English 493: The Technology of Textuality

February | March | April | May

Week 1

23 Jan

Introduction

Week 2

30 Jan

Riddles 3, 23, 34, 25, 26, 45, 89 (PDF); De Hamel, pp. 1-22; Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Creed, “The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Poem”

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Week 3

6 Feb

Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Niles, “Ring Composition and the Structure of Beowulf”; De Hamel, pp. 1-22

Week 4

13 Feb

Beowulf; Chickering's “Backgrounds”; Niles, “Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis”

Week 5

20 Feb

Cædmon Story; O’Keeffe (Electronic Reserves); Poems from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Electronic Reserves). Note on the readings.

Week 6

27 Feb

HTML Workshop

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Week 7

5 Mar

HTML Workshop 2
For this class we will meet in JR 248 (computer lab). You do not need to bring your own computer.

Week 8

12 Mar

Mini Web Project Due

Psalms: 1 (Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly); 6, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 37, Domine ne in furore… ("Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury"); 50 Miserere mei Deus… ("Have mercy on me, O God"); 68 (St Albans 67.2) (Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered); 95 (O come, let us sing unto the Lord); 150 (Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary); Paris Psalter (in Special Collections); St Albans Psalter: Introduction and assigned psalms; First four pages of White, “Books of Hours and the Bridwell Hours”

Week 9

26 Mar

Dagenais, “Decolonizing the Medieval Page” (Electronic Reserves)

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Week 10

2 Apr

CLASS CANCELLED

Week 11

9 Apr

Group Web Project Plan Due

HTML Workshop 3 (if necessary)

“What is mouvance?”; Case Study, especially the first three lyrics
“What is a contrafactum?”and the lyrics linked at the bottom of the essay; “Stond wel, Moder, under rode,” §33 (be sure to read the note linked to the right of the section number)

Week 12

16 Apr

Sir Orfeo, Introduction to Sir Orfeo, and Evans, “Sir Orfeo in Manuscript Context” (Electronic Reserves)

Week 13

23 Apr

Group Web Project Due

General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; Hilmo, “Framing the Canterbury Pilgrims for the Aristocratic Readers of the Ellesmere Manuscript”; Parks, “Oral Tradition and the Canterbury Tales”

Week 14

30 Apr

Wife of Bath; Hanna, “Compilatio and the Wife of Bath” (Electronic Reserves)

Week 15

7 May

CLASS CANCELLED

Finals Week

W 14 May

Essay Due by 5 pm in Sierra Tower 803