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ENGL 312 - Chaucer, Dante, Langland: Vision and Life


FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2013 and alternate years

Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study of the major visionary narratives of the late Middle Ages, which, springing out of personal crisis, imagine other worlds in order to explore urgent social, political, religious, and philosophical issues. Chaucer’s four visions, Dante’s Divine Comedy in translation, and Langland’s Pier’s Plowman . Also medieval biography (The Book of Margery Kempe ) and some medieval drama. Study of the language, sufficient to the needs of reading. Jirsa.





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