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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between Proverbs and Lyrics: Customization Practices in Late Medieval English Moral Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how &quot;some popular moral lyrics based upon traditional proverbs were modified and reworked&quot; through manuscript transmission in late medieval England, commenting on materials found in the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS Ff.i.6)--which includes stanzas from TC--and various other contexts]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272822">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fantasy in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that January&#039;s foolish fantasy is MerT &quot;is a version&quot; of the Merchant&#039;s own, tracing the teller&#039;s &quot;increasingly ambivalent attitude&quot; toward his character &quot;from detachment to attack.&quot; In January, the Merchant &quot;tries to destroy his former self,&quot; repudiating all idealism in favor of harsh reality, and reflecting &quot;precisely the projective self-indulgence of which he accuses January.&quot; Focuses on the &quot;mirror of the mind&quot; image, the Merchant&#039;s apostrophes, and the Pluto and Proserpina episode.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pilgrimage Narrative and the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers CT among other medieval pilgrimage narratives, distinguishing them from other journey narratives and emphasizing what makes CT unusual: &quot;concretization, fragmentation, and emphasis on the human.&quot; Comments on pilgrimage as the &quot;dynamic principle&quot; of CT, the tale-tellers as &quot;true and false seekers,&quot; the reading audience as pilgrims, the fittingness of ParsT as a conclusion, and the importance of the number twenty-nine in GP and ParsP as &quot;approaching most closely to 30,&quot; a sign of spiritual perfection.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates Chaucer&#039;s treatment of astrological imagery, gauging him to be &quot;quite high among the skeptics on the mediaeval scale of belief in astrology&quot; and explicating the tone and meaning of his astrological passages, their comic or satiric effects, the ways they characterize their narrators, and the expectations of their original audience. Attends consistently to literary sources (especially Boccaccio, Dante, Boethius, the Bible, encyclopedias, treatises, and commentaries) and analogues in art and literature, with sustained readings of Mars; the planetary imagery in KnT and TC; &quot;astronomical periphrasis&quot; (&quot;chronographia&quot;) in SqT, MerT, FranT, and TC; the horoscope of the Wife of Bath; determinism in MLT (and elsewhere in CT); the opening of CT in GP and its closing in ParsP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Too-Well Franklin&#039;s Tale: A Problem of Characterization]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the characterizations of Arveragus, Dorigen, and Aurelius in FranT suffer from inconsistency or incompletion--touches of psychological realism unfulfilled--and suggests that these seemingly faulty characterizations can best be attributed to the demands of the Tale&#039;s genre.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Influence on Henryson&#039;s &#039;Fables&#039;: The Use of Proverbs and Sententiae]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies three aspects of Robert Henryson&#039;s uses of proverbial wisdom in his &quot;Fables,&quot; locating precedent for each of them in a work by Chaucer:  use of proverbs by fable characters (NPT), comic misapplication of proverbial wisdom (MilT), and clustering proverbial sayings (Pandarus in TC).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Opaque Style and Its Uses in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Pandarus, Troilus, and Criseyde as prisoners of their own rhetorics (proverbial wisdom, courtliness, and expediency, respectively) and the social conventions that attend them, reading TC as a &quot;comedy about man&#039;s inevitable imprisonment in bonds of his own making, those of social conventions.&quot; The palinode reflects Troilus&#039;s escape from such imprisonment.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272816">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Doctrine of Charity and the Use of Homiletic &#039;Figures&#039; in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that &quot;figures&quot; (ship, castle, and related images) drawn from Augustinian theology and medieval sermons convey the &quot;Christian concept of charity&quot; in MLT and heighten its &quot;religious intensity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Horseman: Word-Play in the &#039;Tale of Sir Thopas&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the multiple puns on &quot;prick&quot; in Tho, denotative and connotative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Double Sorrow of Troilus: A Study of the Ambiguities in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains the ambivalences, ambiguities, paradoxes, and ironies--the double meanings--that are generated in TC by Chaucer&#039;s combination of Boccaccio&#039;s plot with Boethian philosophy (inflected by twelfth- and thirteenth-century philosophy of love), magnified by the &quot;interventions&quot; and &quot;specious dialectic&quot; of the narrator, and reflected in the characters&#039; ambiguous and sometimes manipulative uses of the traditional language, imagery and actions of medieval love narratives. Attends also to the comedy and wit of the poem that vie with its tragic events, the importance of the readers&#039; experiences in perceiving its meanings, and the ways by which we can perceive both Chaucer&#039;s intentions and the unity of the plot and epilogue. Includes an appendix entitled &quot;&#039;Kynde&#039; and &#039;Unkynde&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Importance of Keeping &#039;Trouthe&#039; in &#039;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits that Chaucer arranges matters in FranT to pose the possibility of a &quot;dual response to the subject matter&quot; of &quot;trouthe,&quot; exploring reality and illusion and the competing requirements of conjugal and courtly loves. The Tale illustrates the real-life importance of keeping &quot;trouthe&quot; and the maturation of the characters which results from seeking to maintain it.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Tale of the Captive Bird and the Traveler: Nequam, Berechiah, and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Late twelfth-century English stories by Alexander Nequam and Berechiah haNakdan provide context for the caged bird episode in SqT, indicating that Chaucer may have intended to complete the episode with the falcon reuniting with her own kind. Also comments on Persian analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress&#039;s Beads &#039;of smal coral&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the associations of coral with apotropaic power in medieval lapidaries, and suggests that the Prioress&#039;s rosary of coral in GP (1.158) ambiguously may signal religious intent as well as courtly luxury.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272810">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the origins of the names Elpheta and Algarsyf, used in SqT, to &quot;familial&quot; clusters in Arabic star catalogs that were translated into the Latin Middle Ages and mentioned in Astr. Suggests affiliations of the names with the magic sword and horse of the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272809">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetry and Philosophy in &#039;The Parlement of Foules&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes three positions on the topic of universals versus individuals (ultra-realism, moderate realism, nominalism), and argues that the depictions of nature, love, common profit, and fortune in PF align approximately with moderate realism, and represent a step beyond BD and HF in the development in Chaucer&#039;s poetic philosophy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272808">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner Again]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the Pardoner&#039;s attitude toward his Canterbury audience, including the Host. In PardP, he reveals how he usually treats his audiences, then insults the pilgrims by leveling differences in PardT. Like Faus Semblant of the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; the Pardoner is a hypocrite, but his techniques effectively capture the pilgrims and the reading audience in moral ironies.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272807">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies parallels between the &quot;planetary deities&quot; and the human characters in KnT; describes the &quot;iconology&quot; of Lygurge and Emetreus, particularly the psychological implications of their astrological affiliations; and explores the physiognomic, moral, and psychological differences between Palamon and Arcite, arguing that the poem depicts the Knight&#039;s ideas of order underlying chaos and moral progression to maturity through a series of planetary stages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272806">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wit and Symbol: The Prior&#039;s Niece and the Structure of &#039;Fra Lippo Lippi&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Mentions that Browning&#039;s Fra Lippo Lippi is &quot;perhaps the most Chaucerian of his creations,&quot; whose vitality and sensuality &quot;may well remind us&quot; of the Wife of Bath or Shakespeare&#039;s Falstaff.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272805">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: Some Lay Observations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the primary concern of MerT is January&#039;s foolish lechery, that the tone of the Tale is not mordant, and that its various parts cohere as a harmonious whole. Challenges the idea that the Tale is essentially a contribution to the Marriage Group of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272804">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Research in Progress: 1969-1970]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports on book length-studies, articles, and dissertations in progress, arranged in topical categories.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272803">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of the Theme of the Help of God in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Chaucer introduced into the plot of MLT (2.463-504) the motif of the help of God, helping to explain Constance&#039;s survival at sea at the beginning of Part 2 of the Tale; the motif is not found in Nicholas Trevet at this juncture.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272802">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039; and the &#039;Via Moderna&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sketches several underlying principles of the &quot;via moderna&quot; or Ockhamist reasoning (limitless power of God and three-value logic) and argues that HF rejects this &quot;mode of thought.&quot; In the dream vision, Geffrey finds himself in a &quot;kind of parody of the transcendental journey&quot; which is also a &quot;negative lesson&quot; about skepticism for Chaucer&#039;s audience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272801">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: Why Was Januarie Born &#039;Of Pavye&#039;?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides examples of medieval English stereotyping of Pavia as a &quot;city of delight,&quot; helping to connect January of MerT with the vice of sensuality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In Praise of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Accepts that much fifteenth-century admiration of Chaucer praises his rhetoric and &quot;ornate eloquence,&quot; but explores comments that convey wider, more sophisticated appreciation of his stylistic range and philosophical depth, considering comments by Lydgate, Skelton, James I, Deschamps, Hoccleve, Usk, Hawes, Bokenham, Dunbar, Douglas, Walton, Ashby, and Henryson.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Cast up the Curtyn&#039;: A Tentative Exploration into the Meaning of the Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;fruyt&quot; and &quot;chaf&quot; of WBT, arguing that it is &quot;eminently suited&quot; to the character established in GP and WBP, that the teller manipulates her narrative material intentionally, and that Chaucer signals her tendentiousness. The female characters of WBT reflect &quot;three aspects&quot; of womanhood, the pastourelle tradition underlying the plot conveys cupidity, and the gentilesse speech, charity, through which Chaucer&#039;s gets the &quot;last laugh&quot; on the Wife.]]></dcterms:description>
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