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Fakultät	Philosophische Fakultät
Bereich	Englisch
Code	UE-L06.00839
Sprachen	Englisch
Art der Unterrichtseinheit	Proseminar
Kursus	Bachelor
Semester	SP-2019

Zeitplan und Räume

Vorlesungszeiten

Dienstag 13:15 - 15:00, Wöchentlich (Frühlingssemester)

Unterricht

Dozenten-innen	Dutton Elisabeth
Beschreibung	In his Canterbury Tales, Chaucer imagines the husband of his Wife of Bath reading daily from a book about wicked women.  The material from which such a book could select was extensive: a misogynistic tradition drawing on the Bible, the Roman satirists, the Church Fathers, which informed fictional and non-fictional representations of women in Old and Middle English. There was also, however, a counter-movement of texts which, while not all perhaps fully ‘feminist’, nonetheless tried to represent women more sympathetically.  This course will examine some of the texts which created a language for talking about women, their experiences, their vices and virtues, and will culminate in a consideration of Chaucer’s Legends of Good Women, a text which deliberately reads against the grain, turning familiar female villains into heroines.
Lernziele	An appreciation of issues of gender in relation to medieval texts An understanding of the development of English as a written vernacular Increased familiarity with late-Middle English and early-Modern English language
Soft Skills	Nein
ausserhalb des Bereichs	Nein
BeNeFri	Nein
Mobilität	Ja
UniPop	Nein

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