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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Red-Hot Irony in &#039;The Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that MilT is a &quot;farce,&quot; using the definition of Eric Bentley in &quot;The Life of the Drama&quot; (1967).  Academic criticism of MilT has not confronted its farcical elements.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reference to a Manuscript of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 may be the manuscript referred to as &quot;7574 Boethius&#039;s Consolat.of Philosophy, translated by Chaucer, &#039;imperfect,&#039; 2s 6d&quot; in the 1770 sale catalogue of London bookseller Thomas Payne, since it is incomplete and its pre-nineteenth-century provenance is &quot;unclear.&quot; Suggests that this reference may be to &quot;a hitherto unrecorded copy&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s work.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reference to Music in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies--etymologically and musicologically--that &quot;cordes&quot; mentioned in HF 696 refers to instrumental strings, not to musical chords. the latter being anachronistic in Chaucer&#039;s era.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Refutation of Robert Byrne: John Kennedy Toole&#039;s &quot;A Confederacy of Dunces,&quot; Chaucer and Boethius.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides evidence that much of John Kennedy Toole&#039;s knowledge of Boethius, important to his novel &quot;A Confederacy of Dunces,&quot; came through the Chaucer class that he took from Robert Lumiansky.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Regnal Genealogy in Trouble: The Trojan Myth as a Traumatic National Historiography in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deploys Chaucer as part of an examination of the use of the Trojan/Brutus myth in British national historiography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rejoinder to Youmans and Li]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques Youmans and Li&#039;s assessment of Chaucer&#039;s verse (in this same volume, pp. 153-75), urging metricists to avoid &quot;importing phonological analyses&quot; into theory of meter.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Religious Approach to &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[CT is basically religious in spite of its various secular elements.  The religious connotation depends rather on Chaucer&#039;s Catholic views of life than on the outward signs. All the characters and their tales, both sacred and secular, are equally important to present an ideal image of human society.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Renaissance Reader&#039;s English Annotations to Thynne&#039;s 1532 Edition of Chaucer&#039;s Works]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The heavily annotated copy of Thynne held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University shows what a sixteenth-century reader found of interest in Chaucer&#039;s story-telling, language, and moral vision.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264337">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Response to &#039;Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Descriptive rather than interpretative approaches are preferred for Chaucer literary studies, according to Bloomfield, but we need to know &quot;how&quot; the poet constructed his work; thus semantics, the philosophy of speech acts, sociology, etc., are central to literary study.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A response to Morton Bloomfield, &quot;Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer,&quot; in the same volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Response to Candace Barrington]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sponsler comments on the &quot;appropriation theory&quot; underlying Candace Barrington&#039;s analysis of a Chaucer-themed Mardi Gras pageant of 1914, raising broader questions about the ideology, methodology, and disciplinary implications of &quot;American medievalism.&quot; See Barrington, &quot;&#039;Forget what you have learned&#039;: The Mistick Krewe&#039;s 1914 Mardi Gras Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270750">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Response to David Matthews]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the intensity of America&#039;s involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in &quot;Chaucer&#039;s American Accent,&quot; focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of Chaucerian pastoralism and democracy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Response to Rachel Shore]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Extends Rachel Shore&#039;s claim that features of the GP description of the Prioress conflict with her tale and undermine her ethos.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270509">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Review of Selected Criticism of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on five critical essays that pertain to RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270653">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Revised Edition of &quot;The Manly-Rickert Text of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A corrected reprint of Ramsey&#039;s 1994 publication (see SAC 18 [1996], no. 31), with Kelly&#039;s summary of the importance of the volume and its arguments concerning the relationships of the manuscripts (especially Hg, El, and Dd) and the editing of Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rhetoric of Irony]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anatomizes irony as a literary device. Includes one example from Chaucer: details of the Monk&#039;s description (GP 1.177-82) describing it as straightforward irony that is stable, covert, and local, &quot;firm as a rock&quot; when &quot;discovered by the proper reader.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272116">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rhetorical Analysis of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quantitative analysis of Chaucer&#039;s uses of rhetorical techniques in TC, including &quot;suasive&quot; techniques, proverbial materials, and rhetorical figures.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261319">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rhetorical Legacy: The Art of Memory&#039;s Place in Literature and Semiotics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Of the five parts of classical rhetoric, &quot;memoria&quot; (including semiotics) has been insufficiently recognized.  Chaucer&#039;s dream visions reveal interaction of memory and invention; &quot;memoria&quot; is also significant in Renaissance and Romantic poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rhyme Concordance to the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A computer-generated alphabetical concordance of rhymes in Chaucer&#039;s poetry, based on &quot;The Riverside Chaucer,&quot; arranged by rhyme elements (e.g., &quot;-aas,&quot; &quot;-aat,&quot; &quot;-abbe&quot;) within individual works.  Includes for each work, in addition to the basic concordance, lists of rhyme-element frequency and rhyme-word frequency, a rhyme-word index, and lists of rhyme schemes and rhyme structures (i.e., combinations of vowels and consonants). ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Volume 1 includes CT, BD, HF, Anel, and PF; volume 2, TC, LGW, short poems, and apocrypha or questionable works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Ricardian &#039;I&#039;: The Narrator of &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critical opinion about the narrator of TC, arguing that the narrator is not best regarded as unreliable, that it is difficult to separate narrator from author, and that is is unwise or impossible to construct a single stable narratorial persona from the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275540">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Rogue&#039;s Decameron.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes ten short stories, plus a Prologue and an Epilogue, all overtly modeled in topic and tone on CT and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; both works referred to in the Prologue and alluded to in titles such as &quot;The Reeve&#039;s Sister&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268599">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Room of One&#039;s Own : Reale und mentale Innenraume weiblicher Selbstbestimmung im spatmittelalterlichen England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Topics include Margaret Beaufort and her circle, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, cycle plays, &quot;The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ,&quot; and works by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and others. Recurrent attention to CT, LGW, and especially TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268681">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Schoolchild&#039;s Primer (Plimpton MS 258)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the Plimpton primer (written in English) in relation to the Latin education depicted in PrT; includes an edition of the primer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Scotian Reading of the Man of Law&#039;s Tale and the Clerk&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attends to &quot;evident Scotian implications&quot; of MLT and ClT without arguing that Chaucer read or was directly influenced by the works of John Duns Scotus. Focuses on the nature of God and voluntarism in the tales, arguing that &quot;where Custance had to contend only with the will of God, Griselda has to confront a barely intelligible, if unmistakable, reminder of God himself&quot; in Walter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264624">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Scriptural Echo in the Trojan Parliament of &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s presentation of a Trojan parliament unanimously resolving, despite the reasonable objections of Hector, to exchange an innocent Criseyde for a wicked Antenor (TC IV, 141-217), makes allusions to the trial of Christ before Pilate; Chaucer&#039;s sources do not.  In TC the biblical echoes serve to characterize the depth of Troilus&#039; sorrow, and may also indirectly criticize Troilus&#039; immoderate love for Criseyde.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261420">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Search for Chaucer&#039;s Comedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s use of descent and ascent, particularly in NPT, a successful comedy.]]></dcterms:description>
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