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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Performing the Perverse: The Abuse of Masculine Power in the Reeve&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects the violence implicit in the performance of the Tale with physical violence and argues that RvT portrays the perversion of masculine power.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268142">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Performing the Prioress: &#039;Conscience&#039; and Responsibility in Studies of Chaucer&#039;s Prioress&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focusing on the relationship between images of violence in PrT and real history, critics seek to redress history&#039;s ills. Recent readings reflect professional and institutional assumptions. While not &quot;de-historicizing&quot; PrT, critics may &quot;re-contextualize the Prioress, in both teaching and scholarship, into the literary world&quot; of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pericles&#039; Pilgrimage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the genre, fictional self-consciousness, and religious elements of &quot;Pericles,&quot; suggesting that Chaucer influenced Shakespeare&#039;s decision to include the character Gower onstage throughout the play, an aspect of its literary self-consciousness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274908">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Periodization.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the value and possible necessity of periodization in history and literary history, focusing on particular difficulties in dealing with the use of &quot;middle&quot; in &quot;Middle Ages&quot; and &quot;Middle English,&quot; and arguing that treatments of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate (especially Chaucer) by John Skelton and Stephen Hawes can be seen to disclaim continuity with English antecedents and claim it simultaneously--retrieving while repressing the past.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perkyn Revelour and the &#039;Cook&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The protagonist of CkT has antecedents, from both society and literature, that permit one to extrapolate details the Cook might have used:  trickery, age, and criticism of contemporary mores.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Reading the Past:  Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Four Courts, 1996), pp. 183-91.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses alchemy as a verbal and social practice in Chaucer&#039;s day, arguing that alchemical discourse raised with particular intensity the problem of the verbal representation of truth; alchemical study helped undermine the clerical monopoly on learning.  In CYPT, Chaucer represents &quot;modern&quot; awareness of subjectivity in the face of the determinants of language and society.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271176">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Persephone Rises, 1860-1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes comments on Proserpyna in MerT as equivalent to the Wife of Bath and on the Proserpyna/Pluto exchange as an intertwining of the classics and Christian heritage, particularly &quot;Judeo-Christian antifeminism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261603">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Persona and Voice: Plain Speaking in Three Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;voices&quot; of the narrators of SNT, MerT, and WBP. In understanding voices, it is important to remember two levels: the immediate and the inherited past.  The three tales exhibit plain speaking in different ways.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personal and Impersonal Uses of &#039;Meten&#039; and &#039;Dremen&#039; in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ono examines Chaucer&#039;s personal and impersonal uses of the verbs &quot;meten&quot; and &quot;dremen&quot; to refer to dreams. The personal use emerged in the fourteenth century.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270320">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personal Names in Old and Middle English Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses character names in works &quot;from &#039;Beowulf&#039; to Robert Henryson, tracing patterns in onomastic function, language philosophy, and literary form.&quot; Includes discussion of names from HF, TC, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272104">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personal Names in the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys the uses of personal names of the Canterbury pilgrims and of the major characters in the tales, commenting on names adapted from sources, common names, diminutives and name variants, given names and surnames, name-play, the relative paucity of names, and other onomastic concerns. Chaucer&#039;s variety and apparent casualness reflect his artfulness.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269321">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personal Politics and Thomas Gascoigne&#039;s Account of Chaucer&#039;s Death]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the anti-Lancastrian sentiments underlying Gascoigne&#039;s account of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;deathbed repentance for his literary sins&quot; in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267074">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personality and Styles of Affect in the Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pragmatic analysis of linguistic features that produce &quot;personal affect&quot; in several of the CT. Uses features such as exclamations, oaths, and aspects of proximity and reader involvement to describe characterizations of the Knight, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and the Miller.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276917">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personification and Allegorisation in &quot;Piers Plowman..&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Opens with brief contrasts between the uses of dream vision in NPT, Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox clamantis,&quot; and Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; before examining at greater length Langland&#039;s use of literary techniques that echo the Bible.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274877">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personification and Embodied Emotional Practice in Middle English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes discussion of Sorrow in Rom, treating the poem as one that maps &quot;an imaginative space in which to represent (and perhaps also elicit) emotion, one that interweaves emotional with embodied, sensory experience,&quot; and one that may &quot;reflect the author&#039;s vision of how emotions work, particularly in relation to one another.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262897">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personification in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares Langland&#039;s personification allegories to those of Boethius, Bernard Sylvester, Alain de Lille, Guillaume de Lorris, and Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264223">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Personification-Metaphors]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The stylistic device occurs when a noun is given personification by the poet&#039;s use of a verb (or occasionally a verb phrase, adjective, or adverb).  Chaucer uses few of them:  the lyrics have more than do the longer narratives.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272265">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism: 1400-1700]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys criticism of Chaucer&#039;s works from Hoccleve and Lydgate to Dryden, identifying what it &quot;reveals and contributes to the understanding and appreciation of Chaucer&#039;s poetry&quot; rather than his literary reputation or the &quot;state of English criticism at large.&quot; Particular emphasis on how various Renaissance critics anticipate Dryden.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263667">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perspektiv pa Chaucerforskningen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reviews criticism and scholarship on Chaucer in Sweden and England, treating backgrounds (social, religious and philosophical, and literary), general works, and new directions in scholarship.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276748">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pertelote&#039;s Prescription.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers anecdotal support for Pertelote&#039;s belief (NPT 7.2961-62) that worms can be used as a digestive.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266853">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perverse Pilgrims: Chaucer&#039;s Wife and Pardoner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the Wife of Bath (in contrast to the Clerk) and the Pardoner (in contrast to the Parson) as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Diptych of Eve and Adam,&quot; commenting on their depictions in the Ellesmere manuscript and reading them as inversions of the ideals of pilgrimage. Focuses on the Wife&#039;s association with Bath and her contrast with the Samaritan woman; considers the Pardoner&#039;s distortions of &quot;the Emmaus tale&quot; and his affiliations with the figure of Renart.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267002">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Perverted Love in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Anelida and Arcite&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Thebes&#039;s foundational perversion (Jove&#039;s rape of Europa) establishes a recursive pattern of love and violence. Creon&#039;s dynastic expectation for Anelida and Arcite results in Anelida&#039;s self-deception and leads as well to Arcite&#039;s servitude to his new paramour.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263695">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pestilence and Middle English Literature: Friar John Grimestone&#039;s Poems on Death]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The plague had little impact on artistic expression in England.  Chaucer, Langland, and others thought it a result of moral failings.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268677">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Grigsby considers leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis, focusing on how they were constructed as moral phenomena and how literary depictions contributed to historical developments in our (mis)understandings of them.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines a range of texts, including PardT, in which false oaths are connected to the plague; and the GP description of the Summoner, through which Chaucer condemns lechery and the failure of ecclesiastical supervision.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263678">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petrarch]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores Petrarch&#039;s &quot;modernity&quot; through his self-images.]]></dcterms:description>
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