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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

Nov. 22-30
Thanksgiving Break

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

Final Exam


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