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Medieval: The Structure of the Canterbury Tales
Seminar: The Structure of the Canterbury Tales
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Denis Renevey
Intervenant(s): -
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Séminaire
Semestre d'automne
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais
Public: Oui
Crédits: 0
Contenu
Unlike Ovid's Metamorphoses and Boccaccio's Decameron, which inspired Chaucer for the writing of his own story collection, The Canterbury Tales as a collection is marked by a tight internal structure, which is all the more remarkable if one considers its unfinished state. This seminar aims to define and discuss the genre of the story-collection, to understand the arrangement of the tales within it, and to disclose the links between narrators and their tales. General knowledge of the entire collection of the Canterbury Tales is required; special emphasis is going to be given to the General Prologue, The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale, and The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
Bibliographie
Set text: The Riverside Chaucer, New Edition, ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford University Press), available at BASTA.
Exigences du cursus d'études
1er certificat
