ENGL 312 - Chaucer, Dante, Langland: Vision and Life

Institution:

Washington and Lee University

Subject:

English

Description:

Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study of the major visionary narratives of the late Middle Ages, which, springing out of personal crisis, imagine other worlds in order to explore urgent social, political, religious, and philosophical issues. Chaucer’s four visions, Dante’s Divine Comedy in translation, and Langland’s Pier’s Plowman. Also medieval biography (The Book of Margery Kempe) and some medieval drama. Study of the language, sufficient to the needs of reading. Jirsa.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wlu.edu/

Phone Number:

(540) 458-8400

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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