may clarify the continuing debates on the characteristics of his narrators, their function within the dream poems, and their relation to other narrative voices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Second Nun&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examining both ecclesiastical and societal patriarchies, SNT addresses medieval concepts of power, authority, and autonomy.  It places Cecilia&#039;s spiritual vision in the context of a broader secular and sacred order.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263952">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Sentence&#039; and &#039;Solaas&#039; of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Philosophical, Christian, rhetorical, and courtly traditions&quot; provide bases for the morality and mirth of CT, especially NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Sermons&#039; of English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thematic sermon structure, as delineated in English &quot;artes    praedicandi,&quot; influenced romances as well as other genres.  This influence can be seen in &quot;Sir Amadace,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; KnT (Theseus&#039;s speech on order), WBT (the loathly lady&#039;s lecture), TC (Criseyde&#039;s discourse on jealousy 3.987-1054), and Robert Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272622">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Italian Analogues]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsiders relations among ShT, Sercambi&#039;s &quot;Novelle&quot; no. 31, and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; nos. 8.1 and 8.2, suggesting that it is &quot;not unreasonable&quot; to think that Chaucer &quot;might have known all three of the analogues.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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