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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by Donaldson, eight of them previously printed, with a comprehensive index.  For the four newly published essays, search for Speaking of Chaucer under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270371">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking of the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;: The Tales as Speech Act]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies to Chaucer&#039;s CT Dell Hymes&#039;s model of analyzing speech acts, SPEAKING (Situations, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genres), exemplifying the utility of the model, its relationships to more traditional literary criticism, and, more generally, the &quot;fresh insights&quot; that using the model can disclose.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262671">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking of the Middle Ages. Trans. Sarah White]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes the function of the medievalist and medieval literary critic.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking of Tongues: The Poetics of the Feminine Voice in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Legend of Good Women&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Harvey examines &quot;tongue&quot; as metonymy for voice:  women were often victims of the wagging tongue.  To be &quot;rolled&quot; on &quot;many a tongue&quot; describes both erotic and discursive powerlessness in LGW and TC.  Descended from the Ovidian ironic palinode in &quot;Remedia amoris&quot; and &quot;Ars amatoria,&quot; LGW as palinode is like a prototype:  Stesichorus&#039;s lyric disavowing an earlier ode in which he blamed Helen of Troy for the Trojan War--significant in that Criseyde is associated with Helen in TC.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The &quot;self-conscious use of multiple sources intensifies Chaucer&#039;s irony&quot; and indeterminancy.  Chaucer forces the complaint genre of LGW into the hagiographic mold for comic effect.  The Legend of Philomela is a &quot;trope of censorship.&quot; Like the &quot;Heroides,&quot; LGW represents a sort of &quot;transvestite ventriloquism,&quot; as a male author renders a feminine voice. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[LGW and TC demonstrate that male control exerted in &quot;celebration of women&#039;s virtue&quot; is as &quot;debasing and despotic&quot; as the most &quot;virulent of anti-feminist texts.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277083">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking Survival: Chaucer Studies and the Discourses of Sexual Assault.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on RvT and argues that newly discovered documents allow scholars to move beyond Chaucer&#039;s individual blame and address structural issues and concerns with language describing and depicting sexual assault in late medieval texts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266749">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking to Chaucer: The Poet and the Nineteenth-Century Academy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses the Hoccleve portrait of Chaucer as a focal point for examining the nineteenth-century image of Chaucer.  Viewed at first as the one &quot;modern&quot; author of his time, Chaucer becomes, through the work of the Chaucer Society and the edition of Skeat, an illustration of the importance of the study of medieval English, which in turn plays an important role in the development of English studies.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262169">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking to the Devil: A New Context for &#039;The Friar&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that saints&#039; lives, &quot;in which demons converse with saints,&quot; provide a context and structural pattern that informs the dialogue between the Summoner and the devil.  The tale inverts the usual threefold pattern of the saint&#039;s victory over the devil and reveals the Summoner&#039;s weaknesses as he fails to recognize the evil displayed before him in conventional form.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268156">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking Volumes: Chaucer and the Legacy of the Troilus Frontispiece]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An iconographic analysis suggesting that the illustration of Chaucer reading to the court of Richard II benefited the Lancastrian campaign to recognize &quot;English as the national language of England&quot; (exemplified by Chaucer as supreme &quot;user and perfecter&quot; of the language, not by &quot;his skill as an author per se&quot;).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270885">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speaking Walls: Ekphrasis in Chaucer&#039;s House of Fame]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys classical uses and techniques of ekphrasis and explores how Chaucer uses it in HF to comment on the shifting nature of communication. In descriptions of the House of Fame, House of Rumor, and especially the House of Glass (Aeneas and Dido), visual renderings transform into different forms of communication; these transformations parallel the Eagle&#039;s concern with acoustics.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263573">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Special Feature: An Interview with Paul Ruggiers on the Variorum Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The general editor of the Variorum Chaucer discusses the genesis of the project, its progress, methodology, funding, and goals.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271905">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and &#039;The Parliament of Fowls&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the birds of PF to birds in medieval scientific texts, in sources or analogues (especially Alan de Lille&#039;s &quot;De planctu Naturae&quot;), and in the observable environment. Chaucer fills PF with birds known in England, classifying them by diet but also by class. The birds represent diverse species native to England as well as the diversity of human society, anticipating the estates satire of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Species, Phantasms, and Images : Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Medieval ideas of psychology and cognition underlie the concern with sight, imagination, and &quot;fantasye&quot; in select tales of Canterbury, wherein Chaucer demonstrates that the only certainty in human relations is uncertainty. The male characters of KnT are constrained by the limits of their imaginations. In WBPT and ClT, uncontrolled male will is linked directly to problems of perception; in MerT and FranT, male and female obsessions derive from mental images distorted by desire. Beautiful images influence human &quot;desire, judgment, and greed&quot; in PhyT and PardT, understandable in light of Lollard anxiety about images. SNT and CYT depict successful and unsuccessful attempts to comprehend the relationship between the physical and metaphysical. ParsT seeks to communicate without images, and Ret affirms the uncontrollable nature of human imagination.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269767">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Specific and Non-Specific Nouns in Late Middle English: When Robert Grows from Man to Herb]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Crespo-García gauges the &quot;scientific register&quot; of Astro and Equat in contrast with medical handbooks, examining etymology and specificity in the common nouns and nominalized forms in these works. The astrological treatises  reflect a specialized audience.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Specimens of Middle English Pronunciation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dir. and read by Alex Jones.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recorded at the University of Sydney.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes the booklet &quot;How to Pronounce Middle English.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Readings feature GP 1-42; &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; Prologue (B-Version); &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; 691-810; HF 1110-200; and FranT 709-1260.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263303">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Spectacular Fictions: The Body Politic in Chaucer and Dunbar]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examined in terms of Lacanian psychology and the concept of the king&#039;s two bodies, Chaucer&#039;s PF and Dunbar&#039;s &quot;Thrissill and the Rois&quot; reveal how patronized poets deal with sovereign discourse and their relation to it through bodily figuration.  Dunbar&#039;s rewriting of Chaucer&#039;s poem substitutes absolutist for pluralist discourse, ultimately showing that such a total absorption of the other is &quot;delusional.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Specularita e parodia: La mise en abyme&#039; nel &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039; di Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys medieval literary uses of &quot;mise en abyme&quot; and assesses how the interpolated tales of NPT break up the linear narrative and produce a &quot;mise en abyme&quot; effect.  The contrasting structures of NPT and MkT parallel the contrast between text and world.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271633">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speculation, Intention, and the Teaching of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Confronts several questions or matters of internal inconsistency in CT (1.164; 1.361; 3.45; 4.1222; 5.673; 2.96; 6.443) and speculates about possible resolutions and their usefulness in the Chaucer classroom.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266095">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speculum Mortis: Reflections of Chivalry and Courtly Society in the Age of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Warfare and plague made English people of the later fourteenth century unprecedentedly aware of death.  The Black Prince and John of Gaunt&#039;s first father-in-law, despite their heroic image in chronicles, died of unromantic diseases.  ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  Like &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,&quot; KnT and TC combine seemingly meaningless death with the courtly and chivalric, revealing Chaucer&#039;s philosophic probing.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech Acts and the Art of the Exemplum in the Poetry of Chaucer and Gower]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the exemplum as a &quot;speech act&quot; in Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and in Chaucer&#039;s MLT, PhyT, WBT, and LGW.  In WBT, &quot;the motives of the hag in requesting marriage as recompense for her aid are central to matters of prudential action&quot;; in LGW, &quot;in the tale of Ariadne the promises of...Theseus illustrate the difficulties of deciding what is sincere.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Green argues that &quot;grammatical and contextual properties of utterances&quot; in exempla of Gower and Chaucer can be analyzed by computers and concludes that &quot;if Gower shapes his exempla as a public poet who implicitly urges self-reflection..., Chaucer reveals what the act of artistic creation as a committment means.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274548">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores poetic speech acts (following the lead of J. L. Austin), treating Chaucer's dedication of his book in TC 5.1856-62 as an exemplary type of performative speech act--"the Chaucer-Type"--characterized by having three explicit constitutive features: "verbal form [grammatically first person singular present indicative active], self-guarantee, and self-reference." Analyzes uses of this type, by Chaucer and by later poets, to argue that speech act theory can be applied fruitfully to the study of poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech and Writing: An Historical Overview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys interrelations between speech and writing in the history of English, drawing on KnT and RvT to illustrate features of late-medieval lexis and syntax.  Features of KnT may reflect &quot;oral residue,&quot; while dialect features of RvT are better seen as matters of style.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266894">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech In/Action: Gender and Discourse in Medieval English Romance]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Medieval romance generally assumes that action is inherently a masculine activity and speech feminine, with both supporting patriarchy. Various English romances examine these assumptions (sometimes ambiguously). WBT employs them to subvert not only the clichłs of romance and chivalry but also the values of patriarchy itself.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech, Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple&#039;s Prologue and Tale and the Wife of Bath&#039;s Portrait]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses Chaucer as political critic and concludes that Chaucer may have developed his self-mocking persona out of self-preservation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech, Silence, and Teaching Chaucer&#039;s Rapes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that attention to speech and silence is crucial to literary analysis and to understanding medieval notions of gender difference, exemplifying how the speech/silence binary can be explored in complex ways to help analyze rape as a plot device in classroom discussions of MilT, RvT, WBP, the Lucrece and Philomena accounts in LGW, and Chaucer&#039;s biography]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech, the Principle of Contraries, and Chaucer&#039;s Tales of the Manciple and the Parson]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The principle of contraries provides a method for relating pairs of tales.  ManT and ParsT offer paradigms for improper and proper use of speech.  The Manciple uses and misglosses the tale of Phoebus and the Crow, while the Parson speaks the truth without an &quot;ennucleating story.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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