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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vernacular Authorship and the Control of Manuscript Production.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;various degrees of control&quot; exerted by medieval vernacular poets over the production of their manuscripts, maintaining that evidence from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts indicates Chaucer &quot;was clearly not moving expeditiously toward a complete, finished, and definitive version of his work.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on aspects of the cultural situations of the medieval book. Examines elements of bibliography, social context, linguistics, archeology, and conservation within a broader view of the theory and praxis of manuscript study. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three Troublesome Lines in Chaucer&#039;s General Prologue: 11 (So priketh hem Nature), 176 (The space), 739 (Crist spak himself ful brode).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that line 11 is not parenthetical and that &quot;so&quot; is an adverb of degree, in &quot;They sleep all night with their eyes open, nature pricks them so in their hearts.&quot; In line 176, &quot;the space&quot; means &quot;in the meantime,&quot; and not the object of &quot;held.&quot; As for line 736, ample evidence from the Gospels, the noncanonical sayings, and some Psalms makes clear how much latitude Jesus allowed himself in his speech--and Chaucer&#039;s own similar latitude, &quot;sermo humilis&quot; in imitation of Christ, marks his art as Christian.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of essays on the production, reception, and editing of medieval English manuscripts. For an essay on Chaucer, search for Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts under Alternative Title]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining the Literary in Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates the category of &quot;the literary&quot; in medieval English texts, surveying prior attempts to define or describe the category and indicating their utility. Comments on a range of Chaucerian topics, including the &quot;cunningly self-authorizing discursive form&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s dream visions; the goals of the original Chaucer Society; Chaucer&#039;s translation of Petrarch&#039;s sonnet as Troilus&#039;s &quot;song&quot;; and the possibility that, for Chaucer, &quot;the idea of &#039;the literary&quot; is the &quot;problem and desire of possessing something earthly that is wholly valuable in itself, rather than merely referentially meaningful.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays by various authors consider new and traditional conceptualizations of medieval English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining Medieval English under Alternative Title]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nature of Material Evidence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers how manuscript evidence informs our understanding of Middle English, addressing the value of autograph manuscripts and personal letters, the process of standardization, and the importance of sociolinguistics. Includes analysis of the habits of Chaucer scribes Geoffrey Spirleng and Adam Pinkhurst and maintains that, generally, when &quot;copying Chaucer, scribes tended to preserve older London forms associated with Chaucer&#039;s own usage.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Secretary &quot;a&quot; in Ellesmere&#039;s Latin Quotations.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the use of the minuscule &quot;a&quot; in the Latin quotations of the Ellesmere manuscript to support the argument that these annotations derive from the ways Chaucer imagines the form of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Joseph Holland&#039;s &quot;thoroughgoing renovation&quot; of the Chaucer manuscript he owned in the sixteenth century (now Cambridge University Library, MS Gg 4.27), detailing how he imitated the corpus and presentation found in Thomas Speght&#039;s 1598 edition of Chaucer&#039;s works, and exemplifying how transmission can affect &quot;the way medieval books are read and preserved&quot;--even though &quot;[m]ost traces of Holland&#039;s involvement have been removed&quot; in later restoration of Gg 4.27.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Wyth her owen handys&quot;: What Women&#039;s Literacy Can Teach Us about Langland and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches &quot;the mode of literacy&quot; that &quot;occupies a borderland just beyond the precincts of surviving evidence,&quot; exploring &quot;the role of dictation&quot; rather than &quot;a sequence of errors in copying that stands between&quot; versions of such texts as TC and &quot;Piers Plowman. Includes comments on Adam Pinkhurst&#039;s role as Chaucer&#039;s scribe; the frontispiece to TC in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61; and the irregularity of final -e in Chaucerian manuscripts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Illustrating Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: Eric Gill&#039;s Woodcuts for the Golden Cockerel Press.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the &quot;relationship of engravings to narrative&quot; in Eric Gill&#039;s woodcuts for the Cockerel Press four-volume edition of CT (1929–31), focusing on its frontispieces and &quot;late or climactic moments in the tales,&quot; with b&amp;w illustrations. Comments on the sexual explicitness in book illustration, comparing Gill&#039;s works with those by Edward Burne-Jones, Aubrey Beardsley, and others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poems to Learn by Heart.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes poetry for a juvenile audience, arranged topically. Includes the first eighteen lines of GP in Middle English (pp. 168–69) in a section entitled &quot;Extra Credit.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Charting Chaucer: Travel, Mechanical Magic, and Controlling the Narrative.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concerns Chaucer&#039;s authorship of Astr, and &quot;what that instrument contributes to Chaucer&#039;s idea of travel.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mortal Spectacle: History in &quot;The Monk&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses how Chaucer&#039;s storytelling narrative structure of MkT reflects the Italian genre of &quot;casus tragedy,&quot; learned from Dante and Boccaccio.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harry Bailey&#039;s Labor and Time Consciousness on Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how CT reflects Chaucer&#039;s &quot;orientation toward life that celebrates &#039;bisynesse&#039; [business/busyness] and abhors wasteful idleness.&quot; Focuses on the importance of the Host and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;marking of the time&quot; in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Selling Satire: Gower, Chaucer, and the End of the Estates.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Chaucer and Gower handled the genre of &quot;estates satire,&quot; and speculates how &quot;their social critique moves away from an estates satire framework.&quot; Addresses mercantile practice in MerT, MLT, and WBT, and claims that Chaucer, like Gower, &quot;is able to include substantial critique of economic practices in the actions&quot; of characters in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274588">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides an overview of Chaucer as storyteller and narrator in CT, BD, HF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Transnational Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the &quot;international&quot; aspects of Chaucer&#039;s works and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;European nature as a writer.&quot; Emphasizes the importance of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;ability to draw upon international vernaculars . . . and retain elements of his own culture&quot; in his works, by focusing primarily on HF. Also, discusses Chaucer&#039;s life, family, and travels.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Reality Fiction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on Chaucer&#039;s storytelling style, which combines fiction, invention of literary characters that bring in &quot;details and personalities from &#039;life,&#039; &quot; and metafictive narrative elements.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274585">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Lessons: Chaucer and the Comfort of Uncertainty.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that humor and multiple points of view make Chaucer&#039;s work essential reading in the &quot;polemical atmosphere&quot; of the present time. Contends that readers must pay careful attention when interpreting Chaucer&#039;s frequent ambiguities, reversals, and moments of stasis; yet, final judgments concerning, e.g., Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;ascaunces&quot; (as if), are often impossible. Emphasizes how a looseness in description, characterization, and connections between tales and tellers fosters an atmosphere of toleration for contemporary readers of Chaucer&#039;s works. Focuses on CT, WBT, BD, PF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Language.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Outlines the basics of Middle English orthography and pronunciation, and Chaucer&#039;s vocabulary and literary models for students. Claims that learning to read Middle English, and understanding concepts of manuscript study, editing, and translation, enhance understanding of critical conversations about Chaucer. Focuses on analyzing Ros and the Clerk&#039;s portrait in GP to provide strategies for reading difficult passages, including examining syntactical patterns and reading aloud, and to reveal that Chaucer&#039;s iambics can convey a variety of emotions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as a Sociolinguist: Understanding the Role of Language in Chaucer&#039;s Internationalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the history of English from earlier times to Chaucer&#039;s age to reveal Chaucer&#039;s facility with language, focusing on his powerful and special words. Refers to J. R. R. Tolkien&#039;s 1934 lecture to the Philological Society, and claims that Chaucer was not only a gifted poet but also a remarkable philologist, aligned with linguists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, Nashe, and &quot;The Choice of Valentines.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents overlap between Chaucer&#039;s writings and the writings of Thomas Nashe, particularly the late sixteenth-century poem &quot;The Choice of Valentines,&quot; which is &quot;considered to be the most pornographic piece of writing to survive&quot; Shakespeare&#039;s time. Argues that Nashe&#039;s poem is connected to Chaucer in that &quot;both writers often taught traditional Christian messages by using highly ironic methods.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, John Donne, and &quot;The Flea&quot;: A &quot;Robertsonian&quot; Perspective.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes viewing Donne&#039;s poem &quot;The Flea&quot; from the theoretical perspective of D. W. Robertson, and argues that &quot;if we read Donne&#039;s poem as Robertson reads Chaucer, a different kind of Donne emerges&quot; than previously shown by scholars.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Philosopher: Boethian Contexts for Reading Chaucer&#039;s Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the influence of Boethius on Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Focuses on how understanding &quot;The Consolation of Philosophy&quot; enhances the &quot;philosophical reflection&quot; and reception of TC for readers.]]></dcterms:description>
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