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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politeness in Chaucer: Suggestions towards a Methodology for Pragmatic Stylistics]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Stylistic or linguistic thickening is a key to meaning, as in selectional politeness.  Abrupt shifts of topic, disruption of narrative frames, and lack of deference to the reader&#039;s expectations make MilT more &quot;impolite.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269772">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politeness in the History of English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Arguing that contemporary &quot;negative&quot; politeness may function in public only, Jucker surveys historical functions of politeness in English. Analyzes Chaucer&#039;s use of &quot;thou&quot; and &quot;you&quot; forms in ClT as &quot;retractable,&quot; i.e., variable by situation, rapidly shifting, and dependent on levels  of &quot;politeness and respect&quot; as well as on &quot;affection and intimacy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Political Allegory in Late-Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A series of studies that explore how William Langland, John Gower, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, and Sir Thomas Malory all &quot;practiced an allegorical art, partly as a result of their similar educational backgrounds and also because political pressures encouraged and indeed necessitated indirection in writing about matters of public concern&quot; (5). Chapter 4, &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Ricardian Allegories&quot; (pp. 94-116), compares allegorical depictions of Richard II: as a royal eagle in PF, as the God of Love in LGWP, and &quot;in various guises&quot; in Mel, MkT, and NPT. Mel promises the political advice given in MkPT, with its reference to King Edward (7.1968-72), and in NPT, with its recapitulation of the revolt of 1381.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Political Animals: Form and the Animal Fable in Langland&#039;s Rodent Parliament and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies food-chain predation and ecosystemic competition as formal elements of animal fables; then examines these dynamics in NPT, the Rat Parliament of Langland&#039;s &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and their respective allusions to the Uprising of 1381 and to the English Parliaments of 1376 and 1377. Though varied, the two narratives capitalize on their animal-fable genre to critique hierarchical power, assert the value of laboring commons, and advocate political counsel rather than rebellion.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Political Chaucer: The Deployment of the Chaucer Canon, 1390-1990]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s works have been treated variously through the centuries:  vernacular text teaching a diverse audience in debates over &quot;Englishing&quot; the Bible; both model and subject for translation to the Neoclassics; basis for study in the nineteenth century; and subject for numerous types of criticism since.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272381">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politicizing the Landscape: Ricardian Literary Languages of Power]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers depictions of wilderness in GP and ManT, along with works by Gower and Langland, as metaphors for undisciplined rulers.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A Marxist approach to form, structure, and character shows broad dichotomies in Chaucer&#039;s art; e.g., between city and country, Gothic and modernist narratives, and worldy and otherworldly philosophies.  From the last divergence derives the major ideological dialectic in Chaucer between medieval Christian idealism and bourgeois &quot;materialist humanism.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and London Life]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Divided into three sections - &quot;Politics and Discourse,&quot; &quot;London Life and Chaucer&#039;s Poetry,&quot; and &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Social Circle&quot; - this essay surveys a variety of Chaucer&#039;s narratives and short poems, showing how they reflect urban and political elements in fourteenth-century London.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and Poetics: Usk and Chaucer in the 1380s]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[London politics in the 1380s were characterized by &quot;shifting planes of alliance.&quot;  Such shifting in the early years of the decade led to the eventual struggle of 1385-88 between Richard&#039;s court party and the duke of Gloucester&#039;s aristocratic appellants.  Londoners such as Thomas Usk and Geoffrey Chaucer were confronted with possibilities for advancement as well as with perils of factional affiliation. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Usk tried to win Chaucer&#039;s own political favor by complimenting Chaucer in his &quot;Testament of Love,&quot; but Chaucer avoided direct personal and political commentary in his works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268053">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and the Middle English Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Challenging suggestions that individuals like Chaucer are agents of linguistic change, Machan argues that they cannot foresee history and therefore cannot work to a future end. The article surveys political factors in late-medieval English linguistic change.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics and the Paralysis of the Poetic Imagination in the Physician&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In contrast to other analogues to PhysT, Chaucer &quot;systematically obliterates social content&quot; to deprive the characters of plausible motives.  This &quot;bad piece of work&quot; is &quot;pornographic or free-floating sadistic sensationalism, with murder as its only real centre.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277219">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics in Translation: Language, War, and Lyric Form in Francophone Europe, 1337-1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies aesthetic and political relations between France and Francophone England during the Hundred Years&#039; War, with particular attention to uses and politics of the &quot;formes fixes&quot; of lyric poetry among French writers, Chaucer, and Gower. Examines the contents of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 902 (formerly French 15), and a wide range of French and English poems, including the poems of &quot;Ch,&quot;  Deschamps&#039; praise of Chaucer, Gower&#039;s Traitie, and Chaucer&#039;s LGWP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271561">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics, Patronage, and Orthodoxy in Late Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses ABC, Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Complaint of the Virgin Before the Cross,&quot; and other sources to outline a mutually reinforcing relationship between the Lancastrians (orthodox supporters of the Church) and the Church (which allied with the Lancastrians).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politics, Prodigality, and the Reception of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Purse&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys &quot;legends&quot; about Chaucer&#039;s prodigality, from Thomas Usk&#039;s &quot;Testament of Love&quot; to early editions of Purse and modern critical reception of the poem. Editions of Purse and critical responses seek to defend Chaucer &quot;from charges of political opportunism,&quot; casting him variously as a prodigal, a &quot;&#039;pure&#039; unsullied poet,&quot; and a &quot;self-serving though loyal subject.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Politique : Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the political discourse of fifteenth-century England, identifying a &quot;pre-Machiavellian moment&quot; in which awareness of political upheaval and the unreliability of Fortune influenced or produced a variety of vernacular texts. Assesses the relations between these texts and their contextual ideologies and events. Includes discussion of MkT and the Knight&#039;s interruption of it in relation to Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;De casibus virorum illustrium,&quot; Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Fall of Princes,&quot; and later works in the tradition of Mirror for Magistrates.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polonius among the Pilgrims]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads ManT as an example of successful &quot;characterization through narrative technique,&quot; assessing its paucity of actual storytelling relative to the amount of moralizing. This tedious moralizing is comic and results from Chaucer&#039;s adaptations of his sources. However, it does not accord with the characterization in ManP nor in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polyglot Poetics: Merchants and Literary Production in London, 1300-1500]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hsy explores the use of English, French, and Latin by writers such as Chaucer, Gower, and Margery Kempe in conjunction with  the polyglot mercantile culture of London. Argues that these writers &quot;hybridize&quot; multilingual traditions to form &quot;hybrid  personas.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polyperspektivisches Erzahlen bei Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Based on Nietzsche&#039;s epistemology, the essay discusses Chaucer&#039;s use of multiple perspective in PF, TC, and NPT as the poet&#039;s instrument for encouraging his readers to reflect on the multiplicity of their experiences.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Erzgraber likens Chaucer&#039;s transitions from multiple narrative perspectives to a single religious perspective in TC and CT to William of Ockham&#039;s separation of truth into secular, empirical truths and the one religious truth of revelation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polyphony and the Modern.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Raises questions about what it means to be modern in one own&#039;s time and about polyphony (including polyphonic music, polyvocality, and literary dialogism) as an index to modernity, collecting fourteen essays on relevant topics, most of them on medieval music and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Polyphony and the Modern under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polysemantic Verbal Patterns in &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Linguistic tensions in MerT reflect two opposed points of view: January&#039;s and that of May and Damian combined.  (In Japanese.)]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polysemy in Context: &#039;Meten&#039; and &#039;Dremen&#039; in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Disputes the assumption that &quot;meten&quot; and &quot;dremen&quot; are synonyms in Chaucer and illustrates systematic differentiation in WBT, NPT, BD, Rom, HF, Bo, and TC (plus other, non-Chaucerian texts). In general, the late fourteenth century is a transitional period for dream vocabulary that invited more precise usage. The author correlates Chaucer&#039;s usage of &quot;meten&quot; and &quot;dremen&quot; and Macrobius&#039;s true and false dreams, respectively.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polysemy in Middle English &#039;Embosen&#039; and the Hart of The Book of the Duchess]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Critics generally gloss &quot;embosen&quot; as either &quot;concealed in the woods&quot; or &quot;exhausted from the hunt.&quot; Examination of the word determines its precise meaning as a hunting term and also sheds light on Octovyen&#039;s hunt.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polysyllabic Words in End-of-Line Position in the Franklin&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The author explores some of the effects arising from polysyllables (i.e., here words with more than one stressed syllable), concentrating on those in rhyming position, especially words referring to worthynesse and gentillesse, the virtues credited to Arveragus in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing &quot;The House of Fame&quot; in the Reign of Queen Anne.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in his reworking of HF as &quot;The Temple of Fame,&quot; Alexander Pope &quot;comprehensively repudiates the inconclusiveness&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s work. Where Chaucer suggests &quot;the contradictions and confusions&quot; of literary tradition and authority, Pope assumes authority and &quot;almost entirely excludes hesitancy and ambiguity from his consideration.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pope Gregory&#039;s &#039;Liber Regulae Pastoralis&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bennett artues that the pilgrimage frame of CT was influenced by Gregory&#039;s &quot;Liber,&quot; particularly in presenting &quot;a range of human types&quot; and in suiting pastoral care to individual exigencies.  The &quot;Liber&quot; has particular applications to Chaucer&#039;s Reeve, Franklin, Summoner, Pardoner, and Parson.  The Parson&#039;s &quot;if gold ruste&quot; is indebted to Gregory, not the French analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
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