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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Noise of the People]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer represents popular discourse as analogous to social, historical, and even apocalyptic disruption.  He thus variously attempts to contain and to release its power:  In TC, disruption can be temporarily contained by heroic action; in KnT, it functions as an uncontrollable historical agent; in NPT, it is presented comically in animal form but is nonetheless powerful; and in MilT, it is articulated as a festive release.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nominalist Questions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As a nominalist, Ockham is aware of the limitation of human perception and the weakness of language to convey ideas without distortion.  In a different way, Chaucer, too, is concerned with these problems, though as a poet he tends to emphasize (not denigrate) ambiguity and paradox.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revives the idea that Chaucer visited Ireland between 1361 and 1366, placing new emphasis on the date of the Statute of Kilkenny. Identifies sources for Chaucer&#039;s works in Irish and Norse literatures. Observes parallels for HF in the &quot;Topographia Hibernie&quot; of Gerald of Wales, Snorri Sturluson&#039;s &quot;Edda,&quot; and the Old Irish sagas &quot;Fled Bricrend&quot; and &quot;Togail Bruidne Da Derga.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the journey as framework for a collection of tales in CT with Snorri&#039;s &quot;Edda&quot; and the Middle Irish saga &quot;Acallam na Senórach.&quot; Argues that &quot;Laxdœla Saga&quot; and WBT descend from an Irish version of the Loathly Lady story and surmises that Chaucer&#039;s five-stress line may derive from the tradition of Irish song known as amhrán.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268578">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Nouvelle]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the origins of the &quot;nouvelle: in &quot;news&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s interest in tydynges.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271855">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys rhetorical approaches to Chaucer and documents the &quot;renaissance in rhetoric&quot; in late fourteenth-century England by surveying manuscripts that contain rhetorical treatises. The impact of this renaissance is evident in Chaucer&#039;s poetry: while his early poetry was relatively unconcerned with rhetoric, it is clearly evident in TC; present in NPT and SqT; and underlying the characterizations of the Franklin, the Pardoner, and the Monk.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pagan Gods]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pagan gods represent planetary influences, alchemic symbolism,psychological allegory of emotional states, and historical examples of virtues or vices.  They also dramatize the worldliness of Chaucer&#039;s characters and relate it to the condition of pagans and apostates reviled in the Bible and denounced by the early Christians.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275810">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pillars of Hercules.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers &quot;some unnoticed passages&quot; that shed light on Chaucer&#039;s references to &quot;Trophee&quot; and the Pillars of Hercules (MkT 7.2117-18), identifying no specific source but showing that parallel information was available in medieval accounts such as the Irish &quot;Togail Troi&quot; and John Ridewell&#039;s commentary on Walter Map&#039;s &quot;Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum.&quot; Also discusses a gloss to MkT in the Ellesmere manuscript.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270201">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poems of &quot;Ch&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revised, reformatted version of 1982 edition (see SAC 8 [1984], no. 14) of the poems signed &quot;Ch&quot; in University of Pennsylvania Manuscript 15. Includes an updated, expanded introduction; revised commentary on the poems and Chaucer&#039;s relations with his French contemporaries; and a newly introduced numbering system for the edited poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poems of &quot;Ch&quot; in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This fourteenth-century MS carries the notation &quot;Ch,&quot; perhaps for &quot;Chaucer,&quot; before fifteen of its 310 French lyrics.  Wimsatt edits the &quot;Ch&quot; poems and ten others from the collection to illustrate the kind of French poetry that Chaucer might have written in his youth.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274100">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poetics of Gold.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Draws on connections between &quot;Chaucerian poetics and the properties . . . of gold,&quot; and maintains that &quot;gold is a deep metaphor for poetry.&quot; Examines Chaucer&#039;s poetic references to gold and &quot;sumptuous description&quot; in CT, particularly in KnT. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poetics of Utterance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The characters of individual pilgrims are revealed through their speech, which often serves to underline their philosophical viewpoints.  Chaucer&#039;s awareness of language and its creative powers reflects a general skepticism regarding the effectiveness of utterance through poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poets of the Pieno Tricento]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tension between sensual love and orthodox truth in TC can be seen in nascent form in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filocolo,&quot; even though Chaucer depends for his plot on &quot;Filostrato.&quot; The tension is rooted in Dante&#039;s &quot;Comedy&quot; and in the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; but Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarch negotiate it in ways that can be thought characteristic of the late-medieval period.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of literary allusion in the &quot;Troilus,&quot; with specific reference to the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; Virgil, Ovid, Statius, and Dante.  Suggests that the poet-narrator of the poem evolves from a writer in the tradition of courtly romance to a poet in the tradition of the classical &quot;poetae.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although Chaucer&#039;s narrator is sympathetic to the hero of TC, Troilus&#039;s &quot;stellification&quot; contradicts our expectations because he values his own desires over the welfare of the polis.  Chaucer&#039;s &quot;political and moral judgment against Troilus&#039;s behavior&quot; may reflect guarded criticism of the courts of Edward III and Richard II.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A recurrent concern in Chaucer&#039;s works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists.  In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF indicate the &quot;instability of discourse.&quot;  In PF, the Ciceronian ideal of a discursively ordered society is challenged by the birds&#039; cacophony.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC examines how speech itself is a way of understanding human behavior and human interactions.  The authoritative discourse of KnT is challenged by MilT and RvT and contrasted by Walter&#039;s hidden intentions in ClT.  WBP demonstrates that discourse cannot be restrained.  In SqT and FranT, speech misused and speech misunderstood are counterpointed.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The responses of the Knight and the Host to MkT--itself a     rhetorical tour de force--indicate a &quot;tension between discourse and its receivers.&quot;  ManT indicates the necessity for poetic artfulness and perhaps  for guile.  Throughout his career, Chaucer emphasized the uncertain nature of   social discourse by imitating orality and resisting closure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267872">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through the tree catalog and the &quot;unassimilated voices of the lower birds&quot; in PF, Chaucer records his awareness that distinctions between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman are &quot;species-ist&quot;--an awareness similar to modern environmental and ecological perspectives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271072">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Politics of Penance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer&#039;s LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II&#039;s use of exempla to suppress political dissent.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264578">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worstede]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that GP 259-62, 642-43, and TC II, 36-37 are allusions to the Great Schism:  the Friar like a pope in his &quot;&#039;double&#039; worstede&quot;; the pope like a popinjay (of two voices?), and the proverb that more than one way leads to Rome.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266556">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Postures of Sanctity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Revises, and reprints as one, the following essays:  &quot;Inverse Counsel: Contexts for the &#039;Melibee&#039;&quot; and &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Problem of &#039;Recreative&#039; Poetry in Renaissance England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Late sixteenth-century Elizabethan reception of Chaucer focused as much on his &quot;recreational&quot; talents as a  vernacular poet and stylist as on his doctrinal or philosophical themes. Constructed as a &quot;prodigal&quot; poet as well as a  laureate, Chaucer was at the center of a Renaissance debate concerning the validity of pleasure versus instruction in  vernacular literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Problem of the Universal]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s narrative style--describing a host of particulars in minute detail--was influenced by nominalist denial of the ontological existence of universals.  But Chaucer&#039;s preoccupation with Boethian themes indicates a continuing interest in more traditional neoplatonic beliefs in the existence of universals.  The tension between Chaucer&#039;s nominalist-influenced style and Boethian themes generates much of the ambiguity and irony in his work.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272592">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pseudo Origen &#039;De Maria Magdalena&#039;: A Preliminary Study]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the dating, authorship, textual history, and medieval popularity of &quot;De Maria Magdelena,&quot; attributed to Origen, as a basis for exploring Chaucer&#039;s use of it in his &quot;Orygenes upon the Maudeleyne,&quot; cited in LGWP F427 (G418) and here regarded as an early work. Includes a checklist of Latin manuscripts of the sermon.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271999">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Psychology of Fear: Troilus in Book V]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;psychological realities&quot; of Troilus&#039;s fear of losing Criseyde after she departs from Troy, comparing Chaucer&#039;s and Boccaccio&#039;s versions to show how, in TC, the hero&#039;s &quot;immoderate fear distorts perception&quot; and causes him to judge Criseyde more harshly than she deserves. Focuses on Troilus&#039;s dream of the boar and the ironies of Troilus&#039;s reactions to it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262355">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pun-Hunters: Some Points of Caution]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The search for Chaucer&#039;s puns has increased dramatically in modern scholarship, particularly John Gardner&#039;s.  By adopting some conservative principles, we can curb the &quot;extravagence of pun-hunting.&quot;  First, puns should be distinguished from innuendo or wordplay.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Second, they should be appropriate to the context, both broad and specific.  Generally, they should not cross language barriers.  Finally, we should allow puns only when it is stranger not to allow them.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268678">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues against specifying the Pardoner&#039;s sexuality, on the grounds that historical evidence discourages such specification and that specification can only render the character less enigmatic and thereby less queer. Sexual characteristics ascribed to the Pardoner support a wide range of possibilities, uncanny in light of any single notion of normativity. In GP, PardPT, and the Prologue to &quot;Beryn,&quot; treatments of the Pardoner&#039;s sexuality provide an &quot;effective if crude way of expressing disapproval.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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