<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270416">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale and the Shipman&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Adaptation for the stage of MerT and ShT, framed by introduction by &quot;Chaucer&quot; of the two narrators, who then stand aside and comment on the characters while the action proceeds as drama. In Modern English pentameter couplets; intended &quot;for use in secondary schools, amateur theatrical groups and youth clubs.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275223">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale: &quot;Beryn&quot; and the London Company of Mercers.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Connects &quot;The Prologue and Tale of Beryn&quot; (PTB) with the London Company of Mercers that met at St. Thomas Acon, suggesting that PTB was composed on the occasion of their feast in 1428 or 1430, exploring connections of the poem with John Carpenter, Richard Osbarn, &quot;Dick&quot; Whittington, and Thomas Marchaunt, and tracing the poem&#039;s concerns with pardoners and indulgences; social conflict; folly; and fellowship to the Company&#039;s interests, domestic and international. Also analyzes the thematic placement of PTB in CT manuscript Alnwick, Duke of Northumberland MS 455.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268330">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale: Literary Contexts, the Play of Genres, and Institutionalized Sexual Relations]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The combination of genres in MerT (fabliau, encomium, moral allegory, mock-heroic, and parody) satirizes the social institutions and literary genres within which sex and love are contained and represented. The encomium fuses reality and idealization; the allegorical debate mocks January and parodies the literary elevation of sex. The garden scene parodies courtly love, the Edenic fall, and the authority of the gods.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272892">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale: Read in Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen; the WorldCat records reflect confusion about date(s) of publication.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273714">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reads MerT as a &quot;striking example&quot; of the &quot;tension between the tale and its teller&quot; insofar as the Merchant fails to understand the &quot;true significance&quot; of the Tale. His &quot;moral perception has been disturbed by anger and by a ludicrous self-identification with January,&quot; evident in several ironic disjunctions in his account.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274182">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Modernizes MerPT in iambic pentameter couplets, with brief notes and facing-page text in Middle English. The introduction (pp. vii-xv) emphasizes the bitter tone of the tale and its satire]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276250">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Tale. Together with the Version Printed in the 1868-79 Edition of the Ellesmere Manuscript.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Limited art edition (200 copies printed) of MerPT, translated by Nevill Coghill (1960), illustrated by Derek Cousins, and designed by Thomas Simmonds. Coghill&#039;s translation is interleaved for comparison with the text from the Ellesmere manuscript, with modified punctuation. Two cover illustrations (Merchant and Wife of Bath), with fourteen full-page illustrations of MerT and one of a group of pilgrims (black and white against single-color backgrounds), plus a medallion portrait of Chaucer as a frontispiece.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262154">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merchant&#039;s Wife&#039;s Tale: Language, Sex, and Commerce in Margery Kempe and in Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An intertextual study of Margery Kempe and May in MerT reveals how language, sex, and money, considered as &quot;media of exchange,&quot; affect medieval discourse concerning women and merchants, and especially merchants&#039; wives.  All three media are recognized as vital to the living of everyday life but also as potentially alienating and destructive forces; all three can be used by women as conscious strategies for self-assertion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/270232">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merda Philosophorum: An English Problem]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[CYPT shares details and concerns found in other late medieval and early modern English alchemical treatises, part of the genre of &quot;alchemical autobiography.&quot; Like CYPT in considering the function of organic material (especially excrement) in alchemical transformation, other treatises, however, are less satiric than Chaucer&#039;s work: Thomas Norton&#039;s &quot;Ordinal of Alchemy,&quot; Bernard of Trévisan&#039;s &quot;Livre,&quot; George Ripley&#039;s &quot;Compound of Alchemy,&quot; and others.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262064">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Merthyr Fragment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Now renamed NLW MS 21972D, the early-fifteenth-century Merthyr Fragment, containing NPT, is described and compared to other manuscripts.  The Merthyr Fragment is about 200 lines of text now visible, in whole or in part, about 20 more than previously recognized.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262912">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metafictional Machaut: Self Reflexivity and Self-Mediation in the Two Judgment Poems]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Palmer reviews modern critical methods (including Robertsonianism) designed to close &quot;the gap between the pastness of ancient texts and the modern context of their reading and analysis.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267323">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metamorphoses of Cupid and Psyche in Plato, Apuleius, Origen, and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares depictions of Cupid and Psyche in Plato&#039;s Phaedrus, Apuleius&#039;s Metamorphoses, Origen&#039;s Commentary on the Song of Songs, and ClT (Walter and Griselda), noting their different constructions of gender and viewing them as reflections of different cultures. Since virginity is not analogous to the virtues affirmed at the end of ClT, the moralization ill suits the plot and reflects male desire to control female sexuality.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266027">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metamorphosis of &#039;Musorno&#039;: A Note on Chaucer&#039;s Translation of &#039;Filostrato&#039; I, 54 in &#039;Troilus&#039; I, 526-32]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The &quot;byjaped fol,&quot; to whom Chaucer refers in TC 1.526-32, is not a specific person but rather a mistranslation of Boccaccio&#039;s word &quot;musorno,&quot; which Chaucer took to refer to a well-known person--a particular &quot;fool&quot;--rather than to the foolish quality fo a person.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266996">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metamorphosis of Ovid : From Chaucer to Ted Hughes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve chapters assess why so many poets have been drawn to Ovid&#039;s Metamorphoses as a source of inspiration. Although its intrinsic richness and complexity provided the original impetus for its popularity, its permeation of so much English literature has shaped each generation&#039;s response to Ovid and lent still more resonance to his voice. Authors discussed include Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell, Milton, Samuel Garth, Keats, Beddoes, Browning, Eliot, Joyce, H.D., and Virginia Woolf.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 (pp. 23-37) discusses the influence of Ovid on Chaucer&#039;s HF, describing Chaucer&#039;s appropriations and adjustments to the Ovidian notion of Fama in Metamorphoses 12, especially its concerns with literary production and dissemination.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272850">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metaphor of Love: A Critical Study of Chaucer&#039;s Early Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses the history and criticism of the concept of courtly love, contending that it is a &quot;complicated metaphor for the poet&#039;s commitment to the craft of poetry.&quot; Then considers the occasions and philosophical implications of BD, PF, and HF, arguing that collectively the poems may be read as &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Art of Poetry.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276053">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metre of the &quot;Tale of Gamelyn.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Middle English metrical predecessors to &quot;The Tale of Gamelyn&quot; and assesses its regularities and place in the tradition of alliterative long-line verse. Also comments on its status as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272863">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Metrical Structure of Chaucer&#039;s &#039;A B C&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses the Halle-Keyser theory of meter to discover a &quot;pattern of heavy stresses in the initial syllables&quot; of twenty-one of the twenty-three stanzas of ABC that &quot;illuminate the poem aurally.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275574">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Mexican Chaucer: Philology South of the Border.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates the concept of &quot;of a &#039;medieval Mexico&#039; as a historically significant paradigm&quot; in light of the nation&#039;s colonial past. Considers various translations of CT into Spanish and comments on Chaucer studies in Mexico, including the lack of translation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272724">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle Ages]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprises eight chapters by various authors surveying English literature from the Old English period through Middle English prose. The chapter pertaining to Chaucer includes four sections: 1) a brief account of Chaucer&#039;s life (pp. 159-62), by W. F. Bolton; 2) a commentary on CT by D[erek] A. Pearsall (pp. 163-94) that considers the artistic illusion of realism, dramatic approaches to the Tales, variety, contrasts, experimentation, and the validity of narrative as an art form; 3) a discussion of TC by D. S. Brewer (pp. 195-228) that reads the poem as a product of manuscript culture and focuses on love, Troilus&#039;s psychology, and the operations of Fortune; and 4) a description of the &quot;Minor Poems and the Prose&quot; by S. S. Hussey (pp. 229-62) that maps Chaucer career as a poet, commenting on individual works, their sequence of composition, and their sources.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266390">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Eleven essays study the influence and impact of the Middle Ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present.  The essays cover a wide range of topics--literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy, history and myth-making, oral traditions, feminist issues--and reflect the enduring influence of the Middle Ages on European art and life. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Middle Ages After the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274566">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collection of essays that address medieval and medievalism themes and how they continue to impact contemporary perspectives. The introduction includes a history of medievalism from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and remarks how Chaucer&#039;s works satirize heroic romance. For four essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275619">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle Ages.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines life-writing in the European Middle Ages, with commentary on late antique prototypes and focus on England, ranging widely in languages and forms: Latin and vernacular, history and fiction, poetry and prose, biography and autobiography, hagiography and hybrids, polemical collections of life-writing, and life-writing embedded in longer works. Includes consideration of Chaucer as &quot;one of England&#039;s cagiest and &#039;least&#039; forthcoming authors,&quot; although highly influential in the development of &quot;quasi-fictional,&quot; &quot;self-deprecatory&quot; prologues in his dream visions and in GP, and of first-person, fictional prologues in WBP and PardP. Also comments on Astr, Chaucer&#039;s life-records, and LGW and MkT as examples of polemical collections of biographical life-writing. The volume includes an index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263445">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle English &#039;Planctas Mariae&#039; and the Rhetoric of Pathos]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Through the &quot;Planctas Mariae,&quot; Keiser illuminates the pathetic mode that governs MLT, PrT, ClT, and PhyT.  Griselda, Custance, and Virginia resemble the Virgin in the &quot;Planctas.&quot;  The anti-Semitism of PrT is common in the &quot;Planctas,&quot; and the tale of the boy martyr celebrates the victory of the Passion.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271421">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Awareness of generic ancestry offers evidence of the palimpsestuous nature of the &quot;true&quot; Middle English Breton lays. Reference is made to Chaucer&#039;s FranT among other so-called Breton lays.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272118">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Middle English Breton Lays: A Structural Analysis of Narrative Technique]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines the progressions of events in various French and English Breton Lays; includes commentary on repetition as a narrative technique that leads to closure in FranT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>