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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and Criseyde : A Reader&#039;s Guide]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduction to TC designed for students. Provides scene-by-scene themes, key topics, and commentary, with recurrent attention to Chaucer&#039;s debt to Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Il filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rumour and Renown: Representations of &quot;Fama&quot; in Western Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the meaning of Middle English &quot;fama,&quot; derived from the Latin, in relation to the spoken word. Chapter 15, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039; and Pope&#039;s &#039;Temple of Fame&#039;,&quot; analyzes relations between the spoken and written word in these poems, as well as other dichotomies within Chaucer&#039;s poems, including truth and rumor as Chaucer compares his dream of Dido and Aeneas with Virgil&#039;s version. Discusses how both Chaucer and Pope engage with the Latin and Greek traditions and examines Pope&#039;s homage to Chaucer, as well as his divergence from Chaucer&#039;s text.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271944">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[What&#039;s &#039;Myrie&#039; about the Prose of the Parson&#039;s Tale?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the Parson&#039;s use of &quot;myrie&quot; in ParsP in terms of the &quot;internal generic matrix&quot; constructed by the Parson in the ParsT. Focuses on Tzvetan Todorov&#039;s and Paul Strohm&#039;s writings on genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271943">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Apprehending the Divine and Choosing to Believe: Voluntarist Free Will in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Second Nun&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that SNT &quot;presents conversion as a choice stimulated by apprehension of the divine through the senses&quot; and accomplished by a &quot;radical act of the will, unmediated and immediate, if not inherently violent.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271942">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;rather be used / than be eaten&#039;? Harry Bailly&#039;s Animals and The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Umberto Eco&#039;s, Jacques Derrida&#039;s, and Marianne Dekoven&#039;s contributions to animal studies, and assesses the Host&#039;s references to &quot;jade&quot; and &quot;trede-fowl&quot; in NPP and NPE as &quot;prime examples&quot; of the &quot;human habit of appropriating the animal world.&quot; Also assesses the chase scene in NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How to Do Things With Fictions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies understanding of literary texts, including Chaucer&#039;s CT, to ideas of everyday life. Chapter 1, &quot;Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics,&quot; addresses the benefits of using NPT, in particular, to teach ethics and issues of morality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Painted Chamber of Westminster, the Fall of Tyrants and the English Literary Model of Governance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses biblical kings represented in the &quot;camera depicta&quot; of the Westminster Chamber, also treated in several literary works on kingship, including MkT and a short passage in ParsT. The Chamber&#039;s murals proclaim the Plantagenet kings to be &quot;ideal just warriors&quot; and warn that immorality in a royal family &quot;becomes a pathology of the state.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Parabolic Narrative: The Prologue to the &#039;Tale of Melibee,&#039; Lines 953-58]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The semantic range of &quot;proverbs,&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s emphasis on the word, indicates that Mel is a series of parables, or allegorical narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271938">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rhetoric of Hypocrisy: The Pardoner&#039;s Reproduction in His Critics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits the centrality of the Pardoner (rather than the marginality assumed by many critics) to CT. The &quot;confidence game&quot; of his narration parallels Chaucer&#039;s own rhetorical approach and informs those of his critics. Chaucer illustrates the self-negating nature of such rhetoric; the institutions (ecclesiastical, literary, academic) that enable and helpfully obscure narrative hypocrisy will inevitably be destabilized by that narrative.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hyperreal Blessings: Simulated Relics in The Pardoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Viewed in light of Jean Baudrillard&#039;s &quot;Simulacra and Simulation,&quot; the Pardoner&#039;s relics are simulacra, which allows Chaucer to question their &quot;realness.&quot; The textuality of PardT (and CT as a whole) is to be read as a hyperreality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271936">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Wordsworth and Chaucer&#039;s Manciple&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Wordsworth&#039;s modernization of ManT, which was commissioned for Thomas Powell&#039;s &quot;The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Moderniz&#039;d&quot; (1841) but eventually suppressed by Wordsworth&#039;s wife.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jepte&#039;s Daughter in the Bible, the &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039; and the &#039;Confessio Amantis&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Unlike their biblical source, Chaucer&#039;s and Gower&#039;s allusions to Jephthah&#039;s daughter indicate concern with pain and emotional suffering. Also considers the illustration in Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.126 that accompanies Gower&#039;s tale of Virginia in &quot;Confessio Amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271934">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Physician&#039;s Tale&#039; and the Worlds of Judgment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that PhyT not only addresses changes in the medieval social power structure, but also serves as a &quot;critique of masculine power&quot; within the medieval European court system.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271933">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[No Laughing Matter: Fraud, the Fabliau and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The already diffuse mixture of accepted sources for FranT is complemented here with an argument favoring a debt to French fabliaux.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271932">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[True Lover/False Lover, &#039;franquise dete&#039;: Dichotomies in the &#039;Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039; and Their Analogue in Richard de Fournival&#039;s &#039;Consaus d&#039;amours&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers Richard de Fournival&#039;s &quot;Consaus d&#039;amours,&quot; a thirteenth-century French &quot;art d&#039;aimer&quot; (art of love), as a possible source for FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271931">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Conduct Shameful and Unshameful in &#039;The Franklin&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interrogates post-Enlightenment understandings of shame, and argues that in FranT shame negotiates continua rather than dichotomies (men/women, courtly love/marriage, and public/private). Read in light of conduct literature, Arveragus&#039;s claims and actions expose the &quot;gender asymmetries in companionate marriage,&quot; while Dorigen&#039;s complaint, by mimicking devotional programs, defers shame and she acquires &quot;a queer female masculinity.&quot; The Franklin is &quot;an effective but feminized manager of shame,&quot; and the &quot;affective labor of shame&quot; in his Tale regulates &quot;selves within the middling household.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Ye get namoore of me&#039;: Narrative, Textual, and Linguistic Desires in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that genre and the discourses of desire in MerT prove too strong for the narrator, who is constantly conflicted about his presentation not only of linguistic and narrative desires but also of the psychoanalytic displacements of these desires.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271929">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Why Marquis Walter Treats His Wife So Badly]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents a version of the Griselda story from Thomas III, Marquis of Saluzzo (c. 1355-1416) in &quot;Le chevalier errant,&quot; and analyzes how fourteenth-century audiences would have reacted to Chaucer&#039;s version in ClT. Includes a translation of Thomas&#039;s version of Griselda&#039;s story.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cat, Capon, and Pig in The Summoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[References to animals presented as &quot;sentient beings&quot; in SumT convey the friar&#039;s &quot;spiritual weakness,&quot; perhaps reflecting oral traditions of Franciscan ideals.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Goddes Instrumentz&#039;: Devils and Free Will in the &#039;Friar&#039;s&#039; and &#039;Summoner&#039;s Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The language and imagery of demonic temptation versus human free will connect FrT and SumT and gain dimension by comparison with ClT. Thomas of SumT is called &quot;demonyak,&quot; but his scatological riposte to the friar is justified anger.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271926">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s &#039;Sweet Because&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Two Anglo-Latin &quot;celibacy poems&quot; use &quot;quoniam&quot; to mean the same thing that it means in WBP, prompting the question, might a &quot;joke have been circulating among thirteenth and fourteenth century clerics, that every &quot;quare&quot; has its &#039;quoniam&#039;?&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Conflict Resolution in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039; and in Gower&#039;s &#039;Tale of Florent&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the resolutions of conflict in WBT and Gower&#039;s &quot;Tale of Florent&quot; and explores their methods of characterization. While Chaucer depicts characters through dialogue, argument, debate, and negotiation with other persons, Gower&#039;s characters resolve conflicts through internal reflection on principles and the sanctioned rule.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Selling Alys: Reading (with) the Wife of Bath]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Chaucer&#039;s strategy of satire in WBPT, arguing that in its concern with interpretation and discursive insensibility it is fundamentally similar to the anti-mercantile satire of MerT, ShT, and MLT. Reads the Wife in &quot;a London context,&quot; associating her with guild-class silkwomen, and hypothesizes Chaucer&#039;s series of revisions to the Wife of Bath materials (including the manuscript glosses), which reduces mercantile concerns to those of gender and marriage while maintaining effective satire of the merchant estate.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Calling: Langland, Gower, and Chaucer on Saint Paul]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores relations between concepts of selfhood and notions of spiritual and, especially, secular vocation in WBT, Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox clamantis.&quot; The &quot;wide scope&quot; of late medieval applications of the Pauline notion of being &quot;called&quot; includes both the need for renewal and the &quot;spiritual recoverability of the imperfect life.&quot; Assesses the Wife of Bath as a provisional &quot;advocate of the messianic life&quot; and comments on vocation or calling in HF.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Antifeminist Tradition in Arthur and Gorlagon and the Quest to Understand Women]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Arthur and Gorlagon&quot; and WBPT share numerous misogynist topoi as well as the plot element of a mission to understand women. The Latin romance is thus &quot;a more significant analogue for the combined Prologue and Tale . . . than has been recognized.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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