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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swete harm : Chivalry and the Consent to Violence in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Jean Froissart]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nachtwey argues that chivalry was &quot;a pragmatic institution&quot; that created a framework for understanding/controlling knightly violence. Further argues that this concept of chivalry is apparent in the works of Froissart and Chaucer (especially in TC and CT), as well as in a host of chivalric manuals.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272545">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swich love of frendes: Pandarus and Troilus]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads the &quot;growth and decline&quot; of friendship between Troilus and Pandarus in TC as an ongoing commentary on the love affair between Troilus and Criseyde; both relationships indicate worldly impermanence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275322">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swindling Alchemist, Antichrist.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Summarizes the principles of &quot;alchemical theory,&quot; exploring Jungian associations and emphasizing Christian interpretations in medieval and early modern commentaries. Focusing on imagery of CYP, suggests that the canon is associated with the Antichrist as well as the devil, and that the complex ambiguities of the &quot;last fifty-four lines&quot; of CYT are Chaucer&#039;s critique of the medieval Church.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277171">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys literary representations of swooning from late medieval works to modern ones, assessing how the motif is &quot;inflected and re-inflected as ideas of the body, gender, race, sexuality and sickness shift through time.&quot; After an introductory essay on theorizations of swooning and fainting, Chapter 1, &quot;Heart-Stopped Transformations: Swooning in Late Medieval Literature,&quot; includes discussion of TC, in which swoons signify danger and transformation, with contrasts between Troilus&#039;s and Criseyde&#039;s swoons reflecting their individual vulnerabilities that comprise an anatomy of erotic love.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Swooning in Chaucer&#039;s Works]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses swoons or relevant scenes in Rom, BD, Anel, Mars, TC, LGW, KnT, MilT, MLT, and WBT to reveal how the swoon creates comical effects throughout Chaucer&#039;s poetry. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274670">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath Rhymes with the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that WBP 3.707-10 inspired lines 1–3 of Sylvia Plath&#039;s poem &quot;Daddy.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273274">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sym(e)kyn/&quot;simian&quot;: The Ape in Chaucer&#039;s Millers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the name Simond/Symkyn in RvT &quot;involves a pun on the Latin word &#039;simia,&#039; meaning &#039;ape&#039;,&quot; exploring Symkyn&#039;s multiple associations with apes, along with those of Robin the Miller.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264247">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbol and Meaning in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Nun&#039;s Priest&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Many details and images of NPT become obvious symbols of eroticism if compared to more explicitly sensual literary and artistic works of the Midddle Ages.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277641">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbol and Theme in Chaucer&#039;s Vision Poems.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the imagery, symbols, and themes of BD, HF, PF, and LGW, focusing on the themes of love (courtly and spiritual) and the poet&#039;s responsibilities in depicting love, with attention to various aspects of style, form, and structure, and recurrent attention to source materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265113">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbole der Initation im Troilus-Roman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The archetype of initiation is the structural principle of TC. The archetype produces a number of images and actions illustrating the physical and spiritual development of the hero.  The archetype is more revealing of the surface structure than of the deep structure.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263383">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Ambivalence in &#039;I have a gentil cock&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Trede-fowl, the controlling image of a Middle English lyric (Sloane MS 2593), often cited as an analogue to images in NPT and MkT, suggests pagan, early Christian, priestly, and bawdy meanings.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269720">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kuskin presents a manifesto on history-of-the-book studies as well as on the need to rethink Chaucerian reception. The  volume is divided into three sections: &quot;Capital and Literary Form,&quot; &quot;Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance,&quot; and &quot;Print  and Social Organization.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The second section includes two chapters: &quot;Chaucerian Inheritances: The Transformation of Lancastrian Literary Culture into the English Canon,&quot; a succinct history of Caxton&#039;s two editions of Chaucer; and  &quot;Uninhabitable Chaucer: Patronage and the Commerce in the Self,&quot; an argument that Chaucer&#039;s canonical status in the fifteenth century made it difficult for new writers to claim Chaucer&#039;s legacy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264283">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbolic Stories Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Underlying many traditional stories is the basic structure of the individual emerging into adulthood and establishing his or her identity by destroying parent-images and finding a beloved equal.  A chapter on Chaucer establishes his equivocal and somewhat negative attitude toward this theme.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265030">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symbols of Transformation: A Specific Archetypal Examination of the &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Jungian terms, the experiences of the knight in WBT express a psychic interaction with the mother archetype, leading to the ultimate goal of finding the anima.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275811">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symkyn Koude &quot;Turne Coppes&quot;: &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale&quot; 3928.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces an historical account from 1862 concerning a drinking game that involves turning over cups to suggest that &quot;turne coppes&quot; at RvT 1.3928 may indicate Symkyn caroused in similar fashion. ]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268648">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symkyn&#039;s Place in the Reeve&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[RvT is &quot;concerned with breaking the ranks of social hierarchy&quot; and what causes individuals to desire such breaks. The clerks, the women, Bayard, and especially Symkyn all experience &quot;frustrated desire,&quot; which leads Symkyn &quot;to expand into outer or inner space, because he is unable to accept the nature of his own small space.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265984">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sympathy for the Monastery: Monks and Their Stereotypes in &#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s portrayal of the Monk and of the monk in ShT is complex and sympathetic.  Contemporary expectations about monks are clear in the Host&#039;s reactions to the Monk.  Daun John fits the stereotype but may be motivated by a desire to chastise gently the wife and the husband.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272890">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symposium on Love]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is a compilation of literary works and extracts from the classical era to the twentieth century, including WBT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277284">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptom and Surface: Disruptive Deafness and Medieval Medical Authority.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how deafness is represented in some medieval medical treatises as a social phenomenon, &quot;not an ill in itself&quot;; in Teresa de Cartagena&#039;s autobiography as a &quot;deaf gain&quot; rather than &quot;hearing loss&quot;; and in Chaucer&#039;s Wife of Bath as a mark of her &quot;disruption&quot; of patriarchal &quot;modes of textual authority.&quot; Together these medieval outlooks reflect the constructedness of ideas of disability and the need for modern diagnostic reform.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276093">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies medical language and the &quot;etiological imagination&quot; of late medieval England, i.e., the &quot;envisioning, arbitrating among, and emplotting [of] intricate causal chains&quot; that seek to represent or explain the &quot;frictional interface of causation and embodied agency.&quot; Treats depictions of medicine and causation in literary satires (including NPT), exempla, KnT, Henryson&#039;s &quot;Testament of Cresseid&quot; (compared with TC), Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Series,&quot; and &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe.&quot; Chapter 5, &quot;The Metaphysics of &quot;Phisik&quot; in the &#039;Knight&#039;s Tale&#039;,&quot; argues that the combination of &quot;the seemingly gratuitous medical language used to describe Arcite shortly before his death&quot; poses an alternative to the &quot;monotheistic order of the prime Mover&quot; in Theseus&#039;s final speech.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271516">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Symptomatic Subjects: Diagnosis, Narrative, and Embodiment in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Posits a connection between literature, subjectivity, and the diagnosis of medical symptoms in the late Middle Ages. Uses CT and other literary and medical works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270570">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Synoptic Readings in A&#039;Level Poetry: Tennyson, Chaucer, African Poetry, Appreciation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style.  The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer&#039;s goals of moral and social reform and his techniques of description, characterization, and uses of irony and humor.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268233">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntactic Ambiguity in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the syntactic fluidity that parallels Criseyde&#039;s shifting psychology.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273800">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntax and Poetry in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attends closely to the syntax of three stanzas of PrT, describing their intricacies and &quot;strong effects,&quot; by commenting on predication, modification, rhyme, grammar, and related prosodic concerns.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264226">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Syntax and Style in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concentrates on &quot;colloquialism&quot; in Chaucer&#039;s syntax in the context of popular romance and poetry, including some examples from Old English, finding that &quot;discontinuous patterns of word-order&quot; and &quot;negative forms of emphatic expression&quot; contribute to vigorous poetic syntax. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes chapters on word order, idiomatic usage, pleonasm, ellipsis, relative clauses, and coordination and parataxis. Includes bibliography, general index, and an index of Chaucer quotations.  No footnotes.]]></dcterms:description>
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