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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;As Meeke as Medea, as honest as Hellen&quot;: English Literary Representations of Two Troublesome Classical Women, c1160-1650.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers representations of the power of Medea&#039;s magic and Helen&#039;s sexuality in works by male writers in medieval and early modern literature, clarifying their classical and early-medieval antecedents and assessing their powers in light of &quot;concerted male efforts to undermine&quot; them. Assesses a wide range of texts, including Chaucer&#039;s brief allusions and references to Medea and Helen, as well as their roles in longer narratives such as TC and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lifelines: Tracing Organic Vitalities in Sacred and Secular Biography.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;what constitutes &#039;life&#039; in hagiographical literature&quot; and medieval life-writing in general, focusing on &quot;philosophical and organic categories of life&quot; rather than &quot;political, social, and ecclesiastic content.&quot; Assesses Walter Daniel&#039;s &quot;Life of Aelred of Rievaulx,&quot; animal encounters in the &quot;South English Legendary,&quot; &quot;thing power&quot; in &quot;Pearl&quot; and SNT, and enlivening relationships in MkT (Cenobia) and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Metapoetics and the Philosophy of Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer in the Platonic tradition of &quot;philosophical poetry&quot; where &quot;poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general.&quot; Includes chapters on the Pardoner&#039;s Old Man as a neo-Platonic Tithonus figure; &quot;the machinery of atheism&quot; in MilT as &quot;sufficient grounds for the transformation of a fallen and contingent world into the only world whatsoever&quot;; the humanization of Phoebus in ManT and its unification of &quot;art and history into a single monistic experience&quot;; and NPT as &quot;ars poetica for the entire Chaucerian Performance&quot; that &quot;undercuts the naturalistic strategies of the first three poems by a long experiment in the philosophical conflict between art and history.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Io Scrittore&quot;: Authorial Construction in the Italian Medieval Renaissance Novella and Its Translation into English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;the construction and transmission of the concept of authorship in the Italian novella in late-medieval and early modern Italy and England,&quot; Chapter four considers &quot;how English writers and translators worked with the Italian genre, adapting it for their own purposes . . . , mov[ing] from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer through the major novella collections of the late sixteenth-century.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Context Matters: Intertextuality and Voice in the Early Modern English Controversy about Women.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;the early modern English controversy about women--the debate about the merits and flaws of womankind--arguing that authors in the controversy took advantage of the malleability of women&#039;s voices to address issues beyond the worth of women.&quot; Includes discussion of LGW and WBPT in comparison with Edward Gosynhyll&#039;s sixteenth-century &quot;revisions&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Telling Tales Out of School: Schoolbooks, Audiences, and the Production of Vernacular Literature in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes literary works included in &quot;the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools,&quot; as background to understanding &quot;the instruction of generations of schoolchildren&quot; and &quot;reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools.&quot; Includes discussion of &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe,&quot; Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Fall of Princes,&quot; and TC, attending in the latter to letter writing and audience awareness as taught in grammar schoolbooks and to Criseyde’s control of &quot;the story’s ending and the responses of readers through her final letter to Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Re-Telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on KnT, ClT, and MkT to demonstrate that Chaucer &quot;models his treatment&quot; of his source-authors--Boccaccio and Petrarch--&quot;on their own strategies of intertextual play,&quot; arguing that &quot;intertextual engagement goes beyond mere imitation, and can include the erasure and manipulation of previous works.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277598">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Lydgate&#039;s Troy Book: Patronage, Politics, and History in Lancastrian England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book&quot; as &quot;as a vehicle to propagate the idea that the House of Lancaster is the legitimate successor to King Richard II in order to smooth over the usurpation of 1399.&quot; Acknowledges that &quot;Chaucer had a definitive impact on Lydgate&#039;s writing,&quot; that Lydgate &quot;manipulate[s] this influence for his own ambitions,&quot; and that he &quot;works to promote Chaucer&#039;s canon so that as Chaucer&#039;s successor, he will inherit more prestige.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theorizing in Unfamiliar Contexts: New Directions in Translation Studies.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses &quot;abductive logic&quot; to infer &quot;translators&#039; probable understandings of their own actions, and compares these with the reasoning&quot; provided by various theories of translation, assessing as case studies Chaucer&#039;s use of translation in CT (especially Mel) &quot;and that of Japanese storytellers in classical Kamigata rakugo.&quot; Focuses on such issues as &quot;foreignization&quot; and &quot;excogitatio&quot; and mediation as ways of conceptualizing &quot;the act of translation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Variorum Vitae: Theseus and the Arts of Mythography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the &quot;complex textual contingency&quot; of the figure of Theseus in the &quot;history of mythographical discourse,&quot; exploring &quot;the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology&quot; in a wide variety of medieval and early modern texts--English, Italian, and French--and their classical intertexts. Includes comparison of Chaucer&#039;s tale of Theseus and Ariadne in LGW and Gower&#039;s in &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; in light of Ovid&#039;s &quot;Heroides,&quot; &quot;Ovide Moralisé,&quot; and other versions. Also assesses Chaucer&#039;s role as one of several influences on Lydgate&#039;s presentation of Theseus in &quot;Fall of Princes&quot; and Shakespeare&#039;s in &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Families, Fictions, and Seeing through Things: Re-reading Langland, Chaucer, and the &quot;Pearl&quot;-Poet.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses the &quot;two models&quot; of &quot;genealogy and thing theory&quot; to explore &quot;the generation of meaning in medieval texts,&quot; addressing issues of differences between the &quot;Chaucerian&quot; tradition and the &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; tradition and the processes of their formulations. Explores how the &quot;Chaucerian tradition enabled a truly &#039;public voice&#039; or common identity among English writers&quot; and includes discussion of the presence of TC and &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; in both Huntington Library, San Marino MS HM 143 and HM 114. Also assesses relations between &quot;Pearl&quot; and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Revisionary Retelling: The Metapoetics of Authorship in Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how Marie de France, the &#039;Orfeo&#039; poet, Thomas Chestre, Chaucer, and John Lydgate &quot;tell stories about the possibilities and problems of vernacular retelling . . . [and] imagine and enact a type of authorship--and a type of authority--based in creative revision.&quot; Chapter three argues that Chaucer &quot;depicts his own canon as dependent and unstable in his catalogues of his works [LGWP, MLP, Ret], and thereby takes ownership of the challenges of vernacular authorship and invents himself as an authoritative Middle English writer.&quot; Also addresses FranT as a lay and Chaucer as authority in Lydgate&#039;s Fall of Princes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277593">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Afterlife of the Medieval Dream Poem in the English Renaissance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues &quot;that poets after Chaucer employ the dream form not simply in imitation of their master but rather to assert for themselves the same freedom to write imaginative fictions that Chaucer found in the form,&quot; exploring Chaucer&#039;s dream visions, along with works by Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas, Skelton, Sackville, Lodge, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invisible Art of Alchemy: Chaucer to the Graphic Novel.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;[I]nvestigates literary and pictorial manuscripts on the subject pf alchemy in conjunction with the theories surrounding sequential art,&quot; i.e., &quot;comics theory,&quot; considering selected works, from CYPT to modern graphic novels. Opens with a &quot;close reading&quot; of CYPT and &quot;analysis of some of the illustrations of that Tale&quot; in the Ellesmere manuscript, illustrated editions, and the graphic version by Seymour Chwast.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Language of the Body: An Analysis of Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;multiple modes of discourse&quot; about the body--medical, philosophical, religious, and courtly--underlie works by Chaucer, Dunbar, and Henryson, arguing that CT, through its multiplicity of voices, &quot;demonstrates fundamental medieval anxieties about the body’s stability,&quot; &quot;how authoritative modes of discourse were used by different social types, and how their . . . claims to authoritative discourse were frequently unreliable.&quot; Also considers the &quot;language of the body&quot; in Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot; and Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Tretis of the Tua Marit Wemen and the Wedo,&quot; with attention to the influences of TC and WBPT respectively.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Literature of Sovereignty in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats GP among a number of other works in Middle English, arguing that its uses of estates satire align with notions of individual responsibility found in Henry Bracton&#039;s legal discourse, &quot;De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae.&quot; Also considers MLT and its analogues in light of the &quot;debate over the nature and scope of royal and individual sovereignty.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy from Juvenal to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses secular misogamy as a topos &quot;exploited in early Western literature for two fundamental purposes: propaganda and entertainment,&quot; dividing it into four categories: Pagan, Ascetic, Philosophic, and General. Discusses WBP in the latter category as a ironic &quot;&#039;dissuasio&#039; disguised as a &#039;persuasio&#039;,&quot; rife with familiar commonplaces, and addressed to a general audience for essentially comic entertainment.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Evolution Narrative et Polyphonie Littéraire dans l&#039;Oeuvre de Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s decision to write in Middle-English . . . was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. The assimilation of the specificities of the poetry of Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun thus allowed Chaucer to give back to English poetry some of its respectability. Nonetheless, it was his discovery of the Divina Commedia that made him aware of the true potential of literature: Dante thus allowed him to free the dialogism of his creations and to give his poetry a first-rate polyphonic dimension. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is however the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Fin&#039; amors,&quot; Arabic learning, and the Islamic World in the Work of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of fin&#039; amors is informed by Arabic learning in the related fields of medicine, natural philosophy, astrology and alchemy, disseminated through Latin translations from the Iberian Peninsula in particular.&quot; Considers Chaucer&#039;s presentations of Islam and Arabic learning in his works, assessing courtly, alchemical, and astrological aspects of TC, KnT, CYT, and Astr, with attention to &quot;Chaucer&#039;s dichotomous attitude toward Arabic learning and Islam as a religion.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poetics of Alchemical Engagement: The Allegorical Journey to God in Ripley and Norton after Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;fifteenth-century alchemical poets, George Ripley and Thomas Norton, perceived themselves to be &#039;Chaucerian&#039; in far deeper ways than has been recognized,&quot; joining &quot;author, reader and pilgrim on an essentially hermeneutical journey to Wisdom,&quot; and perceiving themselves to share&quot; with Chaucer &quot;the Boethian belief&quot; that perception of the supernatural can be achieved. Includes discussion of Ripley&#039;s and Norton&#039;s uses of CYPT and reads ClPT for ways Chaucer engages Heraclitus&#039;s &quot;river of time,&quot; challenges Petrarch&#039;s &quot;debunking&quot; of the Middle Ages, and presents Walter and Griselda&#039;s marriage as a union of &quot;Time with Eternity, and the human with the divine.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In the Words of Others: Exotic Documents and Vernacular Anxieties in Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines anxieties about the status of the vernacular and cultural identity in late medieval England, particularly as evident in &quot;exotic documents&quot; found in Middle English narratives. Includes discussion of such documents in &quot;Alexander and Didimus,&quot; &quot;The Book of John Mandeville,&quot; &quot;St. Erkenwald,&quot; and HF, assessing in the latter how the &quot;architectural image-text of Aeneas and Dido and the names inscribed in ice&quot; outside Fame&#039;s house engage questions about the authority of writing.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer&#039;s Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defines &quot;medieval female voice&quot; as &quot;any instance of thought or speech by a female character&quot; and &quot;evaluates the alterations made (by Chaucer and scribes) to five Italian-sourced female voices&quot; in KnT (Emelye and Ypolita), MerT (May), FranT (Dorigen), and ClT (Griselda), exploring various practical and theoretical problems while seeking to study the &quot;interconnectivity between the medieval female voice and its masculine influences.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Guilt and Creativity in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;sense of guilt and uncertainty about the value of creative literature&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works, particularly as it generates &quot;expansive, questioning poetics&quot; in HF and &quot;problematises the principle of allegory&quot; in the final fragments of CT, parts 8-10 especially. Traces how Chaucer seeks &quot;to reconcile the boldness and independence of his poetic vision with the demands of his faith&quot; through &quot;penitential poetics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Outlines &quot;the history and theory of BDSM [bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism]&quot; and explores &quot;concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence&quot; in &quot;Sir Gowther,&quot; &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe,&quot; and WBPT &quot;from the perspective of kinky reading, a methodology that draws on the traditions of feminist and queer theory and the new field of kink studies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Anthologizing Women: Medieval Genre, Gender and Genital Poetics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;[I]nvestigates three medieval manuscript collections--compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries in Herefordshire, Derbyshire and East Anglia, respectively--that are significant in their similarly implied female readerships, their thematic treatment of the &#039;problem of women,&#039; and their vocalization of the perspectives, and indeed often complaints, of female characters.&quot; Uses WBPT as a &quot;focal point&quot; for her study and includes a &quot;gendered reading&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s Purse as part of a &quot;feminist sequence&quot; of texts found in the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6).]]></dcterms:description>
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