MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
ENH2190
Middle English
C Stevenson
8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisites:
ENH2020 + Exemption with permission of the head of the department.
Synopsis 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
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