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Dec 21, 2024
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ENGL 354 - Chaucer: A Reading of the Medieval World 3 Credit Hours
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote “The Canterbury Tales” as a pilgrimage story; each character tells a narrative that can be funny, bawdy, or deeply painful but it connects to her world and as it turns out, to ours. The 14th century is traumatized by plague, it sees a world that interrogates gender roles, even as they are normalizing them, and a world where questions of class and a church in crises are forcing their way into the spotlight. Chaucer’s use of Middle English in particular, allows us to examine language and the power of being multilingual.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 or CRWS 102 or equivalent.
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