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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk in the General Prologue to the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bakhtinian approach to the sketch of the Clerk:  there is an intricate dialogue between the latter and the narrator.  The facts behind the story and the way it is told reveal much about Chaucer&#039;s complex personality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262457">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk of Oxenford as Rhetorician]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Clerk&#039;s dismissal of Petrarch&#039;s opening &quot;descriptio&quot; is ironic--for the &quot;king of rivers&quot; would be understood by knowledgeable pilgrims to signify rhetorical powers and divine wisdom.  In fact, the Clerk deploys a full range of rhetorical figures throughout the tale, in large part to create an extended rebuttal to the Wife&#039;s views on marriage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267835">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk of Oxford: Prototype for Prufrock?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Clerk and T. S. Eliot&#039;s title character in &quot;The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock&quot; share intellectual interests. In addition, both are &quot;caught&quot; between the external and the internal, both are reluctant to speak, and both speak allusively.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267841">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk, on the Level?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines several medieval notions of testing and promise-making, arguing that in ClT the Clerk makes fun of naive &quot;essentialist&quot; allegory. Haines reads wit and sarcasm in Griselda&#039;s tone at the &quot;portentous&quot; line 666 and suggests that this tone helps lead readers to reject her immoral submission to Walter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268939">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk&#039;s Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Mitchell examines the polyvalent meanings of ClT and reflects on the processes of moral deliberation and the polarities that possible meanings represent. The Tale invites us to think hard about the nature of moral thinking.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268664">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk&#039;s Tale: Interrogating &#039;Virtue&#039; Through Violence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bodden reads ClT as Chaucer&#039;s deconstruction of the violence of hagiography. Plot and purported allegory clash in the Tale, and Walter is concerned not with Griselda&#039;s obedience but with her outward show. Virtue without will is no virtue at all. The Envoy repudiates ClT, which is rife with the stuff of torture: spectacle, pain, and ritualized time.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269290">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerk&#039;s Tale: Sources, Influences, and Allusions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Goodwin explores the practical problems of source study - terminology and the constraints of publication - in relation to ClT. Comments on Boccaccio&#039;s and Philippe de Mézières&#039; Griselda stories as &quot;sources of invention&quot; for Chaucer&#039;s version.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271608">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerks]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Chaucer&#039;s seven clerks (Nicholas and Absolon of MilT, John and Aleyn of RvT, the clerk of FranT, Jankyn of WBP, and the Clerk), describing the extent to which the characterizations accord with or echo what is known of &quot;fourteenth-century college men.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Clerks and the Value of Philosophy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the problematic nature of relating late-medieval nominalism to Chaucer&#039;s literary texts.  Chaucer&#039;s representation of philosophizing clerks suggests that he took a dim view of such figures of contemporary life, whom he tended to portray as either devious or irrelevant.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264018">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Coinage: Foreign Exchange and the Puns of the &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s punning in ShT is complex, some puns depending upon the eye (&quot;tale,&quot; &quot;tallynge&quot;) and others upon the ear alone. The Shipman imports into English a foreign form (the fabliau) and foreign (especially French) financial words &quot;that hadden pris.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264447">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Colloquial Style in &#039;The Parson&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Frequently used in ParsT, colloquial anaphora enhances the homiletic style in such repetitious expressions as &quot;Now Comth...,&quot; &quot;Look forther...,&quot; &quot;Certes...,&quot; and &quot;Soothly,....&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Comic Providence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual &quot;emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future.&quot; MerT &quot;focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through the symptom.&quot; Interlocking &quot;exchanges of language, women, and money&quot; foreground the &quot;imaginary Ideology&quot; of FranT. ShT &quot;maps . . . equivalences between words, sex, and money.&quot; In MilT (along with FrT and SumT), &quot;imaginary rivalry, aggression, and revenge&quot; depend upon &quot;the lie,&quot; reaffirming &quot;their dependence on the values of exchange and social being.&quot; NPT links &quot;the Real, symbolic, and imaginary registers in the voice of a narrator who is an object of the unconscious.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Commentator: Nicholas Trevet and the &#039;Boece&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys scholarly discussion of Chaucer&#039;s sources for his extrapolatory glosses in Bo, arguing that he was indebted to &quot;some version of the Remigian glosses,&quot; to Jean de Meun&#039;s &quot;livres de confort,&quot; and to a complete version of Nicholas Trevet&#039;s commentary on Boethius. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A series of notes to Bo comment on the specifics of Chaucer&#039;s debt to Trevet.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Complaint to His Purse: Sounding a Subversive Note?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on discussions of Chaucer&#039;s Purse that relate the poem to Lancastrian politics, offering further corroboration that Purse is subversive.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267471">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Compound Nouns : Patterns and Productivity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents that compounding was an active process of word formation in Middle English, tabulating Chaucer&#039;s compound words and showing that he favored combinations of two Old English nouns rather than combining a noun with another word form or Old English with French.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263177">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Concept of &#039;Compaignye&#039;: A Study of Covenants in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Covenants, a pervasive theme in CT, may bind guest and host, ruler and subject, spouses, kin, or God and humanity.  The covenant supports a willingly assumed hierarchy, a model for order; yet these bonds may be reversed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273750">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Concept of Death in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the attitudes toward death depicted in ABC, Purse, HF, and Bo, and studies CT for evidence of what Chaucer&#039;s own opinion of death may have been.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261633">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Concept of Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys background to Chaucer&#039;s idea of nature; identifies his uses of nature as a personification of divine ordinance, as in PF; and argues that Chaucer anticipates modern naturalism when he does not personify nature, as in KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264533">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Conception of Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Nature, when the term is explicitly used, is an &quot;idee fixe&quot; essentially based on the orthodox medieval conception.  The writer, however, examines the interest and attitude with which Chaucer represented the various aspects of humanity, and recognizes in him a certain embryo of what may be termed modern Naturalism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268216">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Constance and the Sorrowing Mary: The Man of Law&#039;s Tale (MLT), 841-854]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Correale traces allusions to Lamentations 1.12 in Marian &quot;planctus&quot; tradition, arguing that appeals for sympathy linked to Mary underlie Constance&#039;s prayer to the Virgin in MLT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Constance, Jonah, and the &#039;Gesta Romanorum&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Notes that the account of the Princess of Apulia found in some versions of the &quot;Gesta Romanorum&quot; has parallels with the biblical account of Jonah and with MLT, which alludes to Jonah.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264854">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Constance: Pale and Passive]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Constance is not the passive ninny she has been accused of being.  She possesses a presence which demands and receives forcible response; she moves in her world with self-sufficiency; her virtue is heroic; her ability to accept what God sends gives her an imposing strength.  Constance&#039;s force of soul is such that she can remain detached from what befalls her.  She is always aware of the emotional cost of yielding to Providence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264851">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Constance: Womanly Virtue and the Heroic Life]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Constance is not, as Delany (1974) claims, a character who embodies and recommends self-degradation and abject submission to power in all its forms.  What is important is that Constance discovers in the course of her experience that Providence, not Fortune, governs and establishes the meaning of her life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Contemporary]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Diffident comparisons point out the &quot;Englishness&quot; of both Chaucer and Langland (though Chaucer gives us little of London city life, his limits being Dartmouth, Strother, Oxford, and Cambridge).  Bennett discusses the down-to-earth tones, association of trades and merchants with &quot;covetise,&quot; and their attitudes toward the religious.  In view of their similarities, it is time &quot;to dismiss forever the false antithesis that represents Chaucer as new and adventurous, Langland as traditional and conservative.&quot; Reprint; first published in S. S. Hussey, ed. Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches (London: Methuen, 1969), pp. 310-24 and 352-53.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272962">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Contemporary]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the affinities and &quot;common sympathies&quot; between William Langland and Chaucer, including their &quot;Englishness,&quot; their views of religion and virtue, their shared sense of human variety, and the possibility that Chaucer may have read &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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