English 330, Spring 2009, Tale Presentation Schedule (Last revised: 03/11/2009 11:01:58 AM) There are twenty-six available presentation slots. Depending on class enrollment, sign up for two or three tale presentations by Week 2. I welcome the chance to discuss your presentations in process. Call, email, or see me in the office or at home. I also can help you develop your voice board portion of the presentation.
Week 2 (2/9): Epic and romance, part one: "Knight's Tale" Parts 1 and 2 (859-1880 [1021 ll.]); Marie de France, "Eliduc." Click here for a guide to today's discussion. Annotated bibliography #1 DUE in the English 330 public folder by 9 AM Friday.
KT1____?Arnie?__________________
KT2____Michael Saba_____________ Eliduc
____Sam Colon_____________
Week 3 (2/16): Epic and romance, part two: "Knight's Tale" Parts 3 and 4 (1881-3108 [1217 ll.]); translated selections from the beginning and conclusion of Boccaccio's Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia (Teseida Delle Nozze Di Emilia), pages 105-16 and 144-52 [photocopy]. Click here for a guide to today's discussion. BIB. HOLIDAY: NO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY DUE!
KT3__Susan Dobinick___________ KT4___Cady Klimas___________
Week 4 (2/23): Fabliau Week! Fabliaux by Chaucer: "Miller's Prologue and Tale," "Reeve's Prologue and Tale," and "Shipman's Tale" (1650 ll.). Non-Chaucerian fabliaux: "Les Trois Dames Qui Troverent un Vit (Three Dames and a Dildo)"; "Le Chevalier a la Corbeille (The Knight of the Basket)"; "La Gageure (How a Well-Hung Squire Cost the Snobbish Lady a Tun of Wine)"; "Le Chevalier qui Fist le Cons Parler (Or, the Vagina Dialogues)" in Carter Revard's parallel text edition ("Four Fabliaux...," Chaucer Review 40:2 (2005) 111-140 available online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/chaucer_review/v040/40.2revard.html), and Annotated bibliography #2 DUE in the English 330 public folder by 9 AM Friday.
MT__Tim King_____________ RT__Alayna Giovannitti_______ ShipT___Aaron Blickenstaff______
(Note that all three presenters should make at least some connections to the style/technique of some of the four French fabliaux in their presentation.)
Week 5 (3/2):Moral Tales, Part One [see Week 8]: "Man of Law's Prologue, Tale, and Endlink" (1190 ll.); "Pardoner's Tale,"; "Physician's Tale," (286 ll.),John Gower, Confessio Amantis II, ll. 587-1612; "Novelle LXXXII" from the Novelle Antiche, in Thomas Roscoe's The Italian Novelists (London: Frederick Warne,) 19-21 [Note: the Roscoe translation is an online "flip-book" format. Read it with your RC "PartT" open beside the screen to compare the treatment of the narrative.] BIB. HOLIDAY: NO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY DUE!
MoLT___Allison John___________ PardT_Zach Martin______ PhysicianT__Hannah Mossup____ Note that the MoLT presenter should make at least some connections to Gower's version and the PardT presenter should consider the novelle version in their discussions.
Week 6 (3/9): Marriage Satires and Romances: "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," (1716 ll.); "Merchant's Prologue and Tale" (1228 ll.), "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle"; click here for the online text of "Wedding" (852 lines), John Lydgate, "Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage" (126 ll.). BIB. HOLIDAY: NO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY DUE! MIDTERM PAPER DUE as an email attachment in my inbox by the first Sunday, of Spring Break. You can turn it in earlier, or later but please don't delay it without negotiating with me.
WoBProT___Meg Vidler________ MerchPro&T__Laura Wagner_______
"The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle"___Aaron Gilbert________
Note that all three presenters should make at least some connections to Lydgate's "Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage" in their discussions.
Spring Break, Saturday, 3/14 through Sunday, 3/22
Week 7 (3/23): Anti-Clerical Satire: "Friar's Prologue and Tale," "Summoner's Prologue and Tale" (1030 ll.) "Allas, What Schul We Freris Do" (36 ll.) Text, and "Freers, Freers, Wo Ye Be" (42 ll.) Text (Introduction to "Anticlerical Poems and Documents" by James M. Dean). BIB. HOLIDAY: NO ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY DUE!
FrPro&T__Michael Saba_____ SumPro&T__Hannah Mossop_____ Makeup for snow day presentations: PardT_Zach Martin______Note that both presenters should consider issues related to "Allas" and "Freers" in their discussions.
Week 8 (3/30): Moral Tales, Part Two: "Clerk's Prologue and Tale" (1212 ll.), "Monk's Prologue and Tale," (878 ll.) and Boccaccio, "Patient Griselda" (Decameron, Day 10, Tale 10). Click here for a very grand, late-C15 painting illustrating the major scenes from the story, now at the National Gallery (London). BIB. #3 DUE in the English 330 public folder by 9AM Friday.
ClerkPro&T__Lara Wagner____ MonkPro&T__Aaron Gilbert______ Makeup for snow day presentations: MoLPro&T___Allison John___________ Note that both presenters should consider issues related to Boccaccio's "Griselda" in their discussions.
Week 9 (4/6): Debate or "question d'amour" Tale "Franklin's Prologue and Tale," (916 ll.); Marie de France, "Chaitivel" and "Les Deus Amanz.." BIB. #4 DUE in the English 330 public folder by 9 AM Friday. This is the end of the annotated bibliography project. Before you write your final paper, take time to scan the articles annotated by the rest of the seminar. Remember that they each offer you four more possible sources of information and potential analytical approaches which you might use to structure your own paper.
FrankPro&T__Susan Dobinick________ Makeup for snow day presentations: PhysicianT__Hannah Mossup____Note that the presenter should consider both "Chaitivel" and "Les Deus Amanz" in his/her discussions.
Week 10 (4/13): Miracles of the Virgin and saints' lives/legends: "Prioress' Prologue and Tale" (238 ll.), "Second Nun's Prologue and Tale" (553 ll.), "The Clerk Who Would See the Virgin" (200 ll.--the link goes to a transcription of the Auchinleck MS copy, which is gnarly, but a photocopy of a modern print edition also will be available), and "Life of St. Cecelia" from Caxton's translation of Jacobus de Voraigne's Legenda Aurea.
PrioressPro&T_Zach Martin___ 2ndNunPro&T__Aaron Blickenstaff___ Note that the Prioress's presenter should consider "Clerk" and the 2nd Nun presenter should consider Caxton's translation of Jacobus's "Cecelia" in their discussions.
Week 11 11 (4/20): Vice's confession / thieves' tricks: "Pardoner's Prologue," (134 ll.), "Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale," (1481 ll.); Everyman (the speeches by Fellowship, Kindred and Cousin, and especially Goods, ll. 180-462).
PardPro___Allison John_______ CYPro&T__Tim King______ Note that both presenters should consider the "Vice" figure section from Everyman in their discussions.
Week 12 (4/27): Beast fables!: "Nuns' Priest's Prologue and Tale" (1584 ll.) "Manciple's Prologue and Tale," (362 ll.), and Caxton's Middle English Translations of Aesop's Fables (read at least the first one, "Of the Cok and of the precious stone," and as many others as you like--I confess I am partial to 1.6., "Of the lyon and of the cowe / of the goote and of the sheep").
NPPro&T__Cady Klimas_________ ManciplePro&T__Sam Colon______ Note that both presenters should consider two or more of Caxton's translations of Aesop's fables in their discussions.
Week 13 (5/4): Self-satire and intentional fragments: "Cook's Prologue and Tale" (98 ll.), "Squire's Introduction &Tale," (708 ll.), "Prologue and Rime of Sir Thopas" and "Heere the Hoost stynteth Chaucer of his Tale of Thopas" (276 ll. + ), and "The Cook's Tale" from the Bodley MS 686 (98 ll.). Course evaluations. If you are interested in the "Cook's Tale," a longer attempt to write the tale he never finished survives in the "Tale of Gamelyn." Click on the hyperlink to read a tale that was circulated with Chaucer's authentic CT through the Renaissance. Most scholars think it is apocryphal (not by Chaucer), though some speculate he might have been working on its traditional "outlaw tale" material but did not complete anything original before his death.
CPro&T__Alayna Giovannitti______ Sq Int & T___[Arnie]___________ Thopas__Meg Vidler_________ Note that all three presenters should consider at least the Bodley MS version of "Cook's Tale" as a response to "fragments" in their presentation.