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SoSe 16: MÜ-Medieval English Literatures: The House of Fame
Andrew James Johnston
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The House of Fame constitutes what one might call Geoffrey Chaucerʼs most complex and sophisticated dream vision. Following the Dreamer on his three-stage journey, the reader is plunged into a baffling allegory of literary history and poetic epistemology that ends on the most enigmatic note possible. Just as we are led to expect an authoritative solution to the problems the text raises, the poem breaks off: immediately after the narrator has announced a “man of grete auctoriteˮ he falls silent. Thus readers must make up their own minds.
This course will investigate the poem in its many contexts in order to understand the rich layers of performative literary theory Chaucer offers his readers.
Students are required to have read the poem before the semester starts. The edition used in this course is Geoffrey Chaucer, Dream Visions and Other Poems: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism, Norton Critical Editions, Kathryn L. Lynch (ed.), New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. close
This course will investigate the poem in its many contexts in order to understand the rich layers of performative literary theory Chaucer offers his readers.
Students are required to have read the poem before the semester starts. The edition used in this course is Geoffrey Chaucer, Dream Visions and Other Poems: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism, Norton Critical Editions, Kathryn L. Lynch (ed.), New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2016-04-18 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-04-25 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-05-02 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-05-09 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-05-23 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-05-30 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-06-06 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-06-13 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-06-20 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-06-27 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-07-04 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-07-11 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2016-07-18 16:00 - 18:00