The Chaucer Page at Palo Alto College


 

Required Reading


Major Paper: Chaucer and the Comic Terrain

THE ASSIGNMENT

This Major Paper, in order to become a community experience, will be posted on the Bulletin Board for our class. Please be prepared to post your drafts so that we can comment upon them. Your final drafts will be sent along as e-mail and attachment. .

The Comic Terrain by Louise Cowan

"Carnival and Pilgrimage" by Donald C. Howard

Important Links to Chaucer's Works, Life, and Studies

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

The Labrinth Home Page (Excellent Resources for Medieval Studies)

Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources - categorized links for background, bibliography, biography, commentary, images, language tools, outlines, teaching resources, and online texts. (Good, Basic Information using The Rivrside Chaucer as the text)

Articles About Chaucer (Adapted for Palo Alto College) by Annina Jokinen

The Gothic Project (Super Site on Myth and Architecture, etc.)

Superb Page on Medieval Life and Chaucer's Works


Chaucer WWW Site Chaucer is widely understood to be the father of English literature; though before he composed the Canterbury Tales (his most famous work), he was best known as a writer of poems of love. The Geoffrey Chaucer Web site maintained by Jane Tolmier and her colleagues at Harvard University will be quite helpful to students looking to learn more about the life and work of Chaucer, or even those with a more casual interest in his writings and times. Of course, visitors will find the complete text of the Canterbury Tales, divided into its familiar sections, along with interlinear translations that juxtapose the original Middle English text with its modern English counterpart. Along with this feature, the site also includes background essays on the Canterbury Tales, the life and manners of Chaucer's England, and an extensive bibliography of scholarship that deals with Chaucer and his writings.

Chaucer's Tales in Modern English (Modern English Version)

In-Class Presentation: "The Wife of Bath" and the Critics

Major Paper: Chaucer and the Comic Terrain

 

 

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