Transformations

Advanced Module A:

A comparative study of text and context

Elective 1: Transformations

Texts: Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale and A Simple Plan, dir. Sam Raimi

Online resources

Chaucer and the Pardoner's Tale

• A broad ranging set of resources on Chaucer

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

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  The Wikipedia entry on Cahucer. Look for links at the bottom of the entry.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer

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  An academic site from Harvard University

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

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  This site has a range of materials and has a teaching section

 http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/

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  You can download and e-text version of the Canterbury Tales from this site.

 http://www.online-literature.com/chaucer/

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  A compilation of resources online.

http://geoffreychaucer.org/

• Originally a fan site than has been maintained by a university. It includes reference to each tale.

 http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/Zatta_Index.html

• Course and online links

 http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chauhom3.html

A Simple Plan

• The Wikipedia entries  the film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Simple_Plan_%28film%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Simple_Plan

• An interview with Sam Raimi, director

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Raimi

• An essay which examines A Simple Plan and Chaucer but also Spider Man

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc46.2003/kreider.raimi/text.html

• An essay on A Simple Plan

http://www.pheasnt.demon.co.uk/mudge/iss16/simpplan.htm

• A review that makes reference to  techniques

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc46.2003/kreider.raimi/index.html

•  An examination of violence in the film

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/reviews/1998/12/11reviewb.html