ENG 620: Seminar: Medieval Dream Vision, Spring 2002

SIGN-UP sheet for Parliament: sign up to be the "expert" on one of these topics or sets of lines; lead discussion on those lines or that topic.

__Kristi Lodge___________"Common profit" in the first part of the Parliament (ll. 47, 75) and its relationship to the birds' congress

__Ryan Hediger__________The parts of Book of the Duchess compared to the parts of the Parliament; rime royal stanzas–effect?

__Jamie Fitzgerald_______The two verses on the gate (ll. 120-140): other literary gates, the play of opposites and the dream vision

__Daniel Mackay_________Lists and their effects (ll. 176-82, 330-64)

__Layla Olin____________Parliament sources (from reserve book)

__Ulrick Casimir_________Priapus (ll. 253-8)

__Katie Lawton__________The division among the birds (worm, water, seed, ll. 323-9); the goose, spearhawk, and turtledove's cases (ll. 561-89)

__Sally Jayne Kuhn_______Duck, cuckoo, tercelet, and merlin's speeches (ll. 589-614) in relation to the "class divisions"

__Holly Klinger_________Comparing the three tercels' speeches (ll. 414-84)

__Andrea Post__________The effect of "noyse" (l. 491) and its relation to music (ll. 673-87)

__Lisa Griffith_________The formel eagle's delay (ll. 646-65)

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