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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ricardian Poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the &quot;Gawain&quot; Poet]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes the label &quot;Ricardian&quot; for the late fourteenth-century period of English literature and &quot;looks at the four chief poets of the time . . . as a group,&quot; identifying their common stylistic features, rooted in earlier English tradition of storytelling; their shared preference for narrative, exempla, narrative &quot;pointing,&quot; and frame narratives; and their &quot;essentially unheroic&quot; treatment of human beings, &quot;sometimes humorous and quite unmonumental.&quot; Despite their regional dialects, the lack of a written standard, and their divergent literary receptions, the four poets and their works constitute a period &quot;in the full literary sense&quot; of the term. Considers all of Chaucer&#039;s major poems, Gower&#039;s English poetry, and the works of Langland and the &quot;Gawain&quot; poet. Opens with a comparison with Ricardian visual art and concludes with a discussion of the poets&#039; uses of simile.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies, including subsections on texts, critical studies and commentary, biographies, bibliographies, and background reading.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer: Literary and Historical Studies]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints twenty-three essays by Braddy and five of his reviews, all initially published between 1931 and 1969, and all pertaining to Chaucer]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Monastic &#039;Acedia&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Characterization of Daun Piers]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconciles an apparent discrepancy between teller and tale in Chaucer&#039;s depiction of the Monk, arguing that the worldliness of the GP description, the exchange  in MkP, and the concern with fall through Fortune in MkT are unified by the &quot;common, perhaps the most oppressive, monastic vice--&#039;acedia&#039;&quot; which combines restlessness with disobedience, impatience, complaining, and anger.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Literary Context of Chaucer&#039;s Fabliaux: Texts and Translations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of sources and analogues of MilT, RvT, MerT, and ShT, with more limited analogous materials for SumT, ManT, and FrT, in all cases providing facing-page translations of non-English materials. Each section includes an introduction that discusses the relations between Chaucer&#039;s narratives and the analogous acounts, with comments on the legacies of the stories after Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Nat worth a boterflye&#039;: &#039;Muiopotmos&#039; and &#039;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the influence of NPT on Edmund Spenser&#039;s &quot;Muiopotmos,&quot; considering details of plot, tone, and the relative freedom of the protagonists of the two poems. Spenser emphasizes Clarion&#039;s freedom more than Chaucer does Chauntecleer&#039;s, but the butterfly is more fatefully caught than is the rooster, a reflection of early modern Protestantism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Theseus and the &#039;Right Way&#039; of the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Theseus in KnT as a character who is capable of anger, self-centeredness, pity, reason, restraint, and charity, considering him in light of Boethian philosophy and Boccaccio&#039;s characterization of Teseo in the &quot;Teseida.&quot; Central to Chaucer&#039;s character is the &quot;forgiveness scene,&quot; when Theseus finds Palamon and Arcite battling in the forest, condemns them, and then changes his mind; thereafter, Theseus &quot;represents the best an earthly king or a pilgrim should aspire to.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;To Rosemounde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the conventional nature of the imagery and diction of Ros and argues that the poem was composed to &quot;compliment&quot; and &quot;delight&quot; the child-bride of Richard II, Princess Isabelle of Valois, on the occasion of &quot;her entry into London in 1396.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272565">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women and Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the complementary relations between two &quot;fantasies&quot; about women that underlie Chaucer&#039;s Marriage Group: clerkly abuse rooted in patristic tradition (particularly Jerome) and courtly idealization rooted in &quot;fin amour&quot; (especially Jean de Meun). Argues that, taken toegther, WBPT, ClT, MerT, and FranT evince Chaucer&#039;s insistence that human love must be free and that &quot;women are the moral equals of men.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Once more unto the breach&#039;: The Meaning of &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets TC as a work in which &quot;Courtly Love and Fortune&quot; operate as &quot;complementary powers,&quot; two forms of determinism, social and cosmic respectively, inflected in equal part by the characters or personalities of the three central figures.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272563">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Further Testimony in the Matter of &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges D. W. Robertson&#039;s moral condemnations of the major characters of TC, and justifies personal affection for the character of Criseyde; presented in the pose of a legal defense against prosecution.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272562">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;: Memory and Form]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes that the &quot;primary fiction&quot; of CT is the narrator&#039;s &quot;remembered personal experience,&quot; established in the GP and providing &quot;the principle of form&quot; for the entire work: a &quot;pervasive sense of obsolescence, the passing of experience into memory.&quot; Comments on the medieval understanding of memory, the &quot;ideal&quot; portraits of GP, and the thematic unity of CT, despite its unfinished nature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272561">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Dehumanizing Metamorphoses of The Knight&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies in KnT a &quot;series of metamorphoses that expose the dehumanizing force of Venerian love,&quot; arguing that Chaucer converted Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;random collection&quot; of animal images into a &quot;formal pattern&quot; and obliquely affirmed the Boethian notion that worldly love is anti-transcendent. Similarly, the Knight&#039;s chivalric ideals are misdirected, subtly undercut by the rhetoric of &quot;occupatio&quot; throughout the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sir Thopas and Sir Thomas Norny: Romance Parody in Chaucer and Dunbar]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the nature and extent of the influence of Tho on William Dunbar&#039;s parodic romance, &quot;Sir Thomas Norny,&quot; commenting on various devices of literary and social satire.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272559">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Exegetes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the pros and cons of applying patristic criticism to the study of Chaucer, arguing for typological rather than allegorical (or tropological) analyses and discouraging limited readings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Sir Thopas&#039;: An Agony in Three Fits]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces textual and rhetorical evidence to show that Tho divides into three fits of proportionately diminishing size: eighteen stanzas, nine stanzas, and four and one-half stanzas, achieving a &quot;mathematical harmony of form.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sources of Chaucer&#039;s Summoner&#039;s &#039;Garleek, Onyons, and Eke Lekes&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies Numbers 11.5 as the primary source of the Summoner&#039;s &quot;dietary preferences&quot; for garlic, onions, and leeks in GP 1.624.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Cherry-Tree Carol&#039; and the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies similarities between the pear tree episode in MerT and the cherry tree account in an apocryphal narrative about the pregnancy of Mary, mother of Jesus. Explores parallels among various analogues, and explains how the parallels capitalize on details that occur earlier in the Merchant&#039;s narrative and heighten the audience&#039;s awareness of January&#039;s &quot;spiritual blindness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272555">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Communication: 1970 Report of the Chaucer Library Committee to the MLA Chaucer Group]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports on projects in progress and ones being encouraged by the Chaucer Library committee.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272554">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Influence of the Saint&#039;s Legend Genre in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how Chaucer&#039;s changes to Nicholas Trevet&#039;s version of the Constance narrative are influenced by the conventions of hagiography, including a tendency to allegory and heightened rhetoric. Assesses MLT as melodrama.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Proserpine: &#039;Liberatrix Suae Gentis&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the &quot;comic unity&quot; of the Pluto-Proserpine episode of MerT with the four biblical accounts women to: Rebecca, Judith, Abigail, and Esther (4.1362-74), all figures of deliverance rather than deception. By association, Proserpine should be read as the deliverer of May.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Aesopic Allusion in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the allusion to a &quot;panyer ful of herbes&quot; in MerT (4.1568) to an oral version of the apocryphal &quot;Life of Aesop,&quot; commenting on the implications of this source for the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272551">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hearing Chaucer Out: The Art of Persuasion in the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses WBT to exemplify Chaucer&#039;s combination of narrative devices characteristic of the rhetoric of oral persuasion: plot combined with exemplary materials and &quot;direct statement&quot; of theme or moral directive. WBT concerns human willfulness, evident in the rape of the maiden, concern with female desire, digressions from the plot, and the loathly lady&#039;s pillow lecture on gentilesse. If readers imagine themselves as part of the &quot;gestalt&quot; of an oral audience they can recognize the unified nature of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Research, 1970. Report No. 31]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies books and articles pertaining to Chaucer--ones in progress, completed, and/or published in 1970.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Analogue of the &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a version of the &quot;Lover&#039;s Gift Regained&quot; plot in a modern oral narrative recorded in South Carolina; comments on particular parallels with ShT.]]></dcterms:description>
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