ENG-314 Studies in Chaucer

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
The poetry of Chaucer, in Middle English, including some early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and substantial selections from The Canterbury Tales. Special attention to the development of Chaucer146s narrative art, his invention of the Chaucerian persona, and his relevance to postmodern thought, conceived as his self-consciousness about the use of language and his ambivalence about the value of literary art. 4 credits.