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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer on Wildness: The Host, the Monk, and the Tragedy of Cenobia.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s concepts of wild and wilderness in MkT and argues that the Monk&#039;s inclusion of Cenobia is in response to the Host&#039;s comments about his own wife. This exchange is a mediation on &quot;reccheless-ness,&quot; a wildness of character that can manifest both as virtue and as vice in an individual and the community.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274201">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Melibee&quot;: What Can We Learn from Some Late-Medieval Manuscripts?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the &quot;framing elements&quot; of Mel, its glosses in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts (comparing them with those in ParsT), and the codicological contexts of the five fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Tale that exist &quot;outside the story collection&quot; of CT and indicate that &quot;advice on self-governance&quot; is &quot;central to understanding&quot; the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274200">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Historical Trauma, the Critic, and the Work of Mourning in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts the ending of PrT with Latin analogues to argue that the Tale is less concerned with miracles than with martyrdom--Jewish martyrdom as well as Christian--whereby Chaucer suggests the need for mourning human death.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Context and Meaning of &quot;Swete&quot;: The Case of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the meaning of &quot;swete&quot; in PrT develops according to the protagonist&#039;s maturing process. In Japanese, with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Minster and the Privy: Rereading the Prioress&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads PrT and its concern with usury in light of medieval architectural construction and its dependence upon financing through lending, arguing that although the Tale demonizes Jewish lenders and exalts Christians through associations with, respectively, the latrine and the minster, it undermines these associations by presenting contaminating continuities between the two locales, obliquely critiquing notions of pure Christian identity. Reads the &quot;greyn&quot; as Mary&#039;s &quot;loan&quot; to the clergeon, describes Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with lending practices and architecture, comments on his alterations of his sources for PrT, and includes five b&amp;w figures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[England&#039;s Dead Boys: Telling Tales of Christian-Jewish Relations before and After the First European Expulsion of the Jews.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares several late-medieval boy-murder narratives to assess attitudes toward Jews before and after their 1290 expulsion from England. Chaucer&#039;s PrT is the &quot;finest aesthetic treatment&quot; of the story in the Middle Ages and, in comparison with other versions, it has relatively little emphasis on filth and desecration. Importantly, the tale makes a &quot;remarkable contribution&quot; to the &quot;racialization of England,&quot; representing genealogical, spatial, and pedagogical aspects of defining Christians by contrast with Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apostrophe, Devotion, and Anti-Semitism: Rhetorical Community in the &quot;Prioress&#039;s Prologue and Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;shared speech&quot; to be a theme and a device in PrPT, focusing on apostrophe, prayer, Christian devotion, and anti-Semitic sentiment as means to and expressions of rhetorical community. Describes the place of apostrophe in medieval rhetorical theory, and argues that PrT &quot;illustrates the potential dangers&quot; posed by excited, pathos-ridden recitation of shared communal values, whether expressed orally or in writing.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Creating a Martyr: Rhetoric, Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Prioress&#039; Tale,&quot; and the Death of the &quot;Litel Clergeon.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that the silence of the pilgrims at the end of PrT signifies the Prioress&#039;s effectiveness in delivering a story of pathos that stuns the audience into silence. Explores how Chaucer uses PrT &quot;to promote cautious, critical analysis&quot; as a counter to simply accepting information as given.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274194">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Palindromic Structure in the &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains palindromes and palindromic structures, rooted in classical and exegetical traditions, here exemplified by means of Augustine of Dacia&#039;s couplet. Then argues that PardT &quot;features palinodromically arranged characters, settings, and words that progress toward a central space,&quot; evident in multilingual anagogical auditory puns. Also suggests that John Dryden imitated Chaucer&#039;s palindromes, and that the medieval poet knew Greek.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner, a Castrato: A Critical Essay of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses details of the Pardoner&#039;s description in the GP and his interactions with other pilgrims to support the hypothesis that Chaucer depicts him as a castrato and satirize an aspect of corruption in the medieval Church.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;His studie was but litel on the Bible&quot;: Materialism and Misreading in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Physician&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the Physician&#039;s misreading and misapplication of his source material (the Sermon on the Mount and Jean de Meun) to be key to proper understanding that he is &quot;untrustworthy&quot; and that PhyT reveals his lack of &quot;spiritual sensitivity.&quot; Reads SNT for the ways that it &quot;highlights&quot; the &quot;worldliness&quot; of PhyT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274191">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La musique de l&#039;absence dans le lai breton moyen-anglais &quot;Sir Orfeo.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores issues of absence, death, exile, silence, orality, and musical performance in &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; to find connections with FranT. Approaches &quot;Sir Orfeo&quot; as a reflection on how Chaucer depicts the professional art and artists and lay-makers in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Networks of Exchange in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the narrator and the characters of FranT pursue an ideal of social harmony based on &quot;trouthe,&quot; but they produce a &quot;collective fiction&quot; in which &quot;competing forms of exchange&quot;--marriage, promises, and money--disclose tensions that must remain hidden in order to function.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274189">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Engelond&quot; and &quot;Armorik Briteyne&quot;: Reading Brittany in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the complicated relationship among FranT&#039;s three main characters and the political relationship of England, France, and Brittany. Asserts that each character symbolizes one of these places and shows how the dynamics of love and sex merge with those of politics and place.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Rokkes Blake&quot;: Metonymy, Metaphor and Metaphysics in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the functions and implications of the black rocks in FranT both as a symbol of universal evil and as a narrative device, arguing that the rocks have particularly rich and pervasive significations, anticipating the postmodern device of a &quot;free floating signifier.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274187">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: The Generous Father and the Spendthrift Son.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Regards the Squire as the &quot;son-substitute&quot; of the Franklin, and reads FranT, with a nod to Freud, as a projection of the narrator&#039;s idealized and decontextualized attitudes toward money, generosity, gentility, and virtue that reveals a subtle thematic concern with interactions between self-interest and group-interest.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274186">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Friends, Rivals, and Revisions: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Squire&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;Amis and Amiloun&quot; in &quot;The Faerie Queene,&quot; Book IV.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Edmund Spenser&#039;s adaptations of SqT and &quot;Amis and Amiloun&quot; in Book IV of &quot;The Faerie Queene&quot; &quot;[embody] his theory of friendship,&quot; both in the relations and interactions among the characters and in the ways that he asserts his own place in English literary tradition while paying competitive homage to his predecessors, thereby &quot;showing how friendly reading should be conducted.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274185">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chivalry and the Pre/Postmodern.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the medieval concept of &quot;mounted knighthood&quot; in &quot;conception and practice,&quot; considering how it resonates with &quot;postmodern models of the cyborg, distributed consciousness and the inherently prosthetic self.&quot; Assesses &quot;chivalry&#039;s intersections with technologies and creatures,&quot; and includes discussion of the steed of brass in SqT as a &quot;limit case for the relevance of living horses to knighthood,&quot; technologized but still glimmering with life.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274184">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;I moot speke as I kan&quot;: The Squire&#039;s Optimistic Attempt to Circumvent Rhetorical &quot;Following&quot; in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the SqT explores &quot;rhetorical imitation&quot; as a means to confront the postlapsarian &quot;fallen&quot; nature of language, &quot;multiplying the rhetorical conventions &#039;imitatio,&#039; inexpressibility, and &#039;translatio&#039;&quot; in order to &quot;probe the idea of poetic origin in the context of vernacular poetry.&quot; Engaging KnT, Anel, and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; and deploying translatory objects (especially the ring), SqT considers relations among art, nature, and literary tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ends of Reading in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the biblical allusions and references in MerT as Chaucer&#039;s invitation to his audience to &quot;consider the ethics of appropriating morally authoritative texts.&quot; The narrator, January, and May manipulate textual authority in various ways, highlighting the tenuousness of interpretation in a fallen world.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274182">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Modernizes MerPT in iambic pentameter couplets, with brief notes and facing-page text in Middle English. The introduction (pp. vii-xv) emphasizes the bitter tone of the tale and its satire]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Fabliau Women: Paradigms of Resistance and Pleasure.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the role and status of women in the fabliau genre, and argues that May of MerT and Alisoun of MilT are &quot;women of resistance . . . concerned with regaining partial control over their own bodies through adultery.&quot; The two characters produce &quot;oppositional pleasures&quot; in order to &quot;play their subjection to their own advantage.&quot; Includes a summary in Turkish.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To take a wyf it is a glorious thing&quot;: Januarie&#039;s Thesis on Marriage in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; (IV.1263–1392).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses January&#039;s praise-of-marriage speech (encomium) as a &quot;classical&#039; thesis&#039; as it appeared in the later Middle Ages.&quot; The speech engages the WBP through common source material and follows the topic and structuring of the thesis genre found in Aphthonius of Antioch&#039;s &quot;Progymnasmata,&quot; an oratorical primer. May&#039;s successful duping of January shows that &quot;erudite rhetoric crumbles in the face of life&#039;s realities,&quot; but also makes it possible that they &quot;can find a new model for their life together.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Translation, Creation, and Empowerment in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the &quot;politics of translation&quot; in ClT, arguing that the tale is primarily concerned with how Walter &quot;draws out the willing submission of his subjects,&quot; manifest in the &quot;analogical relation between Walter and Griselda as the translator and his translation.&quot; Through his testing, Walter creates a new Griselda whose identity helps him to strengthen his power over his land and people.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Giving Voice to Griselda: Radical Reimaginings of a Medieval Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines two poems on the figure of Griselda by Eleanora Louisa Hervey (1811–1903). The first, published in 1850, and apparently intended for children as well as adults, emphasizes the cruelty of the system that enables husbands to exercise total control over their wives and children, &quot;pitting wifehood against motherhood with disastrous results.&quot; The second, published in 1869, omits the reunion of Griselda with her children, but ends with the suggestion that she has gained a spiritual perspective on her life and anticipates being &quot;wafted&quot; to heaven. An appendix includes both poems.]]></dcterms:description>
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