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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides a comprehensive view of how &quot;race&quot; is defined in the premodern world and addresses the process of &quot;race-making&quot; within and outside the European context. In particular, discusses how Jews in England were &quot;racialized&quot; and analyzes the &quot;sensory character of race in the medieval period.&quot; Chapter 2 examines historical and governmental regulations against Jews, and looks at literary works, such as PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invention of Style.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Combines computer-assisted stylometry and close reading to explore Chaucer&#039;s concept of style and his uses of the word &quot;style&quot; itself as they compare with those of John Gower and John Lydgate. Clarifies aspects of stylometric analysis, distinguishes between Chaucer&#039;s &quot;high&quot; style and Gower&#039;s &quot;plain&quot; style, and argues that in seeking to assert his own style Lydgate is particularly important in the &quot;development of the notion of literary style&quot; in English.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invisible Art of Alchemy: Chaucer to the Graphic Novel.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;[I]nvestigates literary and pictorial manuscripts on the subject pf alchemy in conjunction with the theories surrounding sequential art,&quot; i.e., &quot;comics theory,&quot; considering selected works, from CYPT to modern graphic novels. Opens with a &quot;close reading&quot; of CYPT and &quot;analysis of some of the illustrations of that Tale&quot; in the Ellesmere manuscript, illustrated editions, and the graphic version by Seymour Chwast.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invisible Siege - The Depiction of Warfare in the Poetry of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In TC, Chaucer avoids focusing on war, revealing his awareness of its importance in perpetrating the aristocratic culture of his day, as well as his need to evade the expectations imposed on him as a writer. Conflict and the psychological disjunction caused by war are granted a potent but implicit significance in the poem, indicating Chaucer&#039;s conviction that writers are responsible for the ethical effect of their writing on future audiences.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Invisible Wound: Jewish Poetics, Modernity, and the Return of the Repressed.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the development of a &quot;salvific but antisemitic fantasy of Judaization&quot; in western aesthetics from St. Paul to modern writers, and identifies an &quot;alternate mode of modern poetics based in the Jewish philosophy of language and in the practice of rabbinical hermeneutics.&quot; Includes discussion of PrT for ways that the Prioress presents Jews as an &quot;other of the other onto whom she may offshore her prior abjection.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Irish Analogues to Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Pardoner&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Common characters and incidents in PardT and three Irish versions of Aarne-Thompson folktale Type 763 may indicate cross-fertilization between folklore and medieval literature.  Most arguments favor an oral source for the PardT.  The episode of the Old Man giving directions and the chemist scene are exclusive features of PardT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ironic Design of Fortune in &quot;Troilus and Criseide.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Locates and assesses a prevailing irony in TC: the narrator and each of the major characters follows the &quot;same pattern&quot; of early knowledge of Fortune&#039;s instability, &quot;followed by self-deception, and eventual submission to the facts.&quot; Love and truth only seem to delay Fortune in human affairs, although Chaucer celebrates the &quot;unstable and attractive world.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ironic Fruyt: Chauntecleer as Figura]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses allegorical interpretations from Hugh of St. Cher to show how the exegetical equation of cock and preacher is consistently upended in the description and actions of Chauntecleer in NPT, offering a mock allegory where &quot;fruit is chaff.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262045">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Irony of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Legend of Good Women&#039; Perceived in 1576]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In a discussion of female constancy in the anonymous play &quot;Common Conditions&quot; characters from TC and LGW are used on both sides of the argument.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Irony of the &#039;Friar&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, while clearly discrediting summoners, the Friar &quot;also discredits himself.&quot; Reads FrT as a exemplum that satirizes summoners and, ironically, condemns the Friar&#039;s malicious hypocrisy, especially clear in light of contemporary sermon practices.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272384">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Island Garden: England&#039;s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Beginning with Gildas&#039; depiction of England as a beautiful garden, explores metaphorical and physical gardens in medieval English cultural history, arguing that Chaucer indicates &quot;awareness of nation as landscape&quot; in CT. Chapters 2 and 3 emphasize that Chaucer employs Langland&#039;s peasant &quot;croft, or half acre&quot; as an image of nation in NPT, ClT, KnT, and PF. In Chapter 4, an analysis of the narrative of Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13) cites ClT, MLT, and ParsT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264503">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Isle of Ladies or the Isle of Pleasaunce]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reproduces the Longleat MS 256 of &quot;The Isle of Ladies&quot; (included in Speght&#039;s edition of Chaucer), providing glossary, introduction, and notes.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Isle of Ladies: A Fifteenth-Century English Chaucerian Poem]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;The Isle of Ladies&quot; was attributed to Chaucer until 1878.  It is primarily a lover&#039;s complaint to his lady.  The characters are based on Chaucerian models (like Criseyde) but play somewhat different roles.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/265458">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Italian Background to Chaucer&#039;s Epic Similes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s similes cannot be explained in terms of imitation of Dante and Boccaccio or direct imitation of classical models.  Instead, following the example of Dante and Boccaccio, Chaucer practiced a &quot;poetics of vernacularization,&quot; imitating the &quot;well-articulated model of the rhetorical form&quot; of the simile as defined in the Italian tradition of Ciceronian rhetoricical form&quot; of the simile as defined in the Italian tradition of Ciceronian rhetoric.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/277324">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Italian Influence in English Poetry.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the influence--direct and mediated--of Italian literature on English poetry from Chaucer to Robert Southwell (excluding verse drama), considering issues of meter and style as well as plot, atmosphere, and theme. Opens with appreciative comparisons of sections of Chaucer&#039;s works (HF, TC, KnT, ClT, MkT, and various other CT) with their Italian sources in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, observing changes in atmosphere and characterization through omissions, additions, and modifications. Comments on details of Chaucer&#039;s travels in Italy, his &quot;genius,&quot; his meter and the relative chronology of his works, and his fusion of Italian models with Latin and French ones.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Italian Influence on Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer made at least two authenticated journeys to Italy whereby he gained a knowledge of the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.  Curiously, though he borrowed extensive narrative material from Boccaccio, Chaucer never mentions him by name as he does the other two.  Chaucer&#039;s use of Petrarch is slight, and the influence of Dante (aside from the tragedy of Ugolino) is mostly confined to images.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted from the first (1968) edition, with updated bibliography.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jangler&#039;s &#039;Bourse&#039;: Gender, Renunciation, and Chaucer&#039;s Manciple]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[As a character &quot;capable of saying one thing but meaning quite another,&quot; the Manciple ridicules the &quot;wisdom of the mother&quot; at the end of ManT.  The crow suffers for the &quot;feminine behavior&quot; of talking too much, and the Manciple talks &quot;as if a woman&quot; to &quot;warn against such speech.&quot;  Like ManT, Chaucer&#039;s Ret uses a rhetoric of renunciation to speak out against silence.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Janus Symbolism in &#039;The Merchant&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[MerT is both fabliau and romance, both realistic and allegorical.  Janus was god of gates and of marriage beds.  January falls under Aquarius, associated with old age; May, under Gemini, was associated with youth.  The name of the sacred Roman gate was Iannus Geminus.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269304">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A study of the &quot;reiteration, instability and changing valence of the Jewish image as inscribed in medieval English books,&quot; focusing on four generic narratives: the Jew of Tewkesbury, the Marian miracle of the boy singer, the cult of Robert of Bury St. Edmunds, and the &quot;literary and decorative scheme&quot; of the Arma Christi. Bale explores philosemitism as well as antisemitism to see how attitudes toward Jews constitute one of the defining myths or legends of the Middle Ages. Discusses PrT in light of analogous narratives, including fifteenth-century &quot;reactions&quot; to the Tale found in manuscript anthologies, which convey pious sentiment and diminish Chaucer&#039;s satire of the Prioress.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275360">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jewels of &quot;Troilus.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the symbolic value of the gems, their colors, and their settings (rings and brooch) in TC, discussing the moral implications referred to in medieval lapidaries.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270840">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jewish Connection: Chaucer and the Paris Jews, 1394]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Delany explores the &quot;imbrication&quot; of life and art in PrT and the expulsion of Jews from France in 1394. She gauges Chaucer&#039;s contact with Jews and describes the conditions under which Jews lived in fourteenth-century France, specifically the results of the supposed abduction of Denis Machaut, a Jewish convert to Christianity. Delany identifies elements that PrT shares with history rather than what it shares with literary analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores representations of the mother-in-law as a figure of Jewry and the synagogue in Western literary tradition. Although MLT overtly poses the Orient as the malevolent Other through the Sultaness, it also suggests in veiled ways that Jews threaten Christians.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Jongleur, the Copyist, and the Printer : The Tradition of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Words unto Adam, His Own Scriveyn&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Much of the scholarship on Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Adam&quot; has focused on identification.  But &quot;many of Chaucer&#039;s shorter poems are genre pieces in which personal statement emerges by way of a treatment of conventional matters; a traditional type of poem is invested with particular significance.&quot;  &quot;Adam&quot; is a complaint by a creative literary artist against the transmitter of his art.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reprinted in Scattergood&#039;s Manuscripts and Ghosts: Essays on the Transmission of Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Journey Motif in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;House of Fame&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines ways in which the dreamer&#039;s journey in HF parallels his summary of the &quot;Aeneid,&quot; identifying verbal echoes as well as similarities in plot and detail. Emends traditional punctuation of lines 109-13 to reinforce the parallel.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268273">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Joy of Chaucer&#039;s Lydgate Lines]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Brown discourages emendation (&quot;dreary refinements&quot;) of Chaucer&#039;s meter, arguing that &quot;broken-backed&quot; or &quot;Lydgatian&quot; lines recorded in good manuscripts are likely to be Chaucer&#039;s own. Metrical variation within Chaucer&#039;s dominant patterns can have powerful poetic effects.]]></dcterms:description>
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