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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shapeshifting and Associated Phenomena as Conventions of the Middle English Metrical Romances.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the &quot;shapeshifting motif&quot; in English literature from &quot;Beowulf&quot; to the late-medieval metrical romances, focusing on the latter. Chapter five includes attention to WBT as an example of the &quot;human-to-human type of shapeshift,&quot; along with seven other romances.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277624">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Similes in the Works of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s uses of various kinds of similes and similetic comparisons--Homeric, epic similes; biblical &quot;similitudes&quot;; proverbial comparisons, Ovidian and Dantean comparisons; and more--demonstrating his variety, borrowings, and adaptations. Assesses Chaucer&#039;s techniques across various genres throughout his corpus, both poetry and prose.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277622">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lucio Anneo Séneca en Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on Senecan material in several of the CT (MkT; ManT, WBP, and Mel) and on Chaucer’s access to Senecan sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277621">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Comparative Study of Scansion in Chaucer&#039;s Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Juxtaposed Adjectives in &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277619">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study on the Adjectives Modifying Criseyde.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the characterization of Criseyde in TC in light of the adjectives she uses and those used of her by the narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus, helping to characterize them as well. Includes comparable data from Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <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/277617">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer the Love Poet: A Study in Historical Criticism.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Separates medieval ideas of love (primarily Ovidian and Augustianian) from Romantic and post-Romantic ideas, and argues that Chaucer &quot;was unquestionably a man of his time--an orthodox member of the Church and a firm follower of the teachings of St. Augustine in matters of art as in ethics.&quot; In matters of love (especially in PF, TC, and KnT), he &quot; consistently subscribes to Augustinian doctrines of nature, grace, and sexual morality.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277615">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Landowner&#039;s Book of Courtly Love: Languages of Lordship and the &quot;Confessio amantis.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. Kendall&#039;s abstract indicates that the &quot;vision poetry&quot; of both Chaucer and Sir John Clanvowe share &quot;discursive territory&quot; with Gower&#039;s &quot;Confessio Amantis,&quot; particularly &quot;concepts of the late fourteenth-century aristocratic household and the social structures it supported,&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277614">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Comic Dimension: A New Reading of William Carlos Williams&#039; Long Poem &quot;Paterson.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores aspects of Williams&#039; development of his poetic identity, including the importance of Chaucer as a model, emphasizing the modern poet&#039;s knowledge of Chaucer and Chaucer criticism and his emulation in &quot;Paterson&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s comic techniques.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277613">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Loves Hete Celestial: Earthly and Divine Love in Chaucer&#039;s Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Clarifies the interdependence of romantic love and the ascent of the mind to God in medieval theology, philosophy, and Chaucer&#039;s works, especially HF, PF, LGW, and portions of CT. Argues that many of Chaucer&#039;s characters &quot;with specious critical reputations, such as the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, Pandarus and Criseyde, may have more benevolent, Christian inclinations than previously supposed.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277612">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Study of the Modes of Imagination.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates &quot;fantasy, identification, and the imagination itself&quot; as response modes in the process of reading, exploring their &quot;distinctive epistemological implications and significance for identity.&quot; Includes comments on works by Chaucer (especially FranT) and Franz Kafka to exemplify how irony can deflect or disrupt &quot;the natural impulse to identify ourselves with a narrator&quot; and &quot;blind us to his or her unreliability.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277611">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Solar Pageant: An Astrological Reading of the Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Correlates the &quot;twenty-four &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;&quot; with the twelve signs of the zodiac, observing two binary oppositions of the zodiacal signs in the &quot;main characters&quot; of each tale as they &quot;symbolize parts of the body in the &quot;astrological medical melothesia.&quot; Proposes a revision to the order of the parts of the CT (with Part 2 separating Parts 4 and 5 in the Ellesmere order), and suggests that Chaucer intended CT to be the &quot;fifth part&quot; of Astr.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Poetics of the Past, Politics of the Present: Chaucer, Gower, and Old Books.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;This thesis examines the poetics and politics of ‘olde bokes’ (Legend of Good Women, G, 25) in selected works by Chaucer and Gower, paying particular attention to the way in which both writers appropriate their sources and the theories of history and political ideas informing these appropriations. It argues that Chaucer eschews metanarratives in his appropriations of the past and its writings, emphasising the multiplicity of voices that are contained in written discourse across time.&quot; Focuses on HF, PF, TC, Mel, and NPT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;the historiographic importance of Troy . . . in the formation of an English literary tradition as defined by the idea of authorship and negotiated through genre . . . . particularly epic, romance and history.&quot; Studies the sources and intertextualities of TC, Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Troy Book,&quot; Caxton&#039;s &quot;Recuyell of the Histories of Troye&quot; and &quot;Eneydos,&quot; and Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Troilus and Cressida,&quot; to show how &quot;authorial identity is expressed textually&quot; in each of them &quot;through the negotiation of genre and competing narrative forms,&quot; along with issues of national identity and political interest.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277608">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mnemosyne&#039;s Song: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of English Textual Memory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows how three &quot;theoretical concerns are fundamental to Chaucer&#039;s art&quot;: &quot;the nature of translation, the construction of textual memory, and the relationship between reading and ethics.&quot; Explores how in his dream visions, Chaucer &quot;experiments with the use of rhetorical and mnemonic loci&quot; to produce &quot;brilliant ekphrastic moments and a uniquely architectural poetics&quot;; how he explores ambiguity and translation through neologism in TC; and how through MilT, ParsT, and Ret he investigates &quot;the relationship between texts, memory, and ethics.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277607">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Imagining the Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the use of vernacular English, specialized vocabulary, rural protagonist, and addresses to reader in &quot;Piers Plowman&quot; that work to engage a &quot;national audience.&quot; Includes attention to &quot;Mankind,&quot; Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox Clamantis,&quot; and several works by Chaucer to explore the &quot;horizon of expectations&quot; these works pose to their audiences, fictive and actual.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277606">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Odd Texts and Marginal Subjects: Towards a Hermeneutics of the Book in Late Medieval English Manuscript Culture.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;the bibliographic sensibility that characterized late medieval English manuscript culture,&quot; analyzing &quot;the dialectical interaction between literary representation and its material support in a selection of late Middle English poems.&quot; Includes discussion of ABC as an abcedarium, comments on BD, and analyzes paratextual materials in TC. The dissertation was revised and published as &quot;Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix,&quot; New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277605">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;As Meeke as Medea, as honest as Hellen&quot;: English Literary Representations of Two Troublesome Classical Women, c1160-1650.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers representations of the power of Medea&#039;s magic and Helen&#039;s sexuality in works by male writers in medieval and early modern literature, clarifying their classical and early-medieval antecedents and assessing their powers in light of &quot;concerted male efforts to undermine&quot; them. Assesses a wide range of texts, including Chaucer&#039;s brief allusions and references to Medea and Helen, as well as their roles in longer narratives such as TC and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277604">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lifelines: Tracing Organic Vitalities in Sacred and Secular Biography.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;what constitutes &#039;life&#039; in hagiographical literature&quot; and medieval life-writing in general, focusing on &quot;philosophical and organic categories of life&quot; rather than &quot;political, social, and ecclesiastic content.&quot; Assesses Walter Daniel&#039;s &quot;Life of Aelred of Rievaulx,&quot; animal encounters in the &quot;South English Legendary,&quot; &quot;thing power&quot; in &quot;Pearl&quot; and SNT, and enlivening relationships in MkT (Cenobia) and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277603">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerian Metapoetics and the Philosophy of Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer in the Platonic tradition of &quot;philosophical poetry&quot; where &quot;poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general.&quot; Includes chapters on the Pardoner&#039;s Old Man as a neo-Platonic Tithonus figure; &quot;the machinery of atheism&quot; in MilT as &quot;sufficient grounds for the transformation of a fallen and contingent world into the only world whatsoever&quot;; the humanization of Phoebus in ManT and its unification of &quot;art and history into a single monistic experience&quot;; and NPT as &quot;ars poetica for the entire Chaucerian Performance&quot; that &quot;undercuts the naturalistic strategies of the first three poems by a long experiment in the philosophical conflict between art and history.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Io Scrittore&quot;: Authorial Construction in the Italian Medieval Renaissance Novella and Its Translation into English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores &quot;the construction and transmission of the concept of authorship in the Italian novella in late-medieval and early modern Italy and England,&quot; Chapter four considers &quot;how English writers and translators worked with the Italian genre, adapting it for their own purposes . . . , mov[ing] from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer through the major novella collections of the late sixteenth-century.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277601">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Context Matters: Intertextuality and Voice in the Early Modern English Controversy about Women.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies &quot;the early modern English controversy about women--the debate about the merits and flaws of womankind--arguing that authors in the controversy took advantage of the malleability of women&#039;s voices to address issues beyond the worth of women.&quot; Includes discussion of LGW and WBPT in comparison with Edward Gosynhyll&#039;s sixteenth-century &quot;revisions&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277600">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Telling Tales Out of School: Schoolbooks, Audiences, and the Production of Vernacular Literature in Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes literary works included in &quot;the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools,&quot; as background to understanding &quot;the instruction of generations of schoolchildren&quot; and &quot;reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools.&quot; Includes discussion of &quot;The Book of Margery Kempe,&quot; Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Fall of Princes,&quot; and TC, attending in the latter to letter writing and audience awareness as taught in grammar schoolbooks and to Criseyde’s control of &quot;the story’s ending and the responses of readers through her final letter to Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Re-Telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on KnT, ClT, and MkT to demonstrate that Chaucer &quot;models his treatment&quot; of his source-authors--Boccaccio and Petrarch--&quot;on their own strategies of intertextual play,&quot; arguing that &quot;intertextual engagement goes beyond mere imitation, and can include the erasure and manipulation of previous works.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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