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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Parody of Medieval Music in the &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the &quot;pervasive tone&quot; of MilT as &quot;comic irony&quot; and explores how musical imagery contributes to this tone, especially through incongruous juxtapositions of profundity and profanity. Includes discussion of Nicholas&#039;s Annunciation song (&quot;angelus&quot;) and psaltery, the sexual melody-making of Nicholas and Alison, and Absolon&#039;s serenade, which is replete with echoes of the &quot;Canticum Canticorum&quot; (Song of Songs).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Action and Passion in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that TC &quot;gains psychological interest and what may be called a novelistic effect&quot; through adaptation of the &quot;to do and to suffer&quot; topos. Troilus is &quot;a man of passion who suffers,&quot; Pandarus is &quot;a man of action who contrives,&quot; and Criseyde &quot;alternately suffers and acts,&quot; seeking to act without ever achieving agency.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Book of the Duchess, 330]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the allusion to Jason and Medea in BD 330 as a &quot;subliminal&quot; anticipation of lines 722-27.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Nun&#039;s Priest Tale, B2. 4552-63]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the comic and aural effects of the allusions to Hasdrubales&#039;s wife and to Nero in NPT (7.3362-73), focusing on Pertelote and the other female chickens.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales General Prologue]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exemplifies Chaucer&#039;s &quot;control of proportion&quot; of details in GP, observing a &quot;middle-class tendency to conformity&quot; in the generalized description of the Guildsmen.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s The Tale of Sir Thopas]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes sexual associations of the names &quot;Thopas&quot; and &quot;Olifaunt&quot; and in this light glosses &quot;drasty&quot; (7.923 and 930) as &quot;filthy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue D.608]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the punning and aural effects of Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;quoniam&quot; in WBP 3.608 and cites similar verbal play in RvT 1.3973-76.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale, VII. 3160-71]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains that Chauntecleer is motivated by lust when he flies down from the beam after his dream of danger.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and Literary Criticism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews Ian Robinson&#039;s book, &quot;Chaucer and the English Tradition&quot; (1972), with commentary on various critical works published between 1950 and 1972.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271724">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Franklin and His Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Characterizes the Franklin in light of his social status, administrative and judicial offices, his &quot;Epicurean concern for externals,&quot; and his association with the Sergeant at Law. Then reads FranT as an ironic indictment of the narrator&#039;s foolish attitudes toward gentility, love, and marriage, focusing on tale&#039;s adaptations of the Amis section of the &quot;Roman de la Rose&quot; and Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation,&quot; and its relations with other tales of the marriage group.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271723">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Manciple&#039;s Manner of Speaking]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how concern with lack of &quot;self-control in speech&quot; unifies ManP and ManT, especially in its traditional association with anger, one of the &quot;sins of the tongue.&quot; The theme also occurs in SumT and MerT, but it is presented with greater &quot;subtlety&quot; in ManPT, where indiscreet speaking drives the plot and unrestrained cynicism characterizes the narrator. Chaucer approves of the Manciple&#039;s &quot;skill with words,&quot; but not his lack of scruples.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Double Meanings: I. &#039;Double Entendre&#039; in &#039;The Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments in critics&#039; &quot;pun-hunting&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works and describes two kinds of bawdy puns in MilT (those that carry connotations of subtlety and secrecy and those that connote pleasure and entertainment), tracing their complex interrelations and admiring Chaucer&#039;s skill and wit.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Does the Manciple&#039;s Prologue Contain a Reference to Hell&#039;s Mouth?]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Documents various &quot;medieval representations of Hell&#039;s Mouth,&quot; and suggests that the example in ManP (9.35-40) complements the concern with Last Judgment in ParsP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271720">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271719">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271718">
    <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>
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    <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>
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    <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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