Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHAUCER AND THE SUBVERSIVE OTHER ***** A fourteenth-century poet who worked for the king as controller of customs and works, Chaucer nevertheless embedded in his poems sympathetic treatment of women, the commons, homosociality, and otherness as expressed through multicultural indicators expressive of nation and religion. This seminar will explore exemplary treatments of alterity and difference in Chaucer and the complex poetic strategies he chose to conceal his sympathies. Refer to course web site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/ch.html. ***** Also offered as WGST 305 and MDST 416.