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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Classical Fable and English Poetry in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes theories and meanings of conventional mythographic images and allusions in medieval literature, derived from classical fables and allegorized in late-classical and medieval commentaries on such fables. Includes comments on the allusion to Virgil&#039;s and Dante&#039;s descents into hell in FrT (3.1513-20) and the resonances in KnT of Theseus as an exemplary figure of the noble life and the rational soul.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Folklore, Myth, and Ritual.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines critical opinions about the presence of mythic, folkloric, and ritualistic images and allusions in medieval English literature, commenting on various works and critical views of them: &quot;Beowulf,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; accounts of Robin Hood, drama, and several of Chaucer&#039;s works (TC, KnT, MerT, and PardT), observing generally that Chaucer&#039;s poems have resisted or escaped such analysis.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature: The Defense.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exemplifies the wide-ranging importance of &quot;exegetical tradition&quot; in explicating images and allusions in medieval literature, drawing examples from &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; from the Summoner&#039;s taste for garlic, onions, and leeks (GP 1.634), and from various echoes of the biblical Canticle of Canticles in the characterizations and relationship of Absolon and Alisoun in MilT. Argues that greater familiarity with such exegetical details is necessary for broader understanding the value of patristic criticism. See E. Talbot Donaldson, &quot; Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature: The Opposition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature: The Opposition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges patristic criticism for its claim that medieval literature is univocally concerned with asserting Christian &quot;caritas&quot; allegorically, arguing instead that poetry has a right to &quot;say what it means and mean what it says.&quot; Illustrates the pitfalls of the critical method by analyzing patristic or exegetical readings of the opening of &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; &quot;Maiden in the Moor Lay,&quot; and NPT, maintaining in the case of the latter that its meaning derives from its rhetorical elaborations rather than despite them. See R. E. Kaske, &quot;The Defense.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-59.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six essays by various authors and a summary Introduction by the editor. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Characterization in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Praises the &quot;high organic unity&quot; of MilT, attributing it to effective characterization of the major actors:  &quot;by making him &#039;hende&#039; in one sense or another, Chaucer has motivated each incident of the plot involving Nicholas; and similarly, he has made the action involving Alisoun and Absolon flow from the fact that she is an earthy girl and he is an effeminate fastidious dandy.&quot; They are &quot;perfect characters for the various roles in the little farce.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love and the Code: &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the characterizations in TC of Troilus, Pandarus, and, most extensively, Criseyde, explaining how Chaucer modifies their antecedents in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; by adapting the conventions and rhetoric of courtly love and creates rich personalities, comparable to those of Shakespearean drama and modern novels. Though he &quot;neither analyses nor moralizes,&quot; Chaucer depicts the &quot;random circumstances of love and living&quot; as well as awareness of psychology. Includes comments on the relations between characterization and the theme of love in LGW, PF, and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the &quot;Panthère d&#039;Amours.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews discussions that consider Nicole de Margival&#039;s &quot;La Panthère d&#039;Amous&quot; to be a source of HF, challenging most of them for lack of specificity or because shared details are conventional. Only two brief passages evince Margival&#039;s influence and neither is conclusive.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Recent Interpretations of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame&quot; and a New Suggestion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;the role of the artist as purveyor of Fame&quot; is the fundamental unifying theme of HF and suggests that Chaucer may have intended to resolve tensions between Dantean and Boethian views of the poet (as teacher and misleader, respectively) at the completion of the poem, perhaps having the man of great authority offer perspective on &quot;the responsibility of a poet in society.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pilgrimage Device of the Fabliau Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the techniques of characterization in CT, with particular attention to the range of social classes and the assigning of fabliaux to particular tellers. Comments on the gender of individual tellers and on the likelihood of class and gender variety and hierarchy in his contemporary audience and in his works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Gentry in the Historical Background.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers historical context for and commentary on the characterizations of the pilgrims in the CT who may be considered &quot;gentry,&quot; both those of traditional gentle birth and those on the rise as a class of new gentry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Il Poema Onirico: Boccaccio e Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies Chaucer&#039;s and Boccaccio&#039;s dream vision narratives and their references to dreaming in light of the history of the genre, focusing on the secularization of the genre, the rising importance of the poet as dreamer-viator, and aesthetic successes of the poets in expanding the range and uses of the dream vision. Considers HF at greatest length among Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Entendre des Voix: Réception et Perception dans Deux Lais Bretons Moyen-Englais (&quot;Lay le Freine,&quot; &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot;) et le &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot; de Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations among voice, genre, music, orality, and memorial transmission in &quot;Lay le Freine,&quot; &quot;Sir Orfeo,&quot; and FranT, including assessment of the ambiguities and Bahktinian polyphony of voices in the GP description of the Franklin&#039;s oral associations with food and in Sq-FranL and FranP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Delicious, Tender Chaucer: Coleridge, Emotion and Affect.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations between the reception of Chaucer and the &quot;study of the history of emotion,&quot; focusing on the &quot;symbolic capital&quot; of Samuel Taylor Coleridge&#039;s brief comments on Chaucer in &quot;Table Talk,&quot; the &quot;social context&quot; in which the comments were practiced, distinctions between &quot;emotional&quot; and &quot;affective&quot; responses that may be observed in the comments, and the &quot; emotional work performed&quot; by them. Includes comments on Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;tender.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Otium,&quot; &quot;Negotium,&quot; and the Fear of &quot;Acedia&quot; in the Writings of England&#039;s Late Medieval Ricardian Poets.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers background to late-medieval English literary notion of &quot;otium&quot; (idleness) and explores tensions between leisure and productivity in works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the &quot;Gawain&quot; poet, particularly their representations of the morality of leisure and labor in aristocratic love (treating LGWP and TC) and in the daily lives of clerics and seculars (treating GP and SNP).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Natural Law in Dryden&#039;s Translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discloses John Dryden&#039;s &quot;profound interest in the rich cultural history of natural law philosophy&quot; through close comparisons of his translations/adaptations of KnT and WBT with their Chaucerian originals, as well as through similar examinations of his translations of two tales by Boccaccio.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Political Nature of Romance: Focusing on Knight&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s alterations of the conventions of romance in KnT indicate the poet&#039;s political caution in giving advice to his king, advising him in the figure of Theseus to deal with political trouble by valuing Parliament. In Korean with an abstract in English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275743">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Green Otherworlds of Early Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the ecopoetics of the Celtic underworld in the &quot;Immram Brain,&quot; &quot;Tochmarc Étaíne,&quot; and the &quot;Mabinogi&quot; as background to green-world concerns in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot; Closes with commentary on parallel concerns in the opening of GP and several aspects of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s Ideal Marriage and Late Medieval Ideas about the Domestic Sphere.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that WBPT provides &quot;a serious defence of women,&quot; claiming that the Wife&#039;s ideas about &quot;about mutuality and domestic partnership&quot; in marriage &quot;coincide with ideas which were developing in Chaucer&#039;s society as a result of social and economic changes.&quot; Also shows that similar ideas were &quot;expressed in marriage sermons from the late thirteenth to the sixteenth century.&quot; Connects the queen in WBT with Prudence in Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pleyes of Myracles.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the meanings and dating of &quot;miracle play&quot; / &quot;miraculum&quot; as descriptors for medieval drama, discussing a range of historical records and offering WBP (3.543-59) and details from MilT as evidence of fourteenth-century dramatic activities in England.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Bride-habited but maiden-hearted&quot;: Language and Gender in &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores aspects of the diction of &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen,&quot; focusing on nuances derived from the glossaries in Thomas Speght&#039;s editions of Chaucer&#039;s Works, with particular attention to KnT, the source of &quot;Kinsmen,&quot; and to issues of gender identity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Re-reading Chaucer&#039;s Women: Focusing on Fabliau and Clothing.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the clothing of Alisoun of MilT and the Wife of Bath, with attention to color, stereotyping, and economic conditions. In Korean, with an abstract in English (pp. 158-59).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereadings of Medieval English Discourse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Old and Middle English language and literature in light of postcolonial conditions and theories, particularly those of Caribbean studies, considering issues of cultural contact, vernacularity, competing discourses, power, transgression, and the social and psychological reflexes of the colonized. Includes numerous references to Chaucer and his works, with commentary on masquerade, carnival, and authority in CT, along with extended analysis of the Pardoner as a &quot;discontinuous identity&quot; and a trickster disclosed, with PardPT as &quot;discourse of sliding genres,&quot; shifting lexicons, and &quot;Chaucerian gap-filled contemplation of finite humanity&quot; that &quot;deconstructs&quot; the Pardoner&#039;s &quot;bogus authority.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and His Bastard Child: Social Disjunction and Metaliterariness in &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revisits the &quot;authorship question&quot; of &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen,&quot; exploring not what was composed by Shakespeare or by Fletcher, but rather the social tensions between characters found in KnT, the play&#039;s source, and those nameless ones of the &quot;Jailer&#039;s group&quot; introduced into the plot. Suggests that the disjunctions of the play be understood &quot;as a metanarrative of the creative process in the shadow of a great precursor poet,&quot; Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Language Barriers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on a wide variety of examples--comic and/or serious--of boundaries and sutures between languages in the late medieval literature, exploring issues of translation, including biblical translation; perceived contrasts between &quot;supposedly fixed languages such as Latin and ever-changing vernaculars&quot;; Latin as a vernacular; the relations between vernaculars, especially English and French; animal and human language; and gendered language. Includes many instances drawn from Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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