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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the anti-Semitism of PrT, producing &quot;a discussion animated by the ways in which antisemitism has emerged as the problematic that organizes scholarly response,&quot; and resists dismissing or excusing prejudice and hate in PrT. Tracks history of PrT criticism, its sources and the potentially problematic methodology of traditional source studies, the history of antifeminism linked to anti-Semitism in criticism of PrT, and the reception of PrT in the fifteenth century. Combines a detailed history and analysis of criticism to &quot;help scholars break free of some old patterns and seek out fresh modes of engagement&quot; regarding the understanding and teaching of PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274821">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Fantasye and curious bisynesse&quot;: &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;The Shipman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes how May in MerT and the wife in ShT &quot;evade the oppressions&quot; of marriage and &quot;subvert their subjugation through negotiating and challenging the mercantile narration.&quot; Each female protagonist &quot;generates her own meanings and pleasure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274820">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Old Way to Pay New Debts: Opera in One Act (Un vecchio modo di pagare I nuovi debiti).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this facsimile of Dove&#039;s musical score includes a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on ShT, and Italian singing translation by Adam Pollock. Also published as the third part of Dove&#039;s trilogy: :Racconti di speranza e desiderio (Tales of Hope and Desire).&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Texts: Finitude before Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in PardT &quot;allegory and form straddle the boundaries of finitude in order to raise the question of how finitude is constituted,&quot; thereby sharing or anticipating several concerns and questions raised by object-oriented, materialist philosophy. Paradoxically concerned with death and the mundane transcendence of relics, PardPT explores the boundaries and continuities between sign and signified, finitude and infinity, and singularity and form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274818">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a chapter, &quot;Sharing Laughter&quot; (pp. 205-32), that identifies examples from late medieval art and literature where laughter constitutes &quot;moral censorship&quot; of same-sex desire or actions, then focuses on the Pardoner; his relation with the Summoner in GP; and the grotesquery, mockery, and laughter generated by his offer of his relics at the end of PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner and the Jews.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the Old Man of PardT as a figure of the Wandering Jew, exploring relations between the figure and the transtemporal materiality of relics, and linking it with &quot;other explicit and implicit references to Jews&quot; in the depiction of the Pardoner (especially his hare-like glaring eyes) and his Tale. Includes attention to oathtaking and the Host&#039;s threat to the Pardoner.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274816">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsiders the possibility that the Pardoner is a woman passing as a man in PardT, which raises anxieties about the relation of outward appearance and inner substance. These parallel anxieties about the authenticity of relics and the validity of religious speech acts, including those involved with the transubstantiation of the elements of the Eucharist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274815">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What Is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions the &quot;narrator theory of narration,&quot; critiquing the &quot;concept of the internal, potentially unreliable narrator&quot;; examining &quot;the history of the term narrator&quot;; studying &quot;the theories of narration implied by scribal annotations in some medieval manuscripts&quot; (including manuscripts of TC); and challenging narrator-based (or &quot;dramatic&quot;) readings of PhyT, suggesting that the Tale should be read as &quot;one of Chaucer&#039;s several thought-experiments in the exploration of pagan worlds.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274814">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading like a Jew: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Letter of the Law.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads PhyT as a conflict between Jewish literal hermeneutics and a more metaphorical Christian reading of faith.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the narrator&#039;s comments on poachers and governesses in PhyT are not digressive, but part of a broader &quot;biopolitical&quot; concern that &quot;clearly condemns the parental absolutism that leads to Virginius&#039;s murder of his daughter&quot; and aptly cultivates &quot;a politics of life&quot; as an alternative to the traditional &quot;thanatopolitical status quo&quot; of legalistic authority.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274812">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To hange upon a tree&quot;: A Didactic Catharsis of Crucifixion through Moral Subversion in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the Jewish and Christian understandings of crucifixion, arguing that the image underlies the &quot;didactic nature&quot; of PhyT where &quot;repeated images of injustice&quot; are &quot;placed in dialogue with the symbolism of the cross,&quot; reminding the reader of &quot;divine grace.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274811">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking &quot;Amys&quot; in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: Rhetoric, Truth, and the &quot;Poetria nova.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the concept of manipulation in language and magic in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how &quot;knights are reformed&quot; and some are &quot;even saved by the women who tempt them&quot; in several medieval romances, including Chretien&#039;s &quot;Knight of the Cart&quot;; Marie de France&#039;s &quot;Lanval&quot;; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot;; and FranT, where Dorigen is &quot;the temptress and the protector, all rolled into one complicated package.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of FranT (pp. 282–93), tabulating historical astronomical data and arguing that Chaucer &quot;used the configuration of the Sun and Moon in December 1340 as the inspiration for the time of year [late December] and for the central plot device [high tide]&quot; of the Tale. Suggests that the date may have caught his eye because it was his birth year.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Supernatural and the Limits of Materiality in Medieval Histories, Travelogues, and Romances from William of Malmesbury to Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of FranT as one among several examples of late medieval English romances that explore &quot;noble identity and chivalric values&quot; and use magic to place these values in starker relief than can be accomplished realistically.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274807">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Trouthe&quot; or Illusion: Masculine Honor vs. Feminine Honor in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the alignment of &quot;trouthe&quot; and freedom in FranT, particularly as they relate to gendered honor, arguing that Dorigen&#039;s efforts to honor her marital &quot;trouthe&quot; limit her freedom.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274806">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Artes that been curious&quot;: Questions of Magic and Morality in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the ambivalent role of magic in FranT, arguing that vacillation &quot;between belief and skepticism, truth and illusion, nature and sorcery&quot; help Chaucer to create &quot;a divide between perception and reality&quot; and undermine the &quot;purported moral system&quot; of the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274805">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis&#039;s Problem with &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: An Essay Written in the Seventieth Anniversary Year of &quot;The Allegory of Love.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores why C. S. Lewis chose not to discuss FranT in his &quot;Allegory of Love,&quot; arguing that Lewis made the decision because he wanted to attribute the &quot;final defeat of courtly love by the romantic conception of marriage&quot; to Edmund Spenser in his &quot;Faerie Queene.&quot; However, FranT was a &quot;transmutation&quot; of courtly love into marriage 200 years before Spenser wrote.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274804">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Da Dianora a Marietta: Metamorfosi di un&#039;illusione cortese.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the development of the relations between illusion and courtliness from Boccaccio to James Lasdun&#039;s story in the &quot;The Siege,&quot; including a discussion of FranT that focuses on the &quot;demande d&#039;amour&quot; that concludes the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274803">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Cautionary Elephant.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that two of Chaucer&#039;s emphases in SqT modify source material from Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; and thereby undo the &quot;binary divide between humankind and animal kinds.&quot; The &quot;falcon&#039;s species vacillation&quot; and Canace&#039;s &quot;cross-species kindness&quot; show &quot;that medieval thought about animals is neither uniform nor stable.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274802">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale,&quot; Giovanni Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree,&quot; and &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses MerT; Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; 7.9; and &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; as &quot;slightly different&quot; varieties of the enchanted-tree motif, emphasizing their structural similarities, their uses of enchantment, and the relative happiness of their endings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhetoric and Performing Anger: Proserpina&#039;s Gift and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Proserpina&#039;s angry response to Pluto in MerT (4.2264–70) &quot;highlights the historical relationship between Chaucer&#039;s depiction of women&#039;s speech, medieval grammatical [classroom] instruction, and theories of delivery&quot; that derive from Geoffrey of Vinsauf &#039;s &quot;Poetria nova.&quot; Considers the role of angry speech in &quot;leveling the playing field between men and women&quot; in MerT and in WBP, and calls for revived interest in studying literature in relation to rhetoric.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274800">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus&#039; &quot;Amphitryon.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps&#039;s &quot;relatively faithful French translation,&quot; &quot;Geta et Amphitrion,&quot; and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps&#039;s treatment of Plautus&#039;s Latin original with those of other writers, including Chaucer, who &quot;assimilated and mixed motifs from Latin comedies without acknowledgment&quot; in CT. Exemplifies Chaucer&#039;s practice of combining motifs by discussing the pear-tree scene of MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274799">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To take a wyf&quot;: Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates and analyzes the &quot;gender-based&quot; nouns used of the marital couple in MerT, compared with uses elsewhere in CT, focusing on uses of &quot;wyf&quot; and &quot;housbonde&quot; (61 versus 4 uses in MerT), and on the locution of &quot;taking&quot; a wife. Such usages connect January of MerT with Walter of ClT, and while neither tale challenges stereotypical roles overtly, MerT raises &quot;profound social concerns&quot; through its &quot;terming&quot; of marital status.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Non Intellegant&quot;: The Enigmas of the &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads ClT closely as a &quot;fundamentally enigmatic parable&quot; that, as part of the &quot;glossing group&quot; of the CT, focuses on interpretation and hermeneutic resistance. Chaucer alternately abbreviates and amplifies his Petrarchan source &quot;so that interpretive authority . . . will lie dormant and enigma will thrive.&quot; Simultaneously, the Clerk seeks subtly to mandate clerkly glossing in a &quot;passive-aggressive&quot; response to the Wife of Bath, emphasizing Griselda&#039;s inability and/or unwillingness to interpret words and events.]]></dcterms:description>
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