Middle English
C Stevenson
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ENH2020. Exemption with permission of the head of the department.
A study of lyric poetry, drama and narrative in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The literature is read in the original language and discussed in its linguistic and cultural context: the major linguistic features and developments of Middle English will be studied at the beginning of the subject. Chaucer and Malory are studied as the major authors.
Assessment
Two exercises (1500 words): 25% each * Essay (2500 words): 40% * Seminar assessment (500 words): 10% * An optional examination (3 hours) may replace up to 40% of the written work
Prescribed texts
Chaucer The Canterbury tales ed. Cawley, Everyman, 1958 or
Chaucer The Canterbury tales The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Benson, OUP, 1988
Malory The works of Sir Thomas Malory ed. Vinaver, OUP, 1971
Moore B and others Middle English verse: A selection Monash U, 1985