ENGL 226 - Love and War in Medieval Literature

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University of Richmond

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Selected readings in Medieval literature (some in translation), with focus on literary representations of love and war. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: The literature of the Middle Ages is too often regarded as inaccessible because of its distance and difference from modern works. Reading texts written long ago does involve a sophisticated set of reading strategies, yet there can also be a good deal of pleasure in reading such texts. In this course, we consider how customary modern practices of reading measure up to the challenges of medieval texts; texts that were, after all, produced in a manuscript culture in which literacy and literary authority were conceived of differently than they are in much of the modern world. Our discussions are informed by methodologies of the new historicism,emphasizing some of the mediations through which modern readers are able to apprehend texts from the past as objects of study, as well as by more traditional approaches to historical and cultural context. Literary representations of "love" and "war" provide a focus for the course, and the theories that guide our discussions of these particular representations help us to consider (among other things) how gender and class are constructed in these texts.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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