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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Friar&#039;s Summoner&#039;s Dilemma]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The summoner in FrT is &quot;damned if he does and damned if he doesn&#039;t&quot; repent because the old lady&#039;s curse (3.1628-29) condemns him if he fails to repent and his own self-curse (3.1610-11) condemns him if he does.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Simon in the &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the referent for &quot;Seint Symoun&quot; of SumT 3.2094 as Simon Magus, commenting on echoes between the tale and legends of Simon.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Science and Sensibility in Chaucer&#039;s Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that ClT reveals the teller&#039;s &quot;professional, speculative turn of mind&quot; in contrast with the Wife of Bath&#039;s &quot;rigorous sort of pragmatism,&quot; commenting on the Clerk&#039;s &quot;academic terminology,&quot; his academic &quot;awkwardness,&quot; and Walter&#039;s trial of Griselda as a &quot;scholastic problem of motion.&quot; Comments on scholastic nuances of &quot;sadness,&quot; &quot;patience,&quot; and &quot;proving&quot; or &quot;assaying.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swich love of frendes: Pandarus and Troilus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the &quot;growth and decline&quot; of friendship between Troilus and Pandarus in TC as an ongoing commentary on the love affair between Troilus and Criseyde; both relationships indicate worldly impermanence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Satiric Mode and the &#039;Parson&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the GP establishes a comic-satirical tone for the CT that is &quot;indirect . . . shifting and multiple.&quot; In this light, ParsT &quot;represents a way of seeing the world,&quot; but not the only one; the standard posed by the Parson is not an absolute gauge of the vices and virtues of the other Pilgrims and he may be seen as somewhat pedantic.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[And of Great Reverence: Chaucer&#039;s Man of Law]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;interstitial pattern of errors about things literary&quot; in MLPT that characterize the teller as a &quot;not-quite scholar&quot; and highlight a tension between his &quot;rhetorical excess and religious exhibitionism&quot; and his penchant for legalisms, especially clear when seen in light of source material. Like the Prioress, the Man of Law shows his self-righteousness in his characterizations and punishments of non-Christians; further, he is a &quot;pharisaical legalist&quot; inspired partially by &quot;Wycliffite polemics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272542">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Context of the &#039;Book of the Duchess:&#039; A New Hypothesis]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges traditional dating of BD and identifications of its characters, arguing for 1377 as a date of composition (eight years after the death of Blanche) and reading Octovyen as both Edward III and John of Gaunt, the Black Knight as a younger Chaucer, and the narrator as the Chaucer who is contemporary with the poem and seeking patronage through it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272541">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Thys litel tretys&#039; Again]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the meanings and referents of &quot;tretys&quot; in MelP and in Ret, suggesting that the first usage is not particularly doctrinal and that the second refers to ParsT rather than CT as a whole.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272540">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tale&#039; and the King&#039;s Hall, Cambridge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the literary and historical implications of identifying &quot;Soler Hall&quot; in RvT (1.3990) as King&#039;s Hall, Cambridge. Favors the variant &quot;Scoler.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272539">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Climax in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that we do not know whether or not Damian completed the act of copulation in the pear tree of MerT, impregnating May, despite Emerson Brown&#039;s claims that he did neither. More important are the facts that January has been cuckolded and that he thinks May pregnant.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272538">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Secte&#039; and &#039;Suit&#039; Again: Chaucer and Langland]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cites examples from Middle English literary texts to support reading &quot;secte&quot; as meaning &quot;petition&quot; or legal suit in ClT 4.1171, referring to the Wife of Bath&#039;s argument.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272537">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Champ Semantique de l&#039;Erotique dans les &#039;Contes de Canterbury de Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Quantitative linguistic analysis of the erotic language in CT, charting and analyzing various forms of usage and usage by individual pilgrims.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272536">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[I Racconti di Canterbury]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Selections from CT adapted for film, including portions or versions of GP, MerT, CkT, MilT, WBP, RvT, PardT, SumPT, and additional ribald material. Screenplay by Pasolini. Available with sub-titles and/or dubbing in various languages, including English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272535">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Spek wel of love&#039;: The Role of Women in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Legend of Good Women&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads LGW as an ironic, comic poem that offers a positive view of women in LGWP and in the legends themselves.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272534">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Spiritual Marriage: The Exegetic History and Literary Impact of the Song of Songs in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies commentaries on the biblical Song of Songs written before the sixteenth century, and explores the motif of spiritual marriage in various literary works, including works by Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272533">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Animals with Human Faces: A Guide to Animal Symbolism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An alphabetical listing of animals, mythical and actual, with discussion of their iconography and symbolism in oriental, classical, biblical, and medieval traditions. The index includes nineteen references to Chaucer and his works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Bawdy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An alphabetical glossary of obscene, sexual, and scatological references, puns, and allusions in Chaucer&#039;s works. Individual entries define and analyze the terms and phrases, providing bibliographical citations to previous critical discussions; the introduction discusses bawdiness and comedy in Chaucer. Includes a line index to bawdiness in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Canzoniere&#039; of Petrarch: Selected Poems Translated into English Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes comments on the Song of Troilus (TC 1.400-420) as a translation from Petrarch.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272530">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Compleat Dancing Master]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a selection from Rom, read by Gary Watson.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272529">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Scribal Art of Transmission: A Study of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Tradition in Nineteen Manuscripts Containing Selected Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the presentations of selections from CT in nineteen fifteenth-century manuscripts, and explores what these presentations indicate about understandings of the tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272528">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Thought]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers evidence in CT and TC that Chaucer was influenced by Thomas Bradwardine, often mediated by John Wyclif, and that he shares outlooks with John of Gaunt, John Gower, and Ralph Strode.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272527">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Breton Lays]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272526">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;: Chaucer&#039;s Myth of Love]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defends the notion that TC presents an ambivalent view of human love, grand yet transitory, arguing that this ambivalence is rooted in Chaucer&#039;s treatment of love as mythic material.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272525">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Celestial Journey and the Harmony of the Spheres in English Literature, 1300-1700]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recurrently linked with the neo-Platonic notion of the harmony of the spheres, the dream-vision motif of the celestial journey recurs in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272524">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wanderer and Arcite: Isolation and the Continuity of the English Elegiac Mode]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
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