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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Affirms Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with native English romances by identifying a number of formulaic phrases (some of them oral remnants) that recur in native romances and in a variety of Chaucer&#039;s works. Includes comments on Thop as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with English romances.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath and the Dream of Innocence]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the Wife of Bath&#039;s sense of guilt for her life of lust and rapaciousness, reading details of WBP as evidence of this guilt and WBT as a reflection of her &quot;thirst for innocence&quot; which has not been satisfied.  The characterization is a rich psychological portrait.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Helowys and the Burning of Jankyn&#039;s Book]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the likelihood of Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with Peter Abelard&#039;s &quot;Historia Calamitatum&quot; and his knowledge of the story of Heloise and Abelard via Jean de Meun, arguing that the &quot;Historia&quot; has parallels with Chaucer&#039;s treatment of virginity versus passion in WBP, the use of &quot;suster&quot; in that context (3.804), and the burning of Jankyn&#039;s book (3.816).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272194">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Historical Analogue to the &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that details of ShT may reflect historical incidents involving Pedro I (&quot;the Cruel&quot;) of Castile, his various marital scandals, and a Spanish-English naval battle near Bruges. Comments on Chaucer&#039;s connections with Spain.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272193">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Case of the Stolen Chaucer Manuscript]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recounts the details of various transactions involving the theft, acquisition, and sales of the Cardigan manuscript (now University of Texas Humanities Research Center MS 143), focusing on information derived from the papers of Henry Noble MacCracken.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James Smith and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques James Smith&#039;s essay &quot;Chaucer, Boethius, and Recent Trends in Criticism,&quot; while admiring his sensitivity to nuance in Chaucer&#039;s quotations of and allusions to Boethius in KnT and TC; argues that Smith mistakenly attributes the attitudes of characters to the author.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Letter and Gloss in the Friar&#039;s and Summoner&#039;s Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that FrT and SumT &quot;explore the question of true meaning in far-reaching ways.&quot; Concerned with &quot;externals&quot; only, the Friar&#039;s summoner ignores intention, while the Friar himself (a &quot;false glossator&quot; though described as worthy) &quot;cannot properly understand his own tale.&quot; The Summoner is &quot;no glossator at all,&quot; a non-exegete whose &quot;wholesale literalness&quot; is expressed in puns rather than spiritual meanings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; III, 624-628]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the portentousness of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and on the moon as the cause of the rainstorm in TC 3.624-28, when Criseyde decides to stay at Pandarus&#039;s home.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272189">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Language of Chaucer&#039;s Poetry: An Appraisal of the Verse, Style, and Structure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Evaluates the &quot;style and structure&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s poetry, exploring the interaction of pronunciation and versification and the limitations of medieval and modern rhetorics for describing and gauging Chaucer&#039;s techniques. Includes scansion of lines and section, attention to tone, register, precision of diction, juxtaposition, cohesion, closure, and various other stylistic and structural features. An index indicates where various topics and techniques are considered in this study.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272188">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hofkritik im England des Mittelalters and der Renaissance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critiques of court culture in English writing from John of Salisbury to Edmund Spenser; includes discussion of (pp. 124-36) of NPT as a moral-satirical narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272187">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Romance: Themes and Approaches]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the plots and concerns of medieval romances, especially those produced in France and England, seeking to characterize the genre and demonstrate its &quot;pervasiveness&quot; in medieval culture. Identifies a number of recurrent motifs, including idealization of love, concern with God and supernatural events, personal identity, and anti-naturalism. Cites Chaucer&#039;s works throughout with sustained attention to KnT, FranT, WBPT, and, most extensively, TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272186">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of the English Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys English literature produced in Britain from the late Middle Ages to the modern period. The chapter entitled &quot;The Age of Chaucer&quot; includes a section (pp. 24-32) that surveys Chaucer&#039;s life and works, emphasizing Chaucer&#039;s dexterity with characterization, his irony and humor, and his affection for humankind.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272185">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Oxford Book of Children&#039;s Verse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of samples of English verse for children, ranging from selections by Chaucer and Lydgate to works by A. A. Milne and T. S. Eliot. Includes one sample from Chaucer: &quot;Controlling the Tongue&quot; (i.e., ManT 9.319-42), in Middle English, with glosses.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272184">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Comedy in Allegory: A Study of Vision and Technique in the Chaucer Tradition from &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039; to &#039;The Faerie Queene&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Despite the apparent clash between comedy and moral allegory, writers from Chaucer to Spenser combine the two, a fusion rooted in &#039;La Roman de la Rose.&#039;  Treats BD and HF as well as works by Gower, Dunbar, Skelton, and Spenser.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272183">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Broche of Thebes&#039;: The Unity of &#039;The Complaint of Mars&#039; and &#039;The Complint of Venus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges traditional perceptions of Mars and Ven as separate poems, arguing that they are better recognized as a single work, &quot;The Broche of Thebes.&quot; Traces the history of scribal, editorial, and critical receptions of the complaints, analyzing their formal and thematic variety and reading them as a unified Christian allegory.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272182">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer: Eine Eunführung im Seine Erzählenden Dictungen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A critical description of Chaucer&#039;s major works (except LGW) that focuses on narrative techniques, genres, treatments of source materials, stylistic registers, varieties of audience, and the engagement of audiences through experimentation and the manipulation of conventions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272181">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wissenschaft und Dichtung bei Chaucer: Dargestellt Hauptsächlich am Beispiel der Medzin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s knowledge of medieval sciences, especially astrology and medicine, arguing that CYPT and the Physician&#039;s materials indicate that Chaucer &quot;had no expert knowledge of these sciences.&quot;  Seeks nevertheless to gauge his attitude toward scientific learning, considering dream psychology in HF, lovers&#039; malady in TC and KnT, and physiognomy as a device of realistic characterization in GP, arguing that in each case he &quot;extended the expressive possibilities of existing literary conventions.&quot; Includes a summary in English (pp. 381-84).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poetry of the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s &quot;poetic powers&quot; are consistently evident throughout CT and that the formal qualities of his poetry are as important to his high reputation as are his wit and humane sensibility. Reads CT sequentially, tale by tale, focusing on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;command of language and his grasp of the complex workings of poetic implication that enable him to communicate his subtle perceptions so well.&quot; Recurrent attention to diction, syntax, stylistic registers, imagery, and various prosodic features.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272179">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hesitant Wolf &amp; Scrupulous Fox: Fables Selected from World Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of brief fables and fable-like poems, narratives, and literary selections from various cultures and epochs. Includes John Dryden&#039;s &quot;The Cock and the Fox Or, The Tale of the Nun&#039;s Priest, from Chaucer&quot; (pp. 191-217) as an example of a &quot;long tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petrarkistische Lyric]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the influence of Petrarchan materials and traditions in European literature of various eras, including brief comments (p. 45) on Chaucer&#039;s uses of Petrarchan materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272177">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Algunas Analogias Entre El Arcipreste de Hita y Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies various similarities between Chaucer&#039;s works and that of Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita, comparing techniques  and concerns of Ruiz&#039;s &quot;Libro de Buen Amor&quot; with CT, TC, and other Chaucerian works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272176">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Processes of Characterisation in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies Chaucer&#039;s techniques of characterization in TC and explores how and where he &quot;manipulates his characters in the interest of his theme,&quot; identifying differences between his major characters (especially Troilus) and their sources in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and explaining how Chaucer&#039;s narrator helps to shape perception of the characters and the theme of love.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272175">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Five Genres in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how and where features of various genres inform the characterization, tone, atmosphere, and meaning of ClT, treating it as a scene in the &quot;Canterbury drama,&quot; an exemplum of worldly and cosmic obedience, a fairy tale, a realistic novella, and an anagogic figurative narrative. Includes recurrent attention to Chaucer&#039;s sources in Boccaccio and Petrarchan, to Marian imagery, and to the Clerk as humorist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272174">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Sentence of It Sooth Is&#039;: Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats PhyT as an instance of Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;indirection&quot; when applying a moral to an exemplary narrative. Like ManT in this respect (also ClT, NPT, and part of TC), and unlike its analogues in Livy, Gower, and the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; PhyT closes with an interpretation that is inconsistent with its action; it thereby highlights a theme of the tragic nature of the world &quot;where personal knowledge of sin is the best qualification for a parent, guardian, or judge.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner and the Mass]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;distorted reflection or negative image&quot; of the Christian mass in PardPT and in the GP description of the Pardoner, showing how the language, imagery, and details of the liturgy of the mass run throughout the Pardoner&#039;s materials, perverting traditional interpretations of the mass, Eucharistic sacrifice, and the crucifixion. Draws traditional material from Amalarius, William Durandus, and Pope Innocent III.]]></dcterms:description>
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