Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
where they will be most helpful to class discussions of assigned readings. The grade
on the oral presentation will account for 30% of the final grade.
Readings assignments:
All tales should be read ahead of the day assigned together with their prologues
and links. Class discussions and student writing will take the required Middle English
text as their point of reference. Participation in class discussions will account for 25%
of the final grade.
Course Objective: to understand what Donald Howard means when he writes,
When we read him [Chaucer] he speaks to us across the gulf that divides medieval
from modern, beckons us into his inner world, makes us want to think his thoughts
and feel his feelings even as he masks these behind multiple ironies and leaves us
guessing at them.
MEETINGS
9/5
Introduction
9/12
9/19
9/26
10/3
Knights Tale
oral report #3: Barbara Nolans Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman
Antique
10/10
10/17
10/24
10/31
11/7
Clerks Tale
Cp. Decameron 10, 10
11/14
11/21