Course syllabus
SEMESTER 2, 2017
COURSE INFORMATION
CONVENOR: Roger Nicholson
Arts 1, Room 601
Ph. 737599 ext 87090
CLASSES: Wednesday, 2.00-5.00 p.m.
Arts 1, 217
SUMMARY COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Major Chaucerian texts or text groupings are considered in a wider literary and cultural context, including sources, analogues and comparable writings from Continental Europe.
Chaucer’s writing is exciting for modern readers, but it did also make a huge impression in its own day. Works we study, then, include Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and some of the brilliant comic tales, fables and testing religious narratives in The Canterbury Tales. But we also take up some of the striking poems that parallel or work off Chaucer’s poems, by poets like John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, Robert Henryson and William Dunbar. If we consider these poems in terms of their great human themes – laughter, tragedy, power, sex – we also tackle the need to find an appropriate theory and critical practice for study of such historically removed texts.
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PRESCRIBED TEXTS
The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999)
Other texts to be recommended in/for classes
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