MDVL 514

Spring 2021

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Seminar in Medieval Literature
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 514. See ENGL 514.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39310
Online
E
12:00PM -2:50PM
T
n.a.
Barrett, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/25/21-05/05/21
Section Title:
Cantebury Critters
Section Info:
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales entangle themselves in the more-than-human world: the stories the pilgrims tell one another on the road to Thomas Becket’s shrine feature philosophical lions, vainglorious roosters, and killer rocks. Indeed, in Chaucer’s Christian worldview, humans are themselves not entirely human, trapped as they are between heaven and earth, spirit and flesh, reason and instinct, nature and culture. They are simultaneously “creatures” (God’s handiwork) and “critters” (Donna Haraway's term for material beings caught up in the lifeweb). We’ll use these ecological insights as points of entry into Chaucer’s poetry, working our way through a sizable selection of the Tales over the course of the semester. We will also focus on a number of critical works from the intertwined fields of ecocriticism and the New Materialisms: Haraway's When Species Meet, obviously, but also Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter, Mel Chen's Animacies, and Michael Marder's Plant-Thinking.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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