MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

Year 3, 2nd semester, 12 lectures

Course and seminar tutor:
Conf. Dr. (Associate Professor) Carmen Dutu

Course themes
Chaucer, The General Prologue and The Wife of Bath
Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight
Chaucer, The Wife of Bath
Everyman, medieval drama
The Politics of Reformation Renaissance Humanism. Sir Thomas Morus
Sir Thomas Morus. Utopia
Renaissance poetry

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abrams, M.H. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, any edition, 1st volume
Alexander, Michael: A History of English Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire and New York, 2000
Dutu, Carmen, Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, Reader, Comments and Study Questions, Pro
Universitaria, 2006
Kermode, Frank & Hollander, John (general editors): The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Oxford
University Press, London, New York, Toronto, 1973, Vol. I, “The Middle Ages
Through the Eighteen Century”.
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
Thorney, C.G. & Roberts, Gwyneth: An Outline of English Literature, Longman, Essex, 1984

Assessment criteria:

Seminar study guide journal: 30%

Final exam: 60%

Teacher’s bonus 10%

Total: 100p

NB. You can earn bonus points if you attend the student research session: 20%