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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Troilus&#039; Frontispiece and the Dramatization of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book&quot; describes the classical theater as a semicircle with a raised pulpit in the midst.  This is what is portrayed in the Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) manuscript:  finely dressed figures mime the roles of the principals while the speaker in the pulpit performs the text vocally.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Ubi Sunt&#039; Passages in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the &quot;growing versatility&quot; of the &quot;ubi sunt&quot; motif in Middle English literature--its emotional impact, its relations with the theme of mutability, and its potential for expressing nostalgia--concluding with a comparison of Chaucer&#039;s uses of the motif, especially in TC 5.218-24, and François Villon&#039;s uses in his ballades.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270087">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Viritoot&#039; Crux in Chaucer&#039;s Miller&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The clear erotic context of the blacksmith&#039;s response to Absolon&#039;s late-night visit supports a gloss of &quot;viritoot&quot; as a derivation of &quot;the Latin ablative cum virtute,&quot; meaning &#039;with manly ardor.&#039;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272165">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039; D 878-881]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Wife of Bath&#039;s reference to an incubus (3.880) is not an aggressive critique of the Friar&#039;s &quot;deficient virility&quot; as editors assume but instead a gentle and teasing jibe.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &#039;Woman Reader&#039;: Gendering Interpretation in Boccaccio and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Both Boccaccio and Chaucer use the figure of the &quot;woman reader&quot; to represent changing interpretive strategies that, in turn, reflect changes in social complexity. Lartigue focuses on the Teseida, the Decameron, LGW, and CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Absent&quot; Pardon-Tearing of &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; C.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proposes that when Langland revised B into C, the literary landscape was very different (from Edwardian to Ricardian poetry). Chaucerian dream vision, especially PF with its &quot;emphasis upon the poetic figure who seeks to understand the world through his books and to craft this search as imaginative fiction,&quot; may be responsible for the new explicitness and clarity of Piers Plowman C.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;alderbeste yifte&quot;: Objects and the Poetics of Munificence in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adapts the &quot;gift theory&quot; of Jacques Derrida; considers the historical context of the marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster; and focuses on the scene of White&#039;s ring-giving (as reported by the Black Knight), considering the poem itself as a gift. Argues that BD portrays White as the &quot;exalted (but silent and absent) gift-giver&quot; in BD and that the poem &quot;transmutes into fiction&quot; the &quot;performance of gifts&quot; of the historical marriage.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Anticlaudian&quot; and Three Passages in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers possible sources and analogues for three passages in FranT (5.721-25, 829-34, and 1113-15), explaining how diction, style, and rhetoric indicate the likely influence of Alanus de Insulis&#039;s &quot;Anticlaudianus&quot; (Alain de Lille&#039;s &quot;Anticlaudian&quot;) and help to explicate the passages.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Artes Praedicandi&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Preachers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies sermon rhetoric in CT, identifying its roots in preaching handbooks and considering its value for understanding aspects of structure, style, and characterization in SNT, NPT, ParsT, PardT, WBT, and SumT, treating the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, and the friar of SumT as Chaucer&#039;s &quot;perverse preachers.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Artes Praedicandi&quot; and the Use of Illustrative Material by Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Preachers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers &quot;close analysis of the use of &#039;sententiae&#039; and narrative &#039;exempla&#039;,&quot; exploring NPT, WBT, PardT, SumT, and ParsT in light of &quot;traditional and late medieval sermon theory and practice&quot; evident in the &quot;artes praedicandi&quot; and in medieval &quot;conceptions of the Christian preacher and the sermon.&quot; Argues that ParsT &quot;provides the orthodox answer to the false preaching of those who have preceded him.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275233">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canon Yeoman&#039;s Tale&quot;: Invention, Discovery, Problem-Solving, and Innovation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets CYPT as &quot;Chaucerian critique of the male desire to use technological and scientific innovation to generate alone, excluding women from creation and thus overthrowing the normative pairing of sex contraries upon which medieval religious, social, and political authority resided.&quot; Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273801">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale:&quot; Boethian Wisdom and the Alchemists.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the concern with the &quot;basic duality between material and spiritual values&quot; in CYPT is based in Boethius&#039;s admonitions against pursuing false felicity in his &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; manifested in the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s concern with false versus true alchemy. Like Boethius, the Canon&#039;s Yeoman advocates pursuing the &quot;perfection of the uncreated good.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263451">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The manuscripts of the CT attest to the continuous, evolving, and unfinished nature of Chaucer&#039;s work on them from 1387 onward.  The poet&#039;s intent in CT was to stretch the limits of inherited genres and expand the perceptions of his audience.  The dramatic theory must be rejected because it overly systematizes the poet&#039;s art.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tales can be considered in four groups:  self-revelatory prologues and tales, romances, comic tales and fables, and religious tales.  In each genre Chaucer establishes a complex play between conventional expectations and techniques that subvert them.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and &quot;Il Decamerone.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adduces evidence of the influence of Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot; on CT by collecting all available indications of similarity--instances of borrowing and less specific parallel details.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273472">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s Corrective Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that Chaucer deployed the tradition of grammatical &quot;correction&quot; as a metaphor for moral reform, finding examples in CT, TC, and Adam.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276372">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; and Fourteenth-Century Peasant Unrest.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how close is the &quot;bond between literary culture and the ideology and practice of domination enshrined in judicial controls&quot; in late-medieval England after the Black Death. Summarizes statues of labor, taxation, and responses to the Uprising of 1381, reading MilT and RvT as expressions of &quot;aristocratic contempt&quot; for lower-class pretensions and clerical abuse, with PardT reflecting anxieties about plague.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265742">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; by Geoffrey Chaucer: The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile (of Huntington Library MS EL 26 C 9)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A full-size, full-color facsimile of the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, published in three forms and 250 copies.  Copies 1-50 are bound in oak boards fully covered by tawed calf; copies 51-150, in boards and quarter brown leather; and copies 151-250, boxed rather than bound presented in folded but unsewn gatherings.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The facsimile reproduuces--as exactly as contemporary technology permits--the text, illuminations, wrinkles, smears, scribbles, holes, rules, prick markings, etc. of all pages, with one minor exception:  the gold leaf over gesso in the original illustrations lies flat in the facsimile.  The letters of the text are clear and easily readable.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[See the companion volume of essays, &quot;The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; Project Occasional Papers, Volume I]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A preface and five essays describe the goals and methods of the &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; Project, an endeavor to replace Manly and Rickert&#039;s textual analysis of CT (Chicago, 1940).  Long-range goals include facsimile reproduction of portions of the manuscripts, complete transcriptions, and exhaustive collations, all available for further analysis through electronic (CD-ROM) publication.<br />
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039; Project Occasional Papers, Volume I under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: A Literary Pilgrimage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces &quot;Chaucer&#039;s allegorical tales as poetic play and playful poetry.&quot;  In CT, Chaucer questions the nature of reality and the function of language in a complex interplay of realistic, grotesque, and sublime.  Chapters deal with historical context, English literary tradition, philosophical debate, audience, GP, MilT, WBT, PardT, and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: Early Manuscripts and Relative Popularity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Questions Germaine Dempster&#039;s 1948 suggestions about the production of &quot;manuscripts postulated as heads of genetic groups&quot; and lines of descent for CT witnesses, offering several alternative explanations. Includes attention to the change of ink in the Hengwrt manuscript at MerT 4.2318, and offers surmises about the relative popularity of individual tales in early reception history.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275302">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canticum Canticorum&quot; in the &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores in MilT the comic and thematic potential of allusions to the biblical Song of Songs and its exegetical commentaries. Details of Absolon&#039;s address to Alisoun at the window, the descriptions of the two characters, and other details of the Tale parody the commentary tradition and ironically undercut Absolon&#039;s professed love for Alisoun.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Canticus Troili&quot;: Chaucer and Petrarch.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores unanswered questions about Chaucer&#039;s knowledge of Petrarch and use of Petrarchan material in TC 1.400-420 and in ClT, focusing on close reading of Chaucer&#039;s &quot;deviations&quot; from Petrarch&#039;s Sonnet 132 in his translation of it in TC, with attention to emotional and structural alterations. Compares Chaucer&#039;s translation with that of Thomas Watson (a &quot;minor Elizabethan Petrarchan&quot;) and explores the extent to which Chaucer&#039;s version is influenced by common conventions of courtly poetry.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277197">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Cattes Tale:&quot; A Chaucer Apocryphon.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers perspective on affiliations of Elizabeth and Alice Chaucer with Barking Abbey; comments on cats in late-medieval literature (CT, &quot;Piers Plowman,&quot; and more); identifies &quot;Gyb&quot; as a conventional name for a cat; and explores international versions of the folk-tale &quot;Dick Whittington&#039;s Cat.&quot; Frames these materials with a whimsical explication of a &quot;lost&quot; (fabricated?) description--quoted here--of the Prioress&#039;s cat in GP and a related &quot;Catte&#039;s Tale,&quot; reputedly found by John Leland in a manuscript once held at Barking. The Chaucer Review editors forewarn readers of the whimsy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276203">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Chaucerian&quot; Astrolabe in the British Museum: A Reassessment of Its Dating and Ownership.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers evidence that the &quot;Chaucerian&quot; astrolabe in the British Museum was constructed in the early fifteenth century, perhaps for Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, and provides &quot;a scenario whereby . . . Chaucer would be exposed to astrolabes with the general design which appear&quot; in manuscripts of Astr, in &quot;an environment where it was being taught to children.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Clerk&#039;s Tale&quot; and the Theme of Obedience.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Judges ClT to be &quot;more successful than it has been thought&quot; because it is a tale of  &quot;idealized obedience&quot; in which Griselda&#039;s submissiveness is an &quot;imitation&quot; of Christ&#039;s Passion and Resurrection and a demonstration that the human will can achieve sovereignty through submission and defeat of death through acceptance. Chaucer&#039;s &quot;humanizes&quot; Walter&#039;s tests and discloses that the &quot;unfathomable reality of death is conquered only by the supernatural death of the will.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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