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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Ovidian Elegy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Study of extant manuscripts from fourteenth-century England reveals that Chaucer was familiar with Ovidian texts and commentaries of his time. He developed his own adaptation of tone and vocabulary, exploring the tension between courtly love and Ovidian elegy in LGW and LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s sense of history and his historical approach to the pagans and the imperfection of pagan theology and philosophy, centering on TC and on KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270660">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Petrarch]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s relationship with Petrarch, focusing on translation theory, humanism, and Chaucer&#039;s uses of the Italian writer as source for ClT and the &quot;Canticus Troili&quot; of TC. Also assesses Chaucer&#039;s references to Petrarch in ClT and in MkT, as well as his interactions with Italians and Italian culture (including the works of Dante and Boccaccio) in London and on his Italian journeys. Comments on Chaucer&#039;s notions of translation and literary production, derived from various classical and medieval sources, particularly in comparison with Petrarch&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267390">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Pilgrimage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares pilgrimage in Japan with that in Christian culture and then discusses the pilgrimage to Canterbury in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274099">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Politics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses Chaucer&#039;s discourse on medieval political principles, including kingship and hierarchical order. Examines SqT, Mel, KnT, ClT, LGW, PF, and Sted.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Pope Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De Miseria Humane Conditionis.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes the &quot;intellectual background&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s translation of Innocent&#039;s &quot;De Miseria Humane Conditionis&quot; as his &quot;Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde,&quot; explores Chaucer&#039;s uses of the treatise in MLPT and PardT and their manuscripts glosses, and seeks reconstructs the version of the treatise that Chaucer may have used while translating.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Prejudices: A Critical Study of &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines treatment of several CT narrators and characters and sees examples of &quot;othering&quot; and hostile prejudice toward those characters. Proceeds from there to possible continuations of those prejudices in contemporary readings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Pronominatio]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Holton argues that Chaucer generally prefers direct naming techniques, but he recurrently uses &quot;pronominatio&quot; (i.e., epithets and related circumlocutions) when relying on Virgil as a source in HF and LGW. Also shows how Chaucer exploits the negative possibilities of &quot;pronominatio&quot; in TC and PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267601">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Rape : Uncertainty&#039;s Certainties]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[We remain uncertain about the meaning of Cecily Chaumpaigne&#039;s release of Chaucer from a charge of rape, but the topic of rape (and forced marriage) in Chaucer&#039;s poetry reflects his sensitivity to the complex &quot;definitional problems&quot; of raptus. Chaucer explores the fine line between consent and &quot;nonconsent&quot; in Troilus and Criseyde, The Second Nun&#039;s Tale, and elsewhere, and his exploration reflects Boethian concerns with volition.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and early Modern Literature (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 255-79.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272107">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Reason]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that Chaucer is a &quot;rationalistic&quot; poet, and suggests prospects for assessing Chaucer&#039;s use of dialectic or the &quot;scholastic mode of reasoning&quot; in his art, commenting on aspects of GP, ParsT, Mel, WBPT, Bo, TC, and HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Religion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critical essays examine Chaucer&#039;s religious writings. Sixteen essays focus on fourteenth-century religious practices, and religious influences on Chaucer&#039;s writings, and offer ways of teaching religious themes and issues in Chaucer. For individual essays, search for Chaucer and Religion under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275630">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces a history of Chaucer reception in the context of Christian controversies by &quot;situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries.&quot; Emphasizes how Chaucer &quot;engaged with contemporary female spirituality&quot; by presenting characterization of female monastic pilgrims in CT. Examines WBPT, SNT, PrT, and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Rhetoric]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Copeland outlines the classical-medieval tradition of rhetoric and its relationships with history, philosophy, and literary style. Considers the Pardoner as an embodiment of rhetoric and its potential for abuse; the Wife of Bath as rhetorical excess and rhetorical competence; TC as an exploration of narrative in relation to history; Mel as an application of rhetorical appropriateness (kairos); and NPT as an &quot;essay in the theory of form&quot; and a &quot;rhetoric laboratory.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261969">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Ricardian Politics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A survey of the financial and legal records of Chaucer&#039;s life from 1385 to 1400 leaves an impression of Chaucer as a cautious nonpartisan.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270429">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Science]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Approximates the parameters of Chaucer&#039;s knowledge and acceptance of medieval science, pseudo-science, and occult practice by surveying their presence in his works, including discussions of astronomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, physiognomy, etc. His works show a &quot;very detailed intellectual grasp of the science of the day, a discriminating between its different levels of seriousness and usefulness,&quot; and a &quot;personal preoccupation with its relevance to spiritual and humane truths.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263669">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by various hands on Chaucer&#039;s received Christian tradition, scriptural interpretation, and glossing.  For individual essays,  of this volume.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272901">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses similarities and differences between Chaucer and Shakespeare, concentrating on biography, theme, and literary techniques as well as borrowings. Comments on Shakespeare&#039;s adaptations of TC and KnT, and explores the writers&#039; audiences, their comic methods, and their courtly ideals, finding close similarities in their treatments of &quot;trouthe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262383">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Shakespeare on Tragedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer discovered tragedy as a narrative genre not from Boccaccio but from Boethius and from the glossator of his own copy of &quot;De consolatione,&quot; who may have been Ralph Strode.  Chaucer&#039;s concept of tragedy included the fall of the innocent as well as the guilty, the view that was eventually adopted by Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272484">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Shakespeare: &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039; Connection]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines scholarship that traces Chaucer&#039;s &quot;subtle&quot; influence on Shakespeare, by drawing connections between MerT and &quot;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267964">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Skelton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Close reading of KnT, focusing on elements such as syntax, diction, and imagery, shows Chaucer&#039;s dexterous use of high, middle, and low styles. The variety and combination of elements produce the tone of the poem and &quot;naturalize&quot; its philosophical concerns. Gilbert also assesses passages from BD and GP, comparing them with selections from poems by John Skelton.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268174">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Some Modern Perspectives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on modern efforts to &quot;get ahead&quot; and contrasts them with attitudes toward success in HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264800">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Spenser Allusions Not in Spurgeon and Wells]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the prefatory note to the 1592 &quot;A Declaration of the True Causes&quot; (STC 10005), there is an allusion to the pseudo-Chaucerian verses &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Prophesie.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276812">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and St. Clare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies personal opportunities Chaucer had &quot;to learn the special fame&quot; of St. Clare, and suggests that his allusion to her in HF (line 1066) evokes &quot;a contrasting silence&quot; in a &quot;passage descriptive of strident clamor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and St. Jerome: The use of &#039;Barley&#039; in the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rather than the usually accepted &quot;Adversus Jovinianum,&quot; Saint Jerome&#039;s letter to Pammachius is the probable source of the Wife&#039;s reference to barley (WBP 145).  At best the result is an ambiguous vindication of--and at worst an attack on--the martial ideal.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and St. Kenelm]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As found in &quot;The Golden Legend&quot; (&quot;Legende Aurea&quot;) and the &quot;South English Legendary,&quot; the life of St. Kenelm offers striking parallels with both PrT and NPT, in which Chaucer refers to it (7.3110-21). Kenelm was murdered at age seven, perhaps the reason Chaucer used that age.]]></dcterms:description>
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