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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bookburning in Chaucer and Austen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies WBP as the inspiration for Harriet Byron&#039;s burning of a prayer book in the second act of Jane Austen&#039;s play, &quot;Sir Charles Grandison,&quot; noting in both works the importance of hyperbole, the manipulation of language, and ironic commentary on masculine and literary authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269695">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focusing on perspectives evident in Chaucer&#039;s Adam (and the career of Adam Pinkhurst) and &quot;Mum and the Sothsegger,&quot; Gillespie explores the importance of &quot;the book&quot; as a technology that spans the oral-print divide.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books and Authority]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Yeager summarizes Chaucer&#039;s education and career for the purpose of identifying the books, languages, and classical and vernacular literatures with which Chaucer was clearly acquainted. Discusses Chaucer&#039;s strategies for keeping literary authority at &quot;stave&#039;s length&quot; through a narrative persona and the dream vision, and his techniques for &quot;asserting a claim upon it&quot; in his most mature works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275933">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books and Booklessness in Chaucer&#039;s England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses D. S. Brewer&#039;s claim about the relative paucity of the book in the fourteenth century, suggesting instead that &quot;in Chaucer&#039;s time, new technologies and new social circumstances were making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce and transmit written text.&quot; The chapter examines some of those technologies and the books they produced.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy&#039;s Literary Influences.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy&#039;s notes for his novel &quot;Blood Meridian&quot;; links McCarthy&#039;s penchant for &quot;the stories-within-stories motif&quot; to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of &quot;Blood Meridian&quot; and in Llewellyn Moss&#039;s death scene in &quot;No Country for Old Men.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269199">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the cultural, literary, and codicological contexts for English late medieval works of revealed writing - apocalyptic, visionary, mystical, prophetic, etc. - considering the reception of Continental works in England and works composed in English. Clarifies how works by Joachim of Fiore, William de St. Amour, Peter Olivi, William of Ockham, the &quot;Opus arduum,&quot; and others are related to and separate from Wyclifitte writings, concentrating on their status as heretical texts and their influences on Middle English literature: Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and several of Chaucer&#039;s works. Reads Rom (part C) in light of orthodoxy and the Roman de la Rose; HF as a &quot;teasing satire of the revelatory&quot; (especially Langland&#039;s Piers); ClT and NPT on free will and God&#039;s power; and Ret as a conservative withdrawal of humanist fiction. Contains a useful &quot;Chronology&quot; of non-Wycliffite cases of heresy and related events (xix-lii), plus three related appendices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borderlands Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;imperfect analogies between Chaucerian poetics and border theory/pedagogy,&quot; reporting on classroom experiences and discussing what Chaucer can teach us about &quot;inhabiting borderlands.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276560">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borders and the Global North Atlantic: Chaucer, Pilgrimage, and Crusade.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in conceptualizing the global North Atlantic, and argues that in several places in CT (e.g., GP description of Knight, MLT, Pedro in MkT) Chaucer uses paradigms that are similar to those of &quot;settler colonialism so that England is at the top of a racialized, Christian, European hierarchy in which Muslims are expelled.&quot; Encourages alternative views.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270500">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boring Virtue and Interesting Vice: The Literary Conflict Between Morality and Vitality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches a range of evaluative criteria (moral, social, hedonistic, materialistic, and artistic) to explore how in literature--and in the GP in particular--&quot;moral judgements are largely subverted by artistic judgements,&quot; in part the result of the reader&#039;s &quot;escape from real life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270444">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Borrowed Armor/Free Grace: The Quest for Authority in &#039;The Faerie Queene 1&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Tale of Sir Thopas&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads two sections of Edmund Spenser&#039;s &quot;Faerie Queene&quot; (the opening lines and Arthur&#039;s dream, 1.9) as examples of inscripted biographical details and the poetic anxiety of the work. Considers Spenser&#039;s adaptations of PF and, especially, Thop, reading Thop (and to an extent Mel) as a biographical and libidinal projection of Chaucer&#039;s own anxieties about social and poetic success.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262426">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Both Fixed and Free: Language and Destiny in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039; and &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the &quot;ambiguous relationship between &#039;aventure&#039; and &#039;tydynges&#039;&quot; mentioned in HF, or one of Chaucer&#039;s most frequent themes:  Fortune (or Providence) versus necessity, divine prescience, and free will, as seen in KnT and TC.  Discusses the &quot;bodily ear&quot; and the &quot;circumscription of the Word&quot; in TC, KnT, MilT; language and Fortune in TC, KnT; the failure of Palamon and Arcite to read signs and the literal answers to prayers in KnT; Troilus and the fate of fiction in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274119">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Both the Edge and the Centre: The Politics of Understanding Music in Middle English Poetry--An Interdisciplinary Study.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the philosophical ramifications of understanding music, particularly as evidenced in BD, HF, PF, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bottom-Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on a study of status in MilT and traces the positioning of Nicholas and Alisoun and their displays of their buttocks in the window toward Absolon. Fleshing out the context and history of bottom-kissing as well as the averting of demons by open displays of the buttocks and/or genitals, maps out how Absolon and Nicholas highlight the fragility of status in the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263367">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bottom&#039;s Dream and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents an additional Chaucerian allusion in &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream.&quot;  Like the dreamer in BD, Shakespeare&#039;s Bottom says his dream cannot be interpreted; it can only be written down.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261721">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bovine (E)Sc(h)atology: Papal &#039;Bulles Assoiling&#039; in &#039;The Pardoner&#039;s Prologue and Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The verb &quot;assoillen&quot; and the noun &quot;bulle,&quot; two terms that cluster in the prologue and epilogue to PardT, engage in wordplay with &quot;soilen&quot; and &quot;boles&quot; respectively.  The Pardoner, who implicity claims to be God, attempts to &quot;soilen&quot; the pilgrims morally and spiritually.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boy Crucifixion, Sainthood, and the Puzzling Case of Harold of Gloucester.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that the clergeon in PrT invokes Hugh of Lincoln, one of a number of Christian boys purportedly crucified by Jews in mockery of Christ&#039;s Passion. Addresses why the victims in such stories are boys, not adults as Jesus was when he was crucified, and argues that peculiarities in Harold of Gloucester&#039;s story suggest that the boy victim arises primarily from Christian interpretation of Exodus 12:3–9, the Passover narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267875">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boys Will Be Women : Musings on Classroom Nostalgia and the Chaucerian Audience(s)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Woods hypothesizes how Chaucer and the male members of his audience may have been affected by their experiences in an &quot;all-male medieval classroom&quot; and how, in turn, their encounters with female literary characters and the rhetorical exercises of abbreviation and amplification may be reflected in the writing and early reception of LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264453">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Brain Physiology and Poetics in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The narrator, Alcyone, and the Black Knight suffer from melancholy.  Brain functions and anatomy, progress, and treatment of the illness are linked chronologically, and the time shifts are analogous to the order and process of brain physiology as understood in the Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269576">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Brains or Beauty. Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales: &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale,&#039; &#039;Thomas of Erceldoune,&#039; and &#039;The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Loathly lady tales &quot;reveal the consequences&quot; for women of &quot;ungendered&quot; transgressive behavior: the lady &quot;enjoys more power&quot; when she performs roles counter to her biological gender, and she loses the power when she subsides into feminine roles. When the lady in WBT abandons her ugliness, she gives up her challenges to male sovereignty in marriage and to &quot;aristocratic women&#039;s superiority.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Brand Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the emphases of four modern adaptations of CT: Brian Helgeland&#039;s 2001 movie &quot;A Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; (focusing on Chaucer&#039;s character as a &quot;PR&quot; man); the 2011–12 Tacit Theatre touring drama &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot; (bawdy comedy); Pier Paolo Pasolini&#039;s 1972 movie &quot;I racconti di Canterbury&quot; (bawdry and social criticism); and the collected stories &quot;Refugee Tales&quot; [I] (2016), edited by David Herd (the plight of refugees, especially in Dragan Todorovic&#039;s &quot;The Migrant&#039;s Tale&quot; and MLT). Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer as a &quot;central figure&quot; in the &quot;creation of the English nation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Breaking the Vacuum : Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Literary and historical periodization conventionally depends on viewing the lyrics of Wyatt and Surrey (for example) as distinctive and innovative, expressing a characteristically &quot;Renaissance&quot; divided self that is isolated from political and social realities. However, this self-fashioning is less a feature of Petrarchan humanism than of the Ovidian elegiac mode, as evidenced by late-medieval writings such as Pity, BD, and especially Gower&#039;s Confessio Amantis.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266728">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Breches et murs eleves dans &#039;La legende de Thisbe&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the metaphoric and symbolic value of walls and gaps in the Thisbe account in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273006">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Brewer&#039;s Chaucer and Knightly Virtue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes Brewer&#039;s interpretations  of the figure of the Knight in GP and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bribes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies bribery in a &quot;variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to modern America,&quot; with short treatments of Chaucer (pp. 287-90, powerfully articulating &quot;the anti-bribery ethic&quot; in FrT, SumT, PardT, ClT, ParsT); Langland (pp. 275-79); and Dante (pp. 239-56).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted&#039;: Language and Gender in &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the list of hard words included in Thomas Speght&#039;s 1602 edition of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Werkes&quot; influenced the linguistic inventiveness of Shakespeare and Fletcher&#039;s &quot;Two Noble Kinsmen.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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