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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Marriage Group]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Restricts the &quot;marriage group&quot; to the four components originally proposed by George Lyman Kittredge (WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT), disclosing the intricacies of their interconnections and considering in turn their various attitudes toward sex and mastery in marriage. Reads the attitudes as &quot;complementary,&quot; even though Chaucer&#039;s &quot;major emphasis falls finally&quot; on FranT as a &quot;presentation of an ideal, so far as it can be attained in a spectacularly imperfect world.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272212">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s May 3 and Its Contexts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s three references to May 3 as an ambivalent &quot;destinal date,&quot; arging that the date is affiliated with tragic fortune in TC, with humanistic outlook in KnT, and with comic reversal in NPT. This sequence comprises a &quot;kind of limited intellectual autobiography&quot; of Chaucer, perhaps because he associated the date with the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny on this day in 1360 when England lost its military advantage over France.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275391">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s May 3.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s references to May third, assigned in Ovidian tradition to &quot;the goddess Flora and her celebrations,&quot; is a day on which the &quot;force of love is especially and powerfully felt,&quot; and therefore &quot;a suitable day for Pandare [TC 2.56], Palamon, Arcite [KnT 1.1462ff.], and Chauntecleer [NPT 7.3187ff.] to be moved by carnal desires--albeit according to their own particular dispositions and circumstances.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265676">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s May, Standup Comics, and Critics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the narrative strategy of MerT with the techniques of standup comedy.  The narrator of MerT holds up for ridicule the socially sanctioned convention of marriage between young women and old men, while at the same time affirming conventional attitudes about the sexual appetites of women. Our laughter at January implies our complicity in his misogyny.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272959">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meagre Reference to the Variable World, Parts I-IV]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Commentary on social, political, ecclesiastical, and religious aspects of CT, with attention to particular pilgrims. Limited availability at http://hdl.handle.net/10069/9502; http://hdl.handle.net/10069/9506; http://hdl/handle.net/10069/9570; http://hdl.handle.net/10069/9636.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Measuring Eye]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;the physics of measurement,&quot; an aspect of the science of optics (new in Chaucer&#039;s day), which measured &quot;motion and relationships among objects inside a framed space.&quot;  Chaucer&#039;s &quot;verbal structures often move as the eye does.&quot;  Holley examines Chaucer&#039;s &quot;poetics of space&quot; in TC, BD, HF, and several of the CT:  KnT, MilT, MLT, SumT, SNT, PhyT, and PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261978">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Melibee and Tales of Sondry Folk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defends Mel as a meaningful allegory, considering in turn Chaucer&#039;s use of the name &quot;Sophia,&quot; his reference to wounded feet, and the &quot;extended account&quot; of Christ&#039;s passion which indicate framing attention to the Crucifixion. Then tabulates &quot;three dozen or so passages&quot; from Mel that are echoed elsewhere in CT to show that it is the thematic &quot;keystone&quot; to the entire work, though perhaps &quot;dull.&quot; Includes attention to the sources of Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266229">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant and his Shrewish Wife: The Justinus Crux and Augustinian Theology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A &quot;palimpsestic&quot; reading of MerT reveals the irony with which the Merchant treats January and with which Chaucer treats the Merchant, enriching and complicating the &quot;Tale&#039;s&quot; identification between the Merchant and January.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275393">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant and January&#039;s &quot;hevene in erthe heere.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in MerT &quot;January&#039;s love of May reflects, in heightened colors,&quot; the Merchant&#039;s own &quot;commercial love of the world&#039;s goods.&quot; Explores the possessive nature of January&#039;s love of May, focusing on the Merchant&#039;s metaphors and references to Boethius, the Bible, St. Jerome, and classical literature, maintaining that, through such material, Chaucer &quot;is able to illuminate the inner fragility&quot; of the Merchant&#039;s commercial world.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272778">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant and the Sin Against Nature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers evidence that January&#039;s knife-image (&quot;Ne hurte hymselven with his owene knyf&quot;; MerT 5.1840) when commenting on sexual relations with his wife may have indicated to some members of a medieval audience that he was &quot;a sexual pervert of the worst kind.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272520">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant and the Tale of January]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Merchant&#039;s attitudes are reflected in the views of Justinus (not January) in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276690">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant: No Debts?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the syntax, rhetoric, and emphases of GP 1.280 in comparison with similar locutions elsewhere in Chaucer (especially ShT) to argue that it means, emphatically, &quot; If he [the Merchant] was in debt, the spectator would certainly never know it!&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273841">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale and Its Irish Analogues.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anatomizes motifs in the sources and analogues of the pear tree episode in MerT, focusing on several modern Irish analogues that have details of characterization which parallel those in MerT and have an intervention by male and female fairies. Suggests that an early version of these Irish analogues may have influenced Chaucer while he was in service to Prince Lionel and his wife Elizabeth, heiress of Ulster and Connaught, perhaps while Lionel was royal viceroy in Ireland, 1361-66.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268988">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale Reviewed]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In light of the mythological tradition of Janus and connections between January and Adam, January&#039;s self-deception in MerT is less bitter than funny. In general, the Tale &quot;is one of the great literary celebrations of marriage, albeit a comic one.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265057">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale, E 1263, 1854 and 2360-65]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The botanical-physical sense of May&#039;s appraisal of January&#039;s sexual &quot;playing&quot; as &quot;nat...worth a bene&quot; (E 1854) indicates that January has not impregnated May.  May&#039;s expectancy of impregnation by Damian is frustrated when January interrupts intercourse with such a cry &quot;As dooth the mooder whan the child shal dye&quot; (E2365).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265056">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale, E 2412-16]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The use of the word &quot;glad&quot; (E2412) and its repetition (E2416) makes clear the moral point of the tale:  happiness in marriage is possible for men, but only if they follow January&#039;s example of ignoring reality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchant&#039;s Tale: Another Swing of the Pendulum]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that MerT should be read in light of MerP (for which there is strong manuscript evidence) and that the two are unified by a &quot;cool, controlled, acidulous&quot; tone and a &quot;persistent interest in sexual activity . . . that frequently borders on the morbid and perverse.&quot; Neither comic nor tragic in mode, MerT is a &quot;remarkably daring piece of work&quot;; all of its characters are either &quot;contemptible&quot; or &quot;bitter.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264585">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchants and the Foreign Exchange: An Introduction to Medieval Finance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates that the Merchant engages neither in usury nor in illegal speculation.  Selling &quot;sheeldes&quot; (imaginary coins &quot;of accounts&quot; employed in Flanders) is simply a means of &quot;borrowing&quot; English sterling through foreign exchange.  The Merchant is a borrower (&quot;he was in dette&quot;), not a lender.  As such, the odds against his making a profit from the exchange were enormous.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261545">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Merchants: A Trade-Based Speculation On Their Activities]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteenth-century business practices, financial transactions,and fluctuating currency rates illuminate the characters of the ShT monk (a cloth merchant) and the GP Merchant, who probably would have chosen to travel in April, when the relative values of Flemish shields and English sterling were most propitious.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263970">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Mercury and Arcite: The &#039;Aenid&#039; and the World of the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates possible Chaucerian allusions to the &quot;Aenid&quot; in KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267636">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meter and the Myth of the Ellesmere Editor of The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recent editors have privileged the Hengwrt (Hg) manuscript by attributing metrical and morphosyntactic features of Ellesmere (El) to editorial intervention rather than to scribal error. Mann traces the development of the &quot;myth of the El editor,&quot; especially in Manly-Rickert and Norman Blake, and shows where editorial policy has depended on this myth. Mann argues for attention to stress (rather than syllable counting) in assessing Chaucer&#039;s meter and tabulates instances in which El/Hg variants reflect common patterns of scribal variation. Mann also comments on tale order in Hg and El.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261225">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meter: The Evidence of the Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Most Chaucer criticism fails to mention that Chaucer&#039;s poetry is written in verse.  The way we read that verse and respond to its musicality, whether in our heads or when reading aloud, is an important part of our interpretation of and response to the pentameter couplets of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266374">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Meters]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the history of approaches to Chaucer&#039;s meter and critiques individual approaches.  Proposes principles of Chaucer&#039;s tetrameter and pentameter, focusing on syntactic inversions and phrase boundaries.  Chaucer&#039;s verse developed from rough tetrameter to regular pentameter to less regular pentameter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276746">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Method of Composition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Accepts that the manuscript of Equat is Chaucer&#039;s own draft, with revisions, and suggests that evidence from TC indicates that &quot;Chaucer did not wait till he had finished his work to have parts of it copied out fair by his scribe.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262354">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Metre after Chaucer, I: Chaucer to Hoccleve; II: Lydgate and Barclay]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews scholarship on meter and suggests that the verse of Chaucer&#039;s followers is more interestingly variant in context than is sometimes thought; emphasizes the central role of Hoccleve, some of whose work is available in holograph.]]></dcterms:description>
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