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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[To Seek to Distant Shrines: A Syntactical Problem in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue,&#039; Lines 12-16]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Placement of a semicolon at the end of GP 1.13, rather than at the end of 1.14 is syntactically correct. The meaning is that both &quot;folk&quot; and &quot;palmeres&quot; wish to go &quot;to ferne halwes.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Further Note on Editorial Punctuation of the &#039;General Prologue,&#039; ll. 12-16]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Notes that Liddell&#039;s 1901 and Pollard&#039;s 1903 editions of GP end line 13 with a full stop. This &quot;aligns with the conclusions of Bernhard ten Brink and Otto Jespersen and solves a difficulty with the syntax that Julius Zupitza noted after &#039;serve&#039; was correctly identified as &#039;ferne.&#039; &quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Coherence of Creation in the Word: The Rhetoric of Lines 1-34 of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the rhetorical structure, themes, and wordplay of the first thirty-four lines of GP, arguing that in CT Chaucer maintains &quot;his commitment to the coherence of creation within the narrative framework of Christianity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between Ernest and Game: The Aesthetics of Knowing and Poetics of &#039;Witte&#039; in William Langland&#039;s &#039;Piers Plowman&#039; and Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that CT provides an aesthetic of irony and parody, where part of the pleasure of the experience entails ironic interpretation on the reader&#039;s part, thereby both entertaining  and instructing.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273144">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Irony, Humor, and Ontological Relationality in Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In the course of examining relational aspects of author and audience, discusses humor in CT, particularly in MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273143">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer et Shéhérasade: Macro- et Micro- structures]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the narrative systems in The Arabian Nights and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Parson]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides historical background about the English Church in the late fourteenth century, and on several religious controversies, including the &quot;culture of anticlerical complaint and the challenge of Wyclif and the Lollards,&quot; that contributed to Chaucer&#039;s portrait of the Parson in GP and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273141">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Manciple]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews the history of medieval manciples, lawyers, and stewards. Reads Chaucer&#039;s Manciple as &quot;ironic and allusive&quot; and an &quot;indispensable middleman&quot; in ManT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273140">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Nun&#039;s Priest]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents case studies and historical background of the nuns&#039; priests in medieval society, and interprets literary tradition of Chaucer&#039;s Nun&#039;s Priest. Includes an appendix on the Diocese of Norwich Nuns&#039; Priests.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273139">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Monk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how recent scholarship of late medieval monastic practices informs a deeper understanding of the characterization of Chaucer&#039;s Monk. Contends that the Monk can be viewed as a &quot;target of Chaucer&#039;s satire.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273138">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress and the Second Nun]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Places the Prioress and the Second Nun in the context of late medieval female monasticism, contrasting the roles of female agency and the &quot;representations of female holiness&quot; of the Prioress and the Second  Nun.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273137">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Shipman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the ambiguity of Chaucer&#039;s Shipman, connecting ShT to estates satire and contending that Chaucer combined an &quot;ideal craftsman and the flawed individual&quot; in the character of the Shipman.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys current and past scholarship on Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner. Provides historical background on the office and practices of pardoners in the late medieval Church and reviews debate over Pardoner&#039;s &quot;sexual ambiguity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Doctor of Physic]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the historical background of late fourteenth-century medical practice in order to understand better Chaucer&#039;s portrait of the Physician in GP. Emphasizes how Chaucer reveals his opinions on morality, as well as the medical profession, through this description.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273134">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines current scholarship to illuminate the portrait of the Franklin in GP, arguing that it reflects Chaucer&#039;s various opinions about &quot;the social position of franklins in real life&quot; and &quot;the roles Chaucer has its Franklin perform&quot; in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273133">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Squire]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Details the history of the chivalric relationship between the Squire and the Knight, concluding that the Squire &quot;offers a complete portrait  of aristocratic masculinity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Chaucer&#039;s understanding of medieval trade, finance, and commerce is reflected in the Merchant&#039;s portrait in GP. Connects historical fluctutions in the English and Italian wool trade to the Merchant&#039;s business acumen in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a variety of historical contexts for Chaucer&#039;s characterization of the Clerk, discussing medieval universities, manuscripts from fourteenth-century Oxford, and the role of clerks in medieval society. Includes appendices of &quot;Manuscripts Associated with the Arts Curriculum at Oxford&quot; and &quot;John Cobbledik&#039;s Books.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Summoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reveals the Summonor to be an &quot;unattractive caricature&quot; and posits reasons for Chaucer&#039;s description and portrayal in GP and SumT. Provides historical background on medieval summoners, and claims that the Summoner is &quot;part of a Chaucerian critique&quot; of Church  government and ecclesiastical practices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273129">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Friar]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Views Chaucer as a &quot;social satirist and master of ambiguity&quot; for his portrayal of the Friar within the anti-fraternal literary tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the characterization of the Wife of Bath in GP with that found the WBP, claiming that Chaucer &quot;is satirizing both the extremes of antifeminism and feminine self-authority.&quot;   Focuses on  sociohistorical  challenges for medieval women, and maintains that the Wife of Bath remains a &quot;negative example in Chaucer&#039;s view of marriage.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sergeant of Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Portrays the &quot;moral, social, political, and professional&quot; worlds of medieval lawyers, often found in estates satires, enriching understanding of Chaucer&#039;s Sergeant of Law in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273126">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Reeve]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the reality, ideology, meaning, and historical context of Chaucer&#039;s  Reeve, assessing how in RvT Chaucer comments on &quot;contemporary and social trends in a reactionary way.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273125">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews medieval cooks who could possibly have been models for Chaucer&#039;s Cook and suggests that Chaucer uses the  Cook to reflect the social and moral issues of estates literature.  Also, discusses the Cook&#039;s dislikes in CT and his connections with the Seven Deadly Sins, particularly gluttony.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273124">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Miller]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers a history of late-medieval English milling and the social and economic effects of the Black Death in an analysis of Chaucer&#039;s Miller. Claims that MilT is both  a &quot;comical fabliau&quot; and &quot;an Augustinian moral performance.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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