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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminism and Women&#039;s Experience in the &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;powerlessness of the voiceless&quot; in ManPT, focusing on Phebus&#039;s wife, who has no voice in the Tale, in contrast with the speaking crow whose voice is taken from him and the ventriloquized mother of the Manciple. Designed for pedagogical use, includes questions for discussion on voice and gender in ManPT, CT, and other works in Middle English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267056">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminism in The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale: Chaucer Versus Dryden]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In his modernization of WBT, John Dryden diminishes the &quot;egalitarian&quot; views of Chaucer&#039;s original and presents an outlook that is distinctly less feminist.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265246">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of ten feminist essays focusing on representations of the physical body in medieval literature and their sociopolitical importance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266449">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Chaucer? Some Implications for Teaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Jill Mann&#039;s approach to Chaucer&#039;s treatment of women is more helpful for classroom application than is Elaine Hansen&#039;s.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274788">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Asks to what extent CT and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; advocate &quot;women&#039;s equality,&quot; exploring female laughter in these works, and focusing on Boccaccio&#039;s Pampinea and on the Wife of Bath as a &quot;comic performer who has an intent to play.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265541">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various hands, including an introduction by the editors, plus previously published pieces by Mary Carruthers (with a new Afterword), Sheila Delany, and Susan Schibanoff. Topics include Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; cycle drama, virginity literature, and several Chaucerian tales.  Includes suggestions for further reading. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261738">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminist Theology and &#039;The Second Nun&#039;s Tale&#039;: Or, St. Cecilia Laughs at the Judge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recent feminist study of the early Christian movement reveals that women enjoyed a high degree of authority and autonomy. Read against this background, SNT exhibits the changed status of women by the late fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminized Counsel: Representations of Women and Advice to Princes in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines &quot;the role of women in literary texts as counselors to kings&quot; in late medieval England, assessing works by Chaucer (LGW and Mel), John Gower, and Stephen Scrope.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275057">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminizing Aureation in Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Life of Our Lady&quot; and &quot;Life of Saint Margaret.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in &quot;Life of Our Lady&quot; and &quot;Life of Saint Margaret&quot; John Lydgate uses the &quot;paradoxical image&quot; of the virginal and fecund &quot;sanctified female body&quot; to distance himself &quot;from the patriarchal Chaucerian poetic model&quot; and assert that his &quot;decorative poetic style&quot; is not &quot;merely ornamental&quot; but is &quot;integral to his poetic matter.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268013">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feminizing Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A new version of Mann&#039;s book &quot;Geoffrey Chaucer&quot; (1991), with expanded references, footnotes, and bibliography. A new preface (pp. vii-xix) sketches developments in &quot;Chaucerian gender studies&quot; since c. 1990 and argues that Chaucer&#039;s exploration of gender roles is related to his concerns with cosmic power, human choice, and Boethian destiny. The book includes an excursus on FranT, a slightly revised version of &quot;Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature&quot; (SAC 26 [2004], no. 235).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269810">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays in French and English that examine factual and fictive female pilgrims, focusing on their representation in spiritual and courtly literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Femmes et pèlerinages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fertility Control and Society in Medieval Europe]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The warnings in ParsT against contraceptive methods are literary evidence that women successfully limited fertility in the late Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Festivals in Middle English Literature and Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes aspects of late medieval celebrations--focusing on feasting--to provide context for celebratory scenes in Middle English literature: &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; compared with &quot;Cleanness&quot;; Chaucer&#039;s KnT, WBT, SqT, the GP description of the Prioress, and ParsT; the Wakefield &quot;Prima Pastorum:, and Robert Henryson&#039;s fable of &quot;The Two Mice.&quot; Emphasizes contrasts between feasts and daily dining and offers suggestions for modern re-creations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264534">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Festive Liminality in Chaucer Comedy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews, by way of the anthropological studies of Turner and van Gennep, the effects of pilgrimage on the social behavior of the pilgrims in CT.  Pilgrimage removes them from the center of normative social behavior:  it homogenizes social rank, blurs sexual distinctions between male and female, and combines religion and comedy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277475">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fetishising the Past: &quot;Troilus and Criseyde,&quot; Sadomasochism, and the Historophilia of Modern BDSM.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses &quot;iterations of sadomasochistic historophilia&quot;--a term coined term here--in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;use of Trojan and Theban history&quot; in TC, examining the &quot;role of Statius&#039;s &quot;Thebaid,&quot; the place of Criseyde&#039;s collar-like Theban brooch, and the narrator&#039;s continual linking of history to torment for the purposes of pleasure.&quot; Also assesses examples of historophiliac medievalism in modern BDSM art, visual and literary.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266858">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Feudal Land Law Terminology in Selected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Legal terminology pertaining to land law is dense in fragments 1 and 2 of CT and in TC. Chaucer used the terms in informed ways and expected his audience to be familiar with their implications.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fiction and Game in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the strategies and effects of Chaucer&#039;s self-aware affirmations in CT of the work&#039;s &quot;status as fiction,&quot; commenting on the first-person narrator&#039;s functions (in contrast with those in Dante) and tracing the ironies generated by tensions between fictionality and moralization, describing Chaucer as the &quot;first of a long line of ironical satirists&quot; that includes Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, more like the Pardoner in effecting morality than like the Parson in proclaiming it.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fiction and Religion in Boccaccio and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Howard compares TC with Il Filostrato and CT with Decameron, focusing on how Chaucer adapts Boccaccio&#039;s uses of conventions to engage his audience. In Boccaccio, fiction enables the audience to escape from a contemptible world, whereas Chaucer--more the humanist--defends literary experience as a confrontation of human values. If literature has done no more good than religion for humankind, it has also done less harm.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fiction and Truth : Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven Japanese essays, three English essays, and one translation in Japanese. Focusing on literary and philological traditions, the essays contribute to study of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. The Japanese translation is of De descriptione temporum, the inaugural lecture of C. S. Lewis. For the eleven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fiction and Truth under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277459">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fiction&#039;s Truths: False Confessions from the &quot;Roman de Renart&quot; to Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;false confessions and sermons&quot; in late medieval literature &quot;investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred.&quot; Includes discussion of PardPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictional London: A Guide to the Capital&#039;s Literary Landmarks.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[ Arranged in districts; includes brief references to Chaucer and his works, e.g., Cheapside (CkT), south of the Thames (CT), Aldgate (Chaucer&#039;s residence), etc.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272476">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictional Religion: Keeping the New Testament New]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses how authors, from Chaucer to C. S. Lewis, are influenced by the &quot;flexible tradition&quot; of religious stories. Chapter 1 analyzes how Chaucer reveals understanding of Christian doctrine in WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictionalization: The Poetics of Literary Self-Consciousness]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC is used (along with later works) to draw conclusions about authorial self-consciousness.  There are applications to the &quot;persona&quot; and the author&#039;s fictionalization of his audience.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of technique in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus,&quot; Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Hamlet,&quot; Diderot&#039;s &quot;Jacques le fataliste,&quot; Dostoevsky&#039;s &quot;Notes from Underground,&quot; Beckett&#039;s &quot;Film &amp; Not I.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictions Living Fictions: The Poetics of Voice and Genre in Fragment D of the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The various fictional levels in CT result in a dialectic relationship between voice and genre, especially pronounced in Fragment D.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Fictions of Abduction in the Auchinleck Manuscript, the &#039;Pearl&#039; Poet, Chaucer, and Malory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers TC, MLT, and LGW in the larger context of the idea of &quot;raptus&quot; (rape or abduction) and its implications for national and other borders and for female status.]]></dcterms:description>
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