ENGL 3553

ENGL 3553: Chaucer

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:21:41 +0000

ENGL 3553: Chaucer Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/24/2020 - 10:21

Chaucer: Literature at (What Feels Like) the End of the World

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was no stranger to crisis: he was born in the wake of the Black Death, the plague that killed about half of the population of Europe; and he lived through war with France, the Peasants’ Revolt, the deposing of a king, and religious conflict. In this course, we will explore Chaucer’s writings, not only for what he had to say about his own crises, but also for what he might help us understand about our own. We will approach his work as part of an ongoing conversation with the world around him and with other authors. To that end, we will read Dante’s Inferno together with Chaucer’s House of Fame; the anonymous Pearl with Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess; excerpts from William Langland’s Piers Plowman together with Chaucer’s great work, The Canterbury Tales. No previous knowledge of medieval literature is expected or required.

Selection of Chaucer's works, including The Canterbury Tales and other shorter poems. Includes an introduction to Middle English.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature to 1660

Taught by Katie Little.

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ENGL 3553: Geoffrey Chaucer (Fall 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:43:33 +0000

ENGL 3553: Geoffrey Chaucer (Fall 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/20/2019 - 14:43

Selection of Chaucer's works, including The Canterbury Tales and other shorter poems. Includes an introduction to Middle English.

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ENGL 3553-001: Geoffrey Chaucer

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:30:06 +0000

ENGL 3553-001: Geoffrey Chaucer Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/16/2018 - 11:30

Professor Katie Little

People have been reading Chaucer’s poetry for over 600 years now. Such long-lasting popularity has in part to do with the great variety of his writings. There’s a lot to like (and dislike): deeply moving tragedies, racy stories, philosophical meditations on the meaning of truth, and mocking diatribes against certain types of people. There’s also a great variety in opinions about him: he has been described as a bumbler and the father of English poetry, as deeply religious and mostly secular, as a traditionalist and an innovator. This course will ask who is Chaucer now? We will begin by familiarizing ourselves with his life, times, and his somewhat foreign language (Middle English) and then read some of his dream visions and a selection of stories from his Canterbury Tales. No previous knowledge of medieval literature is expected or required. This course will be an introduction to Chaucer’s poetry and to how to write and talk about literature more generally.

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