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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beginning with the Ending: Narrative Techniques and Their Significance in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that various narrative and stylistic devices in KnT evoke the question &quot;Does human life have a final meaning?&quot; The poem begins with an ending and ends with a beginning, these complemented throughout by stoppings and startings and various shifts in style, tone, mood, and chronological perspective. Comedy and tragedy combine with epic and romance, conveying a sense that they cannot be resolved until human &quot;aventures&quot; come to a final conclusion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275634">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Knightly Male Bodies and Violence in Middle English Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Middle English romances reflect &quot;medieval awareness of the problems caused by militarization.&quot; Includes discussion of KnT where, &quot;for hardened fighting men who have seen years of service in war, combat is always &#039;real,&#039; and conduct learned in war cannot simply be switched off.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Greek and Roman Myths in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Knight&#039;s Tale.:]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the Greco-Roman mythological material in KnT, suggesting that its presence deepens the tale&#039;s themes and broadens its impact.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teaching Langland&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s Prologues.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats GP and Langland&#039;s Prologue in relation to the traditional model of three estates, arguing that the order of the pilgrims in GP reveals inadequacies in the &quot;trifunctional model&quot; (fight, pray, labor) and alludes to the Fall of Humanity in the sequence of Wife of Bath (Eve), Parson (mediator), and Plowman (Adam). Prompts students to explore working versus wandering in Langland&#039;s Prologue as categories that complicate the three-estates model.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hybridity and Mimicry in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s The Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Builds on Homi K. Bhabha&#039;s definition of hybridity and studies the pilgrims as &quot;the hybrids and/or mimics of medieval borderline society.&quot; Contextualizes these hybrid identities within economic and social changes, and concentrates on the Knight in Chapter 1, the Monk in  Chapter 2, and the Franklin and Miller in Chapter 3.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces a history of Chaucer reception in the context of Christian controversies by &quot;situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries.&quot; Emphasizes how Chaucer &quot;engaged with contemporary female spirituality&quot; by presenting characterization of female monastic pilgrims in CT. Examines WBPT, SNT, PrT, and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the role of paternal authority and the figure of the father and their use and depiction in CT. Interrogates the construction of &quot;Father Chaucer&quot; to show how widespread this motif of paternal authority is in discussions of Chaucer and his poetry, and how potentially unstable it remains.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275628">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Armor Network: Medieval Prostheses and Degenerative Posthuman Bodies.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;depictions of armor&quot; in CT, Malory&#039;s &quot;Le Morte D&#039;Arthur,&quot; and Spenser&#039;s &quot;The Faerie Queene,&quot; &quot;exploring how these works help us understand medievalism in contemporary media,&quot; and investigating &quot;how armored bodies function as a way to think through the problematics of posthuman transformations.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Theorizes ecopoetic criticism, considering anthropocentrism, anthropotropism, and the &quot;writability&quot; of voices, whether human or nonhuman. Considers the &quot;turn&quot; to the human that opens GP and how the &quot;impenetrability&quot; of the human in GP is &quot;often marked by nonhuman imagery.&quot; KnT responds to GP by masking anthropotropism as &quot;theotropic necessity,&quot; and MilT replaces the &quot;ecophobia&quot; of KnT with &quot;brittle&quot; biophilia based in a &quot;conception of metaphor&quot; undercut in RvT. Both FranT and PhyT &quot;sabotage their own anthropotropism&quot;; the &quot;viable theotropism&quot; of MkT (Nabugodonosor) is &quot;abjected&quot; in the interruptions of the Knight and Host. In CT the limits of language recurrently undermine &quot;anthropocentric fantasies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275626">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literary Value and Social Identity in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses literary value and the value of continued interest in Chaucer&#039;s CT, focusing on parts 4 and 5. Argues that these parts function as a unified group, a framing that offers a new way to read and discover the value of the other CT tales.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Parrhesia: World-Building and Truth-Telling in &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot; and &quot;Lak of Stedfastnesse.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers CT--primarily SNT, Mel, ManT, and Sted--to argue that Chaucer&#039;s frequent depictions of characters employing &quot;parrhesia,&quot; which Michel Foucault associates with speaking truth to power, suggest that Chaucer admired those who spoke truth to power and may even have practiced &quot;parrhesia&quot; in his poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: An Adventure across Genres.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides background on Chaucer and CT and emphasizes how each tale in CT addresses the particulars of the literary genre to which it is related. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Telling Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer&#039;s lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with Boccacio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; and summarizes its early reputation as evident in its manuscript history. Quotes most of MilP (in David Wright&#039;s verse translation of 1985), and includes a reproduction of the Ellesmere manuscript, fol. 34v, the opening of MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury<br />
Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exemplifies the variety of references to food and uses of food imagery in CT, especially GP, observing how they serve as indicators of social and moral conditions--particularly high status and the sin of lust--and aid in characterization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275621">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Translator Writes Back.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores cultural, prosodic, and personal aspects of translating selections from CT into Farsi verse, with sustained attention to GP, the translatability of Chaucer, and parallels between his work and Persian literature and culture.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275620">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Editors Introduction: Chaucer&#039;s Global Orbits and Global Communities.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks &quot;what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer&#039;s Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation.&quot; Summarizes the essays included in this special issue titled &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Global Compaignye&quot; and suggests that they help to offset &quot;Anglophone normativity.&quot; For individual essays, search for Chaucer&#039;s Global Compaignye under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275619">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines life-writing in the European Middle Ages, with commentary on late antique prototypes and focus on England, ranging widely in languages and forms: Latin and vernacular, history and fiction, poetry and prose, biography and autobiography, hagiography and hybrids, polemical collections of life-writing, and life-writing embedded in longer works. Includes consideration of Chaucer as &quot;one of England&#039;s cagiest and &#039;least&#039; forthcoming authors,&quot; although highly influential in the development of &quot;quasi-fictional,&quot; &quot;self-deprecatory&quot; prologues in his dream visions and in GP, and of first-person, fictional prologues in WBP and PardP. Also comments on Astr, Chaucer&#039;s life-records, and LGW and MkT as examples of polemical collections of biographical life-writing. The volume includes an index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Literature: The Basics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks to &quot;break down the sense of alterity&quot; by opening with the media and gaming of medievalism, cited throughout. The final chapter on &quot;extreme&quot; authors includes description of Chaucer&#039;s diversity, quantity of work, accessibility, popularity, and secondary literature, voting him the &quot;Most Extreme&quot; of the selected authors. The volume includes recommendations for further reading in each section, a bibliography, web resources, and an index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275617">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: The Basics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer&#039;s poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Virgin Whore.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the complicated sexuality of the Virgin Mary in late medieval English literature, exploring scriptural and apocryphal backgrounds; visual imagery; and dramatic, narrative, and lyrical texts. Includes comments on wives&#039; secrets and the Annunciation material in MilT, and on the adaptation of the &quot;Parliament of Heaven&quot; motif in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Physical Possibilities: Pedagogical Presence in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s poetry can inform contemporary discussions of teachers&#039; bodies and their relative absence from the classroom due to online learning and sexual concerns. Focuses on &quot;the power and purpose of poetry&quot; in SNT, CYT, and ManPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Time and Again: Feminism, Form, and the Failures of the &quot;Legend of Good Women.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses LGW through an examination of time, understood within a feminist frame, to see repetition and blurring of time and distance between dreamer and reader. Claims that this recursiveness of LGW offers open-ended possibilities for interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;For Rage&quot;: Rape Survival, Women&#039;s Anger, and Sisterhood in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Legend of Philomela.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela&#039;s rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as MissMe.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Famulier foo&quot;: Wives, Male Subordinates, and Political Theory in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concentrates on Damian in MerT to show how the tale links critique of hierarchical marriage to critique of medieval estates theory. Contends that the tale counters <br />
 problems with vertical governance through horizontal governance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contracts, Activist Feminism, and the &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that WBT presents a different vision of law, informed by female agency, where the focus is on reeducation. The rapist-knight is rewarded rather than punished, but this failure of justice functions as a call to activism, as the law so depicted presents new possibilities for justice.]]></dcterms:description>
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