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This website is a link on the
Chaucer Metapage.
This web page is intended to provide an extra resource for students in Eng 404. You will find a link to the SAC (Studies in the Age of Chaucer) online bibliography of Chaucer studies published from 1975-to the present. This is the best resource to use to find essays about Chaucer and his works, including individual Canterbury Tales. You can find citations for essays on individual tales and pilgrims either by doing a keyword search or a subject search. You will also find links here to three different versions of the Canterbury Tales, one in Middle English with glosses, one in Middle English, and a Modern English translation. In addition there are links to resources on other servers that provide information about Chaucer's literary context as well as the Medieval Sourcebook that has a vast collection of primary sources.
The Chaucer Metapage is a work in progress which links the pages of a number of different Chaucer scholars. The different pages linked by the Metapage provide a wealth of information including bibliographies and secondary sources. In particular, Larry Benson's page provides a brief summary of each tale as well as information about sources and analogues, basic themes, and information about the relevant literary genres for each tale. If you are working on an assignment, that should be one of your first stops.
If you want help on an
assignment:
I will not do students' papers for them nor
will I respond to inquiries such as "Please send me information on Chaucer's
view of women." However, I will respond to questions from
serious students as my time permits provided you do the following:
1) Provide me with your complete assignment and all the instructions your
teacher has given you, especially regarding the sources you are to use.
2)
Tell me what you have already done. At the very least, this should include
having CAREFULLY read the material covered by your assignment and having
narrowed down a general area to a specific topic. For example, if your
assignment covers the general theme of women in the Canterbury Tales, you should
have picked the specific woman or women you intend to write about and decided
what specific question you plan to address. You should also have already
consulted the SAC bibliography and have read any appropriate secondary material.
3) Ask me a specific question. As examples, this could involve a request for
sources about a particular historical issue or social issues, literary genres,
characters, etc. It might also involve other specific questions such as a
request for my opinion about points in the text.
Copyright © 1996 Jane Zatta
Most recent revision, February 15, 2005