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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bereaved Narrator in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Book of the Duchess.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the opening section of BD, arguing that it depicts a &quot;Narrator suffering excessive grief resulting from bereavement, who within the poem moves toward a means of consolation based chiefly upon a conception of Nature as Life, and whose experience is thus tactfully placed as object lesson before the bereaved John of Gaunt.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Beryn Scribe and His Texts: Evidence for Multiple-Copy Production of Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Northumberland manuscript of CT (Alnwick Castle 455) shows evidence that the scribe had access to a manuscript of CT that included the Prologue and Tale of Beryn and that he worked in a scriptorium that produced multiple copies of popular texts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268326">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Best Line in Ovid and the Worst]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Fleming examines Chaucer&#039;s mixture of sacred and secular texts and illustrates how Chaucer&#039;s idea of the Wife of Bath grew from an amalgamation of Le Roman de la Rose, Ovid, and St. Jerome, particularly in WBP.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271054">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes selections from GP, WBP, and PardP in Middle English, with glosses, and an introduction in which Bloom comments on Chaucer&#039;s characterizations, his influence on Shakespeare and Spenser, and reading Chaucer in its original Middle English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266062">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Best-Text/Best-Book of Canterbury: The Dialogic of the Fragments]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Recent debates over editing of &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; reflect &quot;best-text&quot; (Hengwrt) versus &quot;best-book&quot; (Ellesmere) views, but both sides continue to make editorial assumptions about unity and closure.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[  A better approach would be to recognize a genuinely dialogic relationship among all the parts, in which no single voice or order provides an authenticating perspective.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bethel Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A frame-tale narrative modeled on and adapted from CT, with tales told by a range of individuals traveling by bus in 1969 to attend the &quot;Woodstock Music and Art Fair.&quot; The introduction acknowledges Chaucer&#039;s inspiration in form, styles, and technique; the bus-riders&#039; professions echo those of the pilgrims, and most of the prologues and tales follow Chaucer&#039;s plots, although modernized in setting and action.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267025">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bible and Its Rewriting]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies of how Scriptural narratives and their themes have been &quot;re-Scriptured&quot; in particular works of Western literary tradition. Chapter 3 (pp. 77-100) explores how NPT prompts and resists the exegetical potential in reading and leads to fundamental indeterminacy. Chauntecleer&#039;s rewriting of Scripture questions whether meaning is possible.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263659">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bible in Middle English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sequel to the author&#039;s &quot;The Bible in Early English        Literature,&quot; this volume surveys literary trends using biblical traditions:  examines medieval drama, lyrics, PF, works of the &quot;Pearl&quot; poet, and &quot;Piers Plowman.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Parliament of Fowls and the Hexameral Tradition,&quot; pp. 128-70, which presents an overview of Ambrose&#039;s &#039;Hexameron&#039; and argues for the informing presence of the hexameral tradition on a deep level--though it scarcely rises to the surface--in the text of PF.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274288">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Big Book of Animal Fables.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Anthologizes animal fables from worldwide cultures and various historical periods, classical to modern, including a modernized prose adaptation of NPT, here titled &quot;The Tale of Chanticleer&quot; (pp. 158-64), accompanied by five pen-and-watercolor illustrations in color and sepia tones.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263052">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Birds&#039; Parliament and the Good Parliament]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses parallels between the Birds&#039; Parliament and the Good Parliament in 1376.  In PF, Chaucer probably parodied the obstreperous Commons that played an active part in this historic parliament.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Birth of &#039;Blanche the Duchesse&#039;: 1340 Versus 1347]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues for the later date on two counts.  First, discrepancies in the records allow only the conclusion that in 1361 Blanche was at least 14 years of age.  Second, the custom of early marriage makes plausible that Blanche was only 12 when married in 1359; indeed, her early marriage is highly probable given that her father was anxious to secure a male heir as soon as possible.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Birth of Criseyde--An Exemplary Triangle: &#039;Classical&#039; Troilus and the Question of Love at the Anglo-Norman Court]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares the treatment of love in the &quot;Roman de Thebes,&quot; &quot;Brut,&quot; and &quot;Eneas&quot; to that in Benoit&#039;s &quot;Roman de Troie,&quot; a twelfth-century romance and apparently the first work to introduce Briseis-Cressida.  A product of Anglo-Norman love debate, Benoit&#039;s Briseis is more a complex, contradictory character than a negative exemplum.  Later writers, including Guido and Boccaccio, emphasize her negative aspects and inconstancy.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273731">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Black Death and the Book of the Duchess.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that the Plague, or Black Death, &quot;stands behind&quot; BD, helping to &quot;give it a shape and a meaning,&quot; describing late-medieval attitudes toward death and fortune as described in commentaries on plague.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263698">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Black Death: The Impact of the Fourteenth-Century Plague]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Six essays by various hands on the plague and its effects:  demographics, millenarianism, iconography of death, the &quot;Decameron,&quot; and Middle English literature.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274563">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Black Death: The World&#039;s Most Devastating Plague, 19: Literary Responses to the Black Death.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes commentary on &quot;Piers Plowman&quot;; Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Decameron&quot;; and the impact of the plague on Chaucer&#039;s life, CT (especially PardT), and BD, claiming that Chaucer &quot;could not have been Chaucer&quot; if not for the plague.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272591">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Black Knight as King of the Castle in &#039;The Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that the referent for &quot;this king&quot; in BD 1314 is the Black Knight as a figure in the poem&#039;s chess conceit.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264174">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Blasphemy of Chaucer&#039;s Merchant]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Proceeding by &quot;oblique allusions and undertones,&quot; the treatment of the Virgin in MerT is &quot;mordantly ironic,&quot; leading up to January&#039;s &quot;brazen parody of the &#039;Canticum Canticorum&#039;.&quot;  This blasphemy is appropriate to the Merchant&#039;s bitter cynicism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276332">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Blazon of Honour: A Study in Renaissance Magnanimity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the uses, meanings, and nuances of the concept of magnanimity in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance, including discussion of Chaucer, who, although &quot;he makes no full-scale attempt to portray the magnanimous man in his wholeness,&quot; approaches the ideal in his depictions of the Knight and in the characters of KnT and FranT, describing the latter as &quot;one of the most gracious stories of the medieval world.&quot; Also comments on gentilesse in BD and in WBT and other tales of the marriage group.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264409">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Blessed Virgin and the Two Coronations of Griselda]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The parallel between Griselda and Mary, from preelection and marriage through maternal suffering to final coronation, is integral and pervasive in ClT.  Mary embodies the canonical myth of the life of the Christian soul from baptism to heaven; Griselda humanizes the myth, but retains mythic force.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261727">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Blood Libel Legend]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A collection of essays treating the legend of Jews killing Christians, particularly children.  Fourteen essays cover such areas as case histories, folkloristic tales and literary texts, surveys of the legend in different locales, ritual-murder reports, and analyses of the legend ranging from its potential source to its impact in light of psychoanalytic theory. Chaucer and his works are mentioned passim.  Reprints Nevill Coghill&#039;s modernization of PrT.  For an essay that pertains to PrT, search for Blood Libel Legend under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261560">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Bodies of Jews in the Late Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers how the bodies of Jews are related to Christian bodily miracles in Chaucer&#039;s PrT and the Croxton &quot;Play of the Sacrament.&quot; Kruger clarifies the relation between the positive valuation of the body in late-medieval spirituality and the attack on body often present in the treatment of Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275226">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body and Its Politics in the &quot;Pardoner&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cautions that what we say about the Pardoner&#039;s body &quot;might say something about ourselves&quot;; summarizes critical discussion of the Pardoner&#039;s sex, sexuality, and rhetoric; and comments on the Old Man, Death (compared to Terry Pratchett&#039;s Mort), the Host&#039;s response to the Pardoner, and the Pardoner&#039;s silence. Includes several classroom projects and questions for discussion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267146">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at a symposium on &quot;The Body and Soul in Medieval Literature.&quot; Most of the essays focus on Middle English literature, including some comparisons with medieval French and Italian works and some later literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276176">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes &quot;premodern theories of affect rooted in humoral theory and faculty psychology,&quot; and explores the affects of wonder and shame in FranT as well as its queered futurity, focusing on Aurelius&#039;s brother, who occupies &quot;the position of the fourth-person singular&quot; and the &quot;space of singular vitality,&quot; and who &quot;offers wonder as a mode of maximum attention that queers thinking and feeling.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274357">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Body of Love: An Anthology of Erotic Verse from Chaucer to Lawrence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes (pp. 23-46) WBP in J. U. Nicolson&#039;s modern iambic pentameter translation.]]></dcterms:description>
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