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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two Fourteenth-Century Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Archpriest of Hita.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies similarities in the works of Chaucer and of Juan Ruiz (themes, sources, allusions, details, etc.) that they share as &quot;representatives of the fourteenth century.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273363">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[ME. &quot;point&quot; (&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; III. 695).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces two instances in Middle English of the use of &quot;point&quot; with musical connotations, and suggests that the use of the term in TC 3.695 gains complexity from such connotations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273362">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Animal-Human Double Context in Beast Fables and Beast Tales of Chaucer and Henryson.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;double-contextual development&quot; of characters and their actions in beast tales and beast fables, investigating double meanings (animal and human) in such narratives. Includes discussion of how NPT follows the Renart tradition in this regard.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273361">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Vavasour&quot; and Chrétien de Troyes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that there can be &quot;little doubt&quot; that Chaucer thought the term &quot;vavasour&quot; (GP 1.30, applied to the Franklin) signified &quot;a man noted for hospitality,&quot; adducing evidence from Chrétien and other sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273360">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Sëynt Loy&quot;: An Anglo-French Pun?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in the GP sketch of the Prioress the reference to saint Loy (1.120) is punningly &quot;redolent of permissiveness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273359">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Rhetoric of Narration: A Study of Narrative Intrusion in Chaucer&#039;s Tales of the Squire, Manciple, Merchant and Nun&#039;s Priest.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys rhetorical criticism of Chaucer, exploring medieval and modern concepts of rhetoric, and assesses the &quot;interruption by a pilgrim of his own narrative&quot; in SqT, ManT, MerT, and NPT for the ways that such interruptions help to characterize the narrators.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273358">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Word and Deed: A Study of Style in Seven of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the relations between style and Christian morality in MilT, RvT, FranT, MLT, MerT, ClT, and NPT, gauging the moral outlooks of the narrators of the Tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273357">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Word and Deed: A Study of Style in Seven of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the relations between style and Christian morality in MilT, RvT, FranT, MLT, MerT, ClT, and NPT, gauging the moral outlooks of the narrators of the Tales.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Child Tragic Ballad: A Comparison with Medieval Literary Tragedy--Boccaccio, Chaucer, Lydgate.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defines &quot;ballad tragedy&quot; in comparison with late-medieval &quot;De casibus&quot; tragedies, using ballads collected by Francis James Child and, among other works, Chaucer&#039;s MkT and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273355">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Listeth lords&quot;: &quot;Sir Thopas,&quot; 712 and 833.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dialectical analysis of &quot;listeth&quot; in Middle English indicates that in using the term to mean &quot;listen&quot; in Tho (particularly at 7.833) Chaucer alters his source and strikes for his London audience the &quot;right jarring note&quot; since that meaning was &quot;no longer acceptable&quot; in their dialect.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273354">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of Genesis&quot; in &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot;: The Biblical &quot;Schema&quot; of the First Fragment.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how Biblical narratives underlie the CT, not only allusively but in narrative plots and figural schema, focusing on how materials from Genesis are present in GP (springtime creation), KnT (brotherly conflict similar to Cain and Abel), MilT (Noah&#039;s Flood), and RvT (destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha). Outlines Biblical schema elsewhere in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273353">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Allusion in Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the &quot;plurality of meaning&quot; in a number of Biblical and classical allusions in MerT, comments on sources, and discusses the setting of the Tale and the names of its characters, arguing that the cultural context of the Tale is a major aspect of its mode of meaning. Includes comparison of Chaucer&#039;s and Dante&#039;s allusive techniques]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273352">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Time, the Life, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this filmstrip &quot;Uses contemporary prints and paintings to illustrate fourteenth century England as reflected in the works of Chaucer&quot; and that the &quot;Recording includes The tale of the wyf of Bathe read in Middle English,&quot; edited by Hilary Reid and read by Norman Davis, Peter Howell, and Bryan Kendrick.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273351">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer, Dramatist.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the factors involved in assessing Chaucer&#039;s rank among literary greats, summarizing parts of CT, describing difficulties of teaching the poem, suggesting the use of Nevill Coghill&#039;s translation, and offering other pedagogical comments.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273350">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Absolon&#039;s &quot;freend so deere&quot;: A Pivotal Point in the Miller&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains how the scene that involves Gerveys the smith (1.3772-89) is &quot;structurally crucial&quot; to MilT by creating an effective lull between &quot;two bits of explosive comedy,&quot; helping to characterize Absolon, and gathering the threads of several important motifs of the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273349">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;almoost a spanne brood.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Glosses &quot;almoost a spanne broode&quot; in the GP description of the Prioress (CT 1.155) as &quot;almost four inches high,&quot; exploring its ironic implications.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Weaving Wife.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces evidence from various sources to show that the Wife of Bath has characteristics of the archetype of the old bawd, itself rooted in the earlier figure of &quot;sorceress-intermediary&quot; and associated with aging, trade, extravagant dress, and weaving. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The Romaunt of the Rose&quot; and &quot;Le Roman de la Rose&quot;: A Parallel-Text Edition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Facing-page edition of Rom (based on Thynne&#039;s edition) and its sources passage in the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; with the text of the latter drawn from various manuscripts that provide readings closest to Rom. Includes textual notes and an Introduction which explores the text of Rom, its three fragments, and the &quot;construction&quot; of this edition.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and His World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introductory summary of Chaucer&#039;s life and social context, illustrated with numerous b&amp;w photographs of objects from the late fourteenth century: buildings, coins, artifacts, manuscripts, etc. Draws examples of social, political, and religious life from Chaucer&#039;s poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the French Love Poets: The Literary Backgrounds of the &quot;Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates Chaucer&#039;s extensive dependence upon French love poetry, tracing the development of &quot;dits amoreux&quot; from Guillaume de Lorris&#039;s portion of the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s contemporaries and identifying where in BD Chaucer was influenced by the &quot;Roman&quot; and works by Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart. In images and details, the &quot;Roman&quot; is pervasive and Froissart&#039;s &quot;Paradys d&#039;Amours&quot; inspired Chaucer&#039;s &quot;dream machinery.&quot; Four of Machaut&#039;s poems are the models or sources of sections of BD. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273344">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Reading of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interpretive, evaluative, tale-by-tale reading of CT, focusing on how Chaucer&#039;s &quot;mingling&quot; of various styles, tones, genres, conventions, source materials, and world views come together as a unifying perspective that supersedes any one perspective . Considers several tales as pairings (FrT and SumT, Th and Mel, ManT and ParsT), and offers opinions of how and where individual tales succeed or fail, often gauged in light of recurrent themes presented as timeless concerns. The Introduction (pp. 1-53) justifies appreciative criticism, remarks on Chaucer&#039;s other works (especially TC), comments on questions of unity in CT, and praises the vitality and spirituality of GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dramatic Time, Setting, and Motivation in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts MerT, PrT, and PardT with their respective analogues, contending that Chaucer&#039;s Tales are inconsistent in time, setting, and character motivation, reflecting &quot;Chaucer&#039;s lack of concern for real people and real objects.&quot; Similarly in TC, Chaucer&#039;s characters operate &quot;within a framework of deliberate aesthetic stylization&quot; because he is more concerned with didactic persuasion than realistic depiction.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273342">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Personality of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a &quot;psychography&quot; of Chaucer, using biographical records, contemporaneous events, and Chaucer&#039;s works to describe his appearance, habits, personality, opinions, and attitudes.  Focuses on the personae in Chaucer&#039;s literary works; on his treatments of love, virtue, and religion; and on his satire and his sympathies, describing ways that they indicate his &quot;large and generous acceptance of life.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bird Lore and the Valentine&#039;s Day Tradition in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parlement of Foules.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces several passages from &quot;thirteenth century &#039;De Arte Venandi cum Avibus&#039; of Frederick of Hohenstaufen&quot; to argue that in the setting and details of his bird parliament in PF Chaucer &quot;may have been concerned as much with authentic bird lore as with fable or literary convention.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Second Meanings in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the thematic implications of several verbal ambiguities or double meanings in KnT:  &quot;array&quot; (dress and predicament), &quot;hert&quot; (heart and hart), &quot;wele&quot; (joy and wheel), nuances of &quot;turne,&quot; &quot;boone&quot; (reward and bone), and &quot;righte way&quot; in emotional and geographical senses,]]></dcterms:description>
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