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Tuesday, August 25

Introductions, syllabus, etc.

Thursday, August 27

Read introduction to Margery Kempe; explore research and study tools (Web).

Tuesday, September 1

Margery Kempe, pp. 33-109

Thursday, September 3

Discussion; work on compiling bibliographical citations on Margery for précis.

Tuesday, September 8

Finish reading Margery for class discussion.

Thursday, September 10

Netforum 1 due by 5 PM; work on précis (bring a photocopy of the item that you are interested in summarizing).

Tuesday, September 15

Read through the first 43 pages of Beidler.

Thursday, September 17

Précis on Margery scholarship due

Tuesday, September 22

WoB Prologue, lines 1-193.

Thursday, September 24

Netforum 2 due by midnight; work on précis 2 (bring photocopy of the item that you are interested in summarizing).

Tuesday, September 29

WoB Prologue, through line 599.

Thursday, October 1

Work on précis.

Tuesday, October 6

Finish WoB Prologue.

Thursday, October 8

Précis on Wife of Bath scholarship due by midnight; Wife of Bath's Tale.

Tuesday, October 13

Beidler, pp. 89-114: "A Critical History"

Thursday, October 15

Netforum 3 due by midnight

Tuesday, October 20

Proposals/thesis statements for essays due; Beidler, pp. 115-132: "New Historicism"

Thursday, October 22

Beidler, pp. 133-154: Patterson, "'Experience woot well it is noght so': Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

Tuesday, October 27

Beidler, pp. 155-188: "Marxist Criticism"; Finke, "'All is for to selle': Breeding Capital in the Wife of Bath's Prologe and Tale"

Thursday, October 29

Netforum 4 due by midnight

Tuesday, November 3

Beidler, pp. 189-220: "Psychoanalytic Criticism"; Fradenburg, "'Fulfild of fairye': The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

Thursday, November 5

Beidler, pp. 221-254: "Deconstruction"; Leicester, "'My bed was ful of verray blood': Subject, Dream, and Rape in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

Tuesday, November 10

Beidler, pp. 255-289: "Feminist Criticism"; Hansen, "'Of his love daungerous to me': Liberation, Subversion, and Domestic Violence in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

Thursday, November 12

Essay due

Tuesday, November 17

Work on revising essays into Web format

Thursday, November 19

Work on revising essays into Web format

November 21-29

Thanksgiving Break

Tuesday, December 1

Work on revising essays into Web format

Thursday, December 3

Netforum 5 due by midnight; Presentations

Tuesday, December 8

Last day of class

Wednesday, December 16: 4:25-6:25 P.M.

Final Exam


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