Fall 2023 English GU4729 section AU1

CANTERBURY TALES

Call Number 20813
Day & Time
Location
TR 8:40am-9:55am
OTHR OTHER
Points 0
Grading Mode Ungraded
Approvals Required None
Instructor Eleanor Johnson
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description (Lecture). Beginning with an overview of late medieval literary culture in England, this course will cover the entire Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. We will explore the narrative and organizational logics that underpin the project overall, while also treating each individual tale as a coherent literary offering, positioned deliberately and recognizably on the map of late medieval cultural convention. We will consider the conditions—both historical and aesthetic—that informed Chaucer’s motley composition, and will compare his work with other large-scale fictive works of the period. Our ultimate project will be the assessment of the Tales at once as a self-consciously “medieval” production, keen to explore and exploit the boundaries of literary convention, and as a ground-breaking literary event, which set the stage for renaissance literature.
Web Site Vergil
Department Auditing
Enrollment 5 students (10 max) as of 2:07PM Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Subject English
Number GU4729
Section AU1
Division Interfaculty
Campus Morningside
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Section key 20233ENGL4729WAU1