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ENGL204: Medieval Literature: Dreams and Debates
This unit examines the imaginative content and literary style of key early texts in the English literary tradition. It focuses on the use of two different modes—the dream vision and the reasoned debate—to create imaginary worlds and to present logical argument. Students are encouraged to analyse the multiple levels of meaning in a wide range of early texts spanning the Anglo-Saxon period to Chaucer and his contemporaries. We consider the impact on meaning of both the medieval context of composition and also the later critical reception of individual works. Discussion includes not only the content and narrative techniques of these texts but also their rhetorical and aesthetic qualities, wit, and cross cultural intelligibility.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: | 2012 - Next offered in 2012 |
| Staff Contact(s): | English staff |
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| NCCW(s): | ENGL265, ENGL267 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of English |
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