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Dream Visions
In Medieval Dream Visions we will read a number of celebrated works – including poetry by Chaucer and the Pearl-poet – to consider what kinds of special knowledge, play, or experimental thinking dreams were understood to enable in the Middle Ages. Most of these works will be in Middle English, and so we will move slowly in order to read them in the original and to become more familiar with the poetic sensibilities of a different age. Assignments will include in-class writing, short essays, and a midterm.