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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Physiognomy and Characterization in the &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets details of physiognomy in the characterizations of Alison and Absolon in MilT; hers indicate her &quot;availability&quot;; his, his timidity and foppishness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272611">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bartenders in Eliot and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that T. S. Eliot&#039;s &quot;The Wasteland&quot; echoes RvT 1.3889-3898, where Chaucer &quot;personifies Death as a bartender.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272610">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Polylithic Romance: With Pages of Illustrations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes a &quot;taxonomy&quot; of medieval romance, which is epitomized by &quot;chivalric romance,&quot; but ranges widely in mode, tone, and motif from &quot;proto-romance&quot; to &quot;counter-romance.&quot; Characterizes various forms and sub-forms and includes tabular anatomies of &quot;Modes and Aspects&quot; in TC, the variety of &quot;Emerging Aspects&quot; of KnT, and the &quot;Genre Patterns&quot; of &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Metrical and Stylistic Study of &#039;The Tale of Gamelyn&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes and analyzes the versification of &quot;The Tale of Gamelyn,&quot; arguing that its &quot;prosodic system . . . falls somewhere between&quot; those of Chaucer and of &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272608">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature: A Festschrift [Honoring Troy C. Crenshaw, Lorraine Sherley, Ruth Speer Angell]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes three essays that pertain to Chaucer, one previously printed. For the two new essays, search for Studies in Medieval Renaissance American Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hodge of Ware and Geber&#039;s Cook: Wordplay in the &#039;Manciple&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates details and images of the Cook in ManP to argue for a &quot;three-fold elaboration&quot;: the besotted Cook is a &quot;victim of obsession with drink&quot; who exhibits the pallor of the love-lorn knight which is also the paleness of the alchemical fire-tender of CYP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272606">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[January, Knight of Lombardy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the plot of French fabliau &quot;Bérenger au long cul&quot; and suggests that it helps to &quot;explain the background upon which Chaucer was drawing when he decided to make January a knight of Lombardy&quot; in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Rule and the Norm: Halle and Keyser on Chaucer&#039;s Meter]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser&#039;s theory of Chaucer&#039;s iambic pentameter (particularly their application of the notion of &quot;stress-maximum&quot;), and poses a theoretical distinction between &quot;norms&quot; and &quot;rules&quot; in discussing prosodic practice, especially as modified by actual reading performance. Reprinted with a &quot;Discussion of Wimsatt&#039;s Paper&quot; by various unnamed commentators in Seymour Chatman, ed. Literary Style: A Symposium (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 197-220.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Daun Piers and the Rule of St. Benedict: The Failure of an Ideal]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Monk as the &quot;satiric consummation of all possible monastic faults,&quot; analyzing him in light of the &quot;seven points of disciple&quot; of the Rule of St. Benedict (obedience, poverty, celibacy, propertylessness, labor, claustration, and proper diet) and showing where details and nuances in his character contrast with monastic strictures.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Source for the &#039;Remedia&#039; of the Parson&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Demonstrates that Chaucer&#039;s source for the remedial virtues offered as antidotes to the vices in ParsT is a Latin treatise here titled &quot;Postquam&quot; that often appears with material from Peraldus&#039;s &quot;Summa de Vitiis,&quot; the major source of the Tale. Describes the treatise, identifies known manuscripts, and offers in flanking columns parallel materials from it and from ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Locus Amoenus&#039; and Eschatological Lore in the &#039;Parliament of Fowls,&#039; 204-10]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that Chaucer&#039;s description of the garden in PF 204-10, part of the tradition of &quot;locus amoenus,&quot; also &quot;engages the conventional elements and rhetorical style of medieval pictures of heaven or paradise.&quot; Such adjustments to Boccaccio&#039;s description in his &quot;Teseida&quot; add spiritual dimension.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imprisoning and Ensnarement in &#039;Troilus&#039; and &#039;The Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the imagery and diction of hunting, snaring, imprisoning, and entrapment in TC and KnT, showing how it informs the concern with destiny, freedom, and interpersonal manipulation in the poems.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272600">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Moral&#039; Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges Chaucer&#039;s attitude toward &quot;reason and revelation,&quot; and argues that &quot;one of the structural principles&quot; of CT is the &quot;pursuit of moral wisdom,&quot; particularly in movement from KnT to ParsT and in the image of pilgrimage.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272599">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Storie,&#039; &#039;Spelle,&#039; &#039;Geste,&#039; &#039;Romaunce,&#039; &#039;Tragedie&#039;: Generic Distinctions in the Middle English Troy Narratives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the ways in which various genre terms are used in Middle English narratives about Troy, including TC where &quot;tragedie&quot; is consistently applied to the narrative. Comments on Latin and French usage and on terms applied to Chaucer&#039;s other works to help clarify nuances of the various individual labels.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Some Generic Distinctions in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s uses of narrative terms, such as &quot;storie,&quot; &quot;tale,&quot; &quot;fable,&quot; &quot;tretys,&quot; &quot;tragedye,&quot; &quot;legend,&quot; etc.,&quot; focusing on their relative degrees of exposition, fictionality, and historicity and the faithfulness of the narratives to source material.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Retractions&#039;: The Conclusion of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039; and Its Place in Literary Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s Ret as an adaptation of rhetorical and literary conventions of prologue, epilogue, and literary confession, arguing that his uses of the conventions in both ParsP and Ret indicate that he is resisting traditional rejections of secular literature and that he is &quot;viewing the problem&quot; of religious versus secular poetry &quot;with ironic and humorous detachment.&quot; Rejects readings of Ret that treat it as sincere autobiography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Language of Renaissance Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks to &quot;ascertain why the diction of poetry from Chaucer to Milton has a distinct character, and one unlikely to be revived.&quot; Chapter 2, &quot;Chaucer and His Successors&quot; (pp. 28-38), assesses Chaucer as &quot;the first English poet with a style recognizably his own,&quot; considering issues of style and versification and the establishment of a &quot;Chaucerian tradition.&quot; Comments on Chaucer&#039;s influence on Renaissance writers occur throughout the volume.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272595">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Reputation of Criseyde, 1155-1500]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Details the early, negative reputation of Criseyde in Chaucer&#039;s sources for TC, and discusses how Chaucer capitalizes upon this reputation in tension with the narrator&#039;s positive view of her in his poem in order to engage his audience. Also discusses how later medieval depictions of Criseyde react to Chaucer&#039;s characterization and narrative technique.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272594">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Epic]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses classical, medieval, early modern, and modern examples of literary works that have been defined as &quot;epic,&quot; seeking to demonstrate the uses and development of the term.  Includes discussion of &quot;Langland and Chaucer&quot; (pp. 41-44) as part of the &quot;New Form&quot; of epic developed in the Middle Ages. CT and Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; are both examples of the &quot;long poem&quot; in English that are not part of the &quot;central line of epic.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272593">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Confessional Prologue and the Topography of the Canon&#039;s Yeoman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a tripartite pattern in several of the Canterbury narratives (introduction, confessional prologue, and tale), applying it to CYPT. Comparisons with WBPT, MerPT, and PardPT illuminate the structure of CYPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the Pseudo Origen &#039;De Maria Magdalena&#039;: A Preliminary Study]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the dating, authorship, textual history, and medieval popularity of &quot;De Maria Magdelena,&quot; attributed to Origen, as a basis for exploring Chaucer&#039;s use of it in his &quot;Orygenes upon the Maudeleyne,&quot; cited in LGWP F427 (G418) and here regarded as an early work. Includes a checklist of Latin manuscripts of the sermon.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272591">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Black Knight as King of the Castle in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the referent for &quot;this king&quot; in BD 1314 is the Black Knight as a figure in the poem&#039;s chess conceit.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272590">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath And the Problem of Mastery]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Wife of Bath is a &quot;psychologically complex character&quot; and that WBPT reveal that she desires, not mastery per se, but &quot;&#039;that thing which she does not have&#039;&quot; (italics in original), signaling a discrepancy between what she &quot;thinks she wants and what she &#039;really&#039; wants.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Doctor&#039;s Dilemma: A Comic View of the &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Physician of GP as &quot;inscrutable,&quot; although &quot;smelling mildly of hypocrisy,&quot; and argues that the &quot;narrative uneasiness&quot; of PhyT is well suited to this &quot;man of the world [who] seeks to mask his worldliness in affected piety.&quot; The Jephthah exemplum of PhyT reflects the teller&#039;s &quot;morally disarranged imagination&quot; and the moralization of the Tale discloses that his espousal of a moral consciousness is a &quot;sham.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies in Chaucer and Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprints forty-one essays by Kuhl, originally published between 1914 and 1960, brought together to celebrate Kuhl&#039;s ninetieth birthday. Twenty-one of the essays pertain to Chaucer, many dealing with biographical details, life records, and allusions to his works. The volume includes a preface and brief annotations of the essays, but no index. Compiled by Elizabeth K. Belting.]]></dcterms:description>
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