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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Abstraction and Particularity in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the relations between universality and particularity as epistemological modes in MLT, exploring allegory and individuality, realism and nominalism, and generalization and specification in the characterization of Custance and how she is perceived by the other characters. The Tale offers no &quot;unified theory of perception,&quot; suggesting instead that perception is &quot;layered.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;Diversitee bitwene hir bothe lawes&#039;: Chaucer&#039;s Unlikely Alliance of a Lawyer and a Merchant]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers how the &quot;professional identity&quot; of the teller informs concerns with justice in MLT. Engagement with mercantile law, common law, natural law, divine intervention, and the &quot;limitations of human justice&quot; pervade MLPT and indicate an uncertain sense of their relations and hierarchy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271919">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Exigencies of &#039;Latyn corrupt&#039;: Linguistic Change and Historical Consciousness in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets Custance&#039;s use of &quot;Latyn corrupt&quot; to the natives of Northumbria in terms of Isidore of Seville&#039;s discussion of linguistic history and suggests that MLT takes an acutely historicist view of the development of medieval Christianity, questioning Christianity&#039;s imperial Roman heritage, and privileging instead its vernacular and local traditions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;To Aleppo gone&#039;: From the North Sea to Syria in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039; and Shakespeare&#039;s &#039;Macbeth&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In MLT, Custance&#039;s first husband is the &quot;Sowdan of Surrye,&quot; and in &quot;Macbeth&quot; the witches plot to scourge a shipmaster who is &quot;to Aleppo gone.&quot; That both texts treat Syria and the northern reaches of Great Britain as complementary zones, in space as well as time, permits a plausible linkage between MLT and &quot;Macbeth,&quot; and a common awareness of Islamic and Christian otherness.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Anxiety of Auctoritas: Chaucer and &#039;The Two Noble Kinsmen&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes John Fletcher&#039;s and William Shakespeare&#039;s collaboration on &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen,&quot; an interpretation of KnT, and offers how &quot;The Two Noble Kinsmen&quot; represents a &quot;meditation . . . of the vernacular literary canon,&quot; as it allegorizes the treatment of auctoritas and Chaucer&#039;s influence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;We stryve as dide the houndes for the boon&#039;: Animals and Chaucer&#039;s Romance Vision]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates comparisons between lovers and animals in KnT, suggesting that Chaucer uses them to expose human folly.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In &quot;Turning the Other Cheek: Scatology and Its Discontents in The Miller&#039;s Tale and The Summoner&#039;s Tale,&quot; pp. 12-59, Smith uses farting in MilT and SumT to explore Chaucer&#039;s complex and refined &quot;scatological rhetoric,&quot; a trope that has been obscured by frequent bowdlerizing of these tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271913">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lydgate Rewrites Chaucer: &#039;The General Prologue&#039; Revisited]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Legend of Dan Joos&quot; recasts the opening of GP into a representation of eternal redemption in praise of Mary in his own aureate style.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271912">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 5 focuses on comic uses of brutality in CT, particularly in MilT and KnT. Also addresses how Chaucer refers to torture in MLT, but rejects excessive brutality in PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes how Chaucer&#039;s rhetorical constructions decenter self-disclosure and resist simplistic notions of gender in WBPT, ClT, FranT, and PhyT. Figurative or allusive speech cannot adequately represent subjectivity and desire. Chaucer&#039;s treatments of the feminine subject are not univocal; however, his tales can both reinforce and undermine cultural and gender norms.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271910">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A New Philosophy of Literature: The Fundamental Theme and Unity of World Literature: The Vision of the Infinite and the Universalist Literary Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys metaphysical and secular Universalist traditions in world literatures. Chapter 3, &quot;The Literature of the Middle Ages,&quot; includes a summary of CT and argues that it depicts a &quot;metaphysical quest&quot; with &quot;metaphysical and secular aspects&quot; of a fundamental Universalist theme. WorldCat records indicate that the e-book version of this title includes in an Appendix two essays on Chaucer&#039;s ironic technique: 1) &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Ironic Praise and Deflation, Ridiculing Follies and Vices of the Incumbents within the Church System&quot; and 2) &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: Epic Marriage and Early Mock-Heroic Deflation of Blindness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271909">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Fourteenth-Century Ecology: &#039;The Former Age&#039; with Dindimus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Form Age shares thematic elements with Alexander legends, including vegetarianism and prohibitions against agriculture. In these poems humans live as, and eat as, animals do, a contrast to the mastery described in Genesis. The life described in these poems, one of &quot;moral sensitivity without limits,&quot; would be not utopian, but wretched.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[That Which Chargeth Not to Say: Animal Imagery in Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC includes references to animals through frequent analogy and extended imagery, but these are often generically inappropriate. Dreams about animals are largely unexplored. Comparison of Troilus to the horse Bayard not only emphasizes the hero&#039;s animal nature but also raises the horse to the level of rational being, suggesting the commonality of beings on earth.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Talking Animals, Debating Beasts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores anthropomorphism and the &quot;connaturality&quot; of human and nonhuman animals in PF and Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Debate of the Horse, Goose, and Sheep,&quot; noting the comments of medieval and modern philosophers on the traditional animal-human binary. Lydgate&#039;s poem was as popular as Chaucer&#039;s in the Middle Ages, and it is more &quot;radical&quot; in its &quot;sympathy for animal suffering.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the cuckoo-merlin dialogue in PF deconstructs the traditional human-animal binary by presenting a &quot;fleeting realization of anthropomorphism gone awry.&quot; The cuckoo&#039;s &quot;brood parasitism . . . resolves itself into a mode of communal profit&quot; and the poem becomes a &quot;parody of overclassification.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and &#039;The Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the birds of PF to birds in medieval scientific texts, in sources or analogues (especially Alan de Lille&#039;s &quot;De planctu Naturae&quot;), and in the observable environment. Chaucer fills PF with birds known in England, classifying them by diet but also by class. The birds represent diverse species native to England as well as the diversity of human society, anticipating the estates satire of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contemplating Finitude: Animals in The Book of the Duchess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Animals figure prominently in BD but are more than mere symbols. Ceyx&#039;s dead body is also an &quot;unnatural animal.&quot; The birds, horse, whelp, and hart invite, but also resist, interpretation. The juxtaposition of death and animalistic vitality evokes grief, which itself is the simultaneous awareness of being present in life and of death. The animals in the poem help us to &quot;think about finitude.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Animal Agency, the Black Knight, and the Hart in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Although anthropocentric, BD emphasizes the similarity of animals and humans under the law of &quot;kynde.&quot; They share an &quot;embodied state and an ethical system as a result of their shared creation.&quot; The hart, object of the hunt, parallels the Black Knight&#039;s heart, and Chaucer uses this parallel to counsel John of Gaunt to overcome his grief.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feathering the Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the specific appearance of vellum, the types of quills used in creating a medieval manuscript, and animal-inflicted damage to manuscripts by mice, bugs, etc. Intersperses discussion of NPT with regard to Chauntecleer&#039;s appearance and animals&#039; desires for sex and for freedom.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Chauntecleer and Animal Morality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[NPT demonstrates the danger of reading &quot;for a single abstract moral&quot; by means of its emphasis on Chauntecleer&#039;s humanlike qualities. Among his most human attributes are experiencing and expounding a dream. If &quot;men&quot; refers to both humans and chickens, the tale treats both Chauntecleer and the widow as leading good, virtuous lives; the poem&#039;s &quot;moralite&quot; calls readers to live an engaged but reflective life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in &#039;The Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Pardoner is compared to a hare, goat, and horse, and PardT refers to smaller animals usually considered vermin. The three gluttonous rioters are appropriately called shrews, and the poison used to kill them is ostensibly bought for rats and a polecat. In the exemplum, however, animals are innocent and it is the rioters, and the Pardoner himself, who are &quot;vermin.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Avian Hybridity in &#039;The Squire&#039;s Tale&#039;: Uses of Anthropomorphism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In SqT Chaucer practices a form of anthropomorphism that acknowledges its representational limits. The relationship of Canacee and the falcon shows &quot;a commonality among living creatures&quot; and offers a model of female friendship. Canacee nurses the falcon and the falcon warns Canacee about &quot;male betrayal,&quot; providing an example of &quot;protective and reciprocal care.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Foiled by Fowl: The Squire&#039;s Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin&#039;s Dorigen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Themes of &quot;trouthe&quot; and &quot;gentillesse,&quot; as well as the threat of suicide, in the SqT falcon episode (5.409-631) anticipate major themes of FranT. Because SqT is prior in the narrative sequence, the human language of FranT parodies avian language rather than vice versa. The falcon episode is a &quot;foil&quot; for Dorigen&#039;s complaint (5.1355-1456).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reimagining Natural Order in &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Classical and medieval antifeminist texts disparagingly compare women and animals. In WBP, Alisoun &quot;redeploys animal similes&quot; to claim the privileges of animal-like status because she is naturally crafty and sly, impatient, and cannot be held responsible. Alisoun also &quot;animalizes&quot; Jankyn by comparing him to a lion and sheep, &quot;deflating notions of masculine supremacy&quot; and celebrating humans&#039; animal nature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&#039;A beest may al his lust fulfille&#039;: Naturalizing Chivalric Violence in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In KnT, warriors are compared to animals, a seemingly desirable condition that would allow warriors to &quot;discharge at will their power and violence.&quot; However, several references to shackled, confined, or endangered animals create a contrast between warrior self-identification with animals and animals&#039; subjugation in the realm of chivalric warfare.]]></dcterms:description>
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