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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Daun Piers: One Monk or Two?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the characterizations of the Monk in GP and in MkPT are consistent, and attributes their differing tones to the Monk&#039;s decision to &quot;change his image&quot; in the eyes of his fellow pilgrims while requiting the Host&#039;s derision with the boredom of a dull, redundant &quot;sermon.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274442">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the narrative devices used by modern and premodern writers of fiction to establish &quot;an air of truth or plausibility&quot;--first-person point of view, intimate tone, details drawn from the real world, and various &quot;tricks&quot; used to compel readers to suspend their disbelief. Comments on Scriptural realism and that of saints&#039; lives and dream visions, examining Chaucer&#039;s techniques in BD, TC, and CT, particularly their framing devices, with attention to the &quot;circumstantial realism&quot; of the frame of CT and its productive tensions with ideals expressed in the tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274441">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; X (I) 424: &quot;The hyndre part of a she-ape in the fulle of the moone.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the &quot;proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers HF to be an occasional poem, perhaps &quot;written for Christmas Revels at the Inner Temple,&quot; and reads its three parts an &quot;an allegorical representation of the trivium&quot; that pertains to poetry, &quot;testing the trivium, and rejecting it, and thereby enabling Chaucer to write write his mature poems with different styles and themes.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Appropriateness of &quot;The Physician&#039;s Tale&quot; to Its Teller.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the PhyT was &quot;specifically adapted especially to the Physician as teller,&quot; arguing that the opening of the Tale and  its rhetoric reflect the arts training common to late-medieval physicians, that various details reflect the teller&#039;s &quot;professional interest in medicine,&quot; and that these details are found in portions of the Tale original to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274438">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Welsh &quot;Troelius a Chresyd&quot;: Edited with Text, Parallel Translation, Notes, Glossary and a Critical Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits the early modern Welsh play, &quot;Troelius a Chresyd,&quot; with commentary on its relations with TC, Robert Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament,&quot; and early modern drama, treating the Welsh drama as a &quot;secular mystery play.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274437">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethian Philosophy as the Informing Principle in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats TC as an &quot;exemplum of&quot; Bo, focusing on the extent of Boethian influence, the character of Criseyde, the ironic narrator, and the &quot;appropriateness of the epilogue.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274436">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reason and Revelation in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the Canon of CYP as &quot;one of the men of Antichrist,&quot; and examines the sustained opposition of CYPT and SNPT, emphasizing their contrasting depictions of reason and revelation as ways of knowing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274435">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Landscape and Dialogue: A Study of Allegorical Tradition in Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the uses and functions of allegory, dialogue, and symbolism in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation,&quot; Alan of Lille&#039;s &quot;De Planctu Naturae,&quot; landscapes in twelfth-century literature, and PF, arguing that the latter is a &quot;triumph of allegorical technique made possible by Chaucer&#039;s mastery&quot; of the &quot;ideas and methods&quot; of his predecessors.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274434">
    <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/274433">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid and &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;nature and extent&quot; of Ovid&#039;s influence on CT, identifying wide-ranging allusions to various Ovidian works and providing parallel passages, assessing Chaucer&#039;s emulation of Ovidian techniques and considering Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; as a handbook of mythology, Chaucer&#039;s respect for Ovid as an &quot;ethical philosopher,&quot; and the influence of moralized commentaries on Chaucer&#039;s understanding of the Roman poet.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274432">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Chaucerian Narrator.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Derives a composite &quot;Chaucerian narrator&quot; from the poet&#039;s various works, characterized by &quot;naiveté or dull-mindedness,&quot; the traditional pose of a &quot;slyly comic writer.&quot; Then explores how this nuances of this figure are used to effects in individual narratives in the &quot;four dream poems&quot; TC, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274431">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Use of Religious Phraseology in Medieval Love Poetry: Provençal and French Poems and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;Christian phraseology&quot; in troubadour verse, the poetry of Chrétien, the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; and TC, focusing on uses by the narrator, Pandarus, and Troilus in Chaucer&#039;s poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274430">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Moral Vision in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses ParsT as a standard by which to assess the morality of CT, discussing the &quot;ubiquity of sin in the Canterbury pilgrims,&quot; the &quot;prominence of Pride&quot; in especially the Wife of Bath and Pardoner materials, and the balancing virtues found elsewhere in the tales, particularly KnT, MLT, and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274429">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clauses in Chaucer Introduced by Conjunction with Appended &quot;That.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies, tabulates, and analyzes the clauses introduced by conjunctions in Chaucer&#039;s works (except Th and his lyrics), with or without pleonastic &quot;that,&quot; attending to stress (verse and prose) and meter, and concluding, generally, that Chaucer achieved a &quot;more finished form&quot; when he &quot;availed himself of &#039;that&#039;,&quot; and he used it more often in his decasyllabic than in his octosyllabic verse,]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274428">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women in Uniform: Dress and Performance in Medieval and Court Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes several historical and literary representations of the clothing and ornaments of late-medieval processional &quot;women in groups,&quot; commenting on Chaucer&#039;s depictions in his works,  and focusing on depictions in &quot;The Floure and the Leafe&quot; and in &quot;The Assembly of Ladies,&quot; particularly as they express &quot;individuation&quot; or &quot;collective court identity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274427">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining Polities: Social Possibility and Conflict.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates magical objects in late-medieval English literature that express relations between secrecy and identity (both political and individual), exemplifying various authors&#039; attitudes, and maintaining that in HF Chaucer poses questions rather than indicating clear preference or ideology.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274426">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Materiality and the Hylomorphic Imagination.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;cultural connotation of physical matter&quot; expressed in gendered hylomorphic metaphors (matter/form) in the Medea accounts of LGW and John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book,&quot; arguing that Chaucer&#039;s representation raises questions about &quot;the human as a category,&quot; challenges traditional theories of causation, and interrogates the nature of desire.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274425">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Crafting Memory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores late-medieval literary &quot;intermingling of craft, memory, and loss&quot; in representations of known or knowable facts or truth, arguing that in Adam, HF, KnT, and BD Chaucer, unlike some of his contemporaries, is generally &quot;skeptical&quot; about the &quot;utility of craft analogies to represent any essential truth about poetry or the self.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274424">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reconsidering Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Sir Thomas Norny&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s Tale of &quot;Sir Thopas.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques the appropriateness of the label &quot;Scottish Chaucerian&quot; for William Dunbar, focusing on relations between Chaucer&#039;s Th and Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Sir Thomas Norny,&quot; observing that there is &quot;no reason to assume&quot; direct influence and identifying differences between the poems in genre, authorial intent, characterization, uses of allusion, and occasions for composition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274423">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Leaflets on Historical Linguistics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six pamphlets in a slip-folder, each individually paginated, and each summarizing the linguistic conditions and features of a work of English literature and offering pedagogical exercises in understanding the place of the work in linguistic history. The pamphlet on CT includes a facsimile of the Ellesmere manuscript page of SqE, with study questions on &quot;Graphics,&quot; phonology, grammar, and lexicon, and discussion of social aspects of Chaucer&#039;s language.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274422">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[History of the English Language: Selected Texts and Exercises.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes selections from GP (lines 1-42, 285-308, and 545-66) in Middle English, with interlinear glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Knight&#039;s Tale A1037: &quot;fresher than the May.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that lexical and stylistic evidence supports reading &quot;the May&quot; in KnT 1.1037 as &quot;hawthorn blossom,&quot; rendering Emelye lovelier than lily, rose or hawthorn in bloom.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Magna Mater Archetype in &quot;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the &quot;Great Mother&quot; archetype in PardT 6.729-31, helping to explain the &quot;primal force&quot; of the Old Man in the Tale, his womb / tomb affiliations with the young tavern boy, and the &quot;Tale&#039;s central image of the tree&quot; as &quot;ambivalent mother.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Owles and Apes&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale,&quot; 3092.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aligns Chaucer&#039;s juxtaposition of owls and apes in NPT 7.3092 with the &quot;moral obliquity&quot; of the two animals in medieval art and sculpture, identifying origins in patristic commentary.]]></dcterms:description>
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