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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: The Tragicomic Dilemma.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how the comic elements of Chaucer&#039;s narrative detachment in TC &quot;qualify the tragedy or pathos&quot; of the poem, and how diction, word-play, and five-book structure contribute to its tragicomic impact.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273890">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Pilgrims and Five Canterbury Tales: From Chaucer in Present-Day English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this collection includes modernizations of GP, KnT, PardT, MkT, NPT, and SNT, portions of which were previously published in 1954 and 1960.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies in Chaucer&#039;s Use of Ovid in Selected Early Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies Chaucer&#039;s uses of Ovid in Mars, Ven, Pity, Anel, BD, HF, and TC, focusing on complaints and depictions of women, and providing lists of observed parallels between Chaucer and Ovid, work by work. This dissertation was completed in 1963.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ovid&#039;s Elegies from Exile and Chaucer&#039;s House of Fame.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Ovid&#039;s &quot;Tristia&quot; and &quot;Ex Ponto&quot; influenced the ideas of Fame, Fortune, and Rumor in HF, along with several details in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273887">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Romance of Thebes: A Translation of the &quot;Roman de Thebes&quot; (Lines 1-5172) with an Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates a potion of the &quot;Roman de Thebes&quot; into modern English; the Introduction to the translation includes discussion of Chaucer&#039;s uses of the work in KnT]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273886">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English: Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1964.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273885">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Exploration of Medieval Poetic with Special Reference to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the roots of medieval poetic theory in medieval rhetorical handbooks, and examines MilT, PrT, PhyT, MerT, and ClT) for evidence that Chaucer was influenced by the &quot;received medieval poetic,&quot; even though his &quot;narrative procedure . . . may be said to transcend that theory.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales: The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273883">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar in English Literature from Chaucer through the Renaissance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval and Renaissance accounts and allusions to Julius Caesar as background to analysis of Shakespeare&#039;s depiction of him in &quot;Julius Caesar,&quot; including commentary on Chaucer&#039;s several references to Caesar and analysis of the Caesar section in MkT. Generally, Chaucer&#039;s references and depictions represent him as a &quot;very great and good man,&quot; an example of the contrast &quot;between prosperity and adversity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273882">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English: Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1965.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273881">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English: Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1967.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273880">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Lost Tale of Wade.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides context for understanding Chaucer&#039;s references to Wade and to his boat (TC 3.614 and MerT 4.1423), summarizing medieval narratives and allusions to the hero in order to outline his &quot;salient characteristics&quot; and the deceptive (although non-magical) nature of his boat named &quot;Guingelot,&quot; here etymologized as &quot;bait&quot; or &quot;trap for an adversary.&quot; Also suggests how Chaucer&#039;s references produce dramatic irony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273879">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Place of the Poet in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;ability of the poet to secure a just and enduring fame&quot; is an important and unifying theme in HF, focusing on the poem&#039;s concerns with poetic authority and patronage, and suggesting that its &quot;missing conclusion&quot; was to entail the narrator&#039;s return to Fame&#039;s palace with some piece of contemporary news.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[El Tono de Voz en &quot;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale,&quot; de Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes shifts in tone in NPT 7.2888-2907 (a conversation between Chanticleer and Pertelote), commenting on how these shifts contribute to characterization and drama.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273877">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ellery Queen&#039;s Poetic Justice: 23 Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by World-Famous Poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Dylan Thomas.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes twenty-three short prose narratives by English and American writers, with a brief, appreciative literary biography for each, and an introductory essay on the nature of anthologies. Includes an excerpt from PardT (pp. 3-8) in Percy MacKaye&#039;s archaized prose modernization of 1904, with comments about Chaucer&#039;s life and importance, characterizing CT as the &quot;cornerstone of poetry in the English language.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273876">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Days and Months in Chaucer&#039;s Poems.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes the presence of &quot;symmetrical numbers&quot; in the dates mentioned in Chaucer&#039;s poetry, e.g., third day of the third month equals May 3 when the annual calendar began in March rather than January. Comments on HF, TC, KnT, MerT, and FranT, as well as the use of such numbers in other literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273875">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Modern Irish Versions of the Enchanted Pear Tree Episode.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates the plots and motifs of twenty-one modern Irish tales purported to be analogues of the pear tree episode in MerT, suggesting that those accounts which include the motif of optical illusion (rather than blindness) should not be considered analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273874">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Urry &quot;Chaucer&quot; (1721) and the London Uprising of 1384: A Phase in Chaucerian Biography.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains errors in the biography of Chaucer that is included in John Urry&#039;s edition of 1721, particularly those associated with the poet&#039;s spurious flight to the Continent in 1384 in the face of an accusation of treason. Attributes these errors to the belief that Chaucer wrote Thomas Usk&#039;s &quot;Testament of Love&quot; and to the 1717-18 political imbroglios of Thomas Hearne and members of his Oxford circle that produced or influenced the biography, originally composed by John Dart and &quot;corrected&quot; by William Thomas.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reexamination of Chaucer&#039;s Old Man of the &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers theories of the nature of the Old Man in PardT, suggesting that he might be thought to combine feature of the Good Angel and the Bad Angel of medieval mystery and morality plays insofar as he seems to be &quot;extra-human,&quot; advising and endangering the rioters simultaneously.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Characters and Crowds in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s characterization of the lovers in TC is marked by their relationships with public opinion, especially with that of &quot;the impersonal mass of Trojans and Greeks&quot; who are the &quot;anti-characters&quot; of the poem. As fortune turns against the lovers, the narrator tries to evoke a new public sympathy for the lovers, that of the poem&#039;s audience.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Mistake&quot;: &quot;The Book of the Duchess,&quot; Line 455.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that in making the Black Knight 24 years old in BD (rather than 29, the age of John of Gaunt), Chaucer &quot;assigned his own age to his patron.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Worldly Monk.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes between the &quot;clerical&quot; and &quot;non-clerical&quot; traditions of &quot;de casibus&quot; tragedy in medieval tradition, observing the emphasis on the goddess Fortuna in the latter, and claiming that MkT &quot;belongs to the non-clerical tradition.&quot; In ignoring or rejecting Boethian consolation and not regarding Fortune as God&#039;s agent, MkT &quot;advocates a dignified hedonism&quot; (rather than &quot;contemptus mundi&quot;), a view consistent with the &quot;worldly, unbookish Monk&quot; of GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273869">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Lydgate: Poems.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits twelve of Lydgate&#039;s poems, with end-of-text notes, glossary, and other apparatus. Includes &quot;On the Departing of Thomas Chaucer,&quot; a selection from the &quot;Troy Book,&quot; and &quot;The Temple of Glas,&quot; among others. The Introduction (pp. ix-xii) and the Notes (pp. 114-92) include frequent references to Chaucer and his influence on Lydgate.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Theme of Obedience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Judges ClT to be &quot;more successful than it has been thought&quot; because it is a tale of  &quot;idealized obedience&quot; in which Griselda&#039;s submissiveness is an &quot;imitation&quot; of Christ&#039;s Passion and Resurrection and a demonstration that the human will can achieve sovereignty through submission and defeat of death through acceptance. Chaucer&#039;s &quot;humanizes&quot; Walter&#039;s tests and discloses that the &quot;unfathomable reality of death is conquered only by the supernatural death of the will.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Ancient Mariner&quot; and &quot;The Squire&#039;s Tale,&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that SqT 5.393-94 (description of the sun) may have inspired a detail in Coleridge&#039;s &quot;Ancient Mariner,&quot; line 180.]]></dcterms:description>
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