Middle English literature
C Stevenson
8 points * 3 hours per week (combining lectures, seminar discussions and translation sessions) * First semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ENH2190/3190
A literary study of a selection of later Middle English narrative and dramatic texts which operate within the non-realistic frames and conventions of allegory and dream-vision. Texts will be read in the original language.
Assessment
Two exercises (equivalent of 3000 words): 50% * Commentary test (3 hours): 40% * Class attendance and performance: 10%
Prescribed texts
Chaucer G `The book of the duchess' and `The parliament of fowls,' in The Riverside Chaucer (ed. Benson) OUP
Langland W The Vision of Piers Plowman: A complete edition of the B-text (ed. Schmidt),Dent
`Pearl' in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ed. Cawley) Dent
`Mankind' (text to be provided)
Reference
Ackerman R W Backgrounds to medieval English literature Random House
Coote S English literature of the Middle Ages Penguin