2007 Ü Canterbury Tales
The course will meet at my place:
Tannenkampstr. 12
26131 Oldenburg
+49-441-2333417
18:00 - open end
..we will read the Riverside edition, the evenings will be spent in a table round - with reading a tale and a meal afterwards. Register via Stud-IP but check this site for all further information (put it on your watchlist to facilitate this...)
Friday, May 11 2007
I would like to read both Boccacio's and Chaucer's versions of the Griseldis-Story with you. Boccaccio offered this story as the last novel of the last (the tenth) day. You can read two different English versions (a 17th and a 20t-century one) at:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
the modern English version offered here is also available at Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13102/13102.txt
I have no objections against the German version as offered by Insel-Verlag and will leave a copy of that by tomorrow at Wersig's copy shop. Chaucer's version is offered with the Clerk's tale. --Olaf Simons 17:34, 8 May 2007 (CEST)
For those who missed the session: We actually managed to read both Boccaccio's and Chaucer's version of Griselda's story and discussed the different endings with a special focus on the framework commentary both stories received by their authors.
Friday, May 18 2007
No session.
Friday, May 25 2007
Wife of Bath's Prologe and tale, also: a closer look on language development and pronunciation of a passage I will select for that purpose. --Olaf Simons 10:54, 15 May 2007 (CEST)
Friday, June 1 2007
No session - I'll be at a conference in Bochum --Olaf Simons 10:30, 31 May 2007 (CEST)
Friday, June 8 2007
Wife of Bath's tale, comparison with prologue. Question of Women in Chaucer. --Olaf Simons 10:30, 31 May 2007 (CEST)
- Statt des Essens hat uns Mehrdad zu seinem Geburtstag eingeladen - vieleicht daß wir ab 21.00 rüberfahren in die Auguststr. 50 - wo es dann Essen gibt (Dritte Welt Laden...). --Olaf Simons 18:55, 4 June 2007 (CEST)
