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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Negotiating Violence at the Feast in Medieval British Texts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[From Elmes&#039;s abstract: &quot;Making use of theoretical underpinnings from anthropology and history that characterize the feast as a culturally essential event and medieval violence as a rational and strategically-employed tool of constraint, coercion, and manipulation, I convert the essentially historical question of the cultural importance of feasts into a literary one by close reading feasting scenes and their aftermath in order to consider how the writers in medieval England used the motif of violence at or following the feast to illuminate, critique, and offer correction to social, political, and religious issues tied to the specific concerns of justice, loyalty, and treason within a community. Looking at texts ranging from the Anglo-Saxon epic &#039;Beowulf,&#039; the Welsh &#039;Mabinogion,&#039; and Latin &#039;Historia Regum Britanniae&#039; to chronicle-based works by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower, the Middle English Arthurian romances &#039;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#039; and Sir Thomas Malory&#039;s &#039;Le Morte Darthur,&#039; the Old Norse &#039;Clari&#039;s Saga,&#039; and outlaw tales of Robin Hood, Gamelyn, and Hereward the Wake, I demonstrate through a comparative approach centered on interpretation and analysis supported with contextual historical evidence that violence associated with the feast is typically presented according to genre expectations and mirrors cultural anxieties that are specific to the community in which and for which a given text was produced.&quot; Includes analysis of the &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&quot; and its analogues, and comments on the apocryphal &quot;Tale of Gamelyn.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Urban Chaucer: Fragmented Fellowships and Troubled Teleologies in Some Late Fourteenth-Century Texts.<br />
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;This thesis examines the depiction of social antagonism in certain texts written in the 1380s and 1390s, in the London area. It focuses on Chaucer, looking at &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039; and the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039; alongside other, contemporary texts. These include Thomas Usk&#039;s &#039;Testament of Love,&#039; the guild returns of 1388-89, the letters accusing three London aldermen of betraying the city in 1381, &#039;St. Erkenwald,&#039; Richard Maidstone&#039;s &#039;Concordia,&#039; and John Gower&#039;s &#039;Vox clamantis.&#039; Most critics have assumed that Chaucer&#039;s vision of society, or of social possibility, was benign. Critics writing from diverse perspectives and in various periods, have generally agreed that Chaucer&#039;s texts promote an idea of coherence, and that the author was genial and optimistic. In contrast, I argue that Chaucer&#039;s texts depict social groups as essentially fragmentary and antagonistic, and offer no hope for social - or personal - redemption. In Troilus and Criseyde, the city, and fellowship, are shown to be debased and self-seeking; equally, the Canterbury &#039;compaignye&#039; is a destructive, anti-social group. Both of these works challenge an idea of teleology by suggesting that there is no final goal for society, and both refuse to offer a sense of progress or closure.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277214">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sundial.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777: &quot;What is this world?&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277213">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Divided &quot;I&quot;: Narrative Voice and Performance Dynamics in Late Fourteenth-Century English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s works &quot;reflect an increasing awareness of the fragility of the author&#039;s implied voice and the dangers of misprision in a listening reception,&quot; largely an effect of the rise of English as a written language and tensions between the reading of texts and their oral performances. Addresses BD, PF, HF, TC, and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277212">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Road to Canterbury.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this &quot;continually updated,&quot; interactive  historical novel involves Chaucer and Philippa de Roet on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the reader joining the pilgrimage and helping to shape the plot.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277211">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer as a Prose Writer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the &quot;characteristics&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s prose style in Bo, Mel,  ParT, and Astr, comparing and contrasting them, and arguing that his reputation as a prose stylist has suffered because of linguistic changes and changes in taste.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277210">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studies in Chaucer&#039;s Imagery.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ranges throughout Chaucer&#039;s corpus, exploring imagery in a wide variety of works, arranged in five chapters: &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Imagery and the Colors of Rhetoric,&quot; &quot;The Appropriateness of the Subject Matter in Chaucer&#039;s Imagery,&quot; &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Treatment of Derived Imagery,&quot; &quot;The Imagery of Chaucer&#039;s Portraits,&quot; and &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Attitude Toward Imagery.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277209">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Chaucer&#039;s possible access to Dante&#039;s works before traveling to Italy in 1372, and explores the &quot;literary relationship of the two writers,&quot; arguing that &quot;Chaucer drew on Dante not heavily but over many years,&quot; principally for the Ugolino episode of MkT, along with &quot;striking images&quot; and the &quot;lyric expression of religious adoration&quot; found in the &quot;Commedia,&quot; but also for the &quot;discussion of nobleness&quot; in &quot;Convivio&quot; 4.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277208">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucers Stellung in der Mittelalterlichen Literatur.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys courtly virtues in Chaucer (&quot;courtoisie,&quot; &quot;franchise,&quot; &quot;gentillesse,&quot; &quot;honour,&quot; &quot;joie,&quot; &quot;pitie,&quot; etc.) and the vices which are grounded in pride and the pursuits of fortune. Focuses on KnT when examining the virtues and on the fabliaux for the vices, recurrently comparing Chaucer&#039;s materials with their sources. Includes a survey of courtliness in high medieval literature and a comparison of Chaucer&#039;s courtliness, humor, and humanness and those of later English writers up to and including Dickens.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277207">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Two Texts of the &quot;Disticha Catonis&quot; and Its Commentary, with Special Reference to Chaucer, Langland, and Gower.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits &quot;two glossed texts&quot; of the &quot;Disticha Catonis,&quot; constructed for use by students of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. The Introduction juxtaposes passages from their poetry with &quot;Catonian materials&quot; to indicate the &quot;poets&#039; indebtedness&quot; to the text and the commentary that accrued to it. Texts derived from Bodleian Library, Canonici Classical MS. 72 and Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277205">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Middle English: Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1954 divided into four sections: General, CT, TC, and Other Works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277204">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Artistry in Troilus and Criseyde: A Study of Chronology, Structure, Characterization, and Purpose.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares TC with Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato,&quot; arguing that Chaucer &quot;adapted more portions&quot; of it &quot;than has previously been noticed,&quot; subordinating formulas, conventions, thematic concerns, and moral concerns to artful construction and &quot;psychological realism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277203">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Le Jaloux&quot; and History: A Study in Mediaeval Comic Convention.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Places the medieval &quot;Jaloux tale&quot; in &quot;its philosophic and historical framework,&quot; rooted in the marriage controversies of Sts. Augustine and Jerome with the Pelagians, Manichee, and Jovinians Traces the tradition in French humanists of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and in Chaucer&#039;s tales of deceived husbands--those of the Miller, Reeve, Manciple, Shipman, and Merchant--where they are used comically.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277202">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Clash and the Fusion of Medieval and Renaissance Elements in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Aligns Chaucer&#039;s style, themes, and characterization in TC with Renaissance humanism more than with medieval conventions, genres, and rhetoric, arguing that the poem anticipates the &quot;poetry of Shakespeare&#039;s century&quot; in its fusing realism, epic, and tragedy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277201">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chapters Toward a Study of Chaucer&#039;s Knowledge of Geography.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses &quot;source relationships of geographical matters&quot; in Chaucer. Chaucer&#039;s cosmography and its sources, and other &quot;geographical matters,&quot; arguing that Chaucer &quot;makes more frequent use of geography than do most of his contemporaries.&quot; Focuses on PF, TC, and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277200">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pilgrims: Three Studies in the Real and the Ideal.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;historical background&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s Monk, Clerk, and Physician, comparing their characterizations with historical personages. Argues that the Monk is &quot;probably either Benedictine or Cistercian,&quot; and &quot;primarily realistic&quot; rather than satiric. Suggests five personages upon whom the Clerk may have been modeled, and characterizes him as a &quot;remarkable blend of the real and the ideal.&quot; Also assesses historical models for the &quot;primarily realistic&quot; Physician whose tale is &quot;strikingly appropriate&quot; to its teller.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277199">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Irony Through Imagery: A Chaucerian Technique Studied in Relation to Sources, Analogues and the Dicta of Medieval Rhetoric.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that Chaucer uses &quot;rhetorical figures . . .  [to] produce imagery,&quot; analyzing the &quot;use of imagery&quot; in FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, and MilT--in comparison with sources, where available--and focusing on how he uses imagery to  create ironic effects not found in his sources or rhetorical theory]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277198">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Opowieści Kanterberyjskie: Wybór. [Canterbury Tales: Selections]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Margaret Schlauch wrote an Introduction and that Witold Chwalewik edited the commentary in this Polish translation of selections from CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Cattes Tale:&quot; A Chaucer Apocryphon.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers perspective on affiliations of Elizabeth and Alice Chaucer with Barking Abbey; comments on cats in late-medieval literature (CT, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and more); identifies &quot;Gyb&quot; as a conventional name for a cat; and explores international versions of the folk-tale &quot;Dick Whittington&#039;s Cat.&quot; Frames these materials with a whimsical explication of a &quot;lost&quot; (fabricated?) description--quoted here--of the Prioress&#039;s cat in GP and a related &quot;Catte&#039;s Tale,&quot; reputedly found by John Leland in a manuscript once held at Barking. The Chaucer Review editors forewarn readers of the whimsy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277196">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Knights.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that &quot;After Chaucer&quot; follows the title on p. 6 of this volume--perhaps indicating a version of KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277195">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Opowieśc Kanterberyjskie.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. Publisher&#039;s website indicates that this is the an &quot;edition of the first complete translation [into Polish] of &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;&quot; [rugie wydanie pierwszego kompletnego przekładu &quot;Opowieści kanterberyjskich&quot;].]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277194">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Opowieść Młynarza [The Miller&#039;s Tale]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. The journal&#039;s website supplies tables of contents, indicating that this is a translation of MilT into Polish.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277193">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Whyte&#039;s woodcut illustrations adorn the endpapers and text of Coghill&#039;s modernization (published originally by Penguin, 1951, often reprinted).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277192">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Allas, Myn Hertes Queene: For Male Chorus, a Cappella.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a printed reproduction for rehearsal, for four male voices. Evidently a musical setting for KnT 1.2775ff.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277191">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;O Sentence&quot; in the &quot;Hous of Fame.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that Chaucer indicates that there is a &quot;single theme&quot; in HF, arguing that &quot;Distrust of worldly felicity . . . is Chaucer&#039;s &#039;o sentence&#039;,&quot; and hypothesizing that the poem &quot;was written for a New Year&#039;s entertainment.&quot; Cites several contemporaneous poems that associate the New Year with &quot;general optimism,&quot; which Chaucer treats ironically in HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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