ENGL 5114 Schedule
Fall 2003
Tuesday, August 26 Introductory sort of
stuff: resources, language, etc. Thursday, August 28 Book of the
Duchess, lines 1-474 Tuesday, September 2 Finish Book of the
Duchess Thursday, September 4 House of
Fame, Bk. I Tuesday, September 9 House of
Fame, Bks. II & III Thursday, September 11 Legend of Good Women,
Prologue(s); Deirdre's
précis
of "Suffering Women and
the Chaste Ideal" Tuesday, September 16 LGW, "Legends"; Gina's
précis of Hallissy's, "'As men in bokes red': The Giving
of Rules to Women" Thursday, September 18 Finish LGW; Robert's
précis of Delany's "Rewriting Woman Good: Gender and the
Anxiety of Influence in Two Late-Medieval Texts" Tuesday, September 23 Parliament of Fowls Thursday, September 25 "Complaint unto Pity" (p. 640-1);
"A Complaint unto His Lady" (642-3); "Complaint of Mars" (642-7); "Complaint
of Venus" (648-9); "To Rosemounde" (649); "Womanly Noblesse" (649-50) Tuesday, September 30 "Chaucer's Wordes unto Adam, His
Owne Scriveyne" (650); "The Former Age" (650-1); "Fortune" (652-3);
"Truth" (653); "Gentilesse" (654); "Lak of Stedfastenesse" (654); "Lenvoy
de Chaucer a Scogan" (655); "Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton" (655-6); "The
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse" (656) Thursday, October 2 Mental Health Day Tuesday, October 7 Wife of Bath's Prologue;
Blair's précis of Martha Fleming's "Repetition
and Design in the Wife of Bath's Tale" (151-163)
Thursday, October 9 Friar's Prologue &
Tale Tuesday, October 14 Summoner's Prologue
& Tale; Steve's précis of Robert Hasenfratz's
"The Science of Flatulence: Possible Sources for The Summoner's
Tale" Thursday, October 16 Second Nun's Tale; Danielle's
précis of Laurel Braswell's
"Chaucer and the Art of Hagiography" (209-222) Tuesday, October 21 Canon's Yeoman's Prologue
& Tale; Ralph's
précis of "Scientific
Imagery in Chaucer (The Canon's Yeoman's Tale)" Thursday, October 23 Troilus & Criseyde,
Bk. I; Gerry's précis of Koff's "Ending
a Poem Before Beginning It, or The 'Cas' of Troilus" Tuesday, October 28 T&C, Bk. II; Miranda's
précis of Sarah Stanbury's "The Lover's Gaze in
Troilus and Criseyde" Thursday, October 30 T&C, Bk. III; Ronnelle's
précis of the Oxford Guide's "A Debate about Love"
(215-228); CharLia's précis of Hermann's
"Gesture and Seduction in Troilus and Criseyde" Tuesday, November 4 T&C, Bk. III (cont.); Clay's
précis of Hanning's "Come in Out of the Code: Interpreting
the Discourse of Desire in Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's
Troilus and Criseyde" Thursday, November 6 T&C, Bk. IV; Joey's
précis of Wallace's"Troilus and the Filostrato:
Chaucer as Translator of Boccaccio" Tuesday, November 11 T&C, Bk. V;
Delia's précis of Frantzen's "The 'Joie
and Tene' of Dreams in Troilus and Criseyde" Thursday, November 13 Robert Henryson's Testament
of Cresseid Tuesday, November 18 Presentations: Ronnelle, Dierdre,
Gerry Thursday, November 20 Presentations: Danielle, Delia, Miranda Tuesday, December 2 Presentations: Blair, Ralph, Joey,
CharLia Thursday, December 4 Presentations: Gina, Clay, Robert,
Steve Tuesday, December 9 Evaluations; Final Exam info. Projects
due. Monday, December 15: 1:05-3:05PM
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