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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pilgrimage: Chaucer&#039;s Ernest Game]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer &quot;creates a literary imitation of a real pilgrimage&quot; in CT, exploring the extent to which this enables him to accommodate the sacred and social, a version of the medieval &quot;earnest and game&quot; topos. Focuses on WBPT and PardPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272045">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Marriage Journey: Dream Vision Romance Structures and Epithalamic Conventions in Medieval Latin and French Poems and in Medieval English Dream Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s dream poems in the context of  &quot;epithalamic conventions&quot; found in medieval French dream poems and their sources, exploring similarities of &quot;structure, imagery, and theme.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272044">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Literary Relations of Chaucer&#039;s Shipman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the source of ShT is Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; and that their several differences were &quot;made necessary by Chaucer&#039;s alteration of the ending.&quot; Chaucer gave his tale the &quot;superficial appearance of a French fabliau&quot; in order to critique the genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272043">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Love, Salvation and Order in the &#039;Libro de Buen Amor&#039; and &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies how the movement from divine to mundane love is bridged by figural allegory in CT (especially PardPT) and in the Arcipreste&#039;s &quot;Libro de Buen Amor.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272042">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mythopoetics and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Hous of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the skeptical uncertainly about dreams that is expressed in the opening of HF as it relates to classical and medieval notions of &quot;mythopoesis&quot; and the validity and interpretation of poetry. Reads HF as a parody of mythopoesis.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272041">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dryden&#039;s Translation of Chaucer: A Study of the Means of Re-creating Literary Models]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes John Dryden&#039;s theory of translation in his &quot;Fables Ancient and Modern,&quot; and explores the discrepancy between this theory and his practice in his translations of  KnT, NPT, and WBT, all of which &quot;violate the spirit of their originals.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272040">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer the Word-Master: The &#039;House of Fame&#039; and the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that HF is unified and that in its concern with the power of language it anticipates the theme of language as magic or illusion in CT. Also explores the sources of HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272039">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thematic Word-Play in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies Chaucer&#039;s varieties of word-play and explores their thematic value in relation to his concern with the interconnectedness of pilgrimage and play. Focuses on rhetorical tradition, play on &quot;child&quot; in PrT, the unity of SqT and FranT, and the Parson&#039;s upgrading of &quot;play&quot; to &quot;feast&quot; in ParsP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272038">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts CT, Dante&#039;s &quot;Divine Comedy,&quot; and Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; as pilgrimage narratives, particularly their emphasis on the poet as pilgrim and movement toward salvation as structure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272037">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court Lyric in the Age of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer&#039;s accomplishments in the development of lyric poetry, with commentary on Machaut, Deschamps, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Villon. Chaucer is the &quot;high point&quot; of the English tradition inspired by the French.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272036">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poison: Imagery and Theme in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the imagery, symbolism, and thematic value of &quot;poison and the venomous animal&quot; in CT and focuses on PardPT where it is a &quot;dominant aspect.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272035">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arabic Influences on Chaucer: Speculative Essays on a Study of a Literary Relationship]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes how Arabic writing &quot;bridged&quot; Hellenic tradition and medieval philosophy, how Arabic science influenced Western civilization, how Arabic literature influenced portion of CT, and how courtly love in TC may reflect the influence of Ibn Hazan&#039;s &quot;Tawq al-Hamama&quot; (&quot;The Ring of the Dove&quot;).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272034">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study of Character Motivation in Chretien&#039;s &#039;Cligés,&#039; Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; and Malory&#039;s &#039;Morte D&#039;Arthur&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes that the private motivations of Chaucer&#039;s Troilus help us to understand why critics have &quot;tended to exclude&quot; TC from the romance genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272033">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The English Fabular Tradition: Chaucer. Spenser, Dryden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the use of similar techniques by Chaucer, Spenser, and Dryden constitutes a &quot;distinctive English fabular tradition,&quot; discussing ManT, PF, and NPT, as well as Spenser&#039;s &quot;Shepheardes Calendar,&quot; &quot;Mother Hubberds Tale,&quot; and &quot;Muipotmos,&quot; and Dryden&#039;s &quot;The Hind and the Panther.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272032">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analysis and Classification of Four Critical Approaches to Chaucer in the Twentieth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses critical approaches to Chaucer&#039;s poetry using M. H. Abrams&#039; categories of literary theory (mimetic, objective, pragmatic, and expressive) and commenting on the criticism of D. W. Robertson Jr., Robert M. Jordan, Robert O. Payne, and Charles Muscatine.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272031">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pilgrims as Artists]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges the performances of the Canterbury pilgrims by their relative balance between self-will and common will, basing the distinction on patristic notions of pilgrimage and successful progress toward God, as well as Horace&#039;s aesthetic criteria of teaching and delight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272030">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study of &#039;Invidia&#039; in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Chaucer&#039;s (and others&#039;) treatment of envy as a Deadly Sin as background to the Renaissance understanding of the vice, which was influenced by classical tradition as well.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272029">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of the Poet in Chaucer&#039;s Early Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the narrators of BD, HF, PF, and LGW for the ways that Chaucer uses them to examine &quot;the task of revivifying the past&quot; and explore the truth value of poetry and poetic traditions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272028">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Influence of Rhetoric on Chaucer&#039;s Portraiture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the models of verbal portraiture in the &quot;Rhetorica ad Herennium&quot; and works by Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Matthew of Vendôme and their impact on Chaucer, arguing that the portraits of Fortune and Blanche in BD reflect the Black Knight&#039;s state of mind; that the portraits of Diomede, Troilus, and Criseyde in TC reflect the &quot;growth of Troilus&#039; character and the decline of Criseyde&#039;s&quot;; and that the portrait of Virginia in PhyT indicates the &quot;limitation of the Physician.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272027">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gesture in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the uses of gestures in Chaucer&#039;s poetry: &quot;simplistic&quot; uses in HF and PF, broad variety in CT, and the complex characterization of Pandarus in TC. Focuses on expressive movements and postures of body and face, along with laughing, moaning, and the like.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272026">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Noble Rhetor: Chaucer and Medieval Poetic Traditions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the importance of classical and medieval rhetorical theories that underlie late medieval poetry, and discusses the &quot;flowering of rhetorico-poetic technique in Chaucer&#039;s verse,&quot; analyzing samples of his poetry in light of Geoffrey of Vinsauf&#039;s &quot;Documentum de arte versificandi.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272025">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Way with a Proverb: &#039;Allas! Allas! That Evere Love Was Synne&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the lament in WBP 3.614 with the more familiar proverb &quot;Lechery is no sin,&quot; recurrently used by traditional &quot;demonic&quot; figures in early literature. The Wife&#039;s use is richer with &quot;complex ironies.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272024">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Franklin&#039;s Prologue, 716-721, Persius, and the Continuity of the Mannerist Style]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Chaucer&#039;s use of the humility topos in FranP as an example of &quot;mannerist style,&quot; focusing on his uses of the terms &quot;crude&quot; and &quot;excused&quot; and his reference to Mount Parnassus. Exemplifies the rich classical background of these features, and suggests that the device signals that the Franklin &quot;will not be telling the truth,&quot; and that Chaucer did not know Persius&#039;s &quot;Satires&quot; firsthand.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272023">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Truth of a &#039;Vache&#039;: The Homely Homily of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Truth&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the figural implications of cow/ox imagery in &quot;Truth,&quot; punningly evident in &quot;Vache&quot; and in references to beasts and stalls.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272022">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde, IV, 295-301]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers Troilus&#039; allusion to Oedipus at 4.300, and rejects the suggestion that it reflects psychological understanding; Troilus refers to Oedipus as an exemplar of someone victimized by Fortune.]]></dcterms:description>
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