Fall 2006 ◆ ENGL 650A-001 (17686)T 3:30-7:00 ◆ DSH 317Dr. Obermeier  Chaucer and FriendsOffice Hours: TTh 2:00-3:00, and by appointment in HUM 321 and Voice Mail: 505.277.2930Email: [email protected]: http://www.unm.edu/~aobermeiMailbox on office door or in English Department Office via receptionistRequired TextsBoethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. P. G. Walsh. Oxford UP, 2000.Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Houghton Mifflin, 1987.Gower, John. Confessio Amantis. Russell Peck, ed. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000. Vol. 1.Langland, William. Piers Plowman. Eds. Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen Shepherd. New York: Norton, 2006.Obermeier, Anita. Guide to Style, 2005. ($2) Order from me.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. Vantuono. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1999.eReserves: http://ereserves.unm.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=4308 Password: lobo650.Other online source links on course website: http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei/Eng650/index650.htmlWe will not be reading the entirety of all of these texts, though if you choose to do your essay on one of them, youwill of course read the whole thing. There will also be handouts and on-line texts to be read throughout the semester.Course Requirements2 Oral Presentations of Essays worth 10% (5% each)1 Review of Critical Work worth 15%1 Passage Explication worth 10%25-page Research Paper worth 45%Active Class Participation worth 20%Recommended TextsMiddle English Dictionary accessible under the Middle English Compendium on UNM’s Research Database Page.A number of critical works are on hard copy Reserve.Tentative Syllabus(PP = Piers Plowman; WP = Link on my website; most articles on eReserves = eR; * = not for review)T 8.22 Introduction to the Course: Black Death (in PP 427-28), Wilton Diptych, Ricardian Poetry.T 8.29 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, lines 1-841.Sarah: Review of Michael Bennett, “The Court of Richard II and the Promotion of Literature.”Thorlac Turville-Petre, “The Brutus Prologue to SGGK.” Amelia: Review of Laura Barefield, “Reading the Past in 1400.”F 9.1 Last day to add courses or change sections.T 9.5 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, lines 842-1689.Amelia: Review of Francis Ingledew, SGGK and the Order of the Garter.Christine Chism, “Heady Diversions: Court and Province in SGGK.”Rhonda Knight, “All Dressed Up with Someplace to Go: Regional Identity in SGGK.”T 9.12 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, lines 1690-end.Ad Putter, “The Social Function of Courtly Romance.”Amelia: Explication of Text Passage.F 9.15 Last day to change grading options.T 9.19 “The Statute of Labourers, 1349” in PP (428-30); “Ordinance of Laborers” (WP); “Letters andSermon of John Ball” in PP 484 (and WP); Froissart’s Chronicles of the Peasants’ Revolt pp. 61-82 (WP); Gower, Vox Clamantis Book 6, ch. 8-18 (eR); Chaucer, “Lak of Stedfastnesse,” (654);Richard the Redeless in PP (463-68) (full version linked on WP).Steven Justice, “Wyclif in the Rising.”T 9.26 Piers Plowman, Prologue, Passus I-VII (2-123).Ralph Hanna III, “The Dating of the A, B, C Versions” in PP (591-96).*Christine: Kathryn Lynch: “A Grammar of Dream and Vision for Medieval Poetry.”Salter and Pearsall, “Allegory and Realism” in PP (514-22).*Marisa: Explication of Text Passage.Essay Topic Statements Due.F 9.29 Last day to drop a course without a grade.T 10.3 Piers Plowman, Passus VIII-XIV (123-241).Marisa: Review of Mary Clemente Davlin, The Place of God in Piers Plowman and Medieval Art(a short excerpt of it is in PP 612-16).Caroline M. Barron, “William Langland: A London Poet.”C. David Benson, “Beyond the Myth of the Poet.”T 10.10 Piers Plowman, Passus XV-XX (240-366).Lawrence Clopper, “Langland’s Friars.”Marisa: Elizabeth Kirk, “Langland on Women and Gender” in PP (616-26).T 10.17 Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy. Compare Chaucer’s translation, if you like (395-).Katherine: Ann Astell, “Boethian Lovers.”Robert McMahon, “The Structural Articulation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy.”P. E. Phillips, “Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae and the Lamentatio/ConsolatioTradition.” (You can read two out of three.)First Drafts of Essays Due.T 10.24 Troilus and Criseyde, Books I and II.Lee Patterson, “Trojan History and the History of Trinovantum.”Marisa: Sarah Stanbury, “The Lover’s Gaze in T&C.”Marion Turner, “T&C and the ‘Treasonous Aldermen’ of 1382: Tales of the City in 14th-CenturyLondon.”Katherine: Explication of Text Passage.T 10.31 Workshop Session on Essays.T 11.7 Troilus and Criseyde, Books III and IV.Sarah: Review of R. F. Yeager, ed., Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange.Katherine: Elizabeth Robertson, “Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Chaucer’s T&C.”Richard Zeikowitz, “Dramatized Sodmitical Discourse: The Case of Troilus and Pandarus.”F 11.10 Last day to drop a course without approval of college dean.T 11.14 Troilus and Criseyde, Book V; Maidstone, Reconciliation of Richard II with London (WP);Prologue to the Legend of God Women (587-503). Introduction to the Man of Law’s Tale (87-89).Katherine: Review of R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: “Subgit to all Poesye.”Sarah: Paul Strohm, “What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn’t Know about Himself?”Nancy Bradley Warren, “’Olde Stories’ and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the ‘Knight’sTale’, and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture.”F 11.17 Chaucerian Dalliance Dinner 7 pm. Invitation Issued in November.T 11.21 Gower, Confessio Amantis., Prologue and Book I 65-138.Christine: Review of Diane Watt, Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics.Frank Grady, “Gower’s Boat, Richard’s Barge, and the True Story of the CA.”Lynn Staley, “Gower, Richard II, Henry of Derby, and the Business of Making Culture.”T 11.28 Confessio Amantis, Books I and 8, 139-212.Joyce Coleman, “How Gower May Have Intended the Confessio Amantis to Be Read.”Amelia: Tim Machan, “Medieval Multilingualism and Gower’s Literary Practice.”Christine: Explication of Text Passage.T 12.5 Confessio Amantis, Book 8 and Epilogue 213-280; “O Deus Immense” (eR).Christine: Michael Harnahan, “Speaking of Sodomy: Gower’s Advice to Princes in the CA.”Russell Peck, “The Politics and Psychology of Governance in Gower.”Th 12.7 Final Essays Due in my