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Ways of Living: ENGL 114 S13

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Ian Cornelius

In this writing seminar, we study how and why human beings come to be concerned with their own ways of living. What prompts a “way of life” to emerge as a problem for people who live in that way? In the name of what, and by … Continue reading →

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Trilingual England: ENGL 567 F10

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Ian Cornelius

This course was a survey of Late Middle English literature, focalized around issues of language choice and language contact. We studied the shifting status, functions, and interactions of Latin, French, and English in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, and the strategies … Continue reading →

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Piers Plowman: ENGL 534 F12

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Ian Cornelius

course description: A study of Piers Plowman, the brilliant and expansive poem probably authored by William Langland in three versions between the 1360s and about 1390. We make a sequential reading of what is called the “C version.” Simultaneously, we … Continue reading →

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