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May 05, 2024
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AREL 808 - The Literature of Late Medieval Britain3 credits
In many ways, what happens at the end of the Middle Ages in Western Europe can be paralleled to what happens to Western culture during the 20th c. In either case, a well-established vision of society falls apart, and a new one begins to take shape. We’ll be looking at the three major authors of the 14th c in England: Langland, Chaucer, and the Gawain poet. While doing so, we’ll consider how vernacular literacy is impacting notions of literature, and we will see the birth of English author-ship with Chaucer. Texts to include Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and selections from The Canterbury Tales, Langland’s Piers Plowman, and the Gawain poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We’ll conclude by looking at the shift in the 15th c from the Cycle or Corpus Christie drama to the morality play. (Most texts read modernized versions.)
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