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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aristotelian Tragedy in &#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[TC exemplifies the Aristotelian idea of tragedy, with Troilus undergoing the &quot;perepetia&quot; (&quot;reversal&quot;) and the ending of the tale presenting a Christianized version of catharsis.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aristotle for Aristocrats and Poets: Giles of Rome&#039;s &#039;De regimine principum&#039; as Theodicy of Privilege]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Giles of Rome&#039;s social theory and its vision of unity and hierarchy, as well as the degree to which it might have been influential in Chaucer&#039;s time, commenting on the Wife of Bath&#039;s discussion of &quot;gentilesse.&quot; Also refers to LGW; HF; KnT; and the Wife of Bath, the Parson, and the Clerk in GP.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collette explores interest in &quot;mediation and moderation&quot; in vernacular texts, commenting on the vernacular as a way to make learning more broadly available, on &quot;the mean&quot; in such texts as Nicole Oresme&#039;s translations of Aristotle, and on Chaucer&#039;s uses of ideas of moderation in ClT, ParsT, and, especially, Mel.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arithmetic and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[North summarizes medieval arithmetic theory and practice, describes Chaucer&#039;s professional familiarity with arithmetic, and explores arithmetic allusions and structuring in BD, particularly its shape as an abacus.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arithmetic and the Mentality of Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines arithmetic aspects of Chaucer&#039;s poetry in an effort to understand the mind of the man.  The arithmetic devices of RvT, ShT, SumT, etc. indicate the strong vein of &quot;modernistic rationalism&quot; in Chaucer, a distinctive feature of his mentality.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arnold and Chaucer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Gauges Matthew Arnold&#039;s familiarity with Chaucer&#039;s works, judging it to be &quot;thin&quot; and &quot;not extensive until the last eight years of his life,&quot; and suggesting that Arnold might not have misjudged Chaucer&#039;s &quot;high seriousness&quot; if had he read more of him.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (1).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes Chaucer&#039;s arrangements of multiple adjectives (preposed, postposed, and combined), contrasting his practice with other Middle English writers, and exploring the poetic value of his usage, suggesting that he seems to have been &quot;the writer richest in the device of arranging adjectives throughout the history of the English language.&quot; Continued in &quot;Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (2),&quot; Kobe Miscellany 6 (1972): 13-31 [no Description available].]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/273828">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (2), ]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Array as Motif in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[For Walter and Griselda clothing has both &quot;political/social&quot; and &quot;spiritual/personal&quot; meanings which symbolize stages in their relationship.  When Walter sees that Griselda remains virtuous beneath the array of fine clothing and social status which he gave her when he married her, he no longer needs to test her.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Array in the &#039;Clerk&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Griselda&#039;s several robings and disrobings are used to suggest the difficulty of knowing the constant reality behind shifting appearances.  The behavior of Griselda and Walter becomes more coherent through the different meanings they see in clothing:  Griselda sees it as a symbol of her constancy; Walter sees it as a potentially deceptive status-symbol.  Array, since it conceals and reveals, expresses the theme of knowledge in the tale.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Arrogant Authorial Performances: Criseyde to Cressida.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that in TC Criseyde is the &quot;embodiment of literary invention,&quot; enacting a &quot;poetological&quot; claim to fame, both humble and arrogant. Through his Cressida, Shakespeare presents a similar &quot;counter-authorship,&quot; one that reflects the playwright&#039;s engagement with the sixteenth-century &quot;Poets&#039; War.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ars fidi interpretis: Un Aspect rhetorique de l&#039;art de Chaucer dans sa traduction du &#039;Roman de la Rose&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The tautologies of the &quot;Roman de la Rose,&quot; formally co-ordinate and semantically emphatic, Chaucer usually renders by conservation, grammatical transcategorization, amplification, or emphasized reduction.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ars Infamia: The Poetics of Defamation in Early Modern England]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kaplan explores medieval and early modern legal discourse about slander and defamation. Though HF is concerned with the relation between poetry and slander, in Chaucer&#039;s time &quot;defamation was not understood as having temporal consequences for the average person.&quot; Spenser&#039;s &quot;Faerie Queene,&quot; however, &quot;participates in the contemporary anxiety over the effects of slander.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/275308">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ars Longa, Vita Bevis.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on the rhetorical shifts, manuscript variants, and editorial choices of PF 1-2 and 12-14, exploring tonal implications.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Twelve essays by different hands address the &quot;poetic art that emerges in late medieval English narrative out of multiple historical contexts.&quot;  Treating Langland, Chaucer, and other late-medieval poets, the collection includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of Frank&#039;s works.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Seven essays pertain directly to Chaucer; for individual essays that pertain to Chaucer,  of this volume.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Doctrine: Essays on Medieval Literature]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects essays by Woolf published over a period of thirty years. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Art and Doctrine under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Morality in Chaucer&#039;s Friar&#039;s Tale and the Decameron, Day One, Story One]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Finlayson reads FrT as anticlerical comic satire rather than a moral exemplum, exploring similarities between the Tale and Boccaccio&#039;s story of Ciapellatto in Decameron 1.1. The probable source of FrT is a sermon by Robert Rypon, but Boccaccio may have influenced its structure, characterization, narrative stance, and anticlerical outlook.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/items/show/266835">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Obligation: Reading, Ethics, and Middle English Poetry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines ethical questions raised by medieval literature for modern readers in the light of modern philosophical studies (Jean-FranƯois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy), as shown in LGW (literature and history), Piers Plowman (fourteenth-century poverty and critics), and PrT (anti-Semitism and critics). ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Modern readers may experience a sense of obligation not easily dealt with.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Orientation.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how poets &quot;guide their readers through sequences of feelings, thoughts, and attitudes&quot; by means of verbal depictions of built spaces that orient readers&#039; attention to the use of spaces and spatial objects. Includes discussion of the gate in PF (lines 127-49) to demonstrate differences between &quot;propositional&quot; space and &quot;ductile&quot; space, presented by Chaucer with comic ambiguity.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Scatology in the &#039;Miller&#039;s Tale&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s unprecedented use of the woman baring her buttocks to the lover&#039;s kiss significantly emphasizes both the active potential of the woman, the rejection of courtly traditions,and the association of food with sex.  The addition of her fart intensifies Absalon&#039;s degradation and tightens the plot.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art and Symmetry in the &#039;General Prologue&#039; to the &#039;Canterbury Tales&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In GP, the pilgrims seem to be arranged symmetrically in two groups of ten on both sides of the central group formed by the five guildsmen and their cook.  Each group of ten falls into subgroups of two, three, or four, held together by a similarity of moral outlook and way of life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art as Discovery: The Aesthetics of Consolation in Chaucer&#039;s &#039;Book of the Duchess&#039;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The dreamer discovers the inner urgency of a love that sought to transcend death; the knight, the external actuality of death.  Chaucer&#039;s consolation lies in the recognition of the emotional (and not doctrinal) ineffability that art is.  Grief is not explained away or expunged, but psychologized and sublimated through aesthetic discovery.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art History, Literary History, and the Study of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shifts within the related fields of art history, literary history, and the study of illuminated manuscripts have led to greater emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship; Chaucer studies (particularly those concerning the Ellesmere manuscript) are a meeting ground for literary and art historians.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art, Anxiety, and Alchemy in the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The alchemists&#039; discourse echoes Chaucer&#039;s, and one might serve as a &quot;metaphor for the other.&quot; Alchemists, like poets, were concerned with interpretations of the written word and with concealment.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Canon is skilled at tales, of which he makes &quot;sondry&quot; kinds, undertaking a &quot;greet emprise.&quot; Thus, he is linked to Chaucer, who, like the alchemists, is the &quot;helplessly addicted victim of an enchanting and frustrating art&quot; and a &quot;diabolical cozener&quot; of tales.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Art, Politics, or Religion? (Allusions to the Virgin Mary in The Canterbury Tales)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys Chaucer&#039;s Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.]]></dcterms:description>
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