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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Descriptions and Instructions in Medieval Times: Lessons to be Learnt from Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Scientific Instruction Manual]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Astr as a piece of technical writing, admiring Chaucer&#039;s use of a personal voice, everyday examples, devices of cohesion, and other indications of audience awareness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276757">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Descriptions of Pagan Divinities from Petrarch to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides detailed background for Petrarch&#039;s ekphrastic descriptions of pagan gods in his &quot;Africa&quot; (iii.138-264), and argues that Chaucer&#039;s related descriptions in HF (131-39) and in KnT (1.1955-66) derive from the &quot;Libellus de deorum imaginibus&quot; (attributed to &quot;Albricus Philosophus&quot;) rather than from Petrarch&#039;s work or from the &quot;Ovidius moralizatus&quot; of Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269728">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays by various authors, with a brief  introduction by the editors. The collection treats English scribes, manuscripts, and the production and circulation of texts from 1350-1600. Addressing design and CT, the first section contains three essays that focus on early copyists of the poem. For these essays, search for Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276410">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Design in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A close reading of the structure, themes, and rich characterizations of TC, examined in comparison with its primary source, Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato,&quot; and with sustained attention to ancillary sources and Chaucer&#039;s particular emphases, especially the role of determinism. Argues that Chaucer&#039;s emphasis on time, settings, and inevitability universalizes his presentation of love beyond Boccaccio&#039;s personalized concern, while increased attention to courtliness deepens its ironies. Explores imagery and juxtaposition for the ways they also contribute to the ironic parallels between human and divine love in the poem.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264969">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Designing a Camel: or, Generalizing the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An analysis of evidence from CT, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and &quot;The Divine Comedy&quot; as well as from the writings of medieval saints and modern scholars indicates that generalizations regarding Christian behavior, the motivations of artists, and concepts of antifeminism and antisemitism in &quot;the medieval mind&quot; are often facile and misleading.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271434">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Designing the Page]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Observes that scribes often used more than one exemplar. In the case of at least one CT manuscript (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198), the scribe&#039;s addition of glosses from an exemplar apparently received late in the copying process resulted in textual and visual inconsistencies. Two other CT manuscripts (British Library, MS Additional 35286, and Bodleian, MSS Rawlinson poet. 141) evince scribal use of additional exemplars when the originals did not serve as good design templates.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275886">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire and Defacement in &quot;The Testament of Cresseid.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on Cresseid&#039;s leprosy in Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament,&quot; with attention to how the disease can help to chart the &quot;ethical relationship&quot; between his poem and Chaucer&#039;s TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274245">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire and Narrative: The Case of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Points out Troilus&#039;s desire as an important element of TC, and argues that TC engages with the issue of Fortune in relation to human nature. In Japanese, with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266443">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fifteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics literary, historical, and social, all pertaining to sexuality in Europe before 1700. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265220">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire and the Discourses of Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the ways &quot;expressions of romantic fulfillment are disrupted by the excesses and inconsistencies that desire produces in the narrative developments and rhetorical gestures&quot; of works about love by Chaucer, Montemayor, Sidney, and Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263146">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire in Language: Andreas Capellanus and the Controversy of Courtly Love]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews controversy (important in TC studies) on courtly love in Robertson, Donaldson, and Benton; naive &quot;reflectionism&quot; is attacked by Marxist theorists.  In &quot;De amore,&quot; desire is a hermeneutical challenge:  &quot;God for Andreas, like death for Lacan, is the only instance which can put a final end to the discourse of desire.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273530">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Presents Lacanian analysis of desire in CT that focuses on the &quot;circulation of the signifier&quot; and the generative power of misrecognition/misreading. Clarifies the meaning and function of fundamental concepts (subject, signifier, Other, aggressivity, Symbolic order,etc.) and identifies in GP the functions of desire (&quot;longen&quot; [line 12]) and contestation. Examines paired tales that epitomize aspects of desire and its manifestations in language and narrative, and ways that it &quot;pervades and constitutes the discourse&quot; of CT. Considers KnT and RvT (mediated by MilT), WBT and ClT, and PhyT and SNT. Refers to MLT, FranT, and ShT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270165">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire in the Canterbury Tales: Sovereignty and Mastery Between the Wife and Clerk]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Lacanian terms, WBT and ClT reveal &quot;what each speaker seems most desperate to deny.&quot; Ideas of sovereignty (&quot;self-determination&quot;), mastery (&quot;control over another&quot;), and the desires they help to constitute are parallel in the Tales. So are the representations of the &quot;powerful mobility&quot; of the loathly lady and Griselda, evident in their transformations. The endings of WBT and ClT (including the &quot;Envoy&quot; to ClT) reveal how the narrators &quot;recoil&quot; from their Tales and from the &quot;structure of desire underwriting them.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267097">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire, Violence and the Passion of Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales : A Girardian Reading]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fragment 7 of CT is unified by its focus on the problem of human violence and the &quot;potential of literature to perpetrate or remedy this problem.&quot; In ShT, PrT, and Th, Chaucer shows their respective genres&#039; &quot;mythologies&quot; of violence. Mel counsels self-scrutiny as an antidote to violence, MkT suggests repentance, and NPT offers laughter.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274901">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desire.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;Desire-as-impasse is the human condition&quot; in KnT, exploring how readers&#039; &quot;reading backward&quot; from the end of the tale--seeking to fulfill the &quot;desire for signification&quot;--parallels the efforts of Arcite and Palamon to articulate their own desires and in doing so call the desires into existence in Lacanian fashion. Includes comments on rhyme riche echoes between two meanings of &quot;armes&quot; (limbs and weapons), manuscripts variants in Arcite&#039;s desire for &quot;victorie,&quot; and Arcite&#039;s awareness of Emelye&#039;s desires.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269177">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desires and Disavowals: Speculations on the Aftermath of Stephen Greenblatt&#039;s &#039;Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Responding to Greenblatt&#039;s essay, Bellamy explores the status of psychoanalytic criticism in medieval studies, with particular focus on Chaucer studies.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270131">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six studies on literature ranging from Marie de France to Milton. In the chapter on Chaucer, Heyworth examines medieval cultural values and suggests that Chaucer complicates those values, particularly marriage. KnT and FranT depict the social institution of marriage as a hybrid between genuine love and a desire for power over one&#039;s spouse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266814">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of essays by various authors on aspects of medieval love literature. The introduction, by Paxson, discusses literary depictions of love in light of postmodern theories of the &quot;psychological, phenomenological, and gendered bases&quot; of desire. The twelve essays address aspects of love and desire in works such as Roman d&#039;Eneas, Pamphilus, commentaries on Ovid, troubadour lyrics, and the Lais of Marie de France. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Desiring Discourse under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277094">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Desiring Women: Pleasure and Power in Late Medieval English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;representations of women&#039;s desire and . . . its intersections with eroticism, pleasure, and power&quot; in WBPT, Robert Henrysons&#039; &quot;Testament of Cresseid,&quot; &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe,&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262722">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Despoiling Griselda: Chaucer&#039;s Walter and the Problem of Knowledge in &#039;The Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reexamines ClT &quot;from Walter&#039;s point of view&quot;--that is, focusing on Walter as the center of the tale--suggesting that Chaucer, like Petrarch, his source, was concerned as much with epistemology or the quest for knowledge as with Griselda&#039;s fidelity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265506">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Destiny, Fortune and Predestination in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Briefly surveys medieval attitudes toward destiny and suggests the difficulty of being certain what Chaucer&#039;s attitude was.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274092">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Philomela.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;unresolved ending&quot; of the &quot;Legend of Philomela&quot; in LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263723">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Development of the Art of Portraiture in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;General Prologue&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In GP, Chaucer changed approaches, developed new techniques, and became increasingly critical of society.  Increased use of similes suggests that the portraits of the Squire, Monk, Friar, Miller, Manciple, Reeve, Summoner, and Pardoner were added later.  Pairing, grouping, and placing of portraits exploit meaning.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269285">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Devil Take the Hindmost: Chaucer, John Gay, and the Pecuniary Anus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studying SumT with John Gay&#039;s 1717 poem &quot;An Answer to the Sompner&#039;s Prologue of Chaucer&quot; reveals a continuum of greed in SumT, moving from goods of use value, to coins of exchange value, to excrement and insubstantial air, even as Chaucer satirizes social acceptance of such abstracted value in place of real goods.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Devotion and Defilement: The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Prioress&#039;s identification with the little clergeon of PrT and her elisions of history indicate a &quot;desire for transcendence&quot; rather than sentimentality.  The presence of bodily violence and prurience in PrT accords well with some of the &quot;corporealities&quot; traditionally attributed to the Virgin Mary, situating the &quot;Tale&quot; firmly in the genre of miracles of the Virgin.]]></dcterms:description>
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