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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Words of the Wounded: Traumatic Grief and Narrative Therapy in Middle English Dream Visions.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses &quot;the frameworks of illness narrative, narrative medicine, and trauma theory&quot; along with the model found in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; to &quot;examine the doctor–patient relationship&quot; in BD, Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; and &quot;Pearl,&quot; &quot;assessing how well each therapist-figure attends to his or her patient.&quot; Investigates therapeutical versus penitential confession in BD.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Driving the Night Away: Early Chapters in the History of Reading.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the history of silent reading and commercial manuscript production for private reading, starting with Chaucer&#039;s BD and including considerations of the Auchinleck manuscript and British Library, MS Harley 978, to suggest that meditative consideration of conscience and silent reading may have been linked social practices. A revised address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2004;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hinged, Bound, Covered: The Signifying Potential of the Material Codex.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how the material book is a &quot;metaphorically rich signifier&quot; in contemporary culture and in a selection of English narratives, including BD and PF--where the narrators&#039; books, serving as portals to the dream experience, result in &quot;poetic output&quot; and reveal how books Aallow such creative thinking&quot; as a &quot;byproduct of physically grounded reading.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Death and Betrayal in &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions claims that BD is a poem of consolation, arguing that it is instead a &quot;renewal of grief,&quot; focusing its three units of &quot;reading, dreaming, [and] remembering,&quot; attending to source materials, and suggesting that the Black Knight may have been forgetful or &quot;unfaithful to the memory of his love.&quot; Includes comments on &quot;the difficulty of sustaining an extremity of grief&quot; in FranT and on the fears that grief can engender.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Forest in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Book of the Duchess,&quot; Ll. 416-426: Echoes of the Nave and Tower of Old St Paul&#039;s Cathedral.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the forest described in BD, 416-26, is &quot;both topographical and ekphrastic,&quot; comparing details of the forest with aspects of Wenceslas Hollar&#039;s engravings of the nave of Old St. Paul&#039;s Cathedral, reproduced in William Dugdale&#039;s history of the cathedral.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mourning Becomes the Duchess: Chaucer, Text, Tomb.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Chaucer&#039;s BD in the context of the material and ritual aspects of Blanche&#039;s death, using Freud&#039;s concept of the work of mourning to address the public, political, social, and economic work of John of Gaunt&#039;s mourning. A revised version of an address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2014.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Occasion of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the &quot;dominant paradigm&quot; for the date and composition of Bo, dismantling &quot;several doubtful propositions&quot;--influence on Usk&#039;s &quot;Testament,&quot; Chaucer&#039;s use of Bo in his other works, Chaucer as a &quot;poor Latinist.&quot; Analyzes Bo as a &quot;late-medieval academic translation&quot; that combines various sources, intermingling text, glosses, and commentaries in a late-career, politically sensitive product, perhaps a &quot;gift to some person of power.&quot; Also assesses Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.3.21, as &quot;A Presentation Copy in the Making?&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Translation of Boethius&#039;s &quot;The Consolation of Philosophy&quot;: A Modern English Rendering.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates Bo into modern idiomatic English, with text based on &quot;The Riverside Chaucer,&quot; 3rd ed. (1986), and bottom-of-page notes, a glossary of proper names, and a citation glossary of Middle English words in Bo accompanied by Latin equivalents. Introductory materials include a brief life of Boethius, comments on the structure and content of Bo, and the influence and legacy of Boethius&#039;s Consolation in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dancing Descriptions: Choreographing Middle English Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;how late-fourteenth and fifteenth-century [English] poets use dance to experiment and play with descriptions of motion.&quot; Includes discussion of Anel as well as Osbern Bokenham&#039;s &quot;Legend of Holy Women,&quot; Thomas Chestre&#039;s &quot;Sir Launfal,&quot; John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book&quot; and &quot;Siege of Thebes,&quot; and &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;moral value for Chaucer&#039;s audience&quot; of CYPT and articulates &quot;alchemical connections&quot; elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman&#039;s final rejection of alchemy as evidence of Chaucer&#039;s disclosure of &quot;the misuse of power and human intellect and the impact of moral blindness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads CYP in the context of late medieval English concerns about waste as &quot;ecosystemic misconduct par excellence,&quot;  linking to the plague the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s social contagion and the damage done to him by his working environment. Explicates the lexical, sonic, and rhythmic nature of the Yeoman&#039;s lists to show how they evoke &quot;ecosystemic danger&quot; in &quot;weird&quot; and &quot;wonderful&quot; ways.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Concept of Destiny and Free Will in Chauntecleer&#039;s Dream]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that NPT &quot;shows how free will and destiny . . . mysteriously connive together to form what can be called &#039;conditional free will&#039;,&quot; arguing that the combination of Chauntecleer&#039;s dream and the outcome of the plot compromise Augustinian, Bradwardinian, and Boethian ideas so that while the dream destines the encounter between fox and rooster, the cock&#039;s escape depends upon his will to survive and Russell&#039;s will to speak. Surveys related criticism.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Lady Philosophy or a Concealed Wife of Bath: Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s Prudence in the &quot;Tale of Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces &quot;similarities between Boethius&#039;s Lady Philosophy and Chaucer&#039;&#039;s Prudence&quot; in Mel regarding &quot;the authority of women over men as the source of knowledge and wisdom.&quot; Comments on female empowerment and Prudence as a &quot;Wife of Bath in disguise.&quot; Includes an abstract in Turkish.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Pilgrim&#039;s Carnivalesque: The Textual Chaucer and the Negation of Narration in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads Th through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin&#039;s concept of the carnivalesque as a dismantling of the religious and moral authority established by PrT in order to reassert the carnivalesque as the organizing principle of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277533">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In/Verse Britain: The Poetics of the Post-Nation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a subsection titled &quot;Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi&#039;s &#039;Telling Tales,&#039;&quot; arguing that Agbabi successfully detoxifies CT&#039;s &quot;ideologeme of othering, most obviously in religious, sexual and racial dichotomies.&quot; Uses case-study comparison of PrT and Agbabi&#039;s &quot;Sharps an Flats,&quot; considering style as well as matter, with attention to reception of PrT by the pilgrim audience through to Robert Lumiansky&#039;s 1948 prose summary.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277532">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Blood Cries Out: Negotiating Embodiment and Otherness in the Premodern World.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Addresses &quot;medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons.&quot; Chapter 4 considers &quot;the concepts of ritual murder libel, blood libel, and Jewish male menstruation&quot; in PrT, Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;The Merchant of Venice,&quot; and Marlowe&#039;s &quot;The Jew of Malta.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277531">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;The pitous pite deserveth&quot;: Justice, Violence, and Pity in the &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;The Jew and the Pagan.&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the &quot;structures of feeling&quot; in PrT and Gower&#039;s &quot;Tale of the Jew and the Pagan,&quot; particularly their interrelations of pity, violence, justice, antisemitism, and affective response. Suggests that the two authors reworked their versions at the same time, and that, while Gower&#039;s version is attentive &quot;to how pity might ease the abuses of a law and justice gone awry,&quot; Chaucer had greater &quot;distrust of pity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner in Slovenian and the Significance of Paratext in Making Meaning.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares and contrasts Marjan Strojan&#039;s presentations of the Pardoner&#039;s sexual identity in his 1974 and 2012 Slovenian translations of the GP description of the Pardoner; WBP, 161-87; and PardPT; examining variations and omissions in the texts and paratexts of these translations, arguing for the importance of the paratextual material, and commenting on several English translations. Includes an abstract in Slovenian and in English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277529">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ideas in Literature: Building Skills and Understanding for the AP® Course.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Unit One of this pedagogical study guide includes a thematic section &quot;Faith and Doubt,&quot; which features PardT (J. U. Nicolson&#039;s poetic translation), with exploratory study questions. A student workbook is also available.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Pardoner: Food, Drink, and the Discourse of Desecration.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Builds on previous readings of PardT that identify its descriptions of food, especially bread and wine, as part of its parody of the Christian mass and Eucharist. Demonstrates that Chaucer uses specifically Wycliffite terms when referring to food and the body. The Pardoner&#039;s sacrilegious imagery includes not only desecrations of Christian ritual but attacks on the very body of Christ. Concludes that the effect of the Pardoner&#039;s performance is to &quot;evoke in the reader or listener a Christless world, violate, broken by sin.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Diagnosis and Repair: Reading the Sick Body with Chaucer&#039;s Physician and Pardoner.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that &quot;medical models for textual interpretation&quot; structure Part 6 of CT. Assesses violent, authoritative models of medical cure posed in the GP description of the Physician; interrogates   literary interpretation as self-repair in PhyT; and discloses queer, consensual models for reading and repair in PardPT that undercut normative cure and authoritative interpretation. Theories by Eli Clare and by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick serve as &quot;critical poles with which to navigate the medicalized reading dynamic&quot; of Part 6.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Abiding Tides: Oceanic Influences on Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the &quot;tidal influences&quot; in FranT encourage &quot;feminist interpretation&quot; of Dorigen&#039;s promise, &quot;identification of an environmentalist sensibility&quot; in the tale, and attention to human subjection &quot;to natural cycles and forces.&quot; Furthermore, &quot;tidal patterns&quot; (along with the genre of Breton lai) &quot;may have exerted some influence&quot; in shaping the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Modern Punctuation of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot;: Line 964.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the use of a mid-line semicolon in FranT, 964, arguing that it and the virgule in the Ellesmere manuscript disambiguate the syntax of the description of the conversation between Dorigen and Aurelius, diminishing the characterization of Dorigen and eroding the appropriateness of the tale to its teller.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance with a Difference: &quot;The Squire&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;Sir Thopas.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends SqT and Thopas are not artistic failures but that their departures from the usual norms of the medieval romance genre in tone, form, and subject matter are evidence of Chaucer&#039;s search &quot;for a new mode of romance writing.&quot; Further, their unfinished condition require them to be read &quot;in dialogue with other voices&quot; in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277523">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The World Is an Inn: Habitus in the Global Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Outlines the teaching of a unit on global, multicultural &quot;inns and &quot;hostels&quot; in medieval texts, focusing on representations of nonwestern dwelling places during travel. Includes comments on SqT as &quot;rich in hotel psyche and tonality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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