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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhetoric and the Unstable World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores similarities between ambiguity and rhetorical invention in rhetorical tradition from Plato to the twenty-first century. Then discusses three examples of &quot;conscious exploitation of the potential of ambiguity&quot;: &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; CT, and a speech by Barak Obama (&quot;A More Perfect Union&quot;)--all of which present material that &quot;allows audiences to make choices.&quot; Comments on Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;controversia&quot; (ambiguity), generic hybridity, and rhetorical questions to compel ethical choices.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teaching Legal Fictions: Law and &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a pedagogical unit in which advanced students explore similarities between CT (especially GP) and manor court records, capitalizing on Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with legal proceedings. Suggests that the &quot;manor court seems to have influenced Chaucer&#039;s narrative structure&quot; more than did Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; or Sercambi&#039;s &quot;Novelle.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274138">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[La figure du cheval dans la littérature médiévale anglaise: réalité et motif.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies how horse figures function in telling, traveling, and space definition in &quot;Les quatre fils Aymon,&quot; &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, GP, SqT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, the Chaucer Tradition, and Female Monastic Readers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers ways that female monastic readers in Amesbury and Syon may have read and used works by Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. Claims that these &quot;Chaucerian tradition&quot; writings helped influence the devotional culture of female monastic communities.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how John Arderne, Chaucer, and Thomas Hoccleve use the language of illness and healing in a wide range of texts, noting that the narrators present themselves as &quot;flawed and sick&quot; and that their narratives, like their bodies, are &quot;not wholly under their control.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274135">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The English and Their History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a comprehensive history of England and argues that shared language is a key component of an English national identity that was developed by the end of the Middle Ages. Credits Chaucer, Langland, and Wyclif with the revival of English in the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274134">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Memory and Impact of Oral Performance: Shaping the Understanding of Late Medieval Readers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the shifts from orality to literacy and from manuscripts to printed books in late medieval English book culture, examining the range of implications about audiences evident in various versions of the lyric &quot;Erthe upon erthe.&quot; Opens with &quot;Preliminary&quot; observations about Chaucer as an &quot;experimental&quot; writer &quot;fully aware of the fictional potential of documenting these changing times for contemporary writers and audiences,&quot; commenting on MilP and on the short verses embedded in his longer narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues in Chapter 2, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and the &quot;Legend of Good Women&quot; (pp. 76-110), that RvT taps the subversive potential of the fabliau to critique masculine rivalry and sexual coercion. RvT challenges both KnT and MilT, particularly their entrenchment of the status quo by echoing the classical legend of Ariadne, understood in part through LGW. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274132">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses &quot;the power of affect on minds and bodies&quot; and the &quot;psychology of love and loss&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works. Explores relationship between women&#039;s literary culture and roles of women in BD, KnT, TC, and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dearest Ladies: The Idea of Writing for Women in Late Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the course of examining changing ideas of female readers, considers Chaucer&#039;s self-definition as a &quot;writer of feminine genres&quot; (e.g., devotions, saints&#039; lives, and conduct literature).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274130">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Feminine Pretexts: Gendered Genres in Three Frame Moments.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores what Chaucer&#039;s use of genres strongly associated with female readers--such as vernacular devotional writing, conduct literature, and hagiography--suggests about his attitudes toward women. Examines the significance of the catalogue of Chaucer&#039;s works, including a lost translation of Pseudo-Origen&#039;s &quot;De Maria Magdalena,&quot; in LGW. Addresses Harry Bailly&#039;s response to Mel and its relationship to conduct literature, and the Man of Law&#039;s characterization of Chaucer as a writer of female saints&#039; lives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274129">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Knight&#039;s Earnest Game in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;game–earnest topos&quot; in KnT to understand better Chaucer&#039;s many uses of games in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects interdisciplinary essays focusing on the breadth and depth of games in medieval literature and culture. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kit&#039;s Sneeze: Bodily Communication, Gender Roles, and the Performativity of Literature in the Prologue to the &quot;Tale of Beryn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the extent to which a &quot;literary text may disturb the social drama of gender roles by staging characters deliberately enacting their normative gender roles &#039;as&#039; enacted gender roles,&quot; focusing on Kit in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn, but also investigating the narrator and the Pardoner in the poem as they perform their roles. Briefly contrasts Kit&#039;s agency with Alisoun&#039;s lack of it in MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;A Pregnant Argument&quot;: Bodies and Literacies in Dante&#039;s &quot;Comedy,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus,&quot; and Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores verbal play with walls and words in Dante&#039;s allusion to Pyramus and Thisbe in his &quot;Commedia&quot;; Chaucer&#039;s uses of enclosure and openness in TC in light of his own allusion to the love pair (TC 5.1247-48); and Henryson&#039;s closing off of Cresseid&#039;s legacy in his &quot;Testament,&quot; anagrammatized in the first letters of his reference to Chaucer (&quot;FICTIO,&quot; at &quot;Testament&quot; 58-63). Includes concern with gender, literacy, and the need to consider a broader idea of gendered &quot;literacies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Grotesquely Articulate Bodies: Medicine, Hermeneutics and Writing in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies in medieval medicine a concern with organs and features of the human body that are &quot;grotesquely&quot; able to speak, and associates the concept with Cecilia&#039;s neck in SNT and the clergeon&#039;s throat in PrT. Through their depictions of human bodies speaking through wounds, these tales engage ideas of verbal propriety and authority, and subversively point toward the &quot;materiality of language&quot; and the &quot;sheer impossibility of proper signification.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274124">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[(Dis)embodying Men: The Visual Regimes of Homosociality in the Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses the male gaze &quot;at other men&#039;s bodies,&quot; focusing on visual art and on &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot; Includes comments on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;lingering over the details of Nicholas&#039;s ass&quot; in MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274123">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters: Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and an index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274122">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the process of medieval poetic invention expressed in the poetry of Chaucer and John Gower. Draws on contemporary affect theory to present ways that both poets present &quot;invention as an affective force&quot; in representations of emotional experiences. Studies PF, HF, and LGW. Also explores the affect of invention in PrT, MkT, and NPT. Conclusion reveals Chaucer&#039;s and Gower&#039;s influence on Shakespeare&#039;s conceptualization of affect and invention in his lyric poems.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274121">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how the &quot;sacred and the secular interact&quot; in Latin, French, and English texts and frames this &quot;crossover concept&quot; as key to understanding medieval literature. Includes discussion of PrT, FranT, KnT, MLT, WBPT, LGW, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274120">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and works, emphasizing the &quot;scope and diversity&quot; of his poetry. Describes each of his major works, and anatomizes CT as &quot;one of the earliest collections of short stories of almost every conceivable type,&quot; describing the genres of KnT, MilT, RvT, PrT, PrT and NPT, WBT, ClT, MerT, and FranT. Includes a brief bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274119">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Both the Edge and the Centre: The Politics of Understanding Music in Middle English Poetry--An Interdisciplinary Study.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the philosophical ramifications of understanding music, particularly as evidenced in BD, HF, PF, and ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies how recollection is achieved through physical, cognitive, and interpretive challenges. Uses examples from Chaucer&#039;s romances to explore individual and collective memory processes, discussing memory in KnT, BD, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274117">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tropologies: Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350–1600.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the medieval and early modern theory of tropological, or moral, sense of Scripture. Argues that tropology can be &quot;theory of literary and ethical invention&quot; as a way to interpret the Bible. Includes brief discussions of Langland&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s dream visions, including BD.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274116">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Overheard Song: Medieval Lyric in the Mixed Genre.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses KnT, among other works, in a study of medieval works combining prose and lyric poetry (common in France, but less studied in English.)]]></dcterms:description>
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