EN 342 - Special Studies in Chaucer

Credits: 3
Chaucer’s dream visions and The Canterbury Tales (ca. 1370-1400). The social, economic, religious, and literary background of the High Middle Ages will clarify the satiric aspects of individual tales. Chaucer’s innovative handling of the conventions of frame and link-between-tales leads to speculation about the structure of the fragment as a competitive sequence and about the formal correlatives to a justice if not judicial at least poetic.
Prerequisites: completion of the Introductory Requirement.
K. Greenspan

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