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Please print out and bring to class these texts, when we are studying them. Please use ONLY these texts for all assignments and for in-class readings, so that we can all have a uniform text and can easily follow along with each other.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - from University of Toronto. Original with a quite literal translation.
Erec and Enide, by Chrétien de Troyes, from the University of California at Berkeley's Digital Library, "Online Medieval and Classical Library" (OMACL).
The Wife of Bath's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer, from Daniel Kline's "Electronic Canterbury Tales" at the University of Alaska.
The Vision of Piers the Plowman, by "William Langland". Here are the links useful to us, from the 'Piers Plowman' section of The Geoffrey Chaucer Page, at Harvard University:
| For translations of parts of the B-text version (the version most readers
prefer) see: The Vision of Piers Plowman:
One passus from Do-well, Do-Better, Do-Best: |
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, at The Decameron Web site at Brown University. We will study the Prologue (also called 'Proem'), and selected Tales from certain Days.
About The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. We will be studying this novel in paperback, and you may buy it from the MSU Bookstore now.
If you're interested in Eco's amazing book, consider borrowing, or even buying, Adele Haft's companion book The Key to "The Name of the Rose", originally published in 1987 and long out of print, it has been reprinted by the University of Michigan Press in 1999, and costs $14.95. It is reviewed at Porta Ludovica, a website dedicated to Eco and his works. At the end of the review there are links to places where you can buy the book.
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