Read The Nun’s Priest Tale if you haven’t…we’ve got to talk about it’s antifeminism and Chauntecleer
o What does the poem suggest about literary interpretations and criticism?
o What are the values upheld by the beast fable as a genre? How does Chaucer demonstrate or correct those values?
o Why explore grave philosophical issues in a fiction about chickens?
Read the work of Julian of Norwich (p. 371-382 in our Norton Anthology)
o Does it matter that Julian was a woman? How do we see this in what, and in the way, she writes?
o Can you discern a gender politics to her work?
o What is the meaning of pain in Julian’s writings?
o How do her interpretations of her visions compare to the way literary critics unpack images?
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