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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theme and Structure in the Merchant&#039;s Tale: The Function of the Pluto Episode.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;the complex thematic and structural functions&quot; of the Pluto-Proserpina episode in MerT, treating it as a fit denouement in the traditional pear-tree plot, and arguing that it deepens the unifying thematic dimensions of the Tale by reinforcing its concerns with abduction, rape, and duplicity. Includes discussion of the reference to Wade&#039;s boat as well as the broad implications of traditional stories of Pluto.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Character Reversal in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that until the temple-prayer scene of KnT, Palamon is more the warrior than Arcite, and Arcite more the lover than Palamon.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Biblical Women in &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;The Tale of Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes similarities in the parallel lists of Biblical women in MerT 4.1362-74 and Mel 7.1098-1101, and argues that their presence is &quot;ironical&quot; in the former but not the latter: &quot;by the time&quot; Chaucer wrote MerT he saw &quot;both sides to the characters of Rebecca, Judith, Esther, and Abigail.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cantbeworried Tales: Some Modern Types Chaucerwise.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A parody of GP in faux Middle English, rhymed in iambic pentameter couplets. Includes twenty characters, such as the Model, the Astronaut, the Beatnik, the Psychoanalyst, etc.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner and the &quot;Thesaurus Meritorium.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the &quot;fatal treasure&quot; of PardT gains ironic dimension when seen in light of the theory of the &quot;treasury of merits,&quot; used to explain or justify the sale of indulgences.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Champier and the &quot;Altercatio Hadriani&quot;: Another Chaucer Analogue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies an instance of the phrase &quot;Mulier est hominis confusio&quot; (cf. NPT7.3164) in Simphorien Champier&#039;s &quot;La Nef des Princes.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates TC into modern English, in rhyme royal stanzas, with end-of-text notes and three appendices: a) the &quot;domestic background&quot; of the poem, b) courtly love, and c) a chronology of Chaucer&#039;s life. The notes emphasize social and literary conventions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teller of Tales: The Story of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A biography of Chaucer designed for juvenile or young adult readers, including imagined scenes from his childhood, marriage, travels, and professional life, as well as commentary on his literary works. Includes a chronology of &quot;Dates and Events,&quot; an index, and b&amp;w line sketches of late-medieval life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body of Love: An Anthology of Erotic Verse from Chaucer to Lawrence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes (pp. 23-46) WBP in J. U. Nicolson&#039;s modern iambic pentameter translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Glosses to the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; from St. Jerome&#039;s &quot;Epistola Adversus Jovinianum.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer himself is the &quot;most reasonable choice&quot; for author of the glosses to CT manuscripts that derive from St. Jerome&#039;s &quot;Epistola Adversus Jovinianum.&quot; Discusses how the glosses to WBP indicate &quot;Chaucer as glossator&quot; and how two &quot;special problems&quot; of glosses to FranT &quot;can be solved only if Chaucer is recognized as the one who placed them opposite his own text.&quot; Considers Chaucer&#039;s sequence and process of composition in these Tales as crucial evidence, clues to Chaucer&#039;s activities as a &quot;working poet.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Breton Lays in Middle English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents eight Breton lays in Middle English, each with bottom-of-page glosses, a facsimile manuscript page, a bibliography, and a general Introduction (pp. xiii-xxx) that describes the nature of the genre, its history, and French sources of the English versions. Includes FranT (pp, 229-59) with a facsimile from the Ellesmere manuscript of the opening page of the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Art of the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the aesthetic and moral principles and practices, overt and covert, of the CT, acclaiming the vitality of the &quot;framing structure&quot; of the links and the complex ironies of the narrator (especially in Ret) for the ways that they enable and underscore the encyclopedic multiform variety of the individual Tales that &quot;collectively&quot; comprise a &quot;broad examination of the worlds of social, moral, and religious experiences.&quot; Argues that the unifying theme of the poem is a &quot;serious statement&quot; about the &quot;range of human experience within the compass of pilgrimage,&quot; interpreting fifteen of the Tales for the ways that their literary variety reflects the &quot;modes of experience underlying them&quot; discussed here as &quot;religio-romantic&quot; or &quot;comic&quot; representations of relations between the human self and deity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Whelp in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Chaucer&#039;s references to dogs, showing that his depictions of the animal are generally &quot;pejorative,&quot; following a tradition of denunciation by satirists, homilists, and the writers of romances. Argues that the whelp in BD 389ff. is not &quot;sentimental&quot; as usually argued, but rather &quot;serves both to illustrate the dichotomy about to take place in the Dreamer himself and to give meaningful continuity to the hunt.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue,&quot; D. 389.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the WB&#039;s reference to grinding at a mill (WBP 3.389) capitalizes on traditional sexual associations of mills with women, anticipated at her reference to &quot;barly-breed&quot; (WBP 3.144).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Setting of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses BD as a late-medieval &quot;public funerary poem&quot; rather than a portrait of psychological grief, interpreting the Black Knight as a generic, Boethian figure deprived by fortune, rather than as John of Gaunt, and discussing the character Blanche as a conventional figure, drawn from French poetic conventions. Like the Black Knight, the narrator represents an aspect of &quot;everyone who loved&quot; the Duchess of Lancaster, consistent with the chivalric sentiment of the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Treasure Trove in the &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents &quot;legal aspects&quot; of discovered treasure in late-medieval England, identifying similarities in lexicon and imagery between legal records concerning found hoards and the rioters&#039; descriptions of their treasure in PardT. The similarities indicate that Chaucer and his audience would have considered the rioters&#039; hoard to be stolen.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress and the Critics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critical approaches to PrT, distinguishing between &quot;hard critics&quot; of the Tale who read it as an indictment of the teller&#039;s anti-Semitism, and &quot;historical&quot; approaches that consider it in light of late-medieval attitudes and practices. Argues that Chaucer is &quot;mildly satirical&quot; of the Prioress&#039;s pretentiousness in the GP description and that PrT satirizes &quot;simplicity, emotionalism, and frustrated femininity,&quot; but not &quot;religious prejudice&quot; against Jews, given that it was an accepted aspect of contemporaneous literature and society.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Façade of Bawdry: Image Patterns in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Shipman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;imagery and narrative detail&quot; in ShT subtly undercut the Tale&#039;s &quot;relish for quick-witted deception&quot; and its &quot;philosophy of money,&quot; typical of the fabliau genre. Several image clusters and their points of occurrence in the Tale evoke &quot;the traditional Christian standard&quot; and ironically critique the ethos of fabliaux.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Editions and Translations of Chaucer Now in Print.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the &quot;editions and translations of Chaucer currently in print&quot; (in 1965) and designed for college courses, commenting on their strengths and weaknesses.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Canon and the Unity of &quot;The Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the characterization of the Canon in CYP and the first part of CYT, arguing that he is embarrassed at being a &quot;simple puffer&quot; and not an illuminati of the alchemical arts--&quot;a pathetic if not a tragic figure, broken through following a chimerical vision.&quot; Part 2 of CYT &quot;shows what kind of person he is likely to become,&quot; thereby completing &quot;the story of decline and fall.&quot; Supplies supporting evidence for the characterization from early Renaissance alchemical literature by Thomas Norton, George Ripley, and others.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Chaucerian &quot;Proverbs.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers &quot;a detailed textual analysis&quot; of Prov, furnishing &quot;a text based on four authorities,&quot; and, while not affirming or denying attribution to Chaucer, setting &quot;the record straight, perhaps, on certain matters connected with authenticity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274344">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two Versions of &quot;The Shipman&#039;s Tale&quot; from Urban Oral Tradition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recounts two &quot;short, modern, urban jokes&quot; that have similarities to the plot of ShT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Further Aspects of Mutability in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies two examples of the &quot;memento mori&quot; motif and two of &quot;ubi sunt&quot; in TC, three of these added by Chaucer to his material, and all of them contributing to the poem&#039;s dominant theme of the transitory nature of human love and life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&quot; and Mediaeval Exempla.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the &quot;functional similarity&quot; between medieval exempla of obedience and WBT and Gower&#039;s Tale of Florent, illustrating the similarity by discussing fair/foul transformation and inversion motifs in various exempla, and arguing that the three-stage pattern of conversion in them is inverted in the Wife&#039;s tale of the rapist knight whose &quot;predicament&quot; is a comic version of the &quot;enforced celibacy of a young religious.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Treasury of Mathematics: A Collection of Source Material Edited and Presented with Introductory Biographical and Historical Sketches.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes 54 selections and excerpts from the history of mathematics and related sciences from around the world, ranging widely in date from classics to the nineteenth century. Includes a selection (pp. 220-42) of a modernization of Astr, from R. T. Gunther&#039;s version (1929), with illustrations and supplementary material. The brief sketch of Chaucer&#039;s life and Astr (pp. 219-20) characterizes the latter as &quot;still . . . a standard work on the construction and the uses of the astrolabe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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