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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To take a wyf it is a glorious thing&quot;: Januarie&#039;s Thesis on Marriage in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; (IV.1263–1392).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses January&#039;s praise-of-marriage speech (encomium) as a &quot;classical&#039; thesis&#039; as it appeared in the later Middle Ages.&quot; The speech engages the WBP through common source material and follows the topic and structuring of the thesis genre found in Aphthonius of Antioch&#039;s &quot;Progymnasmata,&quot; an oratorical primer. May&#039;s successful duping of January shows that &quot;erudite rhetoric crumbles in the face of life&#039;s realities,&quot; but also makes it possible that they &quot;can find a new model for their life together.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274799">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To take a wyf&quot;: Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tabulates and analyzes the &quot;gender-based&quot; nouns used of the marital couple in MerT, compared with uses elsewhere in CT, focusing on uses of &quot;wyf&quot; and &quot;housbonde&quot; (61 versus 4 uses in MerT), and on the locution of &quot;taking&quot; a wife. Such usages connect January of MerT with Walter of ClT, and while neither tale challenges stereotypical roles overtly, MerT raises &quot;profound social concerns&quot; through its &quot;terming&quot; of marital status.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274054">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;To Yield or Die&quot;: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Views CT as one of several works that provide examples of the definition and theorization of the captive in late medieval and early modern texts.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275390">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Tradition and Interpretation of the &quot;Kingis Quair.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the Boethian themes, imagery, and conventions of the &quot;Kingis Quair,&quot; and comments on similarities and differences between its uses of these devices and those in BD, PF, TC, and KnT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276340">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Cressida&quot;--Treatment of Theme by Chaucer and Shakespeare.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in &quot;Troilus and Cressida&quot; Shakespeare &quot;does not seem to have used&quot; TC &quot;as his main or direct source,&quot; adducing differences in theme, plot, and characterization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273786">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads TC as a &quot;romance in the tragic mode&quot; that reflects the &quot;mood of many Englishmen in the late fourteenth century.&quot; Focuses on the role of the narrator and the rhetorical strategies (with reference to the &quot;Ad Herennium&quot;) that Chaucer uses to convey a sense that human endeavors, driven by sex and war, are painful, but nevertheless indicate transcendence.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277293">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seeks a &quot;fuller understanding of Chaucer&#039;s meaning,&quot; exploring the &quot;numerous small additions, arrangements, omissions, [and] constant alterations&quot; made in his uses of Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato&quot; in TC. Focuses on the vivifying, individuating characterizations of the three main characters as they relate to &quot;issues and forces that concern all mankind&quot;--fate, fortune, and destiny--evoked in highly rhetorical passages and those derived from Boethius.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274927">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; and &quot;The Tragic Comedians.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads George Meredith&#039;s novel &quot;The Tragic Comedians&quot; as &quot;a modern version&quot; of TC, an &quot;adaptation of Princess Helen von Racowitza&#039;s &#039;Autobiography,&#039; overshadowed by Chaucer&#039;s great work,&quot; particularly influenced by his characterization of Criseyde.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275213">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; and the &quot;Parfit Blisse of Love.&quot; ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer perceives a tension in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; regarding the role of romantic love in the relation of this world to the divine. Chaucer envisages a version of romantic love that is a bridge between this world and the divine.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274881">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot; in Modern Verse.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates TC into modern English rhyme royal stanzas, with footnotes and occasional marginal glosses. The introduction (by Christine Chism, pp. vi-xxx) addresses the social contexts of the poem; anachronisms; Chaucer&#039;s audience; the frontispiece from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (included in color as a cover); sources; and the presentation of Criseyde. Glaser&#039;s translator&#039;s preface (pp. xxxi-xxxviii) considers style and verse.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273817">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: A Reconsideration.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interprets the discontinuities and disunities of TC for the ways that they reveal the &quot;growth and release&quot; of Chaucer&#039;s creative imagination, reading them as evidence of his &quot;dissatisfaction&quot; with the characterization of Criseyde and the nature of love depicted in Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Filostrato.&quot; In Books 1-3 Chaucer develops the &quot;unsuspected potential in his sources,&quot; while Books 4-5 reveal the &quot;process of disenchantment&quot; and submission to the authority of tradition.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276227">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: Geoffrey Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Textbook edition of TC, conservatively edited from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, with modern punctuation, sidebar glosses and bottom-of-page notes, an index of characters, a glossary of common words and phrases, and a select bibliography. The extensive introduction addresses issues of Chaucer&#039;s life, language, and works; characterization; structure; philosophical and courtly love; genre; sources; versification; reception and influence; and critical history. Three appendices provide source-and-analogue materials from Benoît, Boccaccio, and Henryson; contextualizing selections from Ovid, Boethius, Andreas Capellanus, Jean de Meun, and Petrarch; and materials on medieval science.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276295">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Troilus and Criseyde&quot;: The Inviolability of the Ending.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the &quot;shifts in point of view, authorial intrusion, changes in subject, and multiple closures&quot; of the final seventeen stanzas of TC, reading their structure closely, and arguing that they produce an &quot;artistic disorder, the purpose of which is to focus the reader&#039;s attention on the narrator&quot; and contribute to his characterization as timid, doubtful, and ambivalent--an object of amusement for poet and audience alike, and also, perhaps, an explanation why Chaucer revokes TC in Ret.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Trophee&quot; and Triumph in the &quot;Monk&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Associates the genre of the &quot;poetic triumph,&quot; found in examples from Ovid and Virgil, with an analysis of &quot;Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Trophee&#039;&quot; in MkT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Trouthe&quot; or Illusion: Masculine Honor vs. Feminine Honor in the &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the alignment of &quot;trouthe&quot; and freedom in FranT, particularly as they relate to gendered honor, arguing that Dorigen&#039;s efforts to honor her marital &quot;trouthe&quot; limit her freedom.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275096">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Truth is the beste&quot;: A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes twelve essays by various authors on Middle English literature, and an introductory appreciation of A. V. C. (Carl) Schmidt, a list of his publications, and an index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Truth is the Beste under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274874">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Tu numeris elementa ligas&quot;: The Consolation of Nature&#039;s Numbers in &quot;Parlement of Foulys.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that Chaucer is &quot;expecting, indeed exploiting, the gap between the reception of a poem when it is heard socially and its afterlife as a text,&quot; when it is a different thing. Argues &quot;that a poem&#039;s form is itself a way of communicating ideas.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Un-English&quot; Chaucer: Macaronic Verse and Codicological Form in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uncouples Chaucer&#039;s fifteenth-century reception from &quot;monolingual nationalist ideas of Englishness,&quot; focusing on rhetorical and codicological features of two trilingual love lyrics in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27 (Gg): &quot;De amico ad amicam&quot; and &quot;Responcio.&quot; Argues that the poems are &quot;integral&quot; to Gg and that their forms and presentation &quot;mobilize the permeability and fungibility of languages in contact,&quot; aligning Chaucer with a &quot;multilingual future&quot; rather than monolingual Englishness. Suggests that a Gg illustration may be a Chaucer portrait. Includes comments on the use of French in manuscript copies of PF, and epistolary form in LGW and TC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Unstabled, according to the place&quot;: Setting and Convention in Chaucerian Dream Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues &quot;that conventions of setting, familiar themes or locations which create expectations in the reader about the content of the dream itself, provide a valuable and largely overlooked perspective upon the genre of Chaucerian dream poetry.&quot; Considers &quot;conventional settings such as the temple of glass&quot; and &quot;the dream in its broader setting or context, as autobiographical reflection, mnemonic device, and simultaneous lament for the ephemeral nature of literature and attempt to preserve oneself for posterity.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Us from visible and invisible foon / Defende&quot; (&quot;Troilus and Criseyde,&quot; V, 1866–67): A Previously Unrecognized Liturgical Echo.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies liturgical echoes in Chaucer&#039;s reworking of Dante at the end of Book V of TC, arguing that it exemplifies David Lawton&#039;s theory of voice and &quot;public<br />
interiorities.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Vitium curiositatis&quot; and Stereotypes in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Squire&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Looks at how SqT frames the East as stereotypically strange and familiar in order to explore the corrupting effects of &quot;vitium curiositatis&quot; (the vice of curiosity) and the beneficial possibilities of wonder. Argues that Chaucer embraces fragmented and partial knowledge, critiquing &quot;curiositatis&quot; through the Squire&#039;s narrative gaps and abrupt ending, and implying that, though wonderful and mysterious, the East can be known.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275200">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Vt hkskdkxt&quot;: Early Medieval Cryptography, Textual Errors, and Scribal Agency.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Refers to Roger Bacon&#039;s description of the use of encryption in Equat, noting that Chaucer&#039;s authorship is not definitive.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Vttirli Onknowe?&quot; Modes of Inquiry and the Dynamics of Interiority in Vernacular Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses inquisition and &quot;examination in the ecclesiastical courts&quot; for the ways that they, like confession, help to disclose the development of interiority as an aspect of medieval selfhood, discussing literary works such as &quot;Dives and Pauper,&quot; &quot;Jacob&#039;s Well,&quot; and John Lydgate&#039;s &quot;Fall of Princes,&quot; with comments on the importance of &quot;entente,&quot; defamation, and their relations with &quot;common knowledge&quot; in PardP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Watte vocat&quot;: Human and Animal Naming in Gower&#039;s &quot;Visio.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reveals how the common, generally lower-class forenames in the &quot;Visio Anglie&quot; portion of Gower&#039;s &quot;Vox clamantis&quot; reinforce the &quot;degraded, bestial character&quot; that Gower attributes to the rioters of 1381. Because the names could apply to animals or to humans, both &quot;human and non-human dimensions are visible&quot; in the allegory. In addition to pointing to a general social collapse, these names place the rebels in a &quot;conceptual borderland&quot; between bestial and human. Study sheds light on Chaucer&#039;s animal names, including &quot;Colle&quot; in NPT and the Summoner&#039;s ability to cry &quot;Watte&quot; (Walter/rabbit) in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;We axen leyser and espace&quot;: Narrative Grace in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot; and &quot;Melibee.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses &quot;self-referential reflections on storytelling&quot; in MLT and Mel, focusing on how the &quot;resistive narrative agency&quot; of their female protagonists calls attention to &quot;questions central to the literary enterprise itself,&quot; particularly through concern with forgiveness, the importance of grace, and devices of dilation as they &quot;make space&quot; for expanding narrative possibilities. Links these concerns with aspects of FrT, TC, WBT, and the Wife&#039;s role in MLE (in some manuscripts).]]></dcterms:description>
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