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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Matrix Reeve-Loaded II: A Comparative Analysis of Three European  olktales and Their Relationship to &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton&quot; and Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Reeve&#039;s Tale.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the &quot;miller-plot&quot; subgenre, comparing them to RvT, &quot;The Mylner of Abyngton,&quot; and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these folktales may have influenced literary versions through cross-pollination, challenging rigid distinctions between narrative strands such as &quot;love plots&quot; and &quot;miller plots.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Familiar Stranger: The Paradox of Neighborly Love in The Miller&#039;s Tale.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on &quot;neighbor theory&quot; and on uses of &quot;neighebor(es)&quot; in CT to argue that the &quot;concept of community in Chaucer is constantly overshadowed by conflicts of interest and the presence of a loving/fearful neighbor.&quot; Assesses MilT as an extended example, where &quot;Chaucer presents neighborly love as an othering device, that not only leads to a crisis of subjecthood, but ultimately exposes the fragility of communal bonds.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Slips of the Tongue: Some Overlooked Examples of the &quot;Misdirected Kiss&quot; Storytelling Motif (Thompson K1225).]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explains how MilT has overdetermined scholarship concerning the folk motif of the misdirected kiss, limiting understanding of the range of the motif. Expands this range, and enlarges the number and variety  f analogues to Chaucer&#039;s use of the motif. Appends the Middle Dutch text and modern English translation of one of these analogues, published in 1641, here titled &quot;Refreins of the Young Chamber of Haarlem.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277499">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Translating (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Miller&#039;s Tale..&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Focuses on the word &quot;queynte&quot; in MilT to explore the challenges translators face when rendering modernizations that are descriptively and stylistically true to original Middle English texts. Insists that to achieve the correct level of politeness or impoliteness of the original text, translators must be guided by &quot;sound philological analysis&quot; and by &quot;careful evaluation of the register of the original Middle  nglish expression.&quot; In this case, &quot;queynte&quot; is found to be &quot;explicit but not offensive,&quot; and translations that rely on euphemisms should be rejected.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Seeing and Unseeing in &quot;The Miller&#039;s Tale&quot;: Chaucer&#039;s Literary Use of Medieval Optics.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer&#039;s depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them metaphorically to highlight emotional distance and relationships between the characters. Suggests that Chaucer&#039;s descriptions of black and white in MilT reflect the principles of medieval optics, contributing to his literary innovation.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ruler Stakes: Chaucer&#039;s Theseus, Agamben, and the Rivals to Sovereign Power.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Uses Giorgio Agamben&#039;s discussion of &quot;homo sacer&quot; to argue that the &quot;bare life&quot; of imprisonment for Emelye, Palamon, and Arcite in KnT serves Theseus&#039;s sovereignty. Justifying exceptions to previous rulings, Theseus maintains his power through rhetorical effectiveness as well as conquest.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277496">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[In Praise of Animal Laborans, the Laboring Bodies of Chaucer&#039;s General Prologue.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Comments on food-producing labor as a motif in GP (and elsewhere in CT), in contrast with idleness, wealth-seeking, or nonproductive labor, especially among clerics. Associates these concerns with English history and ideological struggle.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Gender-Oriented Philosophy in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Surveys issues of gender in CT and Chaucer studies, arguing that Chaucer&#039;s realistic portrayal of human variety makes it difficult to claim him to be either feminist or misogynistic.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277494">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer&#039;s Comic Providence.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual &quot;emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future.&quot; MerT &quot;focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through the symptom.&quot; Interlocking &quot;exchanges of language, women, and money&quot; foreground the &quot;imaginary Ideology&quot; of FranT. ShT &quot;maps . . . equivalences between words, sex, and money.&quot; In MilT (along with FrT and SumT), &quot;imaginary rivalry, aggression, and revenge&quot; depend upon &quot;the lie,&quot; reaffirming &quot;their dependence on the values of exchange and social being.&quot; NPT links &quot;the Real, symbolic, and imaginary registers in the voice of a narrator who is an object of the unconscious.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277493">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Character Development and Storytelling for Games. 3rd<br />
ed.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Offers pedagogical advice for developing interactive games, concentrating on character development, narrative structure, and technique. Invokes CT at several junctures, commending Chaucer&#039;s innovative techniques as background to developments in several narrative media--books, television, cinema, theater, popular music, and gaming. Includes a thirty-six-line comic imitation of the opening of GP in rhymed couplets of modern English: &quot;Interlude on the Way to San Francisco.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277492">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How I Teach &quot;The Norton Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reflects on practical and theoretical issues in teaching CT, especially the usefulness (or not) of translations, glossaries, dictionaries, and the Norton edition of the work. Includes personal reminiscences.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Narrative and Moral Consequence in London Poetry, 1375-1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Gower&#039;s and Chaucer&#039;s uses of the conventions of &quot;dits amoureux&quot; and their composition of &quot;religious pastoralia,&quot; especially in the &quot;Confessio Amantis&quot; and CT, respectively, where Gower integrates &quot;his satirical and devotional writings, while Chaucer presents the relationship between poetry and morality as a problem to which no lasting resolution is available.&quot; Also considers Thomas Clanvowe.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Unwiht: Shifting Boundaries of Humanity in Early Middle English Language and Literature.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Investigates the concept and diction of the &quot;non-human person&quot; in a range of early English texts from &quot;Beowulf&quot; to CT, tabulating and assessing the usage of various locutions for humans and near-humans. Includes attention to elves, fairies, giants, and monsters in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[On or about 1400.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores how &quot;blame&quot; links politics and literature in late medieval England, arguing that CT (especially MilP and Ret) &quot;democratizes narrative authority and erodes authorial intention by redistributing doubt and confidence through blame,&quot; thereby &quot;unsettl[ing] morality to enshrine vernacular literature as a public politics.&quot; Also considers blame in &quot;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&quot; and the &quot;York Play of the Crucifixion.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277488">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[&quot;Refugee Tales&quot; (UK) Meets Chaucer&#039;s &quot;Canterbury Tales&quot;: An Australian&#039;sHistorical Perspective.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Asks &quot;[w]hat kind of stories could let . . . refugees be admitted to the category &#039;Australian,&#039; in a more inclusive version of [the] actual and potential inhabitants&quot; of the nation? Explores how and to what extent CT might be a useful model for inclusiveness, assessing cultural and ideological underpinnings of Chaucer&#039;s works (especially MLT), and observin their reflections and refractions in the stories included in &quot;Refugee Tales,&quot; edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus (first 3 vols., 2016–21).]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277487">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Den oavslutade litteraturen: En essä om allt som inte blev klart.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume, concerned with unfinished literature, includes discussion of CT, along with Virgil&#039;s &quot;Aeneid,&quot; Nikolai Gogol&#039;s &quot;Dead Souls,&quot; Robert Musil&#039;s &quot;Man without a Soul,&quot; and other works. In Swedish.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277486">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gamifying the Canterbury Tales 1: Adopt-a-Pilgrim, Harry Bailley&#039;s Game, and an RPG Canterbury Tales]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of &quot;play and game,&quot; including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and classroom strategies to engage students, focus their attention, and involve them in &quot;playful competition, cooperation, and self-assessment.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277485">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ends of Romance in Chaucer and Malory.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Argues that, in select romances, Chaucer confronts &quot;serious matters&quot;--political, social, ethical, and aesthetic--and experiments with the range and flexibility of the genre, comparing KnT and WBT as metacritical romances that interrogate their own idealizations, and Th and SqT (also metacritical) as self-conscious experiments, concerned with the &quot;limitations and liabilities of romance patternings.&quot; Malory&#039;s &quot;experimental originality,&quot; on the other hand, lies in his  consolidation and unification of diverse romance materials.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277484">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Canterbury Tales.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Workbook for early readers of English, including retellings in modern English of GP, KnT, ClT, MerT, FranT, and PardT accompanied by pedagogical materials on Chaucer, his works, and contemporary society. Audiodisk includes readings from the tales.]]></dcterms:description>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://chaucer.lib.utsa.edu/omeka/items/show/277483">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Words and Deeds in Chaucer.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Examines Chaucer&#039;s various engagements with the commonplace notion that &quot;wordes moote be cosyn to the dede&quot; (GP, 742), focusing on CT, which initially presents literature as unconstrained by norms, and later counters this flexibility to show that &quot;literary discourse&quot; is &quot;tied to the historical conditions that have produced its narratives, tropes, forms, and words.&quot; Also assesses the commonplace in Dante, Boccaccio, Jean de Meun, and Gower.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Risk before Risk: Actuarial Logic and Mercantile Metaphors in the &quot;Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that &quot;actuarial forms of thinking&quot; underlie the CT, particularly the tale-telling contest, the opening and closing of the GP, sea-trade and risk in the GP descriptions of the Merchant and the Shipman, and associative links nbetween mercantilism and alchemy in CYPT. Considers predictive and determinative aspects of &quot;aventure,&quot; and explores the putatively modern issues of risk management, insurance, and credit in proto-capitalistic thought and practice as refracted in CT.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Explores confession and intention (&quot;entente&quot;) in selected works of Chaucer: TC, LGWP, FrT, PardT, ParsT, and Ret, reading them as a &quot;progression&quot; that &quot;resembles the evolution of penitential concepts across the whole of the medieval period.&quot; Assesses several confessional works in Middle English that precede Chaucer, and considers the presence of pagan figures in his &quot;confessional&quot; works.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Collects ten essays by various authors on topics in mystical and devotional texts in Middle English, with an introduction by Amy N. Vines, a list of publications by Denise N. Baker, and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature under Alternative Title.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Chaucer and John of Gaunt: Finding a Way to Break into History.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Suggests John of Gaunt commissioned BD to elegize Blanche of Lancaster and to claim a &quot;new future,&quot; a move inspired by Edward I&#039;s memorialization of Eleanor of Castile. An &quot;important commission for Chaucer,&quot; BD gave him &quot;opportunity to begin to develop a perspective on history that guided his later thinking,&quot; characterized by ventriloquizing &quot;lessons taught by noble ladies&quot; reinforced through the poem&#039;s &quot;balancing references to Troy against those to Rome.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The &quot;Stalke&quot; and the &quot;Balke&quot;: Cherry-Picking the Ethics of Reproof in &quot;The Canterbury Tales.&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Shows that aspects of the late medieval &quot;pastoral program&quot; of obligating &quot;all Christians to admonish their neighbors about their sins&quot; underlies the Reeve&#039;s reproval of the Miller and the Canon&#039;s Yeoman&#039;s of the Canon. In these cases, distortions of proper admonishment, including deployment of &quot;stalke&quot;/&quot;balke&quot; imagery, indicate that the reprovers are guilty of &quot;revengeful public correction.&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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