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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[W(h)ither Feminism? Gender, Subjectivity, and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Knight&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented throughout the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275609">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer: Introduction.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces a special issue of Chaucer Review focused on feminism and Chaucer that surveys the state of the field of current feminist approaches to Chaucer, offering a view of scholarship defined by interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Articles present &quot;new theoretical realms while also challenging the idea&quot; of the &quot;object and historical period of study for a Chaucerian.&quot; For articles included in this special issue, search for Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019) under Journal by Volume Number.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Edle Ritter, schlaue Studenten, betrügerische Ablasskrämer: Chaucers &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces CT as one of the major accomplishments of English medieval literature, surveying information about Chaucer&#039;s life and works and focusing on the range and variety of CT. Describes GP, Ret, the longer prologues, and each of the tales, and examines their narrative genres, settings, sources and analogues, themes, and motifs.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism and how &quot;the history of the medieval&quot; provides contemporary readers with &quot;a model of how to relate to the past.&quot; Argues that medieval writers offer models for understanding how contemporary readers can connect with &quot;the lost history of what may be called the &#039;medievalism of the medievals&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Illusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores individuality in visual and verbal portraiture, arguing that facial expressions or movements in art--i.e., &quot;the extent to which a given image evokes or represents movement&quot;--are the basis of perceptions of individuality in portraits. Analyzes and compares the portrait &quot;Jehan roi de France&quot; (c. 1350) and Nicole Eisenman&#039;s &quot;Portrait of a Guy Smoking&quot; (2007), using humoral and affective physiognomies as well as modern emotional theories, and applies similar analysis to facial affect in TC, including Criseyde&#039;s joined brows.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Terpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Franklin&#039;s Tale&quot; and Robert Smithson&#039;s &quot;Spiral Jetty.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Contemplates relations among time, seriality, causality, movement, and dancing, exploring the experiences of moving through Robert Smithson&#039;s monumental contemporary sculpture &quot;Spiral Jetty&quot; and watching a film of the experience as analogues to the experiences of medieval dance and references to dancing in FranT, where style and syntax evoke kinetic participation and destabilize connections between movement in time and causation, challenging modern notions of literary form. Includes four b&amp;w illustrations.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275604">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays by various authors that &quot;aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary&quot; in a variety of Middle English works. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics and the Fourteenth Century.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the rational power of prose and the affective power of poetry to effect ethical transformation in Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy,&quot; linking the work&#039;s prosimetric alteration with its theme of providential causation, and arguing that later vernacular writers modified the mixed form in ways that privilege poetry. Assessed as an extended example here, TC substitutes historical narration and emotive narratorial comment--both in verse--for the prose/poetry alternations of Boethius&#039;s mixed form.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tragic Diction in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece,&quot; the &quot;Canterbury Tales,&quot; and Hoccleve&#039;s &quot;Series.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores words and nuances associated with tragedy in Chaucer&#039;s works, describing a pair of emphases in Bo that may indicate direct study of Boethius&#039;s original rather than glosses or commentaries. Considers the extent to which the Monk may have known the work, especially as indicated in the responses to the Monk by the Knight, Host, and Nun&#039;s Priest. Also assesses the resonances of MkT in Thomas Hoccleve&#039;s version of the transformation of  Nebuchadnezzar.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Nature, Astronomy, and Cosmology in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Boece.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies Chaucer&#039;s &quot;cosmological additions&quot; to Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; when translating it as &quot;Boece,&quot; identifying the sources of these additions in earlier translations and commentaries, and speculating that Chaucer includes glosses and extrapolations about &quot;nature, astronomy, and cosmology&quot; in order to emphasize Boethius&#039;s theme that &quot;through an understanding of the cosmos . . . one can begin to learn about oneself.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The &quot;Consolation&quot; and Its Afterlives.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors consider the range and depth of impact of Boethius&#039;s &quot;Consolation of Philosophy&quot; on Old and Middle English literature and thought. The introduction summarizes the legacy of the &quot;Consolation,&quot; describes Bo, and sketches Chaucer&#039;s engagement with the &quot;Consolation&quot; in his other works. For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275599">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Women&#039;s Gathering: The Auchinleck Manuscript and Women&#039;s Reading in 14th Century London.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that the &quot;sustained concern about women&#039;s agency&quot; in National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 19.2.1 (Auchinleck) &quot;mirrors&quot; Chaucer&#039;s similar concern, and that &quot;the complexity with which Chaucer treats that agency can be found in the Auchinleck too.&quot; Furthermore, &quot;the similarity is not due to a direct line of influence between manuscript and author, but stems from a mutually shared 14th century London literary microculture.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275598">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores the &quot;creative power of literary tradition&quot; in medieval and contemporary works. Includes a chapter on TC and Boccaccio&#039;s &quot;Il filostrato.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Bringing Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into the Classroom: Discovering a Medieval Minority Poet.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes the incorporation of works by the English Jewish poet Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into a survey of early English literature, exploring difficulties and achievements. Includes brief comparison of Meir&#039;s use of personal acrostics in his poetry with Chaucer&#039;s use of an alphabetical acrostic to organize ABC.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale&quot; in Its Late Medieval Context.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes a pedagogy and practice of reading PrT in light of the historical pogrom in Prague (1387), a Latin narrative of the pogrom (&quot;Passio Judeorum Pragensium&quot;), a Czech-and-Latin fragmentary play entitled &quot;Ungentarius&quot; (Ointment Seller), and accounts of the Jewish legend of the Golem--all evincing aspects of the scapegoating of Jews and &quot;projective inversion,&quot; with emphasis on the destabilization of &quot;Christian/Jewish inverted parallelism&quot; and, more broadly, the &quot;collapse of Self and Other.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275595">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Visualizing the Jewish Other in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;The Prioress&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes a classroom practice of encouraging students to explore emotional responses to PrT by asking them to illustrate any scene from the tale and then compare these illustrations with historical illustrations, from the Vernon manuscript to modern translations and adaptations. Includes 8 b&amp;w illustrations of examples from students and book history.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jews as Others and Neighbors: Encountering Chaucer&#039;s Prioress in the Classroom.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Applies Freudian-based neighboring theory to PrT, comparing it with several medieval exempla about Jews, and explaining how such comparisons can help students to see the necessity of interpretation in determining affection and prejudice, crime and punishment, and the &quot;theological neighboring&quot; of Christians and Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275593">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comprises nineteen pedagogical essays in English, history, philosophy, theater, and Judaic studies by various authors who participated in a series of NEH research seminars conducted between 2003 and 2014. The introduction by the editors addresses issues of othering in medieval English societies and modern English-speaking classrooms, and summarizes the essays. The volume includes several appendices, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index. For four essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucerotics: Uncloaking the Language of Sex in &quot;The Canterbury Tales&quot; and &quot;Troilus and Criseyde.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Assesses Chaucer&#039;s &quot;enticing eroticism and provocative perversity&quot; as &quot;clear and vital signs of premodern pornography.&quot; Historicizes terms such as &quot;obscene,&quot; &quot;pornographic,&quot; and &quot;erotic,&quot; and proposes &quot;Chauceroticism&quot; to describe the various ways the poet uses innuendo and detail to provoke, reveal, and conceal erotic action and pleasure in those of his works &quot;where the act of coitus is presented in some detail.&quot; MilT combines pornography with humor; RvT with brutality; MerT with anti-chivalric sentiment; ShT with prostitution; and TC with &quot;amorous &#039;jouissance&#039;.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;How Do We Know He Really Raped Her?&quot; Using the BBC &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot; to Confront Student Skepticism towards the Wife of Bath.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ponders the complications and implications of discussing rape in modern classroom considerations of WBT, and recommends using the BBC television version of the tale to help raise and confront its inherent questions and values.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Classroom PSA: Values, Law, and Ethics in &quot;The Reeve&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Identifies contradictions and complications in legal and ethical understandings of rape, and describes how issues of consent and culpability can be used productively in classroom discussion of RvT to help students understand their own values as well as those that inhere in the text.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275589">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Speech, Silence, and Teaching Chaucer&#039;s Rapes.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maintains that attention to speech and silence is crucial to literary analysis and to understanding medieval notions of gender difference, exemplifying how the speech/silence binary can be explored in complex ways to help analyze rape as a plot device in classroom discussions of MilT, RvT, WBP, the Lucrece and Philomena accounts in LGW, and Chaucer&#039;s biography]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275588">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Includes thirteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor, all focusing on teaching medieval narratives that involve rape, attempted rape, or false accusation while attending to twenty-first-century awareness of rape, sexual violence, and classroom politics. For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval England altered ancient ideas of geographical space. Analyzes medieval science, theology, literature, and maps, and the &quot;relationship between high science and high literature&quot; of the Middle Ages. Looks at the &quot;science of motion&quot; in HF and ideas of &quot;local space&quot; in PrT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Considers tragedy from the perspective of analytical philosophy, arguing &quot;that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering&#039;; it &quot;involves the balancing of a protagonist&#039;s suffering with guilt (and vice versa),&quot; and the successful expression of &quot;pain and suffering&quot; is one of its principal and communal purposes. Considers a wide variety of theoretical and  literary works, with recurrent commentary on Chaucer&#039;s depictions and descriptions of tragedy, especially in TC and MkT.]]></dcterms:description>
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