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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pillars of Hercules.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;some unnoticed passages&quot; that shed light on Chaucer&#039;s references to &quot;Trophee&quot; and the Pillars of Hercules (MkT 7.2117-18), identifying no specific source but showing that parallel information was available in medieval accounts such as the Irish &quot;Togail Troi&quot; and John Ridewell&#039;s commentary on Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum.&quot; Also discusses a gloss to MkT in the Ellesmere manuscript.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Another Knot, Five-fingered-tied&quot;: Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Cressida,&quot; V.ii.157.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Shakespeare&#039;s knot-image may be related to the five fingers of the devil commented upon in ParsT 10.852-60.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Significance of a Day in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the events of a single day in the first half of Book 2 of TC, particularly changes Chaucer made to Boccaccio &quot;Filostrato,&quot; showing how this section helps to characterize Pandarus and Criseyde. Argues that the &quot;muted contrast&quot; between the framing &quot;swallows-stanza&quot; (2.64-70) and the &quot;nightingale-stanza&quot; (2.918-24)--neither in Boccaccio--indicates the paradoxes of love in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s General Prologue, A 673: Further Evidence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers examples from the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; and Deschamps&#039; &quot;Ballade&quot; that the word &quot;bourdan&quot; had the meaning &quot;phallus,&quot; showing that the sense would have been familiar to Chaucer when he used &quot;stif burdoun&quot; to describe the Summoner&#039;s singing with the Pardoner (GP 1.673).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer in the Queen Mab Speech.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Justifies accepting PF 99-105 as the more likely immediate source of Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Romeo and Juliet&quot; 1.4.70-88 than Claudian&#039;s &quot;De Sextu Consultat Honorii Augusti,&quot; Preface, 3-10, the ultimate source of both English texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Approach to &quot;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recommends showing students how digressive, &quot;extra-narrative passages&quot; in NPT &quot;are the essence of Chaucer&#039;s intention, not obstructions.&quot; Includes discussion of contrasts between NPT and the Cock and Fox fable of Marie de France, focusing on rhetorical shifts between realistic and unrealistic elements in the narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Language of Love in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes and assesses Chaucer&#039;s depictions of the expressions and psychology of love in TC, attending to diction, tone, style, and various uses and developments of the conventions of French and Italian love poetry. Focuses on the poet&#039;s successful rendering of the inner psychology of love, his uses of high style, and the &quot;emotionalized tone of femininity&quot; in his characterizations of both Troilus and Criseyde. Also comments on BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Morality and the Medieval Attitude Toward Fable.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Acknowledging NPT to be &quot;a rhetorical tour de force,&quot; assesses implications of its status as a &quot;fable,&quot; surveying medieval commentaries on the genre, particularly its ability to teach and/or delight, and commenting on the morality the Nun&#039;s Priest enjoins good men to find in his tale. Suggests that Chaucer was &quot;poking fun&quot; at those who thought writers must provide edifying justifications for their works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Personality of Chaucer the Pilgrim.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;to see Chaucer the pilgrim as anyone other than a marvelously alert, ironic, facetious master of every situation is to misread&quot; CT. Particularly in his views of churchmen and uses of superlatives, the narrator is best understood as &quot;a kind of alter ego of the poet himself, with just so many shades of difference as allow for ironic play.&quot; Focuses on GP, but mentions Th.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--and After.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A chronological and thematic anthology of literary parodies that opens with Pr-ThL, Th, and a section of Th-MelL in Middle English as examples of parody of romance, followed by an &quot;Imitation of Chaucer&quot; by Alexander Pope and &quot;A Clerk Ther Was of Cauntebrigge Also&quot; by W. W. Skeat.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Legend of Little Hugh.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quotes PrT 7.684-86 at the beginning of a report about a &quot;new version&quot; of the information plaque at the tomb of Hugh at Lincoln Cathedral, one that castigates &quot;Trumped up stories of &#039;ritual murders&#039; of Christian boys by Jewish communities.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Susannah and the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Daniel 13.20 is a source of or influence on details of MerT 5.2138-48, and suggests that pictorial representations of Susannah and the Elders and details from the alliterative poem &quot;Susannah&quot; reveal ironic dimensions in Chaucer&#039;s scene of January and May in a closed garden.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Tradition of Troilus&#039;s Vision of the Little Earth.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces from Jerome to Frère Lorens&#039;s &quot;Somme le Roi&quot; the legacy of commentary on Isaiah 40 which links spiritual ascent and contempt for the world, discussing Lorens&#039;s &quot;Somme&quot; as the source for the rise of Arcite in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Teseida&quot; and as a secondary source for Troilus&#039;s ascent at the end of TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Self-Portrait and Dante&#039;s.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer&#039;s self-characterization in Pr-ThL 7.695-97 derives from Dante&#039;s &quot;Purgatorio&quot; 19.52 and that the one follows the other in using the &quot;dual first-person singular&quot; and in separating Poet and Pilgrim as a narrative technique.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January&#039;s &quot;Aube.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes in MerT several commonplaces of the &quot;aube&quot; in the description of January and May&#039;s wedding-night, suggesting that they help &quot;to point up the bitterly comic incongruities in January&#039;s marriage,&quot; and echo details of RvT and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Limits of Illusion: Faulkner, Fielding, and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the universal applicability of the &quot;organic&quot; ideal (form equating to content) of New Criticism, arguing that it is applicable to modern novels but not earlier narratives. Explores Chaucer&#039;s and his audience&#039;s &quot;lively consciousness of his illusion-making powers&quot; in CT and especially in TC where &quot;fiction and fact are consistently played off against one another&quot; until the &quot;authentic accents of Geoffrey Chaucer&quot; are heard near the end of the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conclusion of the Marriage Group: Chaucer and the Human Condition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews medieval ideas of degrees or grades of perfection, particularly as related to virginity as the &quot;highest form of chastity&quot; and marriage, a compromise even when admirable as in FranT. PhyT and SNT, both of which may follow FranT in the order of CT, offer ideals of absolute chastity and chaste marriage respectively, with SNT offering a religious alternative to the Franklin&#039;s secular view of matrimony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275793">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Oaths in the &quot;Friar&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the &quot;ironic associations&quot; of the summoner&#039;s oaths in FrT, particularly those that invoke St. James and St, Anne.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Parson&#039;s Tale and the &quot;Moralium Dogma Philosophorum.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers in parallel columns passages from ParsT, the &quot;Moralium Dogma Philosophorum,&quot; and the French translation of the Latin text to argue that the &quot;Moralium&quot; is the ultimate source of portions of ParsT (especially the &quot;Remedia&quot; of the vices), even though the French text may be a more immediate source. Focuses on organizational similarities, verbal echoes, and phrasing.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Cato.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the range and depth of Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with the &quot;Liber Catonis,&quot; its commentaries and glosses, and the likelihood that he memorized portions as a schoolboy. Identifies verbal echoes of &quot;Catoniana&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works; then focuses on his &quot;parodic use of Cato&quot; in NPT, MilT, RvT, MerT, and ManT, evincing the &quot;poet&#039;s sophisticated and heterodox attitude towards an ethical authority that all literate men of his time held in high esteem.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aspects of Order in the Knight&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reinforces studies of structural and thematic order in KnT, identifying a threefold pattern of ordering principles: a backdrop natural order of cycles, rituals, folk customs; the noble social ordering of chivalry and tournament; and the universal, Boethian order of temples, gods, and the heavens.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Sir Thopas&quot;: Meter, Rhyme, and Contrast.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers aspects of Th that are &quot;burlesque,&quot; commenting on diction, meter, details, various rhetorical figures, and rhymes that convey irony and comedy. Poses many of these examples in contrast with parallels elsewhere in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Paradoxical Patterns in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus&quot;: An Explanation of the Palinode.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critical opinion about the relation of the palinode in TC to the body of the poem, and then focuses on the characters&#039; various views of love and the narrator&#039;s &quot;ironic mask.&quot; In contrast with the &quot;pragmatic limitations&quot; of Pandarus&#039;s view of love and the &quot;fixed, yet fluctuating&quot; view of Criseyde, tensions between Boethian love and courtly love characterize Troilus&#039;s outlook. These tensions are &quot;resolved in the palinode as it recapitulates the paradoxical patterns or ironic crosscurrents&quot; by which the narrator &quot;structures his implicitly cosmic vision of love.&quot; Written as the author&#039;s Ph.D. dissertation; includes an index.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seed of Felicity: A Study of the Concepts of Nobility and &quot;Gentilesse&quot; in the Middle Ages and the Works of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the intellectual and social backgrounds of medieval understandings of nobility and &quot;gentilesse,&quot; and analyzes noble birth and noble action in TC and CT, especially the ironies of failed &quot;noble potential&quot; in TC, the framing noble ideals of the Knight and Parson in CT, and the Franklin&#039;s literal rather than spiritual understanding of gentility in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A85-88: Chaucer&#039;s Squire and the Glorious Campaign.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides historical background to the characterization of the Squire in GP 1.85-88, focusing on the economics, politics, and tactics of the so-called &quot;Crusade of 1383&quot; (or &quot;Despenser&#039;s Crusade&quot;), the implications of the word &quot;chivachie,&quot; and ways that the Squire&#039;s military activities may have been understood negatively by Chaucer&#039;s audience, especially in contrast with those of the Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
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