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Tuesday, August 25 |
Introductions, syllabus, etc. |
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Thursday, August 27 |
Read introduction to Margery Kempe; explore research and study tools (Web). |
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Tuesday, September 1 |
Margery Kempe, pp. 33-109 |
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Thursday, September 3 |
Discussion; work on compiling bibliographical citations on Margery for précis. |
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Tuesday, September 8 |
Finish reading Margery for class discussion. |
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Thursday, September 10 |
Netforum 1 due by 5 PM; work on précis (bring a photocopy of the item that you are interested in summarizing). |
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Tuesday, September 15 |
Read through the first 43 pages of Beidler. |
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Thursday, September 17 |
Précis on Margery scholarship due |
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Tuesday, September 22 |
WoB Prologue, lines 1-193. |
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Thursday, September 24 |
Netforum 2 due by midnight; work on précis 2 (bring photocopy of the item that you are interested in summarizing). |
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Tuesday, September 29 |
WoB Prologue, through line 599. |
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Thursday, October 1 |
Work on précis. |
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Tuesday, October 6 |
Finish WoB Prologue. |
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Thursday, October 8 |
Précis on Wife of Bath scholarship due by midnight; Wife of Bath's Tale. |
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Tuesday, October 13 |
Beidler, pp. 89-114: "A Critical History" |
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Thursday, October 15 |
Netforum 3 due by midnight |
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Tuesday, October 20 |
Proposals/thesis statements for essays due; Beidler, pp. 115-132: "New Historicism" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Thursday, October 29 |
Netforum 4 due by midnight |
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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" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Thursday, November 12 |
Essay due |
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Tuesday, November 17 |
Work on revising essays into Web format |
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Thursday, November 19 |
Work on revising essays into Web format |
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November 21-29 |
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Tuesday, December 1 |
Work on revising essays into Web format |
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Thursday, December 3 |
Netforum 5 due by midnight; Presentations |
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Tuesday, December 8 |
Last day of class |
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Wednesday, December 16: 4:25-6:25 P.M. |
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