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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Spanish Analogue of the Pear-Tree Episode in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies an analogue to the pear-tree episode in MerT, a folktale entitled &quot;Women Always Get Away With It,&quot; first published in Puerto Rico in 1915-16 but evidently part of oral tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Current and Recurrent Fallacies in Chaucer Criticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Debunks tendencies in Chaucer criticism to read &quot;too much into the text,&quot; identifying and exemplifying the &quot;realistic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;anachronistic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;schematic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;ideological fallacy,&quot; the &quot;didactic fallacy,&quot; the &quot;allegorical fallacy,&quot; the &quot;christian-clerical fallacy,&quot; the &quot;rationalistic&quot; (or &quot;assumptive&quot;) fallacy, the &quot;intellectualizing fallacy,&quot; the &quot;stylistic fallacy,&quot; and various combinations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as a Pawn in the Book of the Duchess.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that -- in light of details of Chaucer&#039;s career and of medieval chess-playing -- the significance of &quot;fers&quot; in BD 741 may be &quot;threefold,&quot; referring to Blanche, to the chess piece, and to &quot;Chaucer himself, the commoner promoted from pawn to &#039;fers&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the sentimental charm of PrT that conflicts with its narrator&#039;s &quot;hatred of the Jews,&quot; and upon the combination of &quot;touching sentiment&quot; and &quot;mechanical&quot; rhetoric in MLT. Then considers the &quot;poignant emotion&quot; and pathos of ClT as they help to convey clearly and effectively the &quot;Christian patience&quot; that is the Clerk&#039;s &quot;doctrine.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Three-Faced Pandarus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Pandarus is &quot;honorable and well-intentioned in each of his three roles&quot; in TC: traditional friend to Troilus, courtly friend to Troilus, and protective and loving kinsman to Criseyde. Chaucer&#039;s efforts to &quot;knit together&quot; these sometimes conflicting roles indicate his approval of Pandarus&#039;s motives and actions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner&#039;s Introduction, Prologue, and Tale: Sermon and &quot;Fabliau.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses PardPT as a &quot;dramatic monologue, in the form of a sermon,&quot; set within a &quot;&#039;fabliau&#039; framework.&quot; Identifies the various parts of the sermon structure and explains similarities between the &quot;framework&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s other fabliaux, particularly the &quot;victimization of an unworthy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;On six and sevene&quot; (&quot;Troilus&quot; IV, 622).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the ambiguities of betting terminology and suggests that Pardarus&#039;s use of such terminology in TC 4.622 means that he is urging Troilus generally to &quot;take his chances.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Magic and Honor in &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that parallels between the &quot;sacrifices&quot; in FranT and two analogous ones found in Jean Froissart&#039;s &quot;Chroniques&quot; 2.137-38 encourage us to see the offer of the Franklin&#039;s magician to be illusory and worthless while Arveragus&#039;s offer of the &quot;honor of his wife&quot; is &quot;very generous.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273679">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January&#039;s Caress.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Middle English examples of the word &quot;wombe&quot; to suggest that it may mean genitals as well as belly in MerT 4.2414.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Brief Comparison of the &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on various aspects of KnT and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; (sources, dates, verse forms, etc.), discussing most extensively their uses of rhetorical devices. Finds KnT to be inferior because in it &quot;form dictates to matter&quot; and because the poem lacks the Gawain-poet&#039;s &quot;organic use&quot; of subtle characterzation and structural parallelisms. Focuses on details of the lists in KnT (1.1884ff.) and Gawain&#039;s view of Bercilak&#039;s castle.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Reeve&#039;s Polemic.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;really profound difference&quot; between the Reeve and the Miller, commenting on the Miller&#039;s rich characterizations in MilT and the vitality and &quot;kind of justice&quot; that underlies the outcome of his Tale. RvT, conversely, is an unwholesome &quot;polemic&quot; with &quot;sterile vengefulness&quot; as its primary motive and a &quot;lack of parity in crime and punishment&quot; that reveals the bitterness Reeve who is &quot;forever calculating,&quot; the &quot;eternal accountant.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273676">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Wyf of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads WBPT (with attention to the GP description of the Wife) as a &quot;crucial example&quot; of the way Chaucer &quot;sees the relation between deception and self-deception&quot; and a &quot;median&quot; among the Canterbury pilgrims as a gauge of hypocrisy. Balanced between the robust comedy of the Miller and self-defeating vice of the Pardoner, the Wife perches between truth and deception, or &quot;more precisely,&quot; between &quot;disclosure . . . and concealment of her nature.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Meaning as Transformation: The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads WBT psychoanalytically, exploring its &quot;sexual taboos,&quot; its phallic and vaginal significations, and the sexual fantasy that is &quot;at the heart of the story.&quot; The tension between authority and submission in the Tale conveys meaning equally well for medieval and modern audiences because it is simultaneously mythic and psychoanalytic and because its theme of transformation engages the relation between the conscious and unconscious.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Literature and Sexuality: Book III of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts the climactic love scenes in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Il Filostrato&quot; and in TC, considering details, omissions, emphases, and narrative perspectives to argue that Chaucer makes the scene &quot;emotionally, and indeed sexually, more intense&quot; without being voyeuristic. Chaucer elicits and forestalls the &quot;moral skepticism&quot; of his audience. His treatment of sex has &quot;extraordinary breadth&quot; and &quot;portrays intense physical intimacy in its noblest and most fulfilling form.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273673">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law as Interpreter.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MLT as a satire on its narrator whose volatile comments on the action of the poem contrast sharply with Constance&#039;s own patient acceptance, and characterize him as &quot;anti-Boethian, anti-humanistic, [and] anti-religious,&quot; a man interested in &quot;temporal satisfaction.&quot; He is a poor literary critic who misinterprets the works of Innocent III and Bernard Silvestris, and he misunderstands the &quot;astrological situation&quot; in the poem. Comparison of MLT with Trevet&#039;s version indicates that Chaucer&#039;s lawyer does not distinguish between romance and hagiography or between Providence and destiny.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scholastic Logic in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;House of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the three books of HF reflect the three medieval &quot;linguistic arts,&quot; or trivium, focusing on how book 3 reflects the techniques of logic or dialectic, depicting the pros and cons of fame and &quot;refining it into a philosophic idea.&quot; The inconclusiveness of the poem indicates the insufficiency of the trivium.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Narrator and His Narrative in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the tripartite structure of PF, its shifting tone and three styles (religious/philosophical, romantic, realistic), the sad plight of the narrator who is left without love, and the predominance of Nature, the poem&#039;s &quot;heroine&quot; who fails to offer fulfillment. Identifies parallels between PF and the &quot;Pervigilium Veneris.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273670">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Allegory of the &quot;Tale of Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Mel as a &quot;moral allegory,&quot; identifying where (in relative degrees) Chaucer and his sources encourage peaceable Christian humility and reliance upon on God&#039;s aid rather than self-assertive militancy in resisting the world, the flesh, and the devil.. Chaucer&#039;s use of the name &quot;Sophie&quot; indicates his interest in this emphasis, and heightens it. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273669">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Monk&#039;s Tale&quot;: A Generous View.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores MkT as a revelation of its narrator, positing a structural arrangement among the individual tragedies and their various depictions of Fortune and interpreting this arrangement as a reflection of the Monk&#039;s character and psychology: he modifies traditional accounts and &quot;suppresses evidence of [the] culpability&quot; of his protagonists, indicating his own presumption and &quot;bad conscience.&quot; Identifies echoes between MkT and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of &quot;Gin&quot; and &quot;Do.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;gan&quot; and &quot;do&quot; with infinitive forms, tracing the history of the usage in English and providing statistics about Chaucer&#039;s uses and their relative chronologies. In Chaucer&#039;s works, &quot;gan&quot; is generally periphrastic and used for purposes of rhyme and meter; &quot;do,&quot; on the other hand, is meaningful, often involving causation, although also used prosodically as well. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sow-and-Bagpipe Imagery in the Miller&#039;s Portrait.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies several medieval visual images of a sow playing bagpipes and suggests that the iconography underlies the reference to bagpipes and the two references to a female pig in the GP description of the Miller, helping to characterize him as coarse and over-indulgent. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Late-Sixteenth-Century Chaucer Allusion (Douce MS. 290).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies and transcribes an extended praise of Chaucer as a &quot;pierles poet&quot; (cast as a description of his burial site) found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce MS 290 (90 (Bodl. SC 21864).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two Types of Dreams in the Elizabethan Drama: Somnium Animale and the Prick-of-Conscience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Inculdes comments on the &quot;somnium animale&quot; in classical and medieval literature, particularly Chaucer&#039;s dream poetry. Explores the possibility that the dream in PF influenced Mercutio&#039;s dream of Mab in Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Romeo and Juliet.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sovereignty and the Two Worlds of the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that FranT is an exposé of &quot;bourgeois sentimentality,&quot; and argues that its &quot;central theme&quot; is the &quot;difficulty of perceiving truth in a world of illusions.&quot; Self-deceived, the Franklin mistakes his own desires for reality. He projects a false sense of gentility and, in his Tale, distorts the proper ideal of sovereignty in marriage. The characters of FranT are similarly self-deceived, and &quot;allusions to the Creator and his creation&quot; highlight their illusions and failure to understand proper hierarchical order. Contrasts FranT with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filocolo,&quot; considering the &quot;regenerative&quot; potential of its seasonal imagery triggered by Dorigen&#039;s confrontation with reality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ideas of  &quot;Entente&quot; and Translation in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Second Nun&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the imagery, action, and word-plays of SNPT to show that they are &quot;concerned with the interplay&quot; between the dark, mundane world and the bright heavenly one. In their &quot;werk,&quot; both the Second Nun and Cecilia help others to achieve &quot;their full &#039;entente&#039; and to be translated&quot; from this world to the next, the latter a world that Almachius fails to perceive. The paired themes anticipate CYPT and are fittingly located near the end of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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