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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides an overview of Chaucer as storyteller and narrator in CT, BD, HF, and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271449">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Giving Scribe B a Name and a Clutch of London Manuscripts from c. 1400]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges the identification of Adam Pynkhurst with Scribe B (the &quot;label nowadays given to the scribe&quot; of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT). Surveys the history of identifying Pynkhurst as Scribe B, examines paleographical and linguistic evidence, and assesses what is known--and what is inferred--about the two figures, arguing that they were separate individuals.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266122">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Literacy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucerians must encourage or revive linguistic and cultural literacy of the Middle Ages among students and colleagues, both because the Middle Ages are of significant interest in popular culture and because they offer access to &quot;familiar difference,&quot; fostering critical awareness in interpretation and communication.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275966">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Literature and Grammar: A Selection of Annotated Medieval and Renaissance English Texts for (Spanish) University Students.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer&#039;s linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261205">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Making an Edition of The Canterbury Tales in Modern Spelling]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenges existing editions of CT and proposes an alternative that would include the old-spelling version of Hengwrt with new spelling, glossing, and annotations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277005">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Not Being Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates the value of studying Chaucer in light of national and international calls to decenter the poet and his works, considering the history and politics of these calls, the nature of canon-making, and several instances where &quot;Chaucer&#039;s work has been reimagined in positive political ways.&quot; Advocates continued study of Chaucer because &quot;his writings and the history of their reception continue to generate new and important ways&quot; of understanding and counteracting racism, antifeminism, class bias, and binary reductionism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276256">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of &quot;Caribbean creole&quot; to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of pentameter verse as constraint, and contrasts Chaucer&#039;s use of London-based English with the &quot;sheer naked energy and brutality&quot; of the language of &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263147">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Not Reading Chaucer--Aloud]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that if we read CT aloud we should generally do so in our own dialects rather than in &quot;Semblance,&quot; the reconstructed version of the fourteenth-century English dialect of the Southeast Midlands.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277489">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On or about 1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;blame&quot; links politics and literature in late medieval England, arguing that CT (especially MilP and Ret) &quot;democratizes narrative authority and erodes authorial intention by redistributing doubt and confidence through blame,&quot; thereby &quot;unsettl[ing] morality to enshrine vernacular literature as a public politics.&quot; Also considers blame in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; and the &quot;York Play of the Crucifixion.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271074">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reading Books from a Half-Alien Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks to bridge the intellectual and emotion distance between modern readers and medieval literature, addressing the nature of semantic change and changing ideas about human personality. Includes commentary on a range of medieval works, with extended treatments of &quot;inwardness&quot; in CT and TC, the dominance of craft over art in CT and medieval cathedrals, and the range of meaning of the word &quot;lady.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici, eds. The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf (London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2010), pp. 64-90.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272700">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reading Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads six stanzas from TC (3.85-126), closely analyzing rhymes and rhythm, alliteration, diction and phrases, repetitions and echoes of other works to exemplify the &quot;pliable pleasure&quot; afforded by Chaucer&#039;s style and his engagement with oral and written traditions alike.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266436">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reading Chesterton&#039;s &#039;Chaucer&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[G. K. Chesterton&#039;s &quot;Chaucer&quot; makes the &quot;spaciousness&quot; and capacity of Chaucer&#039;s writings available to twentieth-century readers.  Chesterton associated Chaucer&#039;s sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian views on sin, freedom, and joy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274749">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reading Jerry Ellis Travel Diaries: A Comparison of &quot;Walking the Trail&quot; and &quot;Walking to Canterbury.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares two travel diaries by Jerry Ellis (1974-). Includes a detailed description of &quot;Walking to Canterbury--A Modern Journey through Chaucer&#039;s Medieval England,&quot; which contains references to NPT, SumT, WBT, and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276976">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Reflexive Verbs in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates relations between reflexive pronouns and reflexive verbs in BD and PF. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261240">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Rereading Henryson&#039;s Orpheus and Euridice]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;moralitas&quot; of Henryson&#039;s poem and conjectures that KnT was a &quot;major shaping force&quot; in it.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266748">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Robert Henryson&#039;s &#039;Testament of Cresseid&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Henryson&#039;s emulation of Chaucer is evident in his adoption of the stanza form of TC for his &quot;Testament,&quot; yet he expresses his &quot;rivalry&quot; with his prececessor by offering a different conclusion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267659">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Saracen Enjoyment : Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Echoing Chaucer&#039;s poetry while portraying non-Christian, racialized others, the Middle English romance &quot;The Sultan of Babylon&quot; invokes a &quot;Saracen Chaucer&quot; whose status as national poet depends on such markers of difference.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276850">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On Servant Women, Rape Culture, and Endurance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In light of newly discovered documents surrounding Cecily Chaumpaigne, calls for more attention to the servant women depicted in Chaucer&#039;s texts and the use of the word &quot;endure&quot; in his corpus.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264023">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A summary of the text published in Limoges.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275071">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Adjectives Modifying Knights in Chaucer: With Special References to Troilus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses adjectives employed to modify knightly characters in TC, GP, KnT, Th, BD, and Anel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261261">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Architecture of Chaucer&#039;s Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Drawing on recent socio- and ethnolinguistic insights, Burnley examines the complex stylistic associations of commonly used language in a variety of spoken and written contexts.  The structure of Chaucer&#039;s English is not neat and orderly but cumulative and diverse.  The evidence for a language of the past is limited.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267148">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262304">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Construction &#039;I Was Go Walked&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The rare construciton &quot;go + walked&quot; occurs only in BD 387 and SumT 3.1778.  No other instances are recorded in the OED, the MED, or Visser.  Discussion about this construction will contribute to a more accurate reading of Chaucer&#039;s text and to an explanation of Middle English constructions hitherto unrelated.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Continuity of English Poetry Between Beowulf and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues for the continuity of English literary tradition from Beowulf to the present by exploring several &quot;great speeches&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works and in previous literature. No one disputes the continuity from Chaucer to the present, and the presence in these speeches of similar rhetorical and thematic devices indicates a common English tradition up to and including Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264945">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the contrast in &#039;The Parlement of Foules&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The use of contrast in PF is notable, as the poem begins with a suggestive contrast in &quot;Ars longa, vita brevis.&quot;  The main theme of the work may be considered to be a contrast of courtly love and natural love.]]></dcterms:description>
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