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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the &#039;Ovide Moralisé&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies Chaucer&#039;s uses of the &quot;Ovide Moralisé,&quot; particularly the narrative material of the French poem rather than its allegorical interpretations, often used in combination with Latin sources. Considers LGW, Form Age, TC, HF, ManT, and ParsT, along with specific names and images in other works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272861">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Comparative Study of the Dido Theme in Virgil, Ovid, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the classical and medieval developments of the story of Dido and focuses on versions by Virgil, Ovid, and Chaucer, the latter in both HF and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272860">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Style and Character in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the characteristic styles of the characters and narrator of TC, arguing that Chaucer was interested in individuality but not psychology.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272859">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Social Systems and Lexical Features: Pronominal Usage in the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the &quot;3500 second-person pronouns&quot; in CT, using a socio-linguistic model that attends to &quot;Social, Kinship, and Ideational Domains&quot; to account for patterns of usage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272858">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Structure of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the &quot;structural units&quot; of TC---&quot;the books, the time units, and the narrative units&quot;--and explores their relationships.  Also considers various &quot;structural devices&quot;: the proems, the lyrics, the rhetorically elaborate temporal descriptions, the dreams, the letters, and the epilogue.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Legend of St. Cecilia in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of SNT, proposing that the Tale was composed in 1381 and exploring Chaucer&#039;s sustained interest in hagiography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chauntecleer and the Mermaids]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the comparison between Chauntecleer&#039;s and mermaid&#039;s singing in NPT (7.3269-72) is an &quot;ironic joke&quot; as well as being an &quot;ironic anticipation&quot; of the rooster&#039;s fate, connected with the theme of predestination in the Tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272855">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Approach to Chaucer&#039;s Concept of the Dream]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s uses of the terminology of dreams, his sources of this terminology, critical approaches to dreams in Chaucer, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;handling of dream incidents and narrative themselves,&quot; arguing that Chaucer is &quot;reticent about providing clear and certain instructions about the nature and significance&quot; of dreams. Dissertation originally presented at the University of Alberta in 1970.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Stylized Man: The Poetic Use of Physiognomy in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Chaucer&#039;s uses of physiognomic details in GP, PardPT, KnT, RvT, WBP, Th, and NPT, arguing that while he used such details for imagery he &quot;only rarely relies on physiognomy alone to delineate character.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272853">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress and the Puys: A Study of the Cult of the Virgin and the Medieval Puys in Relation to Chaucer&#039;s Prioress and Her Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;emblematic Mary legend of the medieval &#039;puys&#039;&quot; is analogous to PrT, that the description of the Prioress in GP is &quot;as Marian&quot; as it is courtly, and that Chaucer had access to information about the &quot;puys.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thematic Continuity in Chaucer&#039;s Early Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a &quot;significant continuity of thought&quot; in BD, HF, and PF: &quot;their shared concern&quot; with Nature and Fortune as principles of order and fertility, on the one hand, and disorder on the other. Traces the roots of these concerns in Boethius, Alain de Lille, and Jean de Meun, and explores their presence and emphases in Chaucer&#039;s early dream visions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272851">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Comic Climax in the Old French and Chaucerian Fabliaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers plot and narrative voice for the ways that they set up comic climax in representative French fabliaux and in the six fabliaux of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metaphor of Love: A Critical Study of Chaucer&#039;s Early Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the history and criticism of the concept of courtly love, contending that it is a &quot;complicated metaphor for the poet&#039;s commitment to the craft of poetry.&quot; Then considers the occasions and philosophical implications of BD, PF, and HF, arguing that collectively the poems may be read as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Art of Poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272849">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Christian Significance of the Astrological Tradition: A Study of the Literary Use of Astral Symbolism in English Literature from Chaucer to Spenser]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses astrological imagery in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, Henryson, Lyly, Greene, and Spenser, including discussion of how the zodiacal signs of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini suggest &quot;symbolic re-enactment of sin&quot; and provide &quot;ironic commentary&quot; in Mars, TC, and WBP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272848">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Orchestration of the &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that R. K. Root&#039;s groupings of manuscript variants in TC (alpha, beta, and gamma) evince Chaucer&#039;s developments in his characterizations of Pandarus, Troilus, and, especially, Criseyde; the characterizations also help to balance tragedy and comedy in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272847">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Augustan Scholarship]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses editions and translations of Chaucer&#039;s works between 1660 and 1750 (including Speght 3, Dryden, Urry, and Morrell) for the ways they reflect the principles and practices of Augustan scholarship, lexicography, aesthetic outlooks, social assumptions, as well as Chaucer&#039;s reception. Argues that editorial practices of the time anticipate later techniques and includes a list of previously unnoted allusions to Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fourteenth-Century English Logicians: Possible Models for Chaucer&#039;s Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assumes Chaucer&#039;s Clerk to be &quot;an eminent Oxford logician,&quot; and surveys possible real-life models, suggesting that several individuals are plausible and that others &quot;could well have influenced the characterization.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272845">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Critics on Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-two excerpts from previously published Chaucer criticism, from John Dryden and Matthew Arnold to twentieth-century approaches.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272844">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troïle et Crisède (Troilus and Criseyde): Extraits]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[French translation of selections from TC (Book 1: 155-230, 268-322, 400-504; Book 2: 289-490, 596-812; Book 3: 239-343, 694-798, 841-952, 1065-1148, 1184-1211, 1226-53, 1275-1323; Book 4: 1128-1281, 1534-96, 1640-1701; Book 5: 197-266, 295-321, 687-770, 841-1099, 1786-1868) with notes and an introduction. Includes narrative summary of the portions omitted.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Blameth Nat Me: A Study of Imagery in Chaucer&#039;s Fabliaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the imagery and irony of FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, SumT, and MilT, focusing on how in each tale Chaucer achieves &quot;organic&quot; unity through transformation of the &quot;conventional formulae&quot; of medieval rhetorical handbooks. Summarizes the practices recommended by rhetoricians, especially Geoffrey Vinsauf, and exemplifies Chaucer&#039;s uses of &quot;effictio&quot; and &quot;notatio&quot; in BD and GP. Then traces how in each of the fabliaux Chaucer artfully crafts patterns of imagery and figurative comparisons to complicate plot, deepen theme ironically, and engage his audience aesthetically and intellectually.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272842">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theme and Number in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes parallels in plot and structure between BD and Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; arguing that Chaucer depicts a partial glimpse of full consolation. Identifies how &quot;numerological composition&quot; underlies the structure of BD and how several of its details--especially &quot;number metaphors&quot; based on 1, 3, 8, and 12--capitalize upon &quot;essential analogues&quot; between individual nature and Absolute Nature&quot; in order to gesture toward consolation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272841">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Miller&#039;s Tale--An UnBoethian Interpretation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that MilT differs from both KnT and RvT in its presentation of a world that lacks rational order or poetic justice. Alison escapes punishment and John is punished unfairly so that behind the jollity and illusion of order in the MilT lies &quot;essential disorder.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272840">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ordering of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the &quot;impediments&quot; to determining the order of CT with certainly, focusing on manuscript evidence, especially the problems evident in MLE and the &quot;Rochester-Sittingbourne contradiction&quot; in the Ellesmere order of the Tales. Suggests emendation to resolve the &quot;contradiction.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Experience, Language, and Consciousness: &#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; II, 596-931]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates a &quot;series of four scenes&quot; in TC (2.596-931) that enable readers to &quot;know what it feels like to &#039;be&#039; Criseyde,&quot; establishing a fundamental empathy with her by, unusual in the age, seeing &quot;into the mind of a woman.&quot; Examines the passage as a soliloquy, exploring its uses of folk wisdom, considering its relations with lyric poetry and novels, and assessing how it depicts the gaps among language, consciousness, and choice.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;: The Art of Amplification]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer amplifies Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; in order &quot;to expand our awareness of both the values and limitations . . . of idealized human love,&quot; using brief and long expansions as well as lengthy additions. Complexly presented, the love in TC expresses its conflicts and paradoxes as an amplified oxymoron.]]></dcterms:description>
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