The question of the Thanksgiving Holidays was mentioned before class started this past week. The holiday starts on Wednesday for students and Wednesday at noon for Faculty and staff. I am assuming we will meet that week. I just thought you would like to know and maybe pass the info along.
Have a great day.
Ashley
I’ve been meaning to ask you about this for a while, but have not had ample opportunity to do so in class: what is your opinion on the Chaucer rape case. I had never heard of the Charlotte Champaign debaucle until my roommate, who is in British literature I, mentioned it to me.
This is an interesting question, and my opinion is that we will never know the truth of the case. Christopher Cannon wrote an interesting piece on this a couple of years ago. (You should be able to find it with an MLA search.)
Help me remember to bring up the issue when we discuss the rape in The Wife of Bath’s Tale (and perhaps the attempted rape in The Man of Law’s Tale).
I feel like I’m the only one that comments on here, but it’s here for a reason. Today, as I was rearranging my book collection looking for something (which I still can’t find–it must be in Birmingham), I found my copy of Katherine by Anya Seyton. Have you read this book? It’s about Katherine, John of Gower’s second wife and mother to the Beauford bastards. Geoffrey Chaucer, coincidently, is married to her sister Philippa, and is a character in the book. It mentions his Book of the Duchess and another poem he is working on, which I believe is later verified as Troilus & Cresid. It’s definitely worth a look if you haven’t read it.
I’m not familiar with that. I will have to take a look at it. I’ve always thought that Chaucer would make for a great detective in a series of mystery novels. Think of all the intrigue . . .
I was looking for thw translated text, and I could not find it. Please tell me where to go because I am finding it hard to keep up in class. Thank you for your help.
Do we need to cite Chaucer for our final paper? Upon constructed my works cited page, I was unsure of how you wanted us to do so. Some teachers prefer to us to cite the work as a whole, others to cite the book in which we got it. Also, would you prefer page or line numbers in parenthetical documentation? Last minute questions, I know, but hey, it’s not due until Tuesday, and it is already done.
I will assume that you used our book for the course, but go ahead and include it if you are including other sources and are using a works cited page. Use line numbers in your parenthetical citations.
September 21, 2006 at 6:04 am
The question of the Thanksgiving Holidays was mentioned before class started this past week. The holiday starts on Wednesday for students and Wednesday at noon for Faculty and staff. I am assuming we will meet that week.
I just thought you would like to know and maybe pass the info along.
Have a great day.
Ashley
September 21, 2006 at 7:37 am
Ashley,
Thanks. Yes, it looks as though we are expected to have class that week. I will announce.
All the best,
JVH
September 28, 2006 at 2:32 pm
I’ve been meaning to ask you about this for a while, but have not had ample opportunity to do so in class: what is your opinion on the Chaucer rape case. I had never heard of the Charlotte Champaign debaucle until my roommate, who is in British literature I, mentioned it to me.
September 28, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Edit: Cecil Champaign/Champayne.
September 28, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Laura,
This is an interesting question, and my opinion is that we will never know the truth of the case. Christopher Cannon wrote an interesting piece on this a couple of years ago. (You should be able to find it with an MLA search.)
Help me remember to bring up the issue when we discuss the rape in The Wife of Bath’s Tale (and perhaps the attempted rape in The Man of Law’s Tale).
All the best,
JVH
November 2, 2006 at 8:00 pm
I feel like I’m the only one that comments on here, but it’s here for a reason. Today, as I was rearranging my book collection looking for something (which I still can’t find–it must be in Birmingham), I found my copy of Katherine by Anya Seyton. Have you read this book? It’s about Katherine, John of Gower’s second wife and mother to the Beauford bastards. Geoffrey Chaucer, coincidently, is married to her sister Philippa, and is a character in the book. It mentions his Book of the Duchess and another poem he is working on, which I believe is later verified as Troilus & Cresid. It’s definitely worth a look if you haven’t read it.
November 2, 2006 at 9:21 pm
I’m not familiar with that. I will have to take a look at it. I’ve always thought that Chaucer would make for a great detective in a series of mystery novels. Think of all the intrigue . . .
November 4, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I was looking for thw translated text, and I could not find it. Please tell me where to go because I am finding it hard to keep up in class. Thank you for your help.
November 4, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Please direct me to the site where the translation is. I can not find it.
November 4, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Do you mean the interlinear translations on the Harvard Chaucer Page? You can get those here: http://courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/CTlist.html
December 4, 2006 at 3:25 am
Do we need to cite Chaucer for our final paper? Upon constructed my works cited page, I was unsure of how you wanted us to do so. Some teachers prefer to us to cite the work as a whole, others to cite the book in which we got it. Also, would you prefer page or line numbers in parenthetical documentation? Last minute questions, I know, but hey, it’s not due until Tuesday, and it is already done.
December 4, 2006 at 10:30 am
I will assume that you used our book for the course, but go ahead and include it if you are including other sources and are using a works cited page. Use line numbers in your parenthetical citations.
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