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English 113B - Fall, 2014
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Class Information
Instructor:
Waters, Claire
Time:
TR 9:00-10:20
Location:
106 Olson
Description
Chaucer’s last work is also his most famous, for its lively variety of voices and characters, its humor, its range of genres and literary styles, and its interest in topics still very much alive for us today: relationships between men and women, how authority is gained and used, the role of free will in human life, how we deal with disaster. We will read a substantial selection of the Tales in their original Middle English, thinking about how the Canterbury Tales reflect on the literary traditions Chaucer inherited and the social world of late fourteenth-century England, and what they can tell us about how the “father of English poetry” understood his own role as an author.
Grading
Grading:
15% 1st paper
20% 2nd paper
15% Midterm
10% posted discussion questions
10% class participation
10% section participation
20% final exam
Texts
The Canterbury Tales
, Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Jill Mann (Penguin)