ENGL 90216 - Europn Lit & Vernac Manscripts

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

The seminar will show how the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages constitutes the basic root of European literature, acting as a new model as well as a bridge between classical antiquity and modern culture. The approach will be comparative and intertextual, works from different languages being examined together. Images and themes will be selected in order to show continuity and change: for instance, the theme of love and the 'noble heart', the characters of Cipolla and the Pardoner, Troilus from Boccaccio to Chaucer and Shakespeare, the stories of Francesca and Criseyde, the recognition scenes in Odyssey XXIII, Purgatorio XXX, and Pericles, as well as those in Inferno XV, T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding, and Seamus Heaney's Station Island.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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