Medieval and Early Modern Literature - Module information -

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This module will study a number of works of medieval and early modern literature in the context of contemporary beliefs and historical and social developments. The module will be taught by means of lectures on the historical, cultural and critical context; seminars to discuss particular texts; and (in weeks 2-5 of term 1 only) supplementary classes to help develop your skills in reading texts written in earlier forms of English.

Works studied include: The Canterbury Tales; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Book of Margery Kempe; travel writing; poems by Sidney, Spenser, and Mary Wroth; and medieval and early modern drama.

You will need your own copies of the books listed below. Incoming first years who are based in the English Department will be provided with free copies of some textbooks (see details below); others you will need to buy yourself. NB Please be aware that retailers may take a couple of weeks to order these books for you. You are strongly advised to place your orders well in advance.

• The Norton Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, ed. by David Lawton (Norton, 2019). You will need this for term 1, weeks 1-5. Incoming first years who are based in the English Department will be provided with a copy.

If you are unable to obtain this book, the following are acceptable alternatives:

The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and The General Prologue, ed. V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson, 3rd edition (Norton, 2018) OR The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. D. Benson, 3rd edition (OUP, 2008)

• The Works of the Gawain Poet: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by Ad Putter and Myra Stokes (Penguin, 2014) OR The Poems of The Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by M. Andrew and R. Waldron (Liverpool: Exeter Medieval Texts, 2007), ISBN978-0-859-89790-7. You will need this for term 1, weeks 7-8.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please ensure that you do NOT purchase The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation by Andrew and Waldron, as this version does not include the original Middle English text that we will be studying.

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume B: The Sixteenth Century The Early Seventeenth Century, ed. by Stephen Greenblatt et al, 10th edition (2018) ISBN 9780393603033. You will need this book for your work in term 2. Incoming first years who are based in the English Department will be provided with a copy.

• Other primary texts for the module will be provided in digital formats.

• historical and social developments, please see Maurice Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages 1348-1500 (Penguin, 1990).

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It can be compared with theoretical linguistics, which looks at areas such as morphology, phonology and lexis. Areas of applied linguistics of interest to teachers of languages include language acquisition, corpus studies and sociolinguistics.

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