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Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the grandest & most long lasting poets; an architect of the vocabulary and our literary style. By examining the British writer's texts, from his short love lyrics to the copious profusion of character and event that is The Canterbury Stories, these 12 lectures will prepare you for the issues of Chaucer's oeuvre, and will provide an knowledge of why is him the real "father" of British poetry. With Professor Lerer as your expert guide, you'll plumb the richness and depth of Chaucer's poetry and explore his life, the number of his work, and his impact on English words and literature. You'll analyze Chaucer in practically all the types of literature open to him: classical epic, domestic farce, ribald humor, saint's life, beast fable, romance experience, personal lyric, devotional prayer, and religious prose. You'll learn how Chaucer uses human relationships between women and men, humans and God, public "insiders" and "outsiders," and high and low really wants to explore our "ticklish" world, and the way life takes form from literary forms-be they marriage vows, the verses of Scripture, or stories told by ordinary folk. You'll also meet some of the most vibrant characters in all of literature, including: the bawdy Partner of Shower, the manipulative Pandarus (whose very name offered rise to the word "pandering"), the upright Knight, and the ambiguous Pardoner. Professor Lerer leads you deeply in to the texts, so that you learn about their options and syntax, and the wealthy repertoire of poetic techniques they display. Even though he makes it clear that these texts remain eminently worthy of reading today, he also does indeed full justice to their medieval context.
