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3.00 Credits
A close examination of the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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An examination of early modern Europe and its interactions with the Americas through the lens of a theoretical and practical preoccupation with the history and literature of travel.
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This seminar takes as its primary focus the parables of Jesus, and seeks to examine their literary structure. We will read a broad selection of Jesus's parables and consider how they have been re-written by later prose writers and poets. Finally, we will read new parables and ideas about parables by Kafka and Borges.
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3.00 Credits
The course will be concerned with a corpus of some thirty Latin passiones of martyrs who were executed at Rome before the Peace of the Church (A.D. 313), and who then were culted at Roman churches throughout the Middle Ages. Although the passiones were composed several centuries after the martyrdoms they describe, they are a unique witness to the topography of sixth-century Rome and to its spirituality, as well as to the origin and development of the cult of saints. The texts are generally brief and only of intermediate difficulty (some elementary knowledge of Latin is a prerequisite for the course), but they provide a good introduction to 'sermo humilis' of the early Middle Ages.
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3.00 Credits
Crosslisted with ROIT 527. Before taking up the Canzoniere we'll consider the life of Petrarch, his intellectual activity and his other works, including selections from his epistolary collections (Letters on Familiar Matters and Letters of Old Age) and other Latin works, especially the Secretum (Petrarch's Secret). Our reading of the Canzoniere will utilize Santagata's recent edition and commentary and will engage critically a variety of hermeneutical and philological approaches to the book. The seminar will be conducted in English but reading knowledge of Italian is essential.
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3.00 Credits
The history of books has recently emerged as a vibrant field of study in which cultural theorists, literary critics, textual scholars, bibliographers and historians are all engaged in lively and productive conversation about texts, documents, technology, orality, literacy, and performance. However despite this intellectual ferment, studies of the book remain deeply bound by national bibliographies; in an effort to avoid such rigidities, this course, team taught by professors of American and English literature, will examine the book in the early modern Atlantic world, which recently has itself become an object of scholarly attention.
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3.00 Credits
his course will examine the culture of the book in late medieval English, including the important literary writers who made it a national literary language, the scribes who transmitted and often transformed their works, and the wide range of readers they reached. Among the writers to be studied will be Julian of Norwich, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe and James I of Scotland; among the topics to be discussed: literacy, book illustration, marginalia, social conditions of authorship, the rise of heresy, women and book production, nun's libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at official censorship. Students will also learn both editorial theory and practice, and have a chance to transcribe and edit for publication in a forthcoming anthology of Middle English writings restored to their manuscript context.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar on the manuscripts and book culture of Anglo-Saxon England, emphasizing the transmission of Latin and Old English texts, the curriculum of study in early English schools, the history of early English libraries and scriptoria, and varieties of literacy and reading practices. Students will gain experience reading and researching Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and will transcribe and edit texts in Latin and Old English.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the Arthurian tradition from Mallory to Tennyson.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, Thomas Usk, Thomas Hoccleve, James Yonge, and other writers who found their initial and most sophisticated audiences in the court and civil service in London and in Dublin. Topics to be discussed will include 'self-fashioning', authorial representation, political dissent, colonialism, and the role of women in the rise of a 'national' literature. We will look at various traditional Historicist approaches to the study of reading circles, Medieval Literary Theory, and newer methodologies including manuscript study and the cultural history of the book.
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