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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to Chaucer&#039;s Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides apparatus for interpreting Chaucer&#039;s text, placing his language in its wider contemporary context, and studies differences in grammar between Chaucerian and Modern English, sentence linkage and scribal punctuation, the dialectal status of fourteenth-century London English, the potential for stylistic variation in Chaucer&#039;s language, and his semantic structure, interpenetrated by French and Latin.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/261252">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to Chaucer&#039;s Meter]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Designed as a supplemental textbook for college courses on Chaucer or English prosody; includes brief exercises at the end of each of seven chapters.  Introduces the basics of meter and rhythm and analyzes Chaucer&#039;s verse in traditional foot scansion, exploring the regularity of his lines (pentameter and four-stress), the problems of final -e, and metrical substitutions.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275384">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to Chaucer&#039;s Pronunciation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces pronunciation of Chaucer&#039;s English, offering a series of general rules, explained in relationship to Modern English, both &quot;British and American&quot; and designed for &quot;teachers and students.&quot; Also includes transcriptions of nine passages in simplified phonetics: GP 1-42, 118-62, 285-308, 477-500; WBP 453-80; WBT 857-881; PrT 516-50; HF1-52; and TC 1.1-35. First published in Stockholm: Almquist &amp; Wiksell; New Haven, Conn.: Whitlock 1954. Reprinted in Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1978.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266649">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to Editing Middle English]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Nineteen essays by various authors that together seek to &quot;raise the standard of scholarly editing for Middle English texts,&quot; describing theories and problems of editing and offering practical recommendations on how to edit. The contributors explore the notion of an authorial text, the functions of parallel-text editions, and perspectives on meter and pedagogy as they relate to editing. They suggest ways to deal with the difficulties of particular kinds of texts:  scientific, astrological, culinary, and glossographical.  They discuss the tools of editing, including computer technology, and explain what is desirable in a glossary, notes, and a text itself. The collection includes a &quot;Practical Guide&quot; to working with manuscripts and lists available facsimiles and useful dictionaries.  Frequent references to Chaucer&#039;s works Guide to Editing Middle English under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276342">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to English Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Briskly surveys English literature and studies of it from the Middle English period to 1960, providing introductions to individual historical periods and lists of editions and criticism for individual authors and topics. Chaucer figures largely in &quot;The Approach to Medieval Literature&quot; (pp. 12-30) as a precursor to a standard of &quot;correctness&quot; in literary and linguistic matters (including prosody) and as a poet who capitalizes on oral recitation in his fabrications of a &quot;pseudo-audience,&quot; &quot;pseudo-narrators,&quot; and &quot;pseudo-sources.&quot; Also comments on Chaucer&#039;s works as reflections of the impact of the Black Death, the collapse of villeinage, and themes of love and plenitude. A brief reading list (pp. 40-42) is highly selective and opinionated.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to the Miller&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Study guide to MilT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and a glossary of literary terms.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271009">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Guide to the Wife of Bath&#039;s Prologue and Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Study guide to WBPT, designed for university students. Includes summaries, commentaries, and discussion of contexts, themes, characterization, style, language, and critical approaches, with advice on how score well on exams, a model exam answer, and a glossary of literary terms.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274900">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Handbook of Middle English Studies.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twenty-six chapters by various authors, with an Introduction by the editor in which she emphasizes diverse theoretical approaches to Middle English studies and observes that Chaucer&#039;s texts &quot;foreground the idea that readers construct texts&quot; (3). Chapter topics include Imagination, Memory, Desire, Gender, Sexuality, Public Interiorities, Race, Animality, Authorship, Audience, Manuscript, Material Culture, Genre, Aesthetics, Canon Formation, Periodization, Sovereignty, Class, Church, City, Margins, Ecology, Nation, Language, Postcolonialism, and A Global Middle Ages. The volume includes an index with numerous references to Chaucer, For eleven essays that pertain Chaucer, search under A Handbook of Middle English Studies under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262838">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Handlist of Middle English in Harvard Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes forty-one manuscripts, some of which include works of Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Haunt of Murder: The Clerk&#039;s Tale of Mystery and Murder as He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer&#039;s Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as &quot;A Haunt of Murder&quot; (New York: Minotaur, 2009).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/263472">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Head for a Head: A Testamental Template for &#039;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#039; and &#039;The Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The historical development of an Old Testament law can be applied to &quot;Sir Gawain&quot; and WBT.  WBT, which begins with a &quot;lawless, violent rape and ends with the free gift of fairness and fidelity, progresses by the efficiency of a statute (cf. OT &#039;eye for an eye&#039; justice) of a &#039;head for a head&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264889">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Hissing Stanza in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Prioress&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Lines 1748-54 (558-64) of PrT are a &quot;tour de force&quot; of sustained onomatopoetic alliteration, with thirty-one (&quot;recte,&quot; thirty-two) sibilants, in hissing imitation of &quot;the serpent Sathanas.&quot;  Chaucer&#039;s artistry here is more subtle and varied than in the cruder, &quot;rum ram ruf&quot; alliterating passages in KnT and LGW.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275068">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Historical Phonology of English.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A textbook history of the &quot;phonological structure&quot; of English, i.e., &quot;the history of individual sounds and their representation, the history of syllable structure and word stress.&quot; The comprehensive Subject Index lists numerous references to Chaucer and the examples he provides for describing the &quot;evolution of the English stress system&quot; (largely through adaptation of foreign words) and the development of English verse forms. The volume is accompanied by an online Companion that offers &quot;additional readings, exercises, comments, and further resources.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267474">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of English Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A narrative introduction to English literature from Old English to postmodernism, designed for the general reader. The discussion of Chaucer (pp. 55-62) emphasizes biography, PF, TC, and the ironies of CT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/271108">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, &quot;Self,&quot; and Interpretability]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Diachronic analysis of how reflexive pronouns follow the &quot;transformation of English from a synthetic to an analytic language,&quot; particularly their increase in &quot;Uninterpretable features.&quot;  Includes a section on Chaucer&#039;s reflexive pronouns (pp. 86-91) and describes usage of reflexive pronouns in Old, Middle, and Modern English.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262366">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of Private Life 2: Revelations of the Medieval World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[English version of of Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby, gen. eds. De l&#039;Europe feodale a la Renaissance, vol. 2 of Histoire de la vie privee. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Traces the growth of privacy, solitude, and individuality in all aspects of bourgeois and noble life in the later Middle Ages, chiefly in France and Italy, the tendency becoming most pronounced around the time of the Black Death.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/272186">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of the English Language]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys English literature produced in Britain from the late Middle Ages to the modern period. The chapter entitled &quot;The Age of Chaucer&quot; includes a section (pp. 24-32) that surveys Chaucer&#039;s life and works, emphasizing Chaucer&#039;s dexterity with characterization, his irony and humor, and his affection for humankind.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/267163">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of the English Perfect Infinitive]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Several examples taken from Chaucer.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/262235">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A History of Western Astrology]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Broadly covers the history and use of astrology, including attitudes toward the &quot;science&quot; and an analysis of the language employed.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/276398">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Horoscope of Messehalla in the Chaucer Equatorium Manuscript. ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Compares a horoscope and its accompanying Latin text found in Equat with two analogous versions, showing that it has closest relations with the Nürnberg version printed in 1659.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/269578">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Hymenation of Hags]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Because the loathly lady in WBT is not enchanted but is a shape-shifter under her own power, she likely is not virginal. Carter explores the implications of this likelihood, as well as parallel concerns in WBT and several analogues.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/264659">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Japanese Translation of &#039;The House of Fame&#039;, III, 1091-1656]]></dcterms:title>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/274222">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Japanese Translation of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Legend of Good Women&quot; (1).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates into Japanese both F and G versions of LGWP, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes in Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275477">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Japanese Translation of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Short Poems.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Translates ABC, Pity, Lady, Mars, Ven, Ros, Adam, Purse, Wom Unc, Compl d&#039;Am, and MercB into Japanese, based on the Riverside edition, with an introduction and notes. In Japanese, with English abstract.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/268418">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Journey to Chaucer&#039;s Medieval Italy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[An intercultural comparative study of medieval Italy and Italians and Chaucer&#039;s connection with the country and its people.]]></dcterms:description>
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