Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
offered by Oxford University

Public University
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Estd. 1096

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
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Oxford University
Overview

Introduce to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in their cultural and literary contexts from the late fourteenth century to the nineteenth century

Duration	10 weeks
Total fee	₹19,000
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
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Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
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Oxford University
Course details

Skills you will learn

English Spoken English

What are the course deliverables?

Analyse the chosen texts in translation but with reference to the original language
To evaluate the reasons for the continuing significance of the collection
To consider the reasons for the changing response to Chaucer and his work from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries

More about this course

The course will encourage a close reading of the texts, with the help of modern English translations, and discussion of Chaucer's techniques
This will be balanced with a more general exposition of literary and cultural shifts over the centuries in order to explore the reasons why the story collection continues to be relevant

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
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Oxford University
Curriculum

Week 0

An Introduction to Teams ? Course orientation

Week 1

Chaucer in context and the 'prologues' to the Canterbury Tales

Week 2

The Knight's Tale and The Miller's Tale

Week 3

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Week 4

The Tale of Sir Thopas

Week 5

The Pardoner's Tale

Week 6

The Manciple's Tale

Week 7

Chaucer and Caxton

Week 8

Chaucer and the Tudors

Week 9

Chaucer in the Nineteenth Century

Week 10

Chaucer's 'congeniality'

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Text and Context
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Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Victoria Condie

Victoria Condie has taught courses in medieval and Old English literature for OUDCE and currently teaches medieval language and literature at the University of Cambridge.