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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth–the XXIst cc.).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies and describes reference works that pertain to individual English authors, published (in print or online) from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century--concordances, glossaries, name-dictionaries, indices to quotations and proverbs, handbooks, etc. Gives particular attention to Chaucer as the earliest English author about whom such reference works were created.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Defines and classifies various kinds of comedy according to their natures, subject matters, and social functions; then surveys this variety in the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages to 1970. Describes Chaucer&#039;s comedy (pp. 67-75) as &quot;skeptical and complex,&quot; atypical of England at the time in its balanced views and rich development.  Comments specifically on Chaucer&#039;s comedic techniques in MilT, RvT, and WBP, in contrast with that of William Dunbar in Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263939">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays on court culture in Chaucer&#039;s England.  For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263910">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Culture in the Fourteenth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[English culture was shaped by widespread literacy, English nationalism and political unity, a common language and traditions, schools, study of Latin, biblical commentary, knowledge of the classics, the humanistic movement, travel, and foreign contact.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274262">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Dramatic Form: A History of Its Development.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the history and development of English drama from the Renaissance to the modern period, emphasizing &quot;the nature and effects&quot; of plays and performance. Includes a chapter entitled &quot;The Dream Vision from Chaucer to Shakespeare&quot; (pp. 61-79), which discusses how Chaucer separated &quot;&#039;performance&#039; of poetry from ordinary living&quot; in BD, HF, PF and LGWP. Also includes a section (pp. 91-94) on parallels between TC and Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Cressida.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Dream Poems of the Fifteenth Century and Their French Connection]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the provenance and contents of several fifteenth-century manuscripts, arguing that such compilations reflect interest in Chaucer&#039;s dream poems, acquaintance with a range of English and French texts, and a &quot;lively awareness of current subjects of literary debate&quot; or quarrel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265234">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi, 24 January, 1993]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-three essays on literary and linguistic topics, emphasizing linguistic or structuralist approaches to literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Far and Wide under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268058">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English from Caedmon to Chaucer: The Literary Development of English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A linguistic history of Old and Middle English that uses several Chaucerian examples to explain changes in morphology and phonology. Chapter 12 discusses Chaucer&#039;s contributions to English, to poetry, and to prosody. The apparatus indexes the literary works cited and provides a number of useful Internet links. Works considered include Astr, Adam, TC, BD, GP, KnT, NPT, ParsT, SqT, WBT, and Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Glosses (A Fifteenth Century Word-List) from British Library MS Additional 37075]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides hitherto unavailable information about late-medieval culture through Latin-English instruction books.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271252">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Goes Underground]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, which describes this video as concerned with the impact of French on the English language and identifies four units that pertain to Chaucer: &quot;Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English Literature&quot; (3:10); &quot;Geoffrey Chaucer: Reformed English Language in &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;&quot; (3:09); &quot;Geoffrey Chaucer: Use of French or Old English Words Determine Poetic Style&quot; (2:48); and &quot;Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Legacy in the English Language&quot; (3:24). Originally produced in 2003 by ITV Productions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263647">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Gothic Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats the works of Chaucer, Langland, Malory, and the Gawain poet from the social and religious contexts of court and monastery, town and country.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266956">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-five essays by various authors and a select, annotated bibliography of Japanese studies of English historical linguistics from 1950-95. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265542">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Linguistics, 1992]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine papers read during the Seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 21-26 September 1992. The papers range from general interest to phonology and writing, morphology and syntax, lexicology and semantics, varieties of English, and studies of individual texts. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics, 1992 under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271857">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical study of the history of the English language. Chapter 36 discusses Chaucer&#039;s language.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273919">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook, Volume 1.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled &quot;Middle English&quot; (pp. 32-47) and a section on various subtopics in Middle English linguistics, including &quot;Middle English: Literary Language&quot; by Leslie K. Arnovick (pp. 551-76) and &quot;Middle English: The Language of Chaucer&quot; by Simon Horobin (pp. 576-87), the latter concerned with standardization, spelling and dialect, grammar, and vocabulary, describing the state of modern studies and the work that needs to be done. The index to the volume cites numerous other references to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Metrics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thirteen essays (plus an introduction) from the 1991 G. L. Brook Symposium on Old and Middle English Metrics. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Metrics under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Historical Narratives of Jewish Child-Murder, Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale,&#039; and the Date of Chaucer&#039;s Unknown Source]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to &quot;non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys&quot; and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The tradition was influenced by tales of Hugh of Lincoln, the building of a shrine to him, and the development of a &quot;Lincoln sub-group&quot; of analogous tales (PrT and the Spanish version known as C9).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Imitations of the &#039;Homelia Origenis de Maria Magdalena&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes English analogues and the Latin original to Chaucer&#039;s lost translation, &quot;Origenes upon the Maudelyne&quot; (LGWP-F 428), hypothesizing that Chaucr translated his work upon the request of a lady and speculating why he may have done so.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English in the Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Machan studies the &quot;social meanings, functions, and status of the English language in the late-medieval period,&quot; i.e., its &quot;sociolinguistic contextualization.&quot; He explores Henry III&#039;s letters of 1258; the relationships between language, dialects, and nationhood; RvT and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and the early afterlife of Middle English. Chaucer uses aberrant dialectical forms in RvT not to record a northern dialect, but to represent the dynamics of social ambition through linguistic form--a technique he also uses in PF and in the reference to the Revolt of 1381 in NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273545">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Law and the Man of Law&#039;s &quot;Prose&quot; Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Man of Law depicts himself as a traditionalist in law. Through his presentation in GP, his conversation with the Host, and his Tale, the Man of Law separates himself from negative views of lawyers in the wake of the 1381 Rising. In claiming that he will give a tale in prose, he refers to the veracity of his story rather than its form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272223">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Life in Chaucer&#039;s Day]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged topically, with table of dates and costs of living, plus a glossary of terms.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264218">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides samples of handwriting, sections on alphabets, abbreviations, scripts.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For Chaucer materials, see especially pp. 32-43.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This study guide includes brief summary descriptions of works from &quot;Beowulf&quot; to Beckett; Includes a list of Chaucer&#039;s works and sentence-long summaries of seven of the &quot;key&quot; CT (pp. 14-15).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262237">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[English Literature Before Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critical overview of selections from Old English and Early Middle English literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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