Name: 課堂筆記 《坎特伯雷故事》 英國文學傳統 UML Hurwitz (Class Notes The Canterbury Tales Brit Lit Traditions UML Hurwitz)
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to the class notes on reading The Canterbury Tales in context

some specific context that I hope will help people

as they navigate through the sections of the Canterbury Tales that we're reading

and then from there I'll say just a few words about how to think about

the reading from this week and the reading for every week for the course

in terms of some larger contexts of what the course is trying to accomplish

So I'm going to go ahead and get started.

There are some special challenges with reading The Canterbury Tales

you'll see here in the notes that I've abbreviated that to  TCT

just for simplicity sake and one thing that I've tried to do here

literary terms, especially the kind of thing that might come up again in a

one thing that I recommend to everyone is

that you should all spend extra time reading marginal definitions and

This is something that I went over in last week's class notes but this

week in particular and I think really for the next few weeks

when we read Shakespeare for example.  But this week in particular

present a lot of challenges and really makes for some very slow reading

It takes me a long time to read through the Canterbury Tales

just with trying to read through the marginal definitions, the footnotes,

trying to figure what's happening line-by-line,  stanza-by-stanza

There's kind of a lot to process there and so you're really going to want to

The text is just loaded with both kinds of information

marginal definitions footnotes, and so you should find

a system that works for you so for instance when I read something like

like the Canterbury Tales I just get used to looking in the right hand margin

watching for in reading footnotes as I encounter them. I really actually find

myself really great differently than I do.

Even for last week, for Beowulf, that had some of

as much.  I would I would sort of glance ahead at times to see,

"Oh great, I've got five lines coming up with  no

marginal definitions and no footnotes," and I knew I could just read through that

It takes a little getting used to because when you we look at that stuff

has to move down the whole page, it can can pull you out of

the flow of making sense of the reading itself

so it takes with me a little while and I except it takes everyone a little while

just to get used to that and moving back and forth.

If you find a better system works for you then go for it.

You know there are sometimes when I'll just say you know what I'll only look at

I'm really confused and I won't look at all of it or

I might stop at the end of every sentence or every stanza and look back over the

So find a system that works for you, that helps you

kind of read, get into some kind of reading flow also

while also understanding what you're reading.  Another thing that you should focus on doing,

just like last week but here even more so perhaps

last week would be with Beowulf we had a modern translation so we didn't really have to

in that case it would have been Old English and all the strange nuances of spelling and

and vocabulary that that we would have encountered

had we read the Old English version. Here we are reading

some of the spelling's been modernized there are there have been some editorial

than it is to modern English and so there's a lot of weird spelling in there.

So when I would recommend doing is reading out loud,

help you become accustomed to the unusual spelling of Middle English.

there's some help with this where the editors basically explain

make different sounds than what we're used to as modern readers. I don't find

what you know I look at the material but it's hard for me to keep in

the primary text.  I just kind of make my way through and try sound it out on my own and

even if the spelling is different than what we're accustomed to, if you say

in the Middle English word and you can get to the right place.  An example here

So what I have underneath that is a translation that includes

any of the definitions of words that were given in the marginal notes or the footnotes.

I changed those around and I just modernized the spelling even more

This is still a word-by-word rendering, and when you first encounter it,

it still is going to take a little bit to ask, okay, what's actually being

because the sentence structure is very strange. It's not a straightforward

and we're going to encounter that a lot the Canterbury Tales

so if I were to take this to a next level translation, like try to put it into

just simple straightforward English, I might

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