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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invention of Style.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combines computer-assisted stylometry and close reading to explore Chaucer&#039;s concept of style and his uses of the word &quot;style&quot; itself as they compare with those of John Gower and John Lydgate. Clarifies aspects of stylometric analysis, distinguishes between Chaucer&#039;s &quot;high&quot; style and Gower&#039;s &quot;plain&quot; style, and argues that in seeking to assert his own style Lydgate is particularly important in the &quot;development of the notion of literary style&quot; in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Verse in Its European Context.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combines &quot;generative&quot; metrical analysis with statistical sampling, synchronic and diachronic comparisons, and attention to the history of metrical criticism to proclaim Chaucer the &quot;father of English poetry&#039;s metrical artistry.&quot; Describes native English, classical, French, and Italian metrical traditions and their influences on Chaucer as a versifier and metrical artist, articulating his &quot;innovations,&quot; &quot;improvements,&quot; &quot;versatility,&quot; and &quot;discretion,&quot; and clarifying the &quot;extent of his achievement&quot; and later influence. Assesses a wide variety of metrical topics, with a glossary of technical terms, and evaluates Chaucer&#039;s metrical practices in comparison with those of Gower, English and Scottish Chaucerians, Wyatt and Surrey, Shakespeare, Milton, and later poets.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Pronomination&quot; in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defines &quot;pronominatio&quot; and traces its background in medieval rhetorical handbooks; then surveys instances in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton, analyzing individual uses that convey either praise or censure given to characters by associating them with classical or biblical exemplars. For example, Chaucer&#039;s Troilus is &quot;Ector the secounde&quot; (TC, I2.158), the mother in PrT a &quot;newe Rachel&quot; (7.627), etc.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Sisters.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A novel about a small group of women in a modern setting who travel on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury, telling stories along the way. Includes occasional references and allusions to CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Middle English Translation from Petrarch&#039;s &quot;Secretum.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits the Middle English verse translation (906 lines) of the Prologue and Book I of Francis Petrarch&#039;s Latin prose dialogue &quot;Secretum de contemptu mundi,&quot; with a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary. The introduction and notes include recurrent references to Chaucer&#039;s influence on the verse, style, and diction of the translation, as well as to Chaucer&#039;s uses of Petrarch as a source.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anti-Maternal Rewriting in Ryder: Djuna Barnes&#039;s Feminist Twist on Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in her experimental novel &quot;Ryder,&quot; Djuna Barnes wrote &quot;under the influence of Chaucer by employing a similar style,&quot; that her &quot;use of glosses&quot; in Chapter 10 &quot;demonstrates an intertextuality&quot; with CT, and that in Chapter 22 she &quot;rewrites a portion&quot; of PrT, adding a &quot;feminist twist.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Dear Penis, My Love!&quot;: A Hilarious Study of a Penis Obsession.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a fictional narrative that includes phallic parodies of various works of literature; CT is among them in a short account of a pilgrimage to the ketchup-bottle-shaped water tower in Ketchup City, Illinois.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Other Families: Dryden&#039;s Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores ways that John Dryden&#039;s notions of congeniality and the value of the vernacular in his commentary on Chaucer help to clarify Gloria Naylor&#039;s adaptations of Dante&#039;s &quot;Inferno&quot; in &quot;Linden Hills&quot; and of CT in &quot;Bailey&#039;s Café, &quot;identifying in the two novels thematic and formal concerns with vernacularity, voice, community, subversion, and relations between &quot;codified and unruly forms of literary production.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275552">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rechanneling Chaucer, Decentering Circulation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Places the cluster of Chaucer essays in this special issue of &quot;Literature Compass&quot;--entitled &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Global Compaignye&quot;--in the context of the journal&#039;s &quot;Global Circulation Project,&quot; and comments on each of the included essays. For individual essays included in the cluster, search for Literature Compass 15 (2018) under Journal by Volume Number.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275551">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse; Everything You Need to Know about Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An introduction to poetry in English, its history, and its forms, arranged by author and topic. Includes a brief introduction to Chaucer that emphasizes his social mobility, CT, and his use of English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays charting new investigations of intersectionality of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious texts. Authors range from Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, and essays explore practices of witness to the &quot;adoration of objects,&quot; and the co-existence of emotion and affect in late medieval representations of feeling. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Becoming One Flesh, Inhabiting Two Genders: Ugly Feelings and Blocked Emotion in the &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue and Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the Wife&#039;s presentation of her conduct in WBPT to the conduct book&quot; Le ménagier de Paris,&quot; and shows how the Wife&#039;s record of her activities and the presentation of negative emotions function as essentially a reversal of the &quot;Ménagier.&quot; By using Sianne Ngai&#039;s concept of &quot;ugly feelings&quot; to contextualize this examination, offers the Wife&#039;s texts as a kind of alternative model of heterosexual and married identity to that depicted in &quot;Ménagier.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Accounting for Affect in the &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that RvT reworks its fabliau sources alongside then-contemporary texts about manorial control and operation such as &quot;Walter of Henley,&quot; and traces this depiction of an &quot;affective economy.&quot; Analysis helps to foreground how the Reeve&#039;s manorial background can help illuminate the affective workings of his tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes how this essay collection presents &quot;an intersectional approach to what medievals call affect and what moderns call emotions,&quot; and &quot;speaks to the &#039;affective turn&#039; in contemporary literary and cultural studies.&quot; Introduction provides a close reading of BD that allows authors to uncover how premodern texts grapple with the connections between<br />
emotion and affect.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Weeping like a Beaten Child: Figurative Language and the Emotions in Chaucer and Malory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Highlights the connections between uses of the phrase &quot;weeping like a beaten child&quot; in both Chaucer and Malory, simultaneously exploring the semantic range of weeping elsewhere. These examinations offer further important lessons about the history of emotions and how one might read weeping in old texts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Literary Historiography in John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Siege of Thebes.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Points out that Chaucer develops the idea of interpretation through his works (especially CT), and demonstrates how Lydgate&#039;s &quot;The Siege of Thebes,&quot; drawing on Chaucer, revolves around the ideas of truth and interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 2, &quot;Chaucerian Melancholy in Renaissance England,&quot; explores how in &quot;Astrophel and Stella&quot; Sir Philip Sidney &quot;reactivates: the melancholic and ambivalent &quot;poetics of selfhood&quot; of BD, as mediated in the &quot;Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan poetry&quot; of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. Attends to the &quot;slippages of identity&quot; in BD and links them with &quot;melancholy theory from Aristotle to Kristeva.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Jailer&#039;s Daughter: Character and Source in &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how the Jailer&#039;s Daughter of Shakespeare and Fletcher&#039;s play, a character not found in KnT, reflects a complex form of influence derived not only from KnT, but from MilT and RvT as well. Considers water imagery and liquidity, and &quot;madness, secular village life, comic cruelty, and erotic, feminine desire&quot; as manifestations of how the Daughter &quot;quits&quot; the play, as Chaucer&#039;s fabliaux quit his romance.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers&#039; Camp in the Adirondacks.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recounts the history and events of the nineteenth-century American Philosophers&#039; Camp. The chapter entitled &quot;The Worthy Crew Chaucer Never Had&quot; includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson&#039;s notebook commentaries on similarities between the group of men attending the Camp and the pilgrims of the CT; the chapter title derives from a poem in Emerson&#039;s &quot;Poetry Notebooks.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[(Un)veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Rape of Lucrece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Shakespeare&#039;s exploration of the &quot;nature of literary adaptation-as-innovation&quot; in &quot;The Rape of Lucrece&quot;--conducted by means of &quot;competing versions of the Troy story&quot;--engages with the &quot;Chaucerian poetics&quot; of HF and TC, particularly &quot;Chaucer&#039;s thoughts on veiled and veiling authorities&quot; evident in the ekphrastic account of Troy in HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <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>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Our Chaucer&quot;: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes&#039;s attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes&#039;s view of Chaucer as the &quot;perfect model of a public poet&quot; and as a &quot;presiding presence&quot; in his relationship with Sylvia Plath. Also assesses Plath&#039;s appreciation of Chaucer&#039;s works, especially the character of the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hughes and the Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes aspects of Hughes&#039;s &quot;imaginative encounter with the Middle Ages,&quot; particularly his reading of &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s works, and those of Dante, exploring how these works influenced his poetry and thoughts on literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Translating Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; in Tudor Balladry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; in Renaissance poetry, with some attention to how Chaucer, in LGW, and Gower, in &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; may have influenced sixteenth-century Tudor England&#039;s Ovidian poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275536">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shakespeare&#039;s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Shakespeare&#039;s uses of Ovid in his plays and poems was largely mediated by medieval works, specifically ones by Chaucer and John Gower. Shows that the dream frame of BD influenced &quot;The Taming of the Shrew&quot; and &quot;Cymbeline,&quot; that Chaucer&#039;s (LGW) and Gower&#039;s versions of Ariadne underlie Julia of &quot;The Two Gentlemen of Verona,&quot; that the dawn-songs in TC and those in Gower influence &quot;The Rape of Lucrece&quot; and &quot;Romeo and Juliet,&quot; and that Gower&#039;s Narcissus of &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; influenced &quot;Twelfth Night&quot; and other early modern works. Also discusses the seventeenth-century &quot;Chaucers Ghoast&quot; as an amalgamation of Gowerian versions of Ovidian material, presented in faux Middle English.]]></dcterms:description>
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