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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>
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    <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>
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    <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>
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    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271695">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Harmony of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Parlement&#039; A Dissonant Voice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that PF &quot;exemplifies and confronts&quot; late fourteenth-century concern with the role of subjective perspective in considering traditional authority. Through various stylized, &quot;thought-marked&quot; perspectives, the poem presents the &quot;disruptive force&quot; of individual experience and the need for &quot;self-limitation&quot;; as a proto-retraction, the roundel presages the endings of TC and CT by reauthorizing authority.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Juxtaposition as Structure in &#039;The Man Against the Sky&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the poetic structure of Edwin Arlington Robinson&#039;s &quot;The Man Against the Sky,&quot; demonstrating that it &quot;juxtaposes two dissimilar ideas forcing a new understanding of relationship&quot; in an inorganic fashion similar to that found in Ovid, Chaucer, Milton, and Blake. Comments on how the envoi to TC provokes consideration of disparate views of love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Individualization of Language in the Canterbury Frame Story]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Close reading of the speech patterns of the Canterbury pilgrims in the links between the tales, focusing on level of diction (Romance vocabulary), syntax, and figurative language, and relating these features to characterization. Comments at length on the Man of Law, Prioress, Franklin, and Reeve, and examines in detail passages that typify the Host as boisterous, the Wife of Bath as enthusiastic, and the Pardoner as cold-blooded and egotistical. Appends a statistical table of Romance words used in each link, analyzed by speaker.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271692">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Some Metonymic Relationships in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the word &quot;sad&quot; in ClT to show that meaning and nuance in Chaucer&#039;s poetry derive, not from patterns of similarity or metaphor, but from metonymic contiguity, which functions much as does the &quot;creative contiguity&quot; of Gothic juxtaposition. Borrows the term &quot;metonymic&quot; from linguist Roman Jacobson and shows that &quot;sad&quot; means &quot;constant in adversity&quot; and even &quot;serious cheerfulness,&quot; a reflection of &quot;heroic Christian stoicism&quot; that gains dimension through its contiguity with motherly.  Also comments on &quot;suffisaunce&quot; in TC as &quot;satisfaction&quot; or completeness, without satiety.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271691">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Treatise on the Astrolabe&#039;: A Handbook for the Medieval Child]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Praises the stylistic appropriateness of Astr to its youthful audience, showing how Chaucer adapts the lexicon, syntax, and rhetoric of Massahalla to be more suitable to his ten-year-old son, Lewis. Chaucer relies on native rather than Latinate vocabulary, incorporates concrete details, streamlines syntax, and increases pedagogical effectiveness through various strategies of simplification, amplification, and repetition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271690">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Some Thoughts on the Continuity of Themes in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on several themes that recur in Chaucer&#039;s poetry and surmises that they may reflect something of his mindset. Discusses cosmic journey and pilgrimage, prayer, experience and authority, and love tidings.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath and the Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critiques George Lyman Kittredge&#039;s notion of a feud between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk as &quot;aesthetically displeasing,&quot; and argues instead that their tension is essentially jocular, a result of the Wife&#039;s hope that she can entice the Clerk. The Clerk&#039;s intellectual standoffishness attracts the Wife, and their interactions reflect the motif of sexual attraction recurrent in the CT while varying its pattern of professional antagonism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Barth&#039;s Version of The Reeve&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies similarities between RvT and a section in John Barth&#039;s novel &quot;Sot-Weed Factor&quot; that indicate direct influence:  cast of characters, setting, straying-horse motif, etc.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Troilus and Criseide: The Narrator and the &#039;Olde Bokes&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the narrator of TC as separate from the poet Chaucer and recognizable in two roles that exist in productive tension:  an inexperienced servant of love and a fallible recorder of Trojan history.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[An Analogue of the &#039;Man of Law&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tallies similarities between MLT and Adenes li Rois&#039; &quot;Berta aus Grans Pies,&quot; considering the latter to be a &quot;remote ancestor&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;: Tender Youth and Stooping Age]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that MerT reflects delusive male infantile fantasy, reading January as ego, Placebo as id, Justinus as super-ego, and May as an idealized mother figure. The Merchant&#039;s encomnium of marriage and Damain&#039;s courtly behavior are extensions of January&#039;s infantilism and the garden is a fantasy of female genitalia, reinforced by January&#039;s regressive narcissistic blindness, oral imagery in the Tale, and instances of psychoanalytic &quot;reversal.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Wife of Bath&#039;s Dower: A Legal Interpretation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies that the phrase &quot;at chirche dore,&quot; used twice of the Wife of Bath&#039;s marriages indicates that she negotiated the financial arrangements of her dower before her marriage ceremonies, indicating shrewdness.]]></dcterms:description>
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