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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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274190">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274188">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274183">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274178">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274177">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Linguistic Modality and Female Identity in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the role of the verbs &quot;mot-,&quot; &quot;shul,&quot; &quot;oughte,&quot; and &quot;willen&quot; in defining the relations and motivations of Walter and Griselda, to demonstrate how &quot;the contextualization of the linguistic construction of identity relative to the individual&#039;s sociocultural situatedness may inform the study of linguistic cues for identity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274176">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Entering the Window of My Asylum: Chaucer&#039;s Griselda and Lars von Trier&#039;s Bess McNeill.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the protagonists of ClT and Lars von Trier&#039;s film &quot;Breaking the Waves,&quot; exploring how the audience&#039;s experiences of the &quot;weird realism&quot; of Griselda and Bess may be seen to induce a &quot;heightened mode of encounter with the traces of a sentience network&quot; theorized by Carolyn Dinshaw, Michel Foucault, and Michael Moore.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274175">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Summoner and His &quot;Panne.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that reading &quot;panne&quot; at the end of FrT as clothing rather than cooking utensil closely links the Wife and her tale with that of the Friar. Connects the Friar&#039;s criticisms of the Wife and her desires with the depiction of the faithful widow whose clothing the Friar&#039;s summoner covets. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274174">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Hidden Life of the Friars: The Mendicant Orders in the Work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Their Literary World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the presence and treatments of friars in three Middle English writers, including discussion of Chaucer&#039;s depictions of friars and the Friar in CT and his uses of anti-mendicant literature as source material.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Vital Property in &quot;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&quot; and &quot;Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses several medieval court cases and posthumanist perspective to examine medieval notions of &quot;corporeal property,&quot; arguing that, by comparing property relations to a &quot;spousal and familial one,&quot; the Wife of Bath persistently destabilizes the subordination of property to human owners. Property in WBPT is &quot;vital&quot; insofar as it has agency and reflects equivalency between human and nonhuman entities, evident in the imagery and plots of the Wife&#039;s narration and similar to the environmentalism of Aldo Leopold.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274172">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What Women Want? Mimesis and Gender in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&quot; and &quot;Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses gender violence in WBPT in terms of René Girard&#039;s theory of mimesis that complicates surface oppositions and suggests that we can read the Wife of Bath as parallel to the rapist-knight rather than to the loathly lady. The mirroring of desire in WBPT occludes distinctions between mastery and sovereignty in Alisoun&#039;s &quot;quiting&quot; of Jankyn and in the lady&#039;s offer of &quot;governance&quot; to the knight, representing a kind of &quot;grace,&quot; even though the competitiveness of the tale-telling contest is reaffirmed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274171">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath Retold: From the Medieval to the Postmodern.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads various adaptations of WBPT in light of the time in which each of the individual &quot;iterations&quot; of the Wife was produced, from scribal adjustments in manuscripts, to ballad versions, to John Gay&#039;s dramatic adaptation and William Blake&#039;s commentary, to the BBC television version and Marcia Williams&#039;s graphic version for children (2007). Includes recurrent concern with the &quot;ethics of gender.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts attitudes toward age and aging in WBT, Gower&#039;s tale of Florent, and &quot;The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,&quot; considering these attitudes in light of late medieval social perspectives on age and marriage that were affected by the Black Death. Includes discussion of the concern with of age in the gentility lecture of WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274169">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Finding a Medievalist Narratology in Chaucer: Reinvention in &quot;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the relationship between WBT and its analogue, &quot;The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,&quot; to show how such a study traces cultural shifts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274168">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Rhetoric of Rape and the Politics of Gender in the &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&quot; and the 1382 Statute of Rapes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the rape motif of WBT against the background, context, and language of the Statute of Rapes (1382), arguing that the tale uses &quot;narrative strategies made possible in late-medieval regulation of &#039;raptus&#039;&quot; to present &quot;the realities of gendered violence without reifying the violence of gender itself.&quot; Treats the Statute as part of the &quot;legal reform&quot; inspired by the case of the abduction and marriage of Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas West, a case concerned with ambiguities of rape, ravishment, consent, and gender.]]></dcterms:description>
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