<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/275624">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: An Adventure across Genres.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Provides background on Chaucer and CT and emphasizes how each tale in CT addresses the particulars of the literary genre to which it is related. In Japanese.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275623">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Telling Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer&#039;s lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with Boccacio&#039;s &quot;Decameron,&quot; and summarizes its early reputation as evident in its manuscript history. Quotes most of MilP (in David Wright&#039;s verse translation of 1985), and includes a reproduction of the Ellesmere manuscript, fol. 34v, the opening of MilT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275622">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury<br />
Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Exemplifies the variety of references to food and uses of food imagery in CT, especially GP, observing how they serve as indicators of social and moral conditions--particularly high status and the sin of lust--and aid in characterization.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275621">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Translator Writes Back.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores cultural, prosodic, and personal aspects of translating selections from CT into Farsi verse, with sustained attention to GP, the translatability of Chaucer, and parallels between his work and Persian literature and culture.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275620">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Editors Introduction: Chaucer&#039;s Global Orbits and Global Communities.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks &quot;what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer&#039;s Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation.&quot; Summarizes the essays included in this special issue titled &quot;Chaucer&#039;s Global Compaignye&quot; and suggests that they help to offset &quot;Anglophone normativity.&quot; For individual essays, search for Chaucer&#039;s Global Compaignye 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/275618">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Medieval Literature: The Basics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the &quot;Gawain&quot;-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks to &quot;break down the sense of alterity&quot; by opening with the media and gaming of medievalism, cited throughout. The final chapter on &quot;extreme&quot; authors includes description of Chaucer&#039;s diversity, quantity of work, accessibility, popularity, and secondary literature, voting him the &quot;Most Extreme&quot; of the selected authors. The volume includes recommendations for further reading in each section, a bibliography, web resources, and an index.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275617">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer: The Basics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Introduces Chaucer&#039;s life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer&#039;s poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275616">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Virgin Whore.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Studies the complicated sexuality of the Virgin Mary in late medieval English literature, exploring scriptural and apocryphal backgrounds; visual imagery; and dramatic, narrative, and lyrical texts. Includes comments on wives&#039; secrets and the Annunciation material in MilT, and on the adaptation of the &quot;Parliament of Heaven&quot; motif in MerT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275615">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Physical Possibilities: Pedagogical Presence in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that Chaucer&#039;s poetry can inform contemporary discussions of teachers&#039; bodies and their relative absence from the classroom due to online learning and sexual concerns. Focuses on &quot;the power and purpose of poetry&quot; in SNT, CYT, and ManPT.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275614">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Time and Again: Feminism, Form, and the Failures of the &quot;Legend of Good Women.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reassesses LGW through an examination of time, understood within a feminist frame, to see repetition and blurring of time and distance between dreamer and reader. Claims that this recursiveness of LGW offers open-ended possibilities for interpretation.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275613">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;For Rage&quot;: Rape Survival, Women&#039;s Anger, and Sisterhood in Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Legend of Philomela.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela&#039;s rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as MissMe.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275612">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Famulier foo&quot;: Wives, Male Subordinates, and Political Theory in the &quot;Merchant&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Concentrates on Damian in MerT to show how the tale links critique of hierarchical marriage to critique of medieval estates theory. Contends that the tale counters <br />
 problems with vertical governance through horizontal governance.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275611">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Contracts, Activist Feminism, and the &quot;Wife of Bath&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that WBT presents a different vision of law, informed by female agency, where the focus is on reeducation. The rapist-knight is rewarded rather than punished, but this failure of justice functions as a call to activism, as the law so depicted presents new possibilities for justice.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275610">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275608">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275607">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275606">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275605">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275603">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275602">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275601">
    <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>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275600">
    <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:RDF>
