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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s Uncharitable Offerings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that a portion of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5.23-24) is a source for the Wife of Bath&#039;s comments on precedence at the offertory (GP 1.449-522).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Anticipations of Dryden&#039;s Stylistic Revolution &#039;The Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Generalizes that John Dryden&#039;s compositional technique (in which abstractions precede concrete details) has precedent in the medieval &quot;rhetorical poetic.&quot; Then shows how the details of KnT are &quot;the vehicle for the presentation of certain Boethian concepts of the nature of Fortune and Providence,&quot; and thereby evidence that Dryden&#039;s technique is part of a &quot;time-honored tradition.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Lay Pilgrims of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;: A Study in Ethology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in his characterizations of the non-ecclesiastical pilgrims of CT Chaucer emulated the devices and techniques of medieval ethology, based in the &quot;contemptus mundi&quot; tradition, and variously prescriptive and descriptive. Comments on GP as a &quot;mixed ethologue,&quot; and discusses the ethos and ethological make-up the lay pilgrims (narrator, Knight, Squire, Miller, Reeve, Man of Law, Manciple, Merchant, Shipman, Wife of Bath, Franklin, and Physician), describing how the characters and their tales constitute an expansive ethology.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and Oedipus: The Genealogy of an Image]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attributes the metaphors of blindness and light in TC to the direct influence of Statius&#039;s &quot;Thebaid&quot; (unmediated by the &quot;Roman de Thébes&quot;), suggesting that the pattern of imagery culminates in Troilus&#039;s comparison of himself to Oedipus (TC 4.300).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fruitfulness and Sterility in the &#039;Physician&#039;s&#039; and &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the complementary thematic interconnections of PhyT and PardPT (integrity and fraudulence, spiritual fertility and sterility, virtue and vice, defeat of death), reading their interdependence in light of ParsT and the section of the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; that underlies their juxtaposition in Part 6 of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Masks of Love in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how Dante and Petrarch provide a &quot;schema for understanding&quot; the modifications Chaucer made to the view of love in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot; The &quot;Vita Nuova&quot; offers a &quot;hierarchy of love,&quot; analogous to that in TC even though Chaucer may not have known Dante&#039;s work. A more direct influence on Chaucer, &quot;Patrarchist&quot; formal conventions recur in TC and, moreover, the poem reflects Troilus&#039;s progress from such formulas (associated with Pandarus and, at times, with Criseyde) to a more fully &quot;Petrarchan&quot; comprehension of the nature, dangers, and value of love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Structuralist Analysis of the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses the analytic methods of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss to argue that KnT &quot;embodies in the syntax of its plot the basic rules and taboos of a perfectly structured and unchallenged social and cosmological order&quot;--in short, a &quot;mythic structure.&quot; Within its own frame, the balanced hierarchies, harmonious oppositions, and circular pattern of KnT are inviolable, but this mythic perfection is challenged by parody in MilT (and RvT) in the broader frame of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271713">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Desperate Confession]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;ritual outlined in the confessional manuals&quot; underlies the depiction of the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s &quot;psychological predicament.&quot; Still attracted to alchemy and disguising the connection between his Canon and the canon of his tale, the Canon&#039;s Yeoman fails to &quot;reject completely his habit of sin&quot; because of his fear of hell and his &quot;spiritual benumbing.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Historical Context of the &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the dating of BD, correcting previous scholarship by adducing evidence from a letter by Louis de Mâle, count of Flanders, that helps to establish the death of Blanche of Lancaster as 12 September 1368. Comments on the identity of the Black Knight (John of Gaunt), the narrator&#039;s eight-year illness, and the likelihood that the poem was completed before the end of November 1368.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Clandestine Marriage of Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer encourages his audience to &quot;view the affair between Troilus and Criseyde as a clandestine marriage rather than as an illicit love affair,&quot; different from the analogous relationship in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; and consistent with medieval descriptions of troth-lighting and marital contracts. The love in TC is neither fornicatory nor sinful, but idealized.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Saturn in the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Saturn and the saturnine elements of KnT as the attitudes and qualities that oppose free will, reason, and Theseus&#039;s new age of proper order, moderation, and pity. Chaucer&#039;s addition to Boccaccio, Saturn represents the strict and unfortunate aspects of Venus and Mars, and he is replaced by Jupiter, the force that moderates through reason the &quot;dark destiny to which the willful passions of men commit them.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271709">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Appreciation of Handmade Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Savors the indeterminacies of manuscript transmission, treating them as a form of &quot;anonymous or indeterminate revision&quot; in contrast with strict, modern notions of authorial revision. Exemplifies the variety found in manuscripts of &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; CT (tales out of context, spurious tales, conflations, etc.), and various Middle English lyrics; then examines at greater length the rich variety of thirteen versions (in 150 manuscripts) of French translations of Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Borrowing from Tibullus in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes that the first line of HF derives directly from Tibullus (III.iv.95) and hypothesizes that Chaucer may have had access to a manuscript of Tibullus&#039;s work (Codex Ambrosianus) held by Coluccio Salutati in 1373.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Iconographic Detail in the &#039;Roman de la Rose&#039; and the Middle English &#039;Romaunt&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Establishes that the suggestion of amorousness is implicit in the basting of (tight-fitting) sleeves in the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; Rom, and related illustrations.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Confrontation, Contempt of Court, and Chaucer&#039;s Cecilia]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through line-by-line comparison shows that in the trial scene of SNT Chaucer improves upon the Latin original by compression and emphasis which increase dramatic impact, Cecilia&#039;s contentiousness, and Almachius&#039;s stupidity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271705">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Sequence of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes a new sequence for the parts of CT, one in which the tales of the Physician and Pardoner follow that of the Man of Law and in turn are followed by those of the Shipman, Prioress, etc. In light of this sequence and its arrangement of geographical references (and despite variations in the manuscripts), suggests that the pilgrims traveled for three days, with stops at Dartford and Ospring.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Phislyas&#039;: A Problem in Paleography and Linguistics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys efforts to explain the meaning of &quot;phislyas&quot; (MLE 2.1189; here attributed to the Shipman), summarizing contextual concerns, manuscript variants, and several etymological hypotheses; agrees with those who treat it as a term related to medicine.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271703">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Prioress&#039;s Avowal of Ineptitude]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the Prioress&#039;s claim that she is unequal to the task of praising Mary as an example of the inexpressibility topos, used recurrently in the Middle Ages to express the ineffable. Comments on several instances of the topos used by theologians and poets (including Dante and the &quot;Pearl&quot; poet), and explores how its underlying premises are consistent with the clergeon&#039;s language-bound recitation of the &quot;Alma Redemptoris&quot; and with the miracle of the grain that is central to the plot of PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Astrology and the Wife of Bath: A Reinterpretation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the astrological references in WBP and casts her horoscope, interpreting it to show that Chaucer illumines &quot;the entire character of the Wife with a configuration of planets unique in the fourteenth century,&quot; a configuration that occurred in 1342.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s Anti-Semitism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges critics who absolve Chaucer of anti-Semitism by blaming the Prioress instead. Anti-Semitism was rife in Chaucer&#039;s society, and he was likely complicit in the bias. Yet, the topic is a critical distraction in discussions of PrT, which emphasizes the Prioress&#039;s reverence for the Mary and her dramatizes her &quot;indulgence in pathos and sentimentality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer Research, 1973: Report No. 34]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Revision of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus&#039;: The &#039;Beta&#039; Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes R. K. Root&#039;s theory of three classes of TC manuscripts, and analyzes several variants to argue for the superiority of those found in Root&#039;s &quot;beta&quot; class. Treats &quot;beta&quot; variants as authorial revisions.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Womanliness in the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Constance in MLT as an &quot;Everywoman&quot; who represents humanity in relationship to an &quot;arbitrary and inscrutable God.&quot; Several abrupt descents into &quot;crudity&quot; in the tale remind us not to regard Constance as real, and contrasts with her mothers in law engage stereotypical oppositions between traditional Mary and Eve figures still evident in modern depictions of women.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Book of the Duchess,&#039; Melancholy, and That Eight-Year Sickness]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Differentiates the lover&#039;s malady in BD from the traditional love-sickness found in its analogues, identifying the malady as a form of head melancholy curable by a good night&#039;s sleep, the narrator&#039;s only physician. The comic version of the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone reflects serious concern with fear of dying. Includes an appendix that treats the eight-year duration of the narrator&#039;s illness as a means to date the poem as commemorative rather than occasional.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271696">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Compositional Structure of &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the gothic, inorganic structure of BD, commenting on the poem&#039;s status as a lament, an elegy, and a consolation; its clear articulation of various parts; and its consistency with the compositional advice given by rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Characterizations of the narrator and of the Black Knight are less important to understanding the poem than are its powerful juxtapositions.]]></dcterms:description>
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