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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;The House of Fame : Virgilian Reason and Boethian Wisdom]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in HF Chaucer achieves &quot;symbolic cohesion&quot; and unity by combining the narrator&#039;s Virgilian epiphany of a &quot;higher sense of duty&quot; (his response to the Aeneas/Dido exemplum) with the Boethian imagery of philosophical ascent (effected by the eagle). Combined with the dominant concern with journey, these strands together depict the theme of rejecting the passions in favor of &quot;rational ascent to discovery and revelation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271995">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Boethian &#039;Hert-huntyng&#039;: The Elegiac Pattern of &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Commends BD for its reconciliation of extreme tones:  despair derived from &quot;earth-shattering sorrow&quot; and &quot;intellectual hope&quot; derived from &quot;heaven-sent consolation.&quot; Inspired by Bothus&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; Chaucer achieves consolation and reconciliation of tone through a &quot;psychological patterning&quot; that is manifest in his characterizations of narrator, dreamer, and Black Knight.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271994">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;I Passe&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces Chaucer&#039;s uses of two rhetorical devices of compression throughout his poetic career, &quot;praeterito&quot; and &quot;reticentia,&quot; arguing that he developed sophisticated uses of the devices for creating dramatic and emotional effects. The devices entail, respectively, overt &quot;passing over&quot; of a topic and suppression of a topic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271993">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Communication: Report of the Chaucer Library Committee to the MLA Chaucer Group--New York 1972]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Progress report of the Chaucer Library Committee.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271992">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Franklin and the Literary Vavasour]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the literary tradition of the term &quot;vavasour&quot; and explores the implications of its use to describe the Franklin in GP. Focuses on encounters between vavasours and knights in French Arthurian romances, the juxtaposition of FranT and SqT, and gentility.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271991">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Giraldi on Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies Giglio Gregorio Giraldi&#039;s allusion (1551) to Chaucer as a vernacular poet.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271990">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Tale of Melibee&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys critical approaches to Mel and discusses its themes of &quot;the good woman&quot; and forgiveness; also assesses Mel as a complex, multi-leveled allegory.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271989">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Deschamps&#039; &#039;Art de Dictier&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Literary Environment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the &quot;literary attitudes&quot; evident in Eustace Deschamps&#039; &quot;L&#039;Art de Dictier,&quot; focusing on its concern with the &quot;natural music&quot; of lyric poetry, a concern also found among troubadour poets and in Chaucer&#039;s ballades and complaints, even though Chaucer may not have known the &quot;Dictier&quot; directly. As well, Chaucer&#039;s narrative poetry reveals a similar relationship between a poet and his materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271988">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Focus and &#039;Moralite&#039; in the &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tagmemic analysis of NPT that examines three of its &quot;overlapping hierarchies&quot; by shifting focus among them: the tale as a fable, the rhetorical elaboration of it, and the framing context of CT. Such analysis discloses the complex comedy of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271987">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039; and Love&#039;s Martyrs: &#039;Ensamples Mo Than Ten&#039; as a Method in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies aspects of PhyT that derive from hagiography, particularly its emphasis on Virginia as a &quot;virgin martyr,&quot; not found in Chaucer&#039;s sources. As a result of Chaucer&#039;s various changes and genre modifications, the tale raises &quot;grave questions of absolute and relative moral authority.&quot; Like other Chaucerian tales of victimization (especially ClT and those in LGW), PhyT challenges its audience to reassess moral categories and assumptions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271986">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Use of the Epistle of St. James in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads ClT as a &quot;dramatization&quot; of the teaching of St. James&#039; epistle: the testing of faith &quot;begets patience.&quot; Despite Walter&#039;s cruelty, he is God&#039;s &quot;unwitting agent&quot; in effecting Griselda&#039;s faith and obedience.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271985">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s First Three Tales: Unity in Trinity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the first three tales in CT as a gradated and &quot;symmetrical&quot; treatment of love that moves from the non-physical idealism of KnT to the mixture of emotion and action in MilT and on to the revenge and &quot;physical realism&quot; of RvT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271984">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[For Love and Not For Hate: The Value of Virginity in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s additions to his sources in PhyT (Virginia&#039;s speech and the reference to Jephthah&#039;s daughter) convey a sense of masculine blindness to feminine reality--seeing only the &quot;transient conditions of beauty, youth, and virginity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271983">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Semantic, Moral, and Aesthetic Degeneration in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC, Chaucer shows the &quot;inter-relatedness of the moral and the aesthetic&quot; by demonstrating the &quot;corruption and debasement&quot; of key concepts: &quot;honour,&quot; &quot;worthiness,&quot; &quot;gentilesse,&quot; &quot;manhood,&quot; and &quot;trouthe.&quot; Such debasement reflects the inevitable failure of human pursuit of ideals and the parallel failure of the poet as creator to imitate the divine Creator.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271982">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Irony of the &#039;Friar&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, while clearly discrediting summoners, the Friar &quot;also discredits himself.&quot; Reads FrT as a exemplum that satirizes summoners and, ironically, condemns the Friar&#039;s malicious hypocrisy, especially clear in light of contemporary sermon practices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271981">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Research, 1972. Report No. 33]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies books and articles pertaining to Chaucer--ones in progress, completed, and/or published in 1972.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271980">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Squire&#039;s Tale&#039; and the Decline of Chivalry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that SqT &quot;presents the growing impulse toward exoticism and disorder at work in the courts of late medieval Europe,&quot; the antithesis of classical order depicted in KnT. Also comments on notions of &quot;gentilesse&quot; and the uses of rhetorical colors in SqT and FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271979">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wyf of Bathe (The Wife of Bath)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Middle English text of WBPT (F. N. Robinson edition), accompanied by numerous b&amp;w illustrations in comic-book style.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271978">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The St. Giles Oath in the &#039;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates features of the reference to St. Giles in CYT (8.1185), drawing on the various traditions of Giles as patron saint of &quot;&#039;those struck by some sudden misery, and driven into solitude.&#039;&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271977">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Satire and Regionalism: The Reeve and His Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies the &quot;compound humor&quot; of the &quot;geographic dialect&quot; material in RvT and the GP description of the Reeve, where he is depicted as an &quot;immigrant&quot; from Norfolk to London and thereby the butt of humor for indigenous Londoners.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271976">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Preacher and the Mermaid&#039;s Song]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys approaches to NPT, and discusses its appropriateness as a homiletic exemplum to the Priest as narrator, discussing its rhetoric, its misogynistic depictions of females, and its allusions to mermaid song and Physiologus (7.3270-72)]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271975">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;: The Monsters and the Critics Reconsidered]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the tension in ClT between human pathos and clerkly training and intelligence, reading the combination as a depiction of late-medieval &quot;clerkishness.&quot; Additions to his sources and the use of &quot;specialized vocabulary&quot; make Chaucer&#039;s tale appropriate to its narrative and evoke a powerful sense of accumulating narrative pressure, analogous to the pattern found in the tale&#039;s rhyme royal stanzas.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271974">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Three Styles of Fragment I of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how the first three tales in CT can be seen to align with the discussion of three rhetorical styles in John of Garland&#039;s &quot;Poetria&quot;--courtly, civic, and rustic. Particularly applicable is Garland&#039;s commentary on his rectangular chart of stylistic qualities (rather than the better known wheel of Virgil). Gauges Chaucer&#039;s familiarity with John of Garland and comments on where other evidence of his influence can be found in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271973">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Poet as Sunday Man: &#039;The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Purse was written soon after the accession of Henry IV, addressed to the new monarch and composed as Chaucer&#039;s plea for funds while he was residing in the close of Westminster Abbey in order to avoid debts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271972">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Computers and the History of Scansion]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes an eight-step &quot;algorithm&quot; for enabling computers to aid in the recognition and cataloging of prosodic traits, and explores the utility of such practice by discussing the data from a computer-assisted scansion of a 1000-line sample of Chaucer&#039;s verse (the initial 100 lines from ten poems).]]></dcterms:description>
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