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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Beyond Deadly Sins and Virgin Impairments: Medieval Bodies in Disability Studies.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates &quot;how medieval authors implement impaired bodies in service of spiritual exploration,&quot; addressing depictions of impaired bodies generally excluded from disability studies, such as &quot;personified sins, aging bodies, and martyrs&#039; bodies.&quot; Discusses disbelief as a form of metaphorical blindness in SNT, and the &quot;double prosthesis&quot; of Cecilia&#039;s conversions of others and her ongoing presence in the world. Also comments on Ceyx&#039;s body in BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender and Desire.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anatomizes the motif of resistance to love &quot;across the chronology and variety of medieval English romance, from twelfth-century Anglo-Norman lais to fifteenth-century prose works,&quot; exploring &quot;ways in which it reinforces or subverts contemporary cultural constructions of consent, gender, and desire,&quot; with attention to issues of race, class, and religious faith. Includes discussion of TC, FranT, MLT, and WBT, with comments on KnT and MerT. Narrows and focuses the author&#039;s 2021 Ph.D. thesis (Durham University), &quot;Unwillingness to Love in Medieval English Romance: Consent, Coercion, and the Conventions of the Genre.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses various medieval works to show that training instructions for medieval falconry &quot;offer a means of understanding how poetic languageworks, and particularly how it works to represent women.&quot; One section describes how  metaphors of mewed hawks &quot;portend ambivalence about women,&quot; with close attention to hawking imagery applied to and used by Criseyde in TC 3.1783 and 4.1310, contrasting  Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and the imagery on a fourteenth-century ivory mirror back. Also comments on hawking imagery in WBP, 415–17, and adapts material on SqT derived from Petrosillo;s 2018 essay in the journal Medieval Feminist Forum.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how various texts of medievalism (graphic novels, retellings, rap music, performance art, etc.) &quot;represent radical, nontraditional sex acts enjoyed by people who are typically excluded from both popular culture and medieval narratives&quot; and &quot;challenge pervasive power structures that privilege heterosexual male dominance.&quot; Chapter 3, &quot;The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi&#039;s &#039;The Kiss,&#039;&quot; compares multilingual allusions to cunnilingus in Patience Agbabi&#039;s adaptation of MilT with Chaucer&#039;s narrative and French analogues. Chapter 4, &quot;BDSMedievalism: Past, Power, Pain/Pleasure,&quot; includes discussion of Troilus&#039;s submission to Criseyde in TC as a form of consensual adult sadomasochism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers precedents from medieval texts to show that to learn from a text, readers &quot;have reason to consider what its author means&quot;; that, when readers are &quot;morally engaged with a text,&quot; they have reason to engage with the author&#039;s intentions&quot;; and that, when moved by a text, readers &quot;attempt an interpersonal connection with the author behind the words.&quot; Draws examples from various works, including Chaucer&#039;s Th and Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transforming Man(Kind): Genres of Collectivism in Late Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies genre in CT, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and Gower&#039;s &quot;Mirour de l&#039;omme,&quot; focusing on estates satire, &quot;redemptive discourse,&quot; the mirror tradition, legal discourse, and &quot;genealogies of sin.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Choice of Chaucers: Teaching Kate Heartfield&#039;s Interactive Novel &quot;The Road to Canterbury.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the pedagogical possibilities of using Kate Heartfield&#039;s &quot;The Road to Canterbury&quot; (2018)--a &quot;contemporary gamified adaptation&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s life, world, and CT. Comments generally on using &quot;interactive fiction&quot; in the classroom, describes Heartfield&#039;s work, and offers suggestions for classroom use, based on personal experience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277460">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Problem of Literary Value.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers theoretical, ideological, and practical questions concerning the value and valuation of literature and literary studies, with recurrent attention to contemporary issues in editing, canonicity, interpretation, and institutional status, particularly in medieval and early modern studies, especially Chaucer studies. Includes an updated expansion of the author&#039;s 2008 essay &quot;Manuscript Studies, Literary Value, and the Object of Chaucer Studies,&quot; and additional investigation of the value of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fiction&#039;s Truths: False Confessions from the &quot;Roman de Renart&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;false confessions and sermons&quot; in late medieval literature &quot;investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred.&quot; Includes discussion of PardPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Every Living Soul: Literature and Zoology in England, 1100–1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;[O]ffers an interdisciplinary perspective on later medieval views of animals, focusing on the Latin, French, and English texts circulating in England.&quot; Includes assessment of &quot;Chaucer&#039;s depictions of inarticulable grief and interspecies empathy&quot; in FranT, KnT, and BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;latent Marian maternal elements&quot; inform a range of late medieval texts, focusing on how the devotional ideal of &quot;imitatio Mariae&quot;--rooted in Mary&#039;s &quot;inimitable biology&quot; as virgin and mother--informs Marian imagery and echoes in Margery Kempe, Middle English lives of mystics and saints&#039; legendaries, and Chaucer&#039;s Marian works. Chapter 5 addresses how the presence of ABC and PrT in manuscripts containing other Marian texts encourages &quot;matricentric&quot; reading of Chaucer&#039;s works, while Chapter 6 considers how Marian material in SNT helps to make Cecilia a &quot;metaphorical mother.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literature and the Senses.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contains twenty-six essays by various authors on topics relating to the &quot;wonder and mystery&quot; of the five senses (and &quot;Multisensoriality&quot;) in English literature, medieval to the present. The introduction by the editors describe the field of study, the arrangement of the volume, and the places of the individual essays in that arrangement. The volume includes a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature and the Senses under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Looking at Faces: Geoffrey Chaucer, Hilary Mantel, and Alexis Wright.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Outlines various &quot;cognitive and sensual contexts&quot; that frame &quot;face-gazing in literature&quot; and analyzes the descriptions of male gaze at female faces in TC and BD, both &quot;mediated by the complex ideology of courtly love,&quot; comparing them with discussion of the Holbein portrait of Cromwell in Mantel&#039;s &quot;Wolf Hall&quot; and the black swan&#039;s &quot;transhuman, impersonal, and spiritual&quot; gaze of an Australian Indigenous human in Wright&#039;s &quot;The<br />
Swan Book.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;A lowde voys clepyng&quot;: Voice-Hearing, Revelation, and Imagination.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer &quot;extends romance motifs&quot; to explore &quot;the processes of the imagination, the intersections of affect and cognition, and the shaping of these by the mysterious forces outside the self . . . [and] the disruptions of extreme feeling.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading &quot;Ful Savourly&quot;: Taste and Good Taste in Later Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores connections between the physiological sense of taste (especially sweetness) and the aesthetic sense of good (or bad) taste, emphasizing their ambivalence in medieval understanding and the need for discernment that such ambivalence entails. Argues that the bottom-kissing scene in MilT shows that knowledge can be acquired sensorially, and how its diction of taste (&quot;sweete,&quot; &quot;savourly&quot;) &quot;invites readers to reflect on what kind of narrative they consider to be in good taste.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277452">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies marvels, wonders, and human imagination in medieval natural philosophy and literature, especially romance and travel narratives of western European and Islamic communities. Refers to several of the CT and links aspects of FranT with &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; and &quot;Mandeville&#039;s Travels,&quot; in particular the way each work groups &quot;separate legends about dancing ladies, knights jousting, and men hunting&quot; and connects imagination and the<br />
reification of illusion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Festivals in Middle English Literature and Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes aspects of late medieval celebrations--focusing on feasting--to provide context for celebratory scenes in Middle English literature: &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; compared with &quot;Cleanness&quot;; Chaucer&#039;s KnT, WBT, SqT, the GP description of the Prioress, and ParsT; the Wakefield &quot;Prima Pastorum:, and Robert Henryson&#039;s fable of &quot;The Two Mice.&quot; Emphasizes contrasts between feasts and daily dining and offers suggestions for modern re-creations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors on topics in Middle English and Anglo-Norman studies, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277449">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates the shift from Criseyde&#039;s bright thoughts of love to cloudy ones in TC, II.764ff., part of a &quot;broader pattern of sun and cloud imagery&quot; in the poem. Uses cognition theory and resonances with Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolatio&quot; to argue that the passage encourages us to &quot;feel with&quot; Criseyde while simultaneously recognizing her gendered associations with changeable fortune. Also assesses implications of this &quot;image cluster&quot; in MkT, 2766, and NPP, 2782]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Insomnia and the Hospitality of Sleeplessness<br />
in Late Medieval Dream Visions.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Articulates similarities and differences between dreaming and insomnia as devices in late medieval dream-vision prologues, following Emmanuel Levinas&#039;s suggestion that &quot;the self-alienation experienced by the insomniac can be understood as a release from the confines of the singular mind,&quot; and focusing on how insomnia &quot;provides the conditions necessary for ethical, consolatory engagement with others&quot; in BD and in John Clanvowe&#039;s &quot;Boke of Cupide,&quot; with comments on its use in Thomas Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Regiment of Princes.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Not Yet &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue and Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers WBPT as a &quot;not yet&quot; text, i.e., one that &quot;points to a future resolution&quot; without providing it. Rich in &quot;represented reception&quot; on the pilgrimage and in &quot;contested reception&quot; in manuscript glossing, critical response, and adaptation, the Wife&#039;s materials prompt efforts to resolve unfulfilled comedic potential. Assesses &quot;The Wanton Wife of Bath&quot;--set &quot;outside history&quot;--as a &quot;perfect example of an anagogic reading&quot; of WBPT as a &quot;not yet&quot; text.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Queens of the Wild. Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the origins and development of versions of the fairy queen and related figures in western tradition. Includes a brief description of Chaucer&#039;s contribution to this development in WBP, 860 (&quot;The elf-queen&quot;) where he blends &quot;the classic image of a royal fay . . . with the tradition of nocturnal revels of beautiful female beings and--in a vital step--give[s] her the definite article.&quot; Also comments on Proserpine as queen of the fairies in MerT, and Nature as goddess in PF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Future/History of England: Richard II, Reproductive Futurity, Literature, and History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the history and literature of Richard II &quot;through a queer theoretical lens,&quot; including discussion of TC, Maidstone&#039;s &quot;Concordia,&quot; Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Richard II &quot;(and its performance history), and modern fiction. Explores the &quot;cultural norm of royal fecundity&quot; in English insular romances to reveal how &quot;the conspicuous absence of children&quot; in TC resists the &quot;logics of reproductive futurity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Richard Sotheworth, Chancery Clerks, and a Discourse of Books.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attributes the copying of British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XVI (&quot;Statuta Angliae&quot;) and nineteen Chancery documents to Richard Sotheworth, whose will records the earliest known ownership of a CT manuscript. Uses these and related documents to identify a complicated &quot;network&quot; of Chancery clerks in late medieval England, exploring their books and affiliations, their &quot;material, cultural, and intellectual aspirations,&quot; and their &quot;worldly cosmopolitanism&quot; as a &quot;rising upper middle bureaucratic class.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[From Old Books to New Science: Rethinking Models, Recovering Meaning.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reflects on the teaching of a two-instructor, interdisciplinary course in literature and molecular biology designed for undergraduate general education, emphasizing changes brought about by COVID-19 in the course&#039;s design, assignments, and subtending models. Includes comments on uses of PF in the course, Truth as it expresses a perspective different from scientific truth, and the implications of regarding the reading and teaching of Chaucer as related to biological &quot;de-extinction.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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