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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gesture and Posture in the &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: A Study of Chaucer&#039;s Narrative Technique]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that gestures and postures of the three main characters in MerT contribute to the realism and harshness of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272108">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Old Way and the Parson&#039;s Way: An Ironic Reading of the Parson&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads ParsT as &quot;just another tale&quot; (rather than the crescendo of CT), adducing Boethian aesthetic and moral attitudes, Aristotelian poetics, and the sequence of the last four tales as evidence that we should read the penitential message of ParsT ironically. The Ret is the genuine ending of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272107">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Reason]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Claims that Chaucer is a &quot;rationalistic&quot; poet, and suggests prospects for assessing Chaucer&#039;s use of dialectic or the &quot;scholastic mode of reasoning&quot; in his art, commenting on aspects of GP, ParsT, Mel, WBPT, Bo, TC, and HF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272106">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: Januarie&#039;s &#039;Unlikely Elde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attends to the details and imagery of old age in MerT in order to clarify the &quot;precision and complexity&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s art, commenting on January&#039;s name, age (60 years), physical condition, sexual prowess, attitude toward counsel, etc., and exploring their negative moral implications.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272105">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Ars Simia Naturae&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the &quot;ape-image&quot; in HF 1212, identifying analogues in Dante&#039;s &quot;Inferno&quot; and in Jean de Meun&#039;s &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; and observing that the topos poses the &quot;difficulty of distinguishing true from false, original from imposture,&quot; and art from imitation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272104">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personal Names in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the uses of personal names of the Canterbury pilgrims and of the major characters in the tales, commenting on names adapted from sources, common names, diminutives and name variants, given names and surnames, name-play, the relative paucity of names, and other onomastic concerns. Chaucer&#039;s variety and apparent casualness reflect his artfulness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272103">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;--A Consolation?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that BD is not a traditional consolation but rather a &quot;poetic monument in honor of Blanche.&quot; The poem&#039;s narrator is &quot;singularly unfitted for the role of comforter&quot; and inconsistent with the poet&#039;s own self-consciousness as an artist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272102">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;: Sources for Lines 174, 203-205, 249-253]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies lines from Machaut&#039;s &quot;La Fonteinne Amoureuse&quot; and from Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; as direct sources of words and details in BD.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272101">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Two Wooings of Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts Pandarus&#039;s wooing of Criseyde (for Troilus) with Diomede&#039;s, assessing their patterns and details for the ways they reflect the design of the poem, its concern with time, and the &quot;unchanged character&quot; of Criseyde.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272100">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: &#039;The Miller&#039;s&#039; and &#039;Reeve&#039;s Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates several words and images found in MilT--the &quot;piggesnye&quot; of Alison&#039;s description most extensively--and identifies echoes of the tale&#039;s concern with &quot;poetic justice&quot; in RvT which contributes to the bitterness of the latter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272099">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Research in Progress: 1972-1973]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reports 106 items.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272098">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Riming Justice in &#039;The Friar&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the thematic concerns of FrT are evident in its rhyme words, focusing on the occurrences of &quot;entente&quot; and its rhymes: &quot;rente,&quot; &quot;hente,&quot; and &quot;repente.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272097">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Zodiac of Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that CT reflects &quot;astrological schema&quot; and traces the evidence of a single cycle of the twelve signs in GP (Aries and Taurus), KnT (Gemini), MilT (Cancer), RvT (Leo), CkT (Virgo), MLT (Libra), WBPT (Scorpio), FrT (Sagittarius), SumT (Capricorn), ClT (Aquarius), and MerT (Pisces), reading details of plot, character, and theme in light of astrological tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272096">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Venus&#039; &#039;Citole&#039; and the Restoration of Harmony in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the image of the &quot;citole&quot; in KnT 1959, instead of a &quot;concha&quot; also found in traditional sources, contributes to the theme of &quot;harmonious order&quot; in the poem that is temporarily disrupted by the Venus/Mars strife.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272095">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Problemy Izucenija Poem Cosera [Problems of the Analysis of Chaucer&#039;s Poems]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on aspects of convention, generic variety, and characterization in BD, PF, HF, LGW, and TC as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s status as a &quot;great representative of the mediaeval culture and a pioneer of Renaissance art.&quot; In Russian, with Lithuanian and English summaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272094">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Amor Gloriae&#039; in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the ambivalent treatment of fame in HF: as a sinful desire, as a goal for poets, and as an &quot;amoral record of the past.&quot; Argues that this ambivalence is rooted in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; and that it reflects Chaucer&#039;s contemplations about his poetic career, perhaps in anticipation of writing TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer, &#039;The Plowman&#039;s Tale&#039; and Renaissance Propaganda: The Testimonies of Thomas Godfray and &#039;I Playne Piers&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that &quot;The Plowman&#039;s Tale&quot; was published (ca. 1536) by Thomas Godfray with a &quot;calculated and propagandist purpose,&quot; part of Henry VIII&#039;s &quot;propagandist organization&quot; affiliated with Thomas Berthelet, Henry VIII&#039;s &quot;official printer.&quot; Demonstrates through evidence of its Prologue and through associations with &quot;I playne Piers&quot; that the tale was an &quot;anonymous fifteenth-century tract&quot; before being printed as part of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272092">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Dedication to Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the depiction of Troilus in TC in light of Gower&#039;s castigation of knightly love in &quot;Vox Clamantis,&quot; arguing that both poets critique immoral love, even though Chaucer&#039;s poses ironically a &quot;sentimental&quot; view of his protagonist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272091">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pardoner and the Second Nun: A Defense of the Bradshaw Order]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the theme of idleness and the triads of characters in PardT and SNT encourage us to read these tales in sequence--a feature of the ordering of the fragments of CT proposed by Henry Bradshaw.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272090">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and a French Story of Thebes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies details in TC and KnT that reflect the influence of the version of the Thebes legend found in the &quot;Ovide Moralisé.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272089">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Translating Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde,&#039; Book III, Lines 12-14]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the possible meanings of the phrase &quot;in worth&quot; in the apostrophe to Venus in the Proem to Book 3 of TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272088">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and the History of Rome]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval understandings of Rome and its history as background to understanding Chaucer&#039;s allusions to Rome and Romans, especially his treatments of them in PhyT, SNT, the Caesar and Nero accounts in MkT, and the Lucrece legend of LGW. Concludes with a comparison of Chaucer&#039;s depictions with Gower&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272087">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Poetic Treatment of the Figure of Mars]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the interrelated astrological, mythographical, and allegorical traditions of Mars in the Middle Ages, and focuses on the myth of his adultery with Venus and its representations in the plots and allusions of Chaucer&#039;s Complaint of Mars, KnT, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272086">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Conflict between Art and Morality in Two Fourteenth-Century Poets: Juan Ruiz and Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses ambivalence, conventional morality, and the functions of art in CT and in Juan Ruiz&#039;s &quot;Libro de Buen Amor,&quot; commenting on the role of the narrator in Chaucer and the &quot;staging&quot; of multiple views on &quot;caritas&quot; and &quot;cupiditas&quot; in both works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Ceyx and Alcyone: Ovid&#039;s &#039;Metamorphoses&#039; XI, 407-750 and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys criticism that considers the Ceyx and Alcyone story in BD, exegetical readings in particular, and edits a version of the tale found in fourteenth-century Ovidian manuscripts available in Chaucer&#039;s England, with full apparatus and with information about the various commentaries, especially that of Pierre Bersuire.]]></dcterms:description>
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