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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Skepticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Asserts that details of astrology, astronomy, and mythology in BD, TC, and CT evince Chaucer&#039;s confused and skeptical views of Christianity, commenting on passages from LGW and CT. Available at http://nobleworld.biz/images/Mohammed_Raji.pdf (last accessed October 1, 2018). ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fourteen essays by various hands.  For individual essays,  of volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Tales : A Question of Genre]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s religious tales (Mel, ParsT, ClT, MLT, PrT, SNT, PhyT, MkT) are &quot;predicated upon the assumption that the significance of human life is the transcending of its secular limitation through Christian faith.&quot;  The only tales in CT not written in pentameter couplets, these tales have been systematically  marginalized to &quot;relieve&quot; Chaucer &quot;of full responsibility for tales that the modern reader has little taste for.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Religious Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the sentimental charm of PrT that conflicts with its narrator&#039;s &quot;hatred of the Jews,&quot; and upon the combination of &quot;touching sentiment&quot; and &quot;mechanical&quot; rhetoric in MLT. Then considers the &quot;poignant emotion&quot; and pathos of ClT as they help to convey clearly and effectively the &quot;Christian patience&quot; that is the Clerk&#039;s &quot;doctrine.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Repentance: A Likely Story]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The unadorned, unironic ParsT is what Chaucer wanted for the ending to CT.  The Ricardian pattern of sickness, pilgrimage, and penitence shows why Thomas Gascoigne&#039;s narrative of Chaucer&#039;s deathbed retraction of his writings is a likely story, or not as unlikely as it might first appear.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265287">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Repetends from the General Prologue of &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lancashire uses computer-assisted analysis to tabulate recurring words and phrases in Chaucer&#039;s writings.  The frequency and patterns of repeated words and their collocations identify Chaucer&#039;s preoccupations, distinctive features of his writing and methods of composition, and evidence for the chronology of his works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262654">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Representations of Posture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Favorable descriptions of persons in heroic writings generally emphasize gross size, erect posture, and directness in approach, whereas courtly texts, such as Chaucer&#039;s, represent largeness as unattractive or unrefined.  The latter clearly value humble bearing and indirection in both women and men.  Discusses TC, CT, and PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272269">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Reputation in the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Chaucer&#039;s reputation among critics, editors, modernizers, and linguists between 1660 and 1800.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265918">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Request for Money in the Man of Law&#039;s Prologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares MLP to its source in Innocent III&#039;s &quot;De miseria condicionis humane&quot; and to &quot;Purse&quot; to argue that MLP was originally written for Chaucer to read before a group of merchants to ask for payment.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261559">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Reticent Merchant]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reticence shapes the relations between narrator and audience in the Merchant&#039;s portrait in GP, where the importance of the unexpressed first surfaces, and in MerT.  The rhetorical figure of reticence depends on the reader&#039;s cooperation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277305">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and Mediaeval Canons of Seemliness.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes medieval and modern notions of &quot;seemliness&quot;--a sociological concern distinct from legality and morality--and clarifies medieval ideas of linguistic, sartorial, aesthetic, and marital propriety in CT, observing a &quot;gap&quot; between what is &quot;seemly&quot; and what is &quot;morally acceptable&quot; concerning marriage. Explores standards of seemliness as they are reflected in Th and Mel, in the views of other tales expressed by Chaucer-narrator, and in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and the Degree of Completeness of the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that a &quot;shift to extreme piety&quot; in ParsPT and Ret had &quot;nothing to do with&quot; Chaucer&#039;s &quot;general plan&quot; for CT, which the poet considered to be &quot;a nearly complete work.&quot; Considers evidence of changes in Chaucer&#039;s plan and justifies them largely in terms of his &quot;dramatic method,&quot; addressing &quot;seventeen successive passages which refer to [and indicate ongoing changes in] the general scheme proposed by the Host for the trip.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276348">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction and the Parson.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on ParsT as a &quot;literary embodiment of the attitude&quot; the Parson expressed in the GP &quot;as well as the attitude Chaucer reveals&quot; in Ret, suggesting that &quot;the Chaucer of the Retraction is also the Parson of the Tales, by means of whom he satisfies both his artistic and literary consciences.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275378">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Retraction: A Review of Opinion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critics&#039; attempts to correlate Ret with Chaucer&#039;s poetic accomplishments, commenting on biographical surmises, textual issues, and thematic concerns such as the putative waning of Chaucer&#039;s acuity, clerical influence, the firm linking of Ret and ParsT in the manuscripts, the theme of penance, and/or rejection of worldly attachments. The authenticity of Ret is generally accepted in modern criticism and the poem may reflect Chaucer&#039;s &quot;anxiety&quot; or an unresolved tension between his ascetic and humanistic inclinations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274853">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Return from Lombardy, the Shrine of St. Leonard at Hythe, and the &quot;corseynt Leonard&quot; in the &quot;House of Fame.&quot; Lines 112-18.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the significance of Chaucer&#039;s travels through Kent. Claims that HF resonates with the cult and Church of St. Leonard in Kent.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264280">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Revaluation of Chivalric Honor]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although the prevailing code of honor was belligerent, Chaucer&#039;s dissatisfaction with this aggressive style is subtly indicated in Truth, Mars, Th, and KnT by presentation of &quot;heroic&quot; actions and martial &quot;worshippe&quot; as slightly ridiculous.  In Mel, Prudence demonstrates that true &quot;honour&quot; lies in man&#039;s control over himself.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Revision of &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[R. K. Root&#039;s theory of how the text of TC underwent authorial revision, thus resulting in a number of significant variants between the manuscript groups, has been challenged by Barry A. Windeatt (1984) and Ralph Hanna (1986).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Root clearly went too far in trying to explain these variants with a single hypothesis.  However, the skepticism of Windeatt and Hanna goes too far in the other direction.  Undoubtedly, Chaucer made revisions, but when or how they came about we cannot claim to know.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266588">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Revision of the Prologue to &#039;The Legend of Good Women&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the original (F) version with the revised (G) version of LGWP, commenting on stages of transmission of G--from its composition to the extant manuscript Cambridge University Library Gg 4.27.  Hypothesizes that Chaucer revised LGWP as a separate work after Henry IV&#039;s usurpation, imitating Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and motivated by political and aesthetic concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263247">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Rhetorical Rendition of Mind: &#039;The Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Apparent artistic infelicities and a concern with surface style reflect the Squire&#039;s immature mind, unformed tastes, and youthful impatience.  SqT is not badly written or unfinished.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276538">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Rhetorical Violence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces &quot;gendered protocols of violence that have been inherited through literary interpretive practices as they are represented in Chaucer&#039;s corpus.&quot; Argues that &quot;acts of reading, writing, and translation can function as forms of violence in medieval literature.&quot; Focuses on ClT, PhyT, ManT, and TC, with a chapter on pedagogical applications.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263374">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Rhyme Royal Tales and the Secularization of the Saint]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[By his choice of stanza Chaucer invites us to compare four tales: SNT, PrT, MLT, ClT, each an elevated tale of saintly suffering involving impingement of secularism upon the saintly ideal.  Completed earlier, PhyT is not in rhyme royal.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272398">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Riding Rhyme]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s poetry should be declaimed or at least heard with the &quot;mind&#039;s ear.&quot; His decasyllabic couplets, once dismissed by critics as &quot;riding rhyme&quot; and even confused with the doggerel of Th, are &quot;eminently playable,&quot; offering a variety of phonological and semantic possibilities. Rhyme, enjambment, and caesurae contribute to Chaucer&#039;s conversational style in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Roman Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s two tales set in ancient Rome--PhyT and SNT--maintaining that each is &quot;particularly concerned with political corruption&quot;; &quot;the depravity of those who wield the state&#039;s power has quite undermined it.&quot;  Hirsh notes a possible &quot;progression&quot; in certain late tales, which &quot;give evidence of a growing authorial disinclination to privilege the ideal and ordered, but rather to engage the incongruous,the eccentric, and palpably false or unjust.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Romances]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer transcended and transgressed the commonly accepted conventions of &quot;romance&quot;: Th parodies the genre, while BD elevates its status by associating romance with classical works. Th, KnT, SqT, FranT, and WBT reflect a variety of approaches to romance. In TC, Chaucer combines realism and romance and raises &quot;existential questions relating to free will, faith, and transience.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261489">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Romaunt of the Rose, Parts I and II]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A Japanese prose translation of Rom, based on The Riverside Chaucer.  Includes notes.]]></dcterms:description>
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