| CT=Canterbury Tales | TT=Agbabi, Telling Tales |
| BB=Holsinger, A Burnable Book | hyperlink=electronic source |
| Week 8 | Question Authority…. | [Billy, Brian] | |
| M | 2-26 | Project 1 due | |
| T | 2-27 | Wife of Bath’s Prologue [complete] | |
| R | 3-1 | Dinshaw, “’Glose/bele chose’: The Wife of Bath and Her Glossators” [before you read Dinshaw’s chapter, read: a reading assistant for the essay] | |
| Week 9 | …Unless You Like It | [Laurel] | |
| T | 3-6 | Wife of Bath’s Tale [complete] | |
| Harris, “Rape and Justice in the Wife of Bath’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “What Do Women Like Bes’?: Mrs Alice Ebi Bafa” (TT) | |||
| R | 3-8 | What’s with those Rocks? | |
| Franklin’s Tale [complete] | |||
| Houlik-Ritchey, “Emotion, Feeling, Intensity, Pleasure, and the Franklin’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “Makar: Frankie Lynn” (TT) | |||
| Introduction: Close Reading and Interpretation (CT pp. 24-36) | |||
| Week 10 | [Luke] | ||
| T | 3-13 | With Friends Like These | |
| Pardoner’s Tale [complete] | |||
| Zarins, “The Body and Its Politics in the Pardoner’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “Profit: Yves Depardon” (TT) | |||
| R | 3-15 | 21st-Century Chaucer | |
| Holsinger, A Burnable Book (BB 1-144) | memorization 2 due by 5pm | ||
| Spring Break | |||
| Week 11 | [Regan, Brian] | ||
| T | 3-27 | Holsinger, A Burnable Book (BB 145-284) | |
| R | 3-29 | Holsinger, A Burnable Book (BB 285-end) Class visit by Bruce Holsinger |
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| Week 12 | [Luke] | ||
| T | 4-3 | Chaucer Gets Anti-Semitic (credit to “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) |
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| Prioress’s Tale [complete] | |||
| Steiner, “The Prioress’s Tale: Relating to the Past, Imagining the Past, Using the Past” | |||
| Agbabi, “Sharps an Flats: Missy Eglantine” (TT) | |||
| R | 4-5 | Lavezzo, “The Minster and the Privy: Re-reading the Prioress’s Tale“ | |
| F | 4-6 | Annotated Bib due | |
| Week 13 | Dream a Little Dream | [Laurel] | |
| T | 4-10 | Nun’s Priest [complete] | Project 2 Proposal due |
| Mueller, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Entertainment versus Education” | |||
| Agbabi, “Animals!: Mozilla Firefox” (TT) | |||
| R | 4-12 | No class: professor at conference | |
| Week 14 | Endings | ||
| T | 4-17 | Manciple’s Tale [complete] | Project 2 draft due |
| Seaman, “Feminism and Women’s Experience in the Manciple’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “The Crow: Scott Mansell” (TT) | |||
| R | 4-19 | conclusions and exam prep course evaluation [please bring an appropriate device to do course evaluation, if you can] we will also do the graduating senior exit survey |
memorization 3 [office reading] due by Friday at 5 pm |
| Retraction [complete] | |||
| Agbabi, “Back Track (Grime Mix): Harry ‘Bells’ Bailey” (TT) | |||
| M | 4-23 | Project 2 due | |
| R | 4-26 | 12-3pm: Final Exam | |
| Week 1 | |||
| T | 1-9 | Introduction to Course | |
| Middle English Exercise 1: Modern English/Middle English Comparison | |||
| R | 1-11 | Chaucer as Author | |
| Introduction: Chaucer’s Life and Times (CT 9-14) | |||
| Holsinger, “Chaucer’s Difficult Lives” | |||
| Middle English Exercise 2: A Quick History of English | |||
| “Chaucer’s Words to Adam, His Own Scribe” | |||
| Week 2 | Dreaming, Death, and Art | [Keleigh] | |
| T | 1-16 | Book of the Duchess, part 1 [ll. 1-721] | Intro meetings begin |
| Middle English Exercise 3: Lexicon | |||
| R | 1-18 | Book of the Duchess, part 2 [ll. 721-1334] | |
| Middle English Exercise 4: Grammar | |||
| Week 3 | [Keleigh, Mary Boyd] | ||
| T | 1-23 | Lears, “Something from Nothing: Melancholy, Gossip, and Chaucer’s Poetics of Idling in the Book of the Duchess” | |
| Middle English Exercise 5: Pronunciation | |||
| R | 1-25 | Just How Sondry are These Folk? | |
| Introduction: “The Construction of The Canterbury Tales” and “The Reception of Chaucer’s Poetry” (CT 14-17, 19-24) | |||
| General Prologue (CT) | |||
| “Prologue (Grime Mix): Harry ‘Bells’ Bailey” (TT) | |||
| F | 1-26 | Intro meetings completed by 5pm | |
| Week 4 | Who’s in Charge Here? | [Anna] | |
| T | 1-30 | Knight’s Tale, parts 1-2 [ll. 859-1880] | |
| R | 2-1 | Knight’s Tale, part 3 [ll. 1881-2482] | |
| style handout | |||
| Week 5 | [Regan] | ||
| T | 2-6 | Knight’s Tale, part 4 [ll. 2483-3108] | |
| “Emily: Robert Knightley” (TT) | |||
| Boethius handout | |||
| Orlemanski, “Suffering Bodies in the Knight’s Tale” | |||
| R | 2-8 | Questioning Authority | memorization 1 due by 3pm |
| Miller’s Tale [complete] | |||
| Lavezzo, “Protest, Complaint, and Uprising in the Miller’s Tale” | |||
| Agbabi, “The Kiss: Robyn Miller” (TT) | |||
| Week 6 | [Anna] | ||
| T | 2-13 | Reeve’s Tale [complete] | in-class presentation of Project 1 plans |
| Rhodes, “Wages, Work, Wealth, and Economic Inequality in the Reeve’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “Tit for Tat: Ozymandia Reeves” (TT) | |||
| R | 2-15 | Midterm exam | midterm exam in class |
| Week 7 | Not all who wander are lost | [Mary Boyd] | |
| T | 2-20 | Man of Law’s Tale [ll. 1-602] | |
| R | 2-22 | Man of Law’s Tale [ll. 603-end of page 143] | |
| Whitaker, “Race and Racism in the Man of Law’s Tale“ | |||
| Agbabi, “Joined-Up Writing: Memory Anesu Sergeant” (TT) | |||