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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rolled on Many a Tongue : The Ironic Convergence of Women, Authority, and Language in Five of Chaucer&#039;s Works]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Meanings of the words &quot;women,&quot; &quot;authority,&quot; and &quot;language&quot; change throughout Chaucer&#039;s works, depending on the complex and shifting relationships of speaker, persona, scribe, and audience, plus pervasive irony. Treats TC, LGW, ClT, FranT, and SNT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263411">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A general discussion of the popular character of Middle English romances.  The Theseus story in KnT and the Gawain material in WBT show Chaucer relying on audience familiarity with the material.  Juxtaposing courtliness and bawdy, the structure of CT is like that of the Auchinleck manuscript.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262196">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance and Epic in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wetherbee examines the literary history of KnT in classical epic, Statius, Dante, and Boccaccio to demonstrate (1) how, in a &quot;deliberate, political&quot; move, the Knight attempts to suppress psychological and historical reality to produce an &quot;optimistic &#039;romance&#039; version of his story&quot; and (2) how those realities resurface during the telling to permit a more complex engagement with the classical antecedents of the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275836">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance and Love in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Criseyde,&quot; &quot;The Squire&#039;s Tale,&quot; and &quot;The Parliament of Fowls.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the importance of love as a topic in Chaucer&#039;s works, with particular attention to TC, SqT, and PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261267">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance and Parody]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines eleven texts, dating from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century, that are related to the metrical romance by their metatextual commentary on one or more romance characteristics.  Includes discussion of CT, particularly KnT, MLT, WBT, SqT, FranT, Th, and Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance in Medieval England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Papers read at the first meeting (1988) of the Society for the Study of Medieval Romance, ranging in chronological concern from the twelfth to the fiftennth centuries.  Included are general discussions of MS Ashmole 61 and the Percy Folio.  Individual essays also treat such works as Gerenides, Octavian, Sege of Melayne, and Layamon&#039;s Brut; they discuss such topics as the relations of romance to history, to epic,and to hagiography, and such topoi as deer-hunting and the wooing woman.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance Logic: The Argument of Vernacular Verse in the Scholastic Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Yu examines the changing roles of literary rhetoric and dialectic, poesy and logic, from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Chaucer is cited as a writer whose use of irony reflects changes in the understanding of logic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266156">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Literature Presented to Maldwyn Mills]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays on medieval romance that contains recurrent references to FranT, KnT, MLT, MilT, PhyT, and Th. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Romance Reading on the Book under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277091">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance Repetitions and the Sea: Brendan, Constance, Apollonius.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that &quot;repetition should be included among the family resemblances that trigger the imaginative response that signals &#039;romance&#039;.&quot; &quot; Includes discussion of MLT and the analogous accounts in Nicholas Trevet&#039;s &quot;Chronicles&quot; and John Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; as well as other works in which repetition signals &quot;romance.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277524">
    <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/272487">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance, Distraint, and the Gentry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that many late Middle English romances appeal to the gentry by coded references to the practice of &quot;distraint,&quot; whereby gentry landowners were forced to take up knighthood or to pay fines. Concludes by comparing the attitudes expressed in these romances to those of Chaucer&#039;s Franklin, who desires a less elite status among landowning society.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276329">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romance.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A classroom anthology of sixteen examples of the literary mode of romance, including FranT in Nevill Coghill&#039;s modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of romance, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion questions for each work.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269883">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romancing Capital: The Gift in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wadiak considers how Middle English romances focus on &quot;giving and spending&quot; as a questioning of the emergent capitalistic system, examining romances from &quot;King Horn&quot; through KnT and arguing that these works simultaneously shape and reflect the move from feudalism to capitalism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269069">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Lévinas : Fortune, Moral Luck, and Erotic Adventure]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emmanuel Lévinas&#039;s &quot;Time and the Other&quot; indicates how Fortune or contingency is constitutive of ethics in Chaucer&#039;s TC. In contrast to Boethian readings of TC, a Lévinasian reading shows how Troilus&#039;s subjection to love and his passivity before an uncertain future - not his autonomy or agency - make him a figure of the ethical human. TC also provides a way of evaluating Lévinas&#039;s medievalism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275955">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and Romance in the Manuscript Tradition.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on elements of the &quot;popular romance&quot; in the manuscripts of &quot;The Tale of Gamelyn&quot; and &quot;The Tale of &quot;Beryn&quot; and excerpts from Chaucer&#039;s works in other manuscripts to show how &quot;the &#039;Chaucer&#039; presented to early modern readers by the manuscript processes of insertion and excerption took on an increased interest in violence, anti-clericalism, games of incompleteness and imitation, and women suffering from male desire. In short, in significant respects, he became more Spenserian.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270556">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes three Middle English &quot;woman-centered&quot; romances--&quot;Emaré,&quot; &quot;Le Bone Florence of Rome&quot; (Part 2), and MLT--in rhymed modern English, and discusses their common theme of castaway queens, their sources and analogues, and modern reflexes of the motif of the &quot;Goddess of the Human Dawn.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269274">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Driver explores how the Roman de la Rose was &quot;re-written&quot; for late medieval audiences in various ways: Chaucer advocates contemporary views of the work in his adaptation of La Vieille in WBP, and Pizan criticizes such views in her Book of the Three Virtues. Also comments on Prudence&#039;s role in Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277127">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romans 15:4 and the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: A Modest Proposal Concerning Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Entente.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers the end of NPT and the Bible verse Romans 15:4. Claims the verse is used to bridge the two opposing views of Chaucer&#039;s intent in his writing, attempting to unite the morally serious poet with the subversive poet.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277120">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romantic Theology: Contemplating Genre in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the interplay between romance and religious poetry in late medieval English vernacular literature, and includes discussion of how, as a parody of romance, Th &quot;primes the reader for the prudential lessons&quot; of Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264634">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romanticized History and Historicized Romance: Narrative Styles and Strategies in Four Middle English Troy Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The genres of history and romance in Middle English Troy poems are distinguished by contrasting attitudes towards sources and the historicity of the subject; by a corresponding contrast in attitudes towards the historical distance between past and present, pagan and Christian; and by differences in thematic and structural unity.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Chaucer&#039;s TC, the historicizing values and strategies of a Christian translator co-exist with the romanticizing values and strategies attributed to the fictional pagan author, &quot;Lollius.&quot;  Chaucer&#039;s use of this dual persona is shown to be a technique for reconciling pagan and Christian values and for harmonizing the historicizing and romanticizing tendencies.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272682">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Romaunt of the Rose]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler and Bland of selections from Rom in Middle English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268652">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rome and Its Anti-pole in the Man of Law&#039;s and the Second Nun&#039;s Tale: Cristendom and Hethenesse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fichte explores Rome in CT, both as an actual place and as a symbol. Focuses on Rome versus Syria in MLT and Christianity versus paganism in SNT, with comments on the Wife of Bath&#039;s and the Pardoner&#039;s connections with Rome, as well as orientalism in GP, SqT, and Th.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276222">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rondeau.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the treatment of the rondel in manuscripts of PF as a form of code-switching, identifies resonances of PF and SqT in Charles d&#039;Orléans&#039;s Valentine&#039;s Day poetry, and explores the implications of describing love-talk or bird-talk as a form of &quot;Latin&#039; in lyric tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266709">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Room of One&#039;s Own for Decisions: Chaucer and &#039;The Faerie Queene&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Books 3-4 of &quot;The Faerie Queene&quot; are a meditation on the nature of sexual passion, deeply influenced by FranT (which Spenser paraphrases in part) and its emphasis on companionship as a brake on sexual passion.  Spenser develops the meditation in his continuation of SqT, incorporating features of KnT to acknowledge his son/father relation with Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268897">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Root&#039;s Account of the Text of Troilus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brewer critiques Root&#039;s explanation of relationships among TC manuscripts, arguing that Root&#039;s explanation is inconsistent and commenting on the possibilities of discovering the process of Chaucer&#039;s revisions.]]></dcterms:description>
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