Wk0.5 24 (1) Introduction; survey of assignments; Middle English as a language (audio tapes)
Wk1 29 (2) T&C 1; 31 (3) T&C 1 & 2 (Barney, Dinshaw, Hermann)
Wk2 5 (4) T&C 2 CLASS WILL BE HELD IN WEIL 412 (World Wide Web demonstration); 7 (5) T&C 2 (Consolation of Philosophy; Fyler, Hanning, Stanbury)
Wk3 12 (6) T&C 3; 14 (7) T&C 3 MODERNIZATION QUIZ (Taylor, Scanlon, McGerr)
Wk4 19 (8) T&C 4; 21 (9) T&C 4 (Fradenburg, Neuse)
Wk5 26 (10) T&C 5; 28 (11) T&C 5
Wk6 3 (12) FIRST EXAMINATION; 5 (13) CT, "General Prologue"
Wk7 10 (14) KnT, MilT, RvT; 12 (15) Cont.
Wk8 17 (16) Cont.; 19 (17) WoB
Wk9 24 (18) WoB; 26 (19) ClT
Wk10 31 (20) ClT
Wk10 2 (21) ClT
Wk11 7 (22) FrT; 9 (23) FrT
Wk12 14 (24) PardT; 16 (25) PardT
Wk13 21 (26) PardT PAPER DUE, 12 pm
Wk14 28 (27) NPT; 30 (28) NPT; Parson's Prol. & Retraction
Wk14.5 5 (29) SECOND EXAMINATION 12.6 Classes End
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Green; The Canterbury Tales, ed. Kolve and Olson (K&O); Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Shoaf; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, "Subgit to alle Poesye: Essays in Criticism, ed. Shoaf and Cox; "The Canterbury Tales" from The Chaucer Studio (audio tape).
Spot quizzes (unannounced except for this notice); one closed-book modernization quiz, 9.14 (60 minutes); one open-book in-class exam, 10.3 & one closed- book in-class exam, 12.5 (two hours each); one paper, 5-6 pages in length, due 11.21 noon; no final exam; mandatory attendance--the first three (3) absences will be excused, but each absence after three, unless excused for extraordinary reasons, reduces your final mark by 10% (NB: T counts as two classes).
To familiarize students with the major poetry of Chaucer and to introduce them to the principal methodological issues at stake in the modern study of Chaucer--especially the question of sources, the problem of "translation," the nature of allusion, the politics of "historicism," and the status of metaphoric discourse in late medieval poetry.
Attention will also be paid to Middle English as a language, and some effort will be devoted to "performing" Chaucer aloud.
OFFICE HOURS
TR4 & by appt.
RAS
