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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[By studying pre-Chaucerian and fourteenth-century traditions of Saint Valentine, springtime, hagiography, heortology, etc., Kelly tests the hypothesis that Chaucer invented the patron saint of matchmakers. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[He traces various relevant motifs through Anel, Astr, BD, Mars, Compl d&#039;Am, GP, KnT, MilT, SqT, LGW, LGWP, TC, and PF,using the context of possible sources or contemporaries:  Alan de Lille, &quot;De planctu naturae&quot;; Boccaccio, &quot;Teseida&quot;; Benoit de St.-Maure, &quot;Roman de Troie&quot;; Charles of Orleans; Christine de Pisan; Gower; Oton de Grandson; Guido of Colonne; Lydgate, Ovid, Petrarch, Pliny, &quot;Secreta secretorum&quot;, Pardo, and others.  Chaucer probably had in mind Saint Valentine of Genoa, who died on May 3.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269648">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent. The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates Lollard vocabulary, translation strategies, and rhetorical tropes, arguing that the Parson and ParsT cannot categorically be identified as Lollard. Nonetheless, unmistakable elements of Lollardy undercut the hermeneutic stability of what should be a stable penitential text.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Cultures of Love and Marriage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CT, TC, and LGW in the context of late medieval courtesy books, advice literature, and epistolary collections. Considers public and private marital honor in the Paston letters and FranT, and wifely obedience in ClT, &quot;Menagier de Paris,&quot; and &quot;Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage.&quot; ShT illustrates the limits of women&#039;s economic power often suggested by the Paston, Stonor, and Plumpton correspondence, and MerT suggests the possibility of rebellion against advice literature. MLT goes beyond the conduct books to recommend female acceptance of marital unhappiness. KnT presents a pragmatic notion of marriage for the greater sociopolitical good. TC, &quot;The Book of the Knight of the Tower,&quot; and Christine de Pizan&#039;s &quot;Livre des trois vertus&quot; question courtly ideals, and LGW dramatizes its heroines&#039; quasi-comic misapplications of advice literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Dangers of Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[While arousing authorial anxieties, the dream vision permits Chaucer to treat otherwise inaccessible psychological problems.  In CT the verbal game repeatedly explores the dangers of violating &quot;pryvetee,&quot; privacy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268469">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Death of the Father as a Figure of Authority]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s depreciation of the father figure (biological, theological, literary predecessor) enables him to conceive of poetry separate from the needs for stable interpretation and didactic meaning. Throughout his corpus, his &quot;polyvocal open-endedness&quot; compels readers to be active in their interpretations.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes an abstract in Greek]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;the architecture of Chaucerian metapoetics&quot; in CT and reads several tales as Neoplatonic texts. Criticism of MilT, ManT, and NPT is framed by a consideration of the corrupted natural philosophy of the old man in PardT. Nicholas&#039;s impalement in MilT signals the failure of his naturalistic, materialistic philosophy. ManT presents art&#039;s metaphysical descent down the Neoplatonic &quot;chain of love&quot; via a naturalistic, domesticated revision of Ovidian sources that depicts linguistic dissolution. NPT, &quot;the definitive nursery rhyme of medieval Platonism,&quot; achieves a return to the Golden Age by illustrating both the &quot;conflict between Human Art (Chauntecleer&#039;s world) and Human History (the widow&#039;s world)&quot; and between Pertelote&#039;s naturalism and Chauntecleer&#039;s literary Neoplatonism, only to achieve resolution in Chauntecleer&#039;s escape into prelapsarian silence in a tree.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269181">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Detritus of the City]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Butterfield situates the study of Chaucer and London within a framework of theoretical approaches to the construction of urban space.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Development of the Modal Auxiliary Ought in Late Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates late-medieval uses of ought (owe) as a past form and as a modal auxiliary and explores the forms of infinitives used after ought. Compares Chaucer&#039;s uses with those of other late-medieval writers to show that his uses reflect the &quot;unsettled but actual use of his time,&quot; which was not unlike that of modern English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266152">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Dialectic of Love: Transformations in the Literary Love Tradition since Marcabru]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The outworn paradigm of courtly love has been discarded but not superseded by a model flexible enough to contain the many variations developed by &quot;moralists and gameplayers.&quot;  Treats troubadour verse, French and English romances and lyrics, and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274972">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Dido-and-Aeneas Story.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes five medieval redactions of Virgil&#039;s &quot;Aeneid,&quot; &quot;widely separated geographically and chronologically,&quot; assessing how they &quot;medievalized&quot; the material in conventional ways, and using these &quot;conventions&quot; to discuss Chaucer&#039;s successful treatments of the Dido/Aeneas story in HF as an &quot;exemplum&quot; and in LGW as &quot;a thoroughly integrated narrative.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272866">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Difficulty of Medieval Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that there are two lectures included (Salter: Side 1, &quot;Problems of reading and understanding Chaucer&quot;. Pearsall: Side 2, &quot;Realism and convention in the Canterbury tales.&quot;); the booklet summarizes the discussion and provides a bibliography and study questions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274006">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Disconsolations of Philosophy: Boethius, Agency, and Literary Form in Late Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer engages the Boethian tradition in TC and HF, only to challenge (and ultimately reject) that tradition&#039;s ideas of self-regulation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the nineteenth- and twentieth-century development of Chaucer study in Germany and Austria and examines the reception of this study in England and America. German philological practice established a standard that was distrusted after World War I, but it continues to have influence. The book includes a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of German Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historical detective novel with Chaucer as the investigator of a murder in the seaport of Dartmouth; also involves a conspiracy against Katherine Swynford, thwarted by her sister Philippa.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269314">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Early Church]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Depicting an idealized portrait of the early church, SNT is a means to critique the church of Chaucer&#039;s own time.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263356">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines aims and literary traditions of early writings of Boccaccio to provide a context for Chaucer&#039;s use of Boccaccio.  Both writers loved and used Latin and French writers and Dante; both drew from a wide range of literary forms and styles:  &quot;auctores&quot; and popular traditions, pagan and Christian. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The first four chapters develop &quot;the historical position and (Chaucerian [HF, TC]) affinities&quot; of Boccaccio&#039;s early writing; chaps. 5 and 6 examine Chaucer&#039;s use of the &quot;Filostrato&quot; in TC; chap. 7 develops the use by both of &quot;illustrious and popular traditions.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262917">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Robertson discusses hardships such as war, crime, extortion, maintenance and procurement, legal abuses, and the ordinances of Edward III and Richard II that serve to illuminate BD, FrT, PardT, and the GP Wife of Bath, Prioress, Monk, Merchant, Guildsmen, Host, and Squire.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264525">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Eighteenth Century: the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Notes broad similarities between the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders and concludes that Moll is an 18th-century analogue of Alison.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267518">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of &#039;Self&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Several Chaucerian poems--especially the multiple voices and amatory perspectives of CT and the request for patronage in Purse--helped &quot;later writers invent the social person of &#039;selfe.&#039;&quot; Fowler suggests comparisons for pedagogical purposes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276267">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Elusion of Clarity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;two related but distinct aspects of Chaucer&#039;s celebrated stylistic clarity&quot;: 1) while &quot;self-evident,&quot; it is &quot;often more apparent than real,&quot; and 2) a &quot;means by which&quot; Chaucer &quot;escapes dexterously from the danger of really being clear and from the pursuit of critics.&quot; Focuses on ambiguities of characterizations in GP and, much more extensively, those of TC, commenting on the narrators&#039; hesitations, hedges, qualifiers, etc., along with juxtapositions, rhetorical questions, and contradictions. Closes with comments on NPT 7.3251-66.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267094">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Energy of Creation : The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CT (in Ellesmere order) as organized by the universal principles of entropy (movement to chaos), cybernetics (movement to stability), and synergy (transition to a changed or transcendent state). These three principles also inform the structure of Dante&#039;s Commedia. The devolution of Fragment 1 of CT is rejuvenated in MLT; the Tales from WBPT through FranT (the &quot;Marriage Group&quot;) suggest various prospects for social stability, especially the careful use of language.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The remaining Tales constitute the &quot;second half&quot; of the poem, which, through various envelope patterns, suggests the need for-and the means to transcend-human inclination to disorder and error. The key notion in the process of this transcendence is the integral relation of flesh and spirit. Includes a brief appendix about the Chaucer portrait at UCLA.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270265">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the English Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys opinions about Chaucer&#039;s diction from John Lydgate to G. K. Chesterton and explores the French elements in the vocabulary of his love poetry, along the way commenting on relations between Chaucerian and Chancery diction, the &quot;texture of diction&quot; in passages of Chaucer&#039;s poetry (including changes in register between Chaucer&#039;s works and their sources), and the interdependence of diction and meter that helps to create the &quot;range and power&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s poetic practice.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the English Reformation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;The Plowman&#039;s Tale,&quot; first appearing in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Works&quot; in 1542, and the &quot;Pilgrim&#039;s Tale,&quot; printed not earlier than 1536, both clearly based on earlier material, could be clever forgeries or retouched, but substantially genuine, medieval poems.  Their intended effect was to make Chaucer posthumously support the English Reformation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Affirms Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with native English romances by identifying a number of formulaic phrases (some of them oral remnants) that recur in native romances and in a variety of Chaucer&#039;s works. Includes comments on Thop as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with English romances.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272346">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the English Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Chaucer as a &quot;great&quot; poet and the &quot;father&quot; of English literature, commenting on the &quot;wonderful&quot; range of tones in his poetry, its relations with French and Italian works, its similarities with other late-medieval English works, and the perspectives of twentieth-century criticism, especially historicist approaches. Views the &quot;frivolous seriousness&quot; of PF as a harbinger of the &quot;great&quot; and sometimes &quot;perfect&quot; poetry of CT. BD is too closely linked to French courtly love tradition, which Chaucer elsewhere submits to the &quot;criticism of life,&quot; embodied in Pandarus in TC and in the various points of view of CT, where in his depictions of love Chaucer creates the &quot;language of the English tradition.&quot; Comments at length on tone and style in GP, MilT, WBP, KnT, MerT, PrT, MLT, ClT, and FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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