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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court of Richard II and the Promotion of Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Richard&#039;s court was important as a cultural force in England&#039;s first &quot;golden age&quot; of literature.  Members of his coterie were the first audience of poets such as Chaucer and Gower, and it seems likely that his travels were related to the production of literature (especially alliterative poetry) in provinces such as Cheshire, where Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were produced.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273319">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court of Richard II.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Political and social history of court life during the reign of Richard II, with emphasis on art and literature.  Includes a chapter pertaining to Chaucer (pp. 62-73) and recurrently attends to his relations with contemporaneous poets Thomas Usk, Thomas Hoccleve, John Gower, and William Langland. The chapter describes Chaucer&#039;s court life and comments on his poetry as it relates to Richard&#039;s court and contemporary events and outlooks.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277295">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court of Venus.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Edits (with facsimile pages) &quot;three sixteenth-century fragments of a poetical miscellany&quot; found in different extant manuscripts and, in early attributions, was credited to Chaucer. The Introduction explains why these attributions are inaccurate, athetizing the work from Chaucer&#039;s canon, and clarifying the nature of the fragments and their place in print history and English literary tradition. Also clarifies that &quot;The Pilgrim&#039;s Tale,&quot; included in one of the manuscripts, was also misattributed to Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269395">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Court Poetry of Chaucer: A Facing-Page Translation in Modern English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Modernizations of Chaucer&#039;s short poems, maintaining original rhyme schemes and metrical patterns, with facing-page texts from The Riverside Chaucer and Walter Skeat&#039;s edition. Includes, in the following order, ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ros, Wom Nob, Adam, Sted, Form Age, For, Truth, Gent, Ven, Scog, Buk, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d&#039;Am, MercB, Bal Compl, Prov, and Anel. The introduction (pp. 1-12) comments on the practice and history of modernizing Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266359">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Courtly Body and Late Medieval Literary Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines how Stephen Hawes&#039;s &quot;Conforte de Louers&quot; and &quot;Pastime of Pleasure,&quot; in selected allusions and references to TC, conflate the poet&#039;s identity and the act of reading.  Reactions to the Hawesean poems in Humphrey emanuscript collection suggest that both Hawes&#039;s and Wellys&#039;s works serve as early modern paradigms of reading and subjectivity.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264128">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Courtly Love Tradition]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An anthology of translated lyrics, theoretical writings, and excerpted romances.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264063">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Courtly Rhetoric of Chaucer&#039;s Advisory]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deschamps had in mind Chaucer&#039;s short lyrics--Truth, Gent, Sted, Wom Nob--when he praised him in the ballads.  These poems constitute Chaucer&#039;s advisory poetry whose subjects is moral philosophy stated in polished language and in French forms.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270925">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cranberry Trail: Misfits, Dreamers &amp; Drifters on the Heartland Road]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A comic novel that derives its characters from GP and most of its sub-plots from CT, cast as the thirty-year reunion of a hapless college baseball team, the Tabelard Bees, with first-person narration by the team&#039;s utility player, Jeffrey Shoemaker, who recalls their past losses while on a group trip from South Fork to Cranberry Bend.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272430">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Creation of &#039;Tone&#039; in Chaucer&#039;s Poetic Lines: A Tentative Study on Chaucer&#039;s Emotive Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contends that the uniqueness of Chaucer&#039;s poetry lies in the combination of emotive theme and manipulation of &quot;tone.&quot; Classifies &quot;tone-elevators&quot; and compares their effects between different genres of Chaucerian texts as well as between Chaucerian and non-Chaucerian romances. In Japanese, with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268672">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Creation of Consent in the Physician&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s changes to source material emphasize what shapes a person and how she comes to understand and experience the world. If Virginia had continued to refuse her father and Virginius had cut off his daughter&#039;s head despite her protests, the Tale would have been one of tyranny. Because she agrees that there is no other choice, it is clear that he educated her and taught her to understand reality.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Also published in Fraber&#039;s An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing (2006).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC, the narrator and Pandarus are mediators--purveyors of desired commodities (women or love stories) to a designated recipient (Troilus; the audience assembled for the occasion).  Hanning examines the &quot;crisis of mediation&quot; of late-medieval translators in relation to the poem&#039;s problematic presentation of desire.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270043">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Criteria for Scribal Attribution: Dublin, Trinity College MS 244 Reconsidered]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconsideration of Alan J. Fletcher&#039;s evidence (RES 58 [2007]: 597-632) does not support the claim that Adam Pynkhurst is the scribe of Dublin, Trinity College MS 244.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269406">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Criteria for Scribal Attribution: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 244, Some Early Copies of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Canon of Adam Pynkhurst Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Evidence suggests that Chaucer&#039;s careless scribe in Adam is Adam Pynkhurst. The Trinity College manuscript, containing prose tracts evincing Wyclif&#039;s influence, may be in Pynkhurst&#039;s hand. Chaucer&#039;s connection with this scribe could account for Wyclifite themes in Chaucer&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272898">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Criticism of Chaucer in the Twentieth Century]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Discusses representative examples of book-length studies of Chaucer written in the twentieth century (by Kittredge, Chesterton, Lowes, Dempster, Speirs, Donaldson, Muscatine, Payne, and Robertson); surveys several &quot;main literary topics&quot; in Chaucer criticism of the period (love, allegory, and rhetoric); and comments on the tools, achievements, and limitations of this criticism.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274822">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the anti-Semitism of PrT, producing &quot;a discussion animated by the ways in which antisemitism has emerged as the problematic that organizes scholarly response,&quot; and resists dismissing or excusing prejudice and hate in PrT. Tracks history of PrT criticism, its sources and the potentially problematic methodology of traditional source studies, the history of antifeminism linked to anti-Semitism in criticism of PrT, and the reception of PrT in the fifteenth century. Combines a detailed history and analysis of criticism to &quot;help scholars break free of some old patterns and seek out fresh modes of engagement&quot; regarding the understanding and teaching of PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262272">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Critique of &#039;Clergie&#039; in Ricardian Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Religious learning as an aid for salvation is a theme running through late-fourteenth-century works including CT, Piers Plowman, and Wycliffite writing.  Chaucer satirizes scholastic studies in WBT, FrT, and SumT.  Although not involved in the realism-nominalism controversy, he treats contemporary ecclesiastical interests.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271647">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Criyng and the Soun: Chaucer Audio Files]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides links to online samples of Chaucer&#039;s works, &quot;read by professors&quot; and intended to &quot;help students improve their pronunciation of Chaucer&#039;s Middle English.&quot; Includes passages from CT, TC, and other works. Formerly hosted at Virginia Military Institute.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269643">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cross as &#039;te&#039; in &#039;The Canticle of Creatures,&#039; Dante&#039;s &#039;Virgin Mother,&#039; and Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Invocation to Mary&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Pope Innocent III explicitly recognized the Greek letter &#039;tau&#039; as representing the form of the cross and saw it as a sign of renewal in the church. Likewise the syllable &#039;te&#039; was interpreted as a sign of the cross. Treanor explores graphic figurations of the cross as the figure te in several works, including Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Invocation to Mary&quot; in SNP. Chaucer&#039;s poem follows the palindromic structures and patterns of its classical and medieval antecedents.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276912">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Crow&#039;s &quot;Cokkow!&quot;: Bird Debates and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Manciple&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explicates the &quot;cukkow&quot;/cuckoo/cuckold pun in ManT by identifying the role of the cuckoo (versus the nightingale) in bird-debate poems, analyzed here, particularly in Sir John Clanvowe&#039;s &quot;Boke of Cupide.&quot; Argues that, by engaging themes of signification, class, and truth-telling, ManT &quot;lobs an attack on the courtly good life of song, poetry, and pleasure,&quot; &quot;signaling&quot; the end of the CT and &quot;making that end happen.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277280">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Crusading Imaginary of Late Medieval England.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that a variety of &quot;fourteenth- and fifteenth-century recovery romances create a convergent set of fantasies that reflect desires both for the reclamation of the Holy Land and for the protection and ascendance of Christianity.&quot; Chapter four &quot;considers the roles of Mongols and Saracens in &#039;The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,&#039; the romance &#039;The King of Tars,&#039; and several of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;,&quot; arguing that &quot;cultural Others complicate the binaries of crusade and recovery romances, transforming confrontation into contact and exchange.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266942">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Culpability of Chaucer&#039;s Prioress]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Debates whether Chaucer&#039;s Prioress is childlike or simply childish, and questions why she is on a pilgrimage. Also discusses the extent of Chaucer&#039;s understanding of medieval religious women.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272492">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cultural Construction of Monsters: &#039;The Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039; and &#039;Song of Roland&#039; in Analysis and Instruction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests that texts like PrT might be taught by examining their presentation of non-followers of Christianity as monsters, an alternative to post-colonial approaches.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273257">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cultural Context of Chaucer&#039;s Fabliaux]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the classical and medieval poetic theories that underlie the genre of the fabliau, particularly its lack of concern with meaningfulness, commenting on several French fabliaux, and discussing the comedy and satire of MilT, RvT, ShT, and SumT. Excludes FrT and MerT from the genre.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275646">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cultural Otherness of Custance as a Foreign Woman in the &quot;Man of Law&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contrasts Chaucer&#039;s version of Custance in MLT with that of Gower and Trevet in order to show how Chaucer emphasizes the foreignness of Custance in England and the negative reaction to her, comparing them with documentary instances of xenophobia toward foreign women in late fourteenth-century England.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273561">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Cunning Wife/Fruit Tree Syndrome: Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&quot; and Seven Arabic Stories.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests Arabic texts not as sources for MerT, but as fellow exemplars of certain similar &quot;universal&quot; archetypes (tree, garden, billet-doux, key). Juxtaposes Arabic tales (some from &quot;The Arabian Nights&quot;) with MerT, and organizes stories by tree type (pear, sycamore, palm). Reads the shared archetypes through a Jungian lens, comparing them to the shadow, anima, animus, and persona. Refers to &quot;hortus conclusus&quot; and &quot;locus amoenus&quot; as integral to these archetypal manifestations of a &quot;collective unconsciousness&quot; or &quot;ur-myth.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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