| Course Description: | Offers a survey of the major works of the medieval period, excluding Chaucer. Focuses on texts in Middle English from the twelfth century through the fifteenth, and covers the range of available genres and forms including the short religious and secular lyric, debate poetry, the dream vision, religious prose, the romance, fifteenth-century Chaucerian imitations, and fifteenth-century ballads. The critical focus may include questions and problems of sources, influence, genre, voice, and the representation of the subject. |