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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes manifestations of the Wife of Bath throughout 1660-1810, in seven chapters on primarily verbal art and seven on primarily visual art. Melds methodologies from the disciplines of literature, art history, musicology, education, folklore, print marketing, equitation, and especially theater, both in London and on the Continent.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s &quot;Bele Chose.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Chaucer&#039;s uses of terms for private parts, and argues that his use of &quot;bele chos&quot; (beautiful thing) instead of pudendum (shameful thing) suggests his celebration of the Wife&#039;s sexuality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Assertive Women, Oral Confessions: The Wife of Bath and Molly Bloom.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath and James Joyce&#039;s Molly Bloom as counter-cultural figures, from the perspective of their characters, their views of man-woman relationships, and their sexuality. Contrasts the different forms of expression of their assertiveness and confessions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275153">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Homeland of the &quot;doghter of hooly chirche&quot;? The Representation of Rome in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares MLT and the stories of Constance by Nicholas Trevet and John Gower. Argues that MLT points to the uncertainty of Rome as the center of ecclesiastical authority in the later fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Chaucer after Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies a &quot;New Paradigm for Reading&quot; to MLT based on the &quot;new ethics&quot; of Giorgio Agamben&#039;s analysis of Levi Primo&#039;s testimony of Auschwitz, combined with Walter Benjamin&#039;s concept of &quot;constellations&quot; of images that fuse past and present. Focuses on relations between sovereign power and the subjectification and &quot;desubjectification&quot; of subjects, particularly how the multiple sovereigns of MLT impose power on Custance and abandon her, conveying &quot;various permutations&quot; of the &quot;painful experience of exile&quot; and the intrinsic culpability of the sovereign. Presents MLT as Chaucer&#039;s most negative view of sovereignty, and examines parallel concerns in PrT and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wretched Constance: Defining a &quot;Mens exili.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Nicholas Trevet&#039;s, John Gower&#039;s, and Chaucer&#039;s tales of Constance as seriatim clarifications of &quot;mens exili&quot; (the mind of exile) in preparation for discussing relations between &quot;exilic experience&quot; and &quot;national formation and nationalistic subjectivity&quot; in early modern English literature. In MLT, Custance has less agency, is more &quot;wrecched,&quot; and is more a marginalized &quot;stranger&quot; than Gower&#039;s character or Trevet&#039;s, but she is a more powerful figure of religious transformation--perhaps Chaucer&#039;s comment on Wycliffite heterodoxy.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Damaged Goods: Merchandise, Stories and Gender in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores medieval analogies between &quot;storytelling and merchandizing&quot; and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations. Also links the &quot;aversion to incest&quot; in MLP with &quot;anxieties about poetic property,&quot; attributing the latter to Chaucer  rather than to the Man of Law.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Modeling Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores three &quot;models&quot; for considering medieval studies in the context of world literatures--&quot;Mediterraneans,&quot; &quot;distant reading,&quot; and &quot;moving things&quot;--using the last to compare MLT and the Ethiopian &quot;Kebra nagast&quot; and assess &quot;Mandeville&#039;sTravels&quot; and the &quot;Travels of Ibn Battuta.&quot; In each, someone or something (God&#039;s message in MLT) relocates, catalyzing the transformative effect&quot; of leaving the initial location in the past and launching the new location &quot;into a powerful present and a dynamic future.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275148">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Quiet Riot: A Politics of Noise in the &quot;Cook&#039;sTale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the urban management of sound as found in CkT as a reflection of Chaucer&#039;s attitudes toward popular noise in London.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Cook&#039;s Tale,&quot; 4422.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant &quot;his&quot; (rather than &quot;hir&quot;) at the end of the Cook&#039;s fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself &quot;not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her husband.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trouble at the Mill: Madness, Merrymaking, and Milling.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the role of the mill in northern Europe as a site of merry-making and festival that newly informs Chaucer&#039;s Miller and MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apes and Japes: Laughter and Animality in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, rooted in &quot;animality&quot; that is &quot;carefully performed and constructed,&quot; the humor of MilT &quot;functions to erect a conception of humanity over and against the ostracized and inferior semi-human.&quot; The Miller performs his animality, and, abjecting Absolon through laughter, Alisoun and Nicholas establish a hierarchy and take the &quot;position of superior &#039;human.&#039;&quot; Comments on suggestive language in the tale and connections with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; 7.1, displaying ways that &quot;laughter [is] always unequal.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;They weren no thing ydel&quot;: Noblemen and Their Supporters in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knights Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers KnT alongside didactic texts of the period to clarify how chivalric loyalty controls and ties men together.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Textual Variations and Readings among the Manuscripts and Editions of &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot;: With Special Reference to &quot;The Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines linguistic features of Pynson&#039;s and de Worde&#039;s editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton&#039;s editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275142">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arcite&#039;s Overheard Song: &quot;The Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Prosimetrum &quot;Tristan en prose.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian &quot;Tristan en prose&quot; as a way to understand Palamon&#039;s actions after he overhears Arcite&#039;s &quot;formally elegant rondeau&quot; in KnT 1.1510ff.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275141">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Ȝhat art þou?&quot; Spiritual Identity and Category Confusion in the South English Legendary&#039;s Life of St. Christopher.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the connection between physicality and personality in St. Christopher&#039;s hagiography in the &quot;South English Legendary&quot; and, in expanding this connection, uses Chaucer&#039;s descriptions of the Miller and the Wife of Bath in GP as additional examples.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pre-History of Proles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, News Ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Opens a volume of essays on the journalistic practice of &quot;painting a picture [of a person] in words,&quot; including discussion of the depiction of a &quot;cross-section of Chaucer&#039;s contemporary English society&quot; in CT--in GP and elsewhere--with particular attention to the &quot;pen portraits&quot; of the Knight, Miller, and Prioress as they reveal &quot;the real-world mores and concerns&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s time.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275139">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[X-Raying Chaucer: Pointing the Way.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that &quot;builds to a main clause near its end,&quot; describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor in GP 1–18 and in the opening of Dickens&#039;s &quot;Bleak House.&quot; Closes with several &quot;Lessons&quot; for creative writers derived from the reading.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275138">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer&#039;s day a &quot;new institution,&quot; and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture, innovative in its amenities and diversity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a multidisciplinary &quot;theory of the marvelous&quot; in Middle English literature. Focuses on how fourteenth-century texts, including CT, &quot;represent a coherent and previously unrecognized theory of the marvelous, one focused on the intersection of the magical, the spectacular, and the moral.&quot; Discusses how Chaucer&#039;s focus on morality in CT, with special emphasis in WBT and SqT, also represents his &quot;spectacles of language.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mimesis on Trial: Legal and Literary Verisimilitude in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the &quot;Decameron&quot; to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of fact in an inquisitorial model, providing a pattern that Chaucer follows in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower&#039;s &quot;Mirour de l&#039;omme,&quot; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and Geffroi de Charny&#039;s &quot;Book of Chivalry.&quot; Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the &quot;timing for one&#039;s acts,&quot; exploring uses of Dante&#039;s &quot;Paradiso&quot; in TC, and analyzing Harry Bailly as time-keeper in CT (especially MLP), a role in which the Parson eventually replaces him (in ParsP), signaled by references to the biblically auspicious tenth hour. Rejects editorial emendation of &quot;Ten&quot; to &quot;Foure&quot; at ParsP 10.5.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distant Mirrors: Medieval London in the Narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer and Peter Ackroyd.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes (and reiterates) appreciation of Ricardian culture, exploring ways that Chaucer evokes a strong sense of contemporary London in CT and how, in &quot;The Clerkenwell Tales,&quot; Peter Ackroyd evokes a similar sense of reality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird Sounds and the Framing of &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate &quot;the permeable animal/human boundary&quot; in CT, evidence of a mutual &quot;soundscape&quot; or a shared &quot;acoustic community.&quot; Includes comments on avian and human communication elsewhere in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275132">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Are the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; a Book?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer&#039;s text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer&#039;s dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms of the medieval codex. CT is thus shaped as an answer to the question posted by the title--Are the Canterbury Tales a book?--and to some of Chaucer&#039;s broader questions, about experience, authority, and the limits to human modes of knowing.]]></dcterms:description>
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