Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen

LECTURE:
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE

SS 10
Th 14-16, Room ZHG 006
Oliver M. Traxel


SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester (some minor variation may occur).
Please read the relevant pages in the textbook before each session. The projected handouts are found at Stud.IP under the section "Daten" before each session.

Important: There will also be a tutorial, which consists of revision, practice and the discussion of study questions (tutor: Cornelia Zeh).


Session Date Topic Suggested Reading:
Bennett, J. A. W., et al., ed., The Oxford History of English Literature,
vols. I-III (rev. ed. 1990) = vols I.2-II.2 (orig. ed.) [in my semester apparatus]
       
1. 8.4. Introduction, Webpage, Background  
2. 15.4. Early Middle English Prose I.2: 259-291
3. 22.4. Early Middle English Verse I.2: 1-35; I.2: 68-89
  29.4. No lecture due to external commitments  
4. 6.5. Romance I: The Matter of Britain (Arthurian Romance) I.2: 121-135; I.2: 170-187
  13.5. No lecture (Ascension Day)  
5. 20.5. Romance II: The Matters of Rome, France and England I.2: 135-170; I.2: 187-201
6. 27.5. The Gawain-Poet I.2: 202-258
7. 3.6. Chaucer I II.1: 1-65
8. 10.6. Chaucer II: Canterbury Tales II.1: 65-95
9. 17.6. Chaucer's Contemporaries and Successors I.2: 35-67; I.2: 90-120; I.2: 291-363; II.1: 96-200
10. 24.6. Malory and Caxton II.1: 200-217, II.2: 185-205
11. 1.7. Lyrics and Plays I.2: 364-406, II.2: 1-184
12. 8.7. Revision and Exam Preparation  


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