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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Decline of the Prefix &#039;y&#039;- of Past Participles]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s use of the prefix &quot;y&quot;- in the history of the English language.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Development of Borrowed Connectives in Fourteenth-Century English: Evidence from Corpora]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Rissanen analyzes the &quot;grammaticalization&quot; of several related conjunctions (because, in case, save, except) that suggest a complicated model of standardization. Popular texts such as Chaucer&#039;s CT may have had as much influence on standardization as administrative documents had.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263375">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Diachrony of English Linking Verbs]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Diachronic study of verbs like &quot;become,&quot; &quot;grow,&quot; &quot;wax,&quot; and &quot;turn&quot; used as both linking and regular verbs.  Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English show a decline in dominant meaning, allowing for linking-verb use.  Includes data from Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275180">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Eastern Origin and Iberian Analogues of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies possible analogues to CYPT and constructs stemmata of narrative motifs to explore the relations between Chaucer&#039;s work and the others, showing that the ninth chapter of the &quot;Kitah al-mukhtar fı kashf al-asrar&quot; of thirteenth-century Syrian writer Al-Jawbarı provides close and numerous analogues to Chaucer&#039;s work, discussing details and motifs available to Chaucer via a &quot;lost archetype&quot; of the &quot;Kitah&quot; that is separate from tales by Ramon Llull and Don Juan Manuel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275503">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Edge: Chaucer and Gower&#039;s Queer Glosses.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines glosses of John Gower&#039;s English text of &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s CT, especially MLT, and claims that Chaucer and Gower &quot;are acutely aware of the risks, and sometimes the pleasures, of misprision or queer (mis)interpretation&quot; as they develop &quot;ideas of authority&quot; in their poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Eighteenth-Century Ownership of a Manuscript of Chaucer&#039;s Legend of Good Women, British Library Additional 9832]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arthur Sherbo&#039;s suggestion that Samuel Pegge did not own MS 9832 is probably mistaken.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262339">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Eighteenth-Century Ownership of a MS of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;, Phillipps 6570]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Manly and Rickert were unable to trace the provenance of MS Phillipps 6570, now University of Texas Library 46, Austin.  From the handwriting in notes, Wright deduces that Samuel Pegge the elder (1704-96) had MS Phillipps 6570 in his possession from 1745 to 1758.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272024">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Franklin&#039;s Prologue, 716-721, Persius, and the Continuity of the Mannerist Style]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Treats Chaucer&#039;s use of the humility topos in FranP as an example of &quot;mannerist style,&quot; focusing on his uses of the terms &quot;crude&quot; and &quot;excused&quot; and his reference to Mount Parnassus. Exemplifies the rich classical background of these features, and suggests that the device signals that the Franklin &quot;will not be telling the truth,&quot; and that Chaucer did not know Persius&#039;s &quot;Satires&quot; firsthand.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266978">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Fringes of Interaction : The Dawn-Song as a &#039;Linguistic Routine&#039; of Parting]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the dawn songs (aubades) in TC and Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Romeo and Juliet&quot; as elaborate versions of the linguistic category of parting or separation. Both dawn songs assert consolidation and assuage possible feelings of rejection; they also reestablish the courtly mode by displacing physical intimacy with language. Further, the song in TC reasserts the courtly hierarchy that had been displaced by temporary equality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Integration of the &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Following the precepts of Russian formalism, one perceives that along with other related words, &quot;deeth&quot; and &quot;sleeth&quot; give unity to PardT.  The word-complex is also associated with the Pardoner&#039;s sterility.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273998">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Pitfalls of Interpretation: Latin Abbreviations in MSS of the &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Distinguishes graphetic, graphemic, and &quot;meaningful subgraphemic phenomena&quot; in the Latin-based abbreviations of MLT manuscripts, using the data to demonstrate why the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; Project has elected not to expand abbreviations uniformly and thereby avoid levelling significant variants.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Pleasure of Meeting Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Appreciative criticism of CT, particularly Chaucer&#039;s realism, stylistic variety, and deft characterization, including that of his own persona. Comments on his life and language and on the appropriateness of individual tales to their tellers. Reads PrT as a &quot;weapon&quot; to help in the destruction of ignorance.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275067">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Pluperfect Aspect in English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses the use of the past perfect forms in GP and Mel. In Japanese with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266765">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Productivity of the Suffixes -ness and -ity : The Case of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the distribution of the two suffixes and compares their semantic functions.  A revision of an essay originally published in &quot;Studies in Modern English 19 (1993): 1-255.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264033">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Relation of Fact and Fiction in Chaucer&#039;s Poetic Endings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ret is a transition between the realms of fiction and fact.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269763">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Rhetorical Expressions of G. Chaucer: European Poems and Aesthetics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lists examples from Chaucer&#039;s works of rhetorical devices recommended by Aristotle and/or used by Ovid, demonstrating Chaucer&#039;s place in the rhetorical tradition of Western European literature.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Road and in the Market: Chaucer&#039;s Mapping of 1381.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers documentary evidence that roads, markets, and taverns were &quot;conduits for and symbols of&quot; class mobility/motility and rebellious tidings in post-Uprising medieval England, especially in Kent and on the Canterbury road. Against this background, Chaucer&#039;s CT &quot;are expressions of individual agency . . . that cumulatively constitute a discourse of insurgency&quot; and engage the &quot;ideological space&quot; of the Uprising of 1381.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266900">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Significance of Saint Simon in the Summoner&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The reference to &quot;Symoun&quot; alludes not to Simon Magus (as previously suggested) but to Simon the Apostle, whose connections with sin and confession advance some of the larger themes of SumT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Sources of &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses parallels between PrT and the &quot;liturgy of the Feat of the Holy Innocents&quot; (mass, vespers, etc.), a source likely to have been known to Chaucer. Also labels PrT a &quot;devotional&quot; tale, sharing distinctive similarities of imagery and symbolism with SNT and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272200">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Timely Death of the Wife of Bath&#039;s Fourth Husband]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies details, allusions, and shifts in speech patterns in WBP, especially those connected with the Wife&#039;s false dream of blood and the &quot;tantalizing ambiguous&quot; circumstances of the death of Wife&#039;s fourth husband, arguing that they indicate a &quot;pathological state,&quot; the Wife&#039;s manipulation of Jankyn&#039;s fears, and the collaboration of the Wife and Jankyn in killing husband number four.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275798">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Tradition of Troilus&#039;s Vision of the Little Earth.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces from Jerome to Frère Lorens&#039;s &quot;Somme le Roi&quot; the legacy of commentary on Isaiah 40 which links spiritual ascent and contempt for the world, discussing Lorens&#039;s &quot;Somme&quot; as the source for the rise of Arcite in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Teseida&quot; and as a secondary source for Troilus&#039;s ascent at the end of TC.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275070">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Use of &quot;lief&quot; in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the difference in use and function between the &quot;be&quot; + &quot;lief&quot; and the &quot;have&quot; + &quot;lief&quot; constructions, and between these constructions and &quot;like&quot; and &quot;list&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Use of the Old Man Figure in a Medieval and a Renaissance Text]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the figures of the Old Man in PardT and Marlowe&#039;s &quot;Doctor Faustus,&quot; arguing that each represents the &quot;Christian paradox of moral strength manifesting itself in physical weakness.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268587">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books : A Medieval and Modern Inquiry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses medieval notions of the utility of books, comparing modern and medieval theoretical discussions. Astell&#039;s essay focuses on the symbolic exchange value of books and the &quot;antisacrificial rhetorical strategies&quot; for offering books as gifts to God and to others. Includes discussion of GP as an accessus to CT and of Ret as the place where Chaucer &quot;assumes responsibility for the utilitas of his poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264860">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On the Wife of Bath&#039;s &#039;Embarrassing Question&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fisher&#039;s reading &quot;wight&quot; (1977) in WBT 117 is preferable to Donaldson&#039;s &quot;wrighte.&quot;  FranT 867-72 contains phrasing which is reminiscent of Fisher&#039;s proposed meaning of WBT 117:  &quot;And created by so wise a Being.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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