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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nine essays by various authors accompanied by a cultural timeline and a comprehensive index. For the individual essays, search for Chaucer and Chaucerians under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Chess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The references to chess in BD are confused because Chaucer seems not to have had any firsthand knowledge of the game, his source being not a proper handbook but the &quot;Roman de la Rose.&quot;  Applying the chess metaphor from Jean de Meun to a dissimilar situation in BD, Chaucer adds to the ambiguity in the character of the Dreamer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268970">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Chivalry Re-Visited]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Keen surveys a range of late medieval attitudes toward chivalry, knighthood, and warfare, especially a &quot;streak of puritanism&quot; that criticized the vainglory of chivalry. He considers a range of texts, including Chaucer&#039;s ParsT and the GP description of the Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271614">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Chrétien and Arthurian Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes, commenting on the English poet&#039;s use of &quot;vavasour&quot; to describe the Franklin and on his allusions to Lancelot, Arthur, and Gawain. Suggests the possibility that Chaucer&#039;s lost &quot;Book of the Leoun&quot; may have been a version of Chrétien&#039;s &quot;Yvain.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Christian Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Understanding medieval literary use of scriptural tradition requires knowledge of relevant social history, especially for Chaucer--not merely a &quot;textual&quot; man but a &quot;moral, social, and political man.&quot;  The complex Christian tradition, functioning psychologically, economically, socially, and politically, changed as culture changed.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Clothing : Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the details and implications of the clothing and accoutrements of the clerical and academic pilgrims in GP, discussing the Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Physician, Parson, Pardoner, and Summoner. More richly symbolic than secular dress, clerical dress must be understood in terms of social and literary values developed over time and exploited by Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hodges introduces historical, linguistic, sartorial, and literary contexts as backgrounds to the descriptions. She examines each detail of the descriptions (and illustrations surviving in the manuscripts) to explain how &quot;costume rhetoric&quot; is fundamental to Chaucer&#039;s creation of character in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Comedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[There are those Chaucer readers who feel that he failed to take life seriously enough.  His view of the world was indeed serious; it was not, however, a tragic view.  His art is his love of the human comedy and thereby hang the tales of some of the most intricate and hilarious characters in literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264325">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Comparative Literary Theory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In response to Morton Bloomfield, &quot;Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer,&quot; Minnis distinguishes between the &quot;alterity&quot; and the &quot;modernity&quot; of medieval literature, arguing that medieval theories of literature should be applied to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275941">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces the kinds of courts with which Chaucer would have been acquainted, organized into sections on house and law and one on game that end with readings of FrT and SNT. Discusses the range of courtly depictions, cataloguing &quot;some of the Chaucerian moments of trial which . . . help us to understand how his writings often connected these interrelated ideas of court.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267398">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Costume : The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the variety, subtleties, and complexities of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;costume rhetoric&quot; in GP, examining how details of the secular pilgrims&#039; dress and accoutrement capitalize on late-medieval English clothing practice and extend literary tradition. Clothing could &quot;mean&quot; in various ways in medieval culture, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Gothic&quot; variety of costume encourages us to read the details literally and figuratively, seeking to comprehend fully the material, social, and literary codes of medieval dress. Discusses all of the secular pilgrims, especially the Knight, Squire, Merchant, Wife of Bath, and Sergeant at Law. Considers fabrics, colors, styles of dress, hats, shoes, gloves, swords, knives, and so forth, explaining terminology and exploring cultural associations. Includes an extensive index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262600">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Courtly Speech]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer was the &quot;Father of English Prudery&quot; because (fabliaux notwithstanding) he elevated and purified the English language by inventing a language of circumlocution and courtly indirection and by substituting Latinate terms for the Anglo-Saxon &quot;shitwordes&quot; in common use before refinements were developed.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bawdry being &quot;consequent to and dependent upon prudery,&quot; Chaucer is also the &quot;Father of English Bawdry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Crusader Ethics: Youth, Love, and the Material World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how late medieval &quot;anxieties over the corruption of chivalry&quot; and criticism of the morals, motives, and conduct of crusaders&quot; are reflected in the pairing of the GP descriptions of the Squire and Knight, and in KnT and SqT. Argues that &quot;Chaucer&#039;s critique of crusaders is not . . . effected through the Knight, but through the Squire,&quot; evident in comparisons with romances and treatises about the crusades, including that of Henry Despenser.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263584">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Evaluates Chaucer&#039;s indebtedness to Dante by examining ascriptions (indexed two ways).  Considers aspects of Chaucer-Dante relationship within European setting.  The younger Chaucer borrowed isolated lines and phrases from the &quot;Comedy&quot;; the mature Chaucer borrowed concepts as well as phrasing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Chaucer&#039;s possible access to Dante&#039;s works before traveling to Italy in 1372, and explores the &quot;literary relationship of the two writers,&quot; arguing that &quot;Chaucer drew on Dante not heavily but over many years,&quot; principally for the Ugolino episode of MkT, along with &quot;striking images&quot; and the &quot;lyric expression of religious adoration&quot; found in the &quot;Commedia,&quot; but also for the &quot;discussion of nobleness&quot; in &quot;Convivio&quot; 4.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275761">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dante.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Advocates a &quot;contextual&quot; approach to source study, arguing that several discussions of Dante&#039;s influence on Chaucer depend upon weak correspondences, better treated as shared tradition than direct influence. Discusses the lists of lovers in PF and BD, the treatment of Jason in LGW, and the &quot;firste stok&quot; and treatment of gentility in Gent.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Deguilleville: The &#039;ABC&#039; in Context]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s ABC closely reflects its original, a portion of Deguilleville&#039;s &quot;Pelerinage.&quot;  What critics have seen as Chaucer&#039;s creative contributions are better described as examples of &quot;redistribution.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268537">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Deschamps, Translation and the Hundred Years&#039; War]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wallace considers Eustace Deschamps&#039;s attitudes toward the English occupation of Calais and reads Deschamps&#039;s ballade 285 (which praises Chaucer) as a &quot;spirited act of reverse or returned colonization.&quot; Identifies parallels in the careers of Deschamps and Chaucer, plus the two writers&#039; relations with Oton de Granson.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261254">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Deschamps&#039; &#039;Natural Music&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies Deschamps&#039; concept of natural music (i.e., words in verse, from L&#039;Art de dictier) to Machaut&#039;s ballade &quot;Tout ensement,&quot; to &quot;The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale,&quot; and to Chaucer&#039;s Ros, demonstrating how the rhythms of Middle French and Middle English verse differ and how Chaucer emulates the French.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262601">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dialectology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[After a survey of the reactions to Tolkien&#039;s article on the use of the northern dialect in RvT, Dor shows--on the basis of internal evidence--the geographical background of each pilgrim and the gradation in the process of Londonization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dickens Use Luke 23.34]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Given his interest in Chaucer and his ownership of a copy of TC, Dickens&#039;s &quot;comic literary use of the motif of &#039;Christ-forgives-his-killers&#039;&quot; may be an echo of Chaucer&#039;s use of the motif, which is based on Luke 23.34, in TC 3.1577.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262095">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dictys]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer may have known the &quot;Ephemeris Belli Troiani&quot; of Dictys Cretensis.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267468">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dissimilarity : Literary Comparisons in Chaucer and Other Late-Medieval Writing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of Chaucer&#039;s simultaneous employment of, and challenge to, comparative language and thinking. Chapter 1 explores dissimilarity and its &quot;taxonomic force&quot; in academic and religious traditions, while chapter 2 focuses on this subject in HF. Chapter 3 looks at the uses of similes in Chaucer and other medieval authors, arguing that Chaucer creates a &quot;dialectical play of simile and context.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The following two chapters focus on TC and the contexts and persuasive capabilities of comparisons in it. Chapter 6 deals with Chaucer&#039;s strategies for preventing readers from categorizing his fictions easily or comfortably. The book argues, finally, that the &quot;most characteristic features of language as Chaucer uses it in poetic fiction . . . are similaic not tropic&quot;; importantly, though, Chaucer sees the &quot;creative and subversive effect of dissimilarity.&quot; McGavin gives recurrent attention to KnT, WBP, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272294">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Doctor John of Gaddesden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the life and medical expertise of John of Gaddesden, rejecting the notion that Chaucer caricatured Gaddesden in the GP description of the Physician, suggesting that it is instead an &quot;impersonal description.&quot; Also comments on Chaucer&#039;s depictions of surgeons and physicians in Mel, the positive response by the Host to PhyT, and Arcite&#039;s medical condition in KnT--all evidence that Chaucer was &quot;kindly disposed&quot; to doctors in his time. Includes 10 b&amp;w illus.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275411">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Don Juan.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;[p]ossible influence&quot; of ShT &quot;on the Don Juan theme&quot; in England and in Spain, observing that the former &quot;is likely enough but difficult to prove,&quot; while the latter is &quot;very unlikely and virtually unprovable.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264330">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Education]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s references to education are scattered, unpredictable, and peripheral except in the WBT and SqT, where the education theme is central.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Education and Society in Medieval and Renaissance England (London and Ronceverte: Hambledon, 1989), pp. 221-42.]]></dcterms:description>
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