ENGL 146
Medieval Story Cycles and Collections: Auchinleck Manuscript
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Exploration of medieval story cycles and story collections as narrative forms. Medieval story cycles engage in complex literary conversations across medieval cultures, periods, genres, and languages, while story collections often stage art of storytelling within narrative frame to invite self-consciousness about powers of literary production itself. Texts may include cycles such as texts gathered as "Matter of Britain," "Matter of Rome," or "Matter of France"; also "Mabinogi," manuscript collections such as Auchinleck manuscript or Exeter book, framed narratives such as "Decameron," "Canterbury Tales," "1001 Nights," and Gower's "Confessio Amantis," or collections of exempla, legends, and dicta. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2020 - Fisher is a pedant but he does absolutely know what he's on about. I personally really liked his lectures and learned a lot. And if you tell him you don't like something about the class' direction, he'll work to change the class and make it better. Also, he's surprisingly lenient with absences. If you really need to skip class or get an extension, he'll give it to you, no questions asked, which is surprising because at first he seems so serious.
Winter 2020 - Fisher is a pedant but he does absolutely know what he's on about. I personally really liked his lectures and learned a lot. And if you tell him you don't like something about the class' direction, he'll work to change the class and make it better. Also, he's surprisingly lenient with absences. If you really need to skip class or get an extension, he'll give it to you, no questions asked, which is surprising because at first he seems so serious.
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