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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discourse Strategies in the Marriage Dialogue of Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pakkala-Weckstrm analyzes the power struggles within male/female couples, examining politeness strategies and providing brief analyses of speech size, topic, control, distribution of flow, and turn-taking. Considers MilT, MerT, ShT, WBT, FranT, Mel, and ClT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267104">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discourses of Affinity in the Reading Communities of Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers how editors and critics from Caxton to Furnivall assume or pursue identity with Chaucer, imitating what they perceive to be Chaucerian sensibility in an effort to claim understanding of the poet and his works. Adopting the poet&#039;s voice and claiming class- and gender-based affinities with him are strategies that claim authenticity for critical stances and efface differences between Chaucer and his readers.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275196">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Book of the Duchess&quot; and Spenser&#039;s &quot;Daphnaïda.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Drawing on affect theory and psychoanalytic methodologies, considers the relationship between the &quot;awake body&quot; and &quot;emotional utterance&quot; in BD, relating this to notions of &quot;translatio.&quot; Highlights the centrality of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode to this topic, exploring its interplay with Ovid&#039;s &quot;Metamorphoses&quot; and Spenser&#039;s &quot;Daphnaïda.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272419">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discrecioun: Chaucer und die Via Regia]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the meanings and nuances of &quot;discrecioun&quot; (moral and rational judgment) in classical and medieval traditions, examining Chaucer&#039;s uses of the word and its thematic implications across his career as a poet. Includes references to most of his works, with extended discussion of TC, Truth, Sted, GP, KnT, Tho, Mel, MkT, and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272719">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discretion and Marriage in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies a traditional, idealized, Christian view of marriage in CT: GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBPT, ClT, MLT, Mel, MerT, FranT, NPT, ManT, and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261546">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discursive Violence: Women with Authority in Old English, Middle English, Middle High German, and Early New High German Texts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[With few exceptions, medieval German and English texts depict female authority figures as truth-tellers.  Female saints reveal the falseness of male antagonists, but queens lose their power to men who lie, act violently, and rule efficiently.  CT characters generally follow this pattern, except for Griselda and the Wife of Bath.  Also considers TC and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275395">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discussions of the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of criticism, with a brief introduction (pp. vii-ix) that characterizes CT as &quot;unique&quot; because &quot;no other work so fragmentary creates such an illusion of completeness.&quot; The volume reprints essays and excerpts by twenty-one writers, beginning with Edmund Spenser and continuing to modern critics, on topics pertaining to GP, individual tales, and general themes.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277438">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Diseased Texts: &quot;Formosa deformitas&quot; and Medieval Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich&#039;s &quot;A Revelation of Divine Love,&quot; CT, and Thomas Malory&#039;s &quot;Morte Darthur&quot; &quot;unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of &quot;formosa deformitas,&quot; or, the &#039;beautiful ugly,&#039; &quot; and &quot;bring attention to the ethical compromises made for literary pleasure, as well as the aesthetic and ethical failures or harm of averting a potentially &#039;diseased&#039; aesthetic.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272208">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disembodied Laughter: &quot;Troilus&quot; and the Apotheosis Tradition: A Reexamination of Narrative and Thematic Contexts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the &quot;flight episode,&quot; Troilus&#039;s laughter, and the location of the eighth sphere in TC &quot;against the background of the apotheosis tradition [Lucan, Cicero, Dante, Boccaccio, and various commentaries] and the conventions of classical pneumatology [Stoic and neoplatonic],&quot; exploring the thematic relations of the episode &quot;with the poem as a whole and the epilogue in particular.&quot;  Also considers relations of the flight episode and the epilogue with the materials Chaucer derived from Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation&quot; and adapted by incorporating them into a new context, focusing particularly on Boethian views of providence and the human condition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273961">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disfigured Drunkenness in Chaucer, Deschamps, and Medieval Visual Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares Chaucer&#039;s and Deschamps&#039;s poetic critiques of the &quot;comedy of drunkenness,&quot; examining passages in GP, MLT, PardP, and ManP as well as Deschamps&#039;s chanson royale &quot;Sur l&#039;ordre de la Baboue&quot; (included, with translation, in an appendix). Traces the &quot;humiliating, disfiguring effects&quot; of excessive drink in dialogue with manuscript marginalia and material artifacts (especially drinking vessels) that visually associate intoxication with simian forms and world-upside-down rhetoric. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277164">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disharmonic Spheres: Metapoetic Noise in Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Parliament of Fowls.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the background to and representations of the harmony of the spheres in PF and in HF, arguing that both poems depict the &quot;three ventricles of the brain&quot;--imagination, logic, and memory--and that, through parody and/or inversion, each depicts a poetics, &quot;the cornerstone of which is disharmony rather than harmony.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273175">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dismal Science: Chaucer and Gower on Alchemy and Economy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Gower&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s depictions of alchemy in, respectively, the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and CT, and analyzes what these narratives reveal about the poets&#039; views of money and economy. Unlike the depiction of money in Book V of the &quot;Confessio,&quot; alchemy is depicted as a productive good in Book IV. In CYT, Chaucer excoriates alchemy as a false and deceptive science because he understood  it to be the opposite of a proper economy--the &quot;social technology&quot; of money.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dismantling the Canterbury Book]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The last tales of CT form a closing sequence of transformation:  SNT (conversion fervor in the early church), CYT (alchemical madness of fourteenth-century England), ManT (debasing of myth), and ParsT (change of soul through penitence), as Chaucer gradually disengages himself from fiction for his Ret.  Thus Ellesmere order, which represents Chaucer&#039;s intentions for closure, is preferred to Hengwrt.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277161">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dismembered Memories: Philomela in Chaucer and Gower.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Chaucer&#039;s and Gower&#039;s Philomela stories, focusing on differences between the nuances and implications of weaving in LGW and embroidery in &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and arguing that Chaucer&#039;s version aligns better with modern understanding of &quot;trauma-fragmented memory,&quot; speaking, and rape survival.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263522">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dismemberment, Dissemination, Discourse: Sign and Symbol in the &#039;Shipman&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The theme of dismemberment initially voiced in the metaphor of the &quot;forstraught&quot; hare (line 1295) reverberates throughout the tale, giving rise to secondary themes of exchange of roles and dissemination of vows, underpinned by references to saints&#039; legends.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268669">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disordered Grief and Fashionable Afflictions in Chaucer&#039;s Franklin&#039;s Tale and the Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In FranT and ClT, masculine grief is aligned with courtly ideals of gentility; feminine grief, with courtly suffering. By complicating these associations and disallowing consolation of grief, Chaucer intervenes in the &quot;discursive practices&quot; of the fraudulence of the values that society attributes to grief.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270803">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disorienting Orientalism: Finding Saracens in Strange Places in Late Medieval Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Late medieval manuscript illuminations show Danes and other northern pagans with costumes and weapons that are emblematic of the Near East. Like MLT and Gower&#039;s Tale of Constance, these images indicate that the term Saracen included various non-Christian groups, evidence of a perspective that sees pagan threats on three fronts: pagan Norse, eastern Muslims, and the Moors and Arabs of Spain.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271526">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows in Three Middle English Narratives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;The King of Tars,&quot; &quot;The Siege of Jerusalem,&quot; and KnT in order to demonstrate that identity, however embodied, was unfixed in these works and perhaps in the later Middle Ages at large.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267939">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dispersing the Atmosphere of Antiquity and Attempting the Impossible&#039;: R. H. Horne&#039;s Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recounts the aims and accomplishments of the modernization of Chaucer edited by Horne in 1840-41, with contributions by Leigh Hunt, William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Barrett, among others. Correspondence helps to clarify what individual contributors hoped to achieve personally and professionally through their efforts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading &quot;The Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads NPT as Chaucer&#039;s self-reflexive &quot;ars poetica,&quot; a Menippean parody of the complexities of engaging with language and literature. Through subtle play with the traditional liberal arts education, especially the trivium, NPT explores imitation, translation, and exemplification. It examines the nature of irony and metaphor, the relation of sound to meaning, the processes of time keeping and intellection, and the epistemology and ontology of truth and truth making. It challenges individual readers to achieve a &quot;more sophisticated level of critical thinking.&quot; The volume includes close, extended analyses of the major cruces of NPT and comments at length on the Host, FranT, SumT, PF, HF, and LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276714">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distance and Predestination in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the &quot;artistic role&quot; in TC of the narrator--a commentator and a &quot;historian [who] meticulously maintains a distance between himself and the events in the story.&quot; Explores &quot;temporal, spatial, aesthetic, and religious&quot; devices in the poem (especially in the proems) that help to create a &quot;sense of distance between Chaucer as character and his story,&quot; arguing this &quot;sense of distance and aloofness&quot; is &quot;the artistic correlative to the concept of predestination.&quot; The &quot;historian-narrator,&quot; then, is analogous to God as foreknower but not causer of outcomes. Troilus approaches the narrator&#039;s perspective when he accepts destiny.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275134">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distant Mirrors: Medieval London in the Narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer and Peter Ackroyd.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes (and reiterates) appreciation of Ricardian culture, exploring ways that Chaucer evokes a strong sense of contemporary London in CT and how, in &quot;The Clerkenwell Tales,&quot; Peter Ackroyd evokes a similar sense of reality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266981">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distentio, Intentio, Attentio: Intentionality and Chaucer&#039;s Third Eye]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Criseyde&#039;s statement that she lacks Prudence&#039;s third eye should be understood in the context of Augustine&#039;s theories of time and intentionality and the philosophical realism on which they draw. Her observation points up her failure to see &quot;transcendent intentionality&quot; beyond human distinctions of past, present, and future.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271015">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distortions of the Chaucerian Tradition in &#039;The Assembly of Ladies&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses &quot;The Assembly of Ladies&quot; in light of several Chaucerian techniques, particularly his use of a disarming narrative persona. The relatively straightforward female narrative persona of &quot;Assembly&quot; is unlike the narrator of LGW, although both poems present &quot;profeminine&quot; perspectives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270705">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Distribution of Infinitive Markers in Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates and analyzes various combinations of Middle English infinitive markers--the -e(n) ending, the particle &quot;to,&quot; and the particle phrase &quot;for to&quot;--finding that they occur in no identifiable grammatical or semantic patterns of distribution in the first 1000 lines of CT, here taken as representative of post-thirteenth-century English.]]></dcterms:description>
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