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3.00 Credits
A course on different ways of reading medieval allegory and modern critical theories of allegory.
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3.00 Credits
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.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relations between political thought and aesthetic practice in early modern discourses of republicanism.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the multifaceted project of Anglo-Saxon history, its models, its appeal, its politics through reading of extended selections of the Orosius and Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (in various versions).
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3.00 Credits
Readings of the Arthurian romance of Gawain, Patience (the whimsical, pre-Pinnochio-and-Gepetto paraphrase of the story of Jonah and the whale), Cleanness (a series of homiletic reflections of great power, beauty, grim wit, and compassionate insight centered on varying conceptions of "purity"), and Pearl (the elegiac dream-vision that begins with the mourning father who has lost a young daughter, then moves with amazing grace from the garden where he grieves into a richly envisioned earthly paradise where he is astonished to re-encounter his lost "Pearl," who then leads him to the vision of a New Jerusalem whose post-apocalyptic landscape is populated exclusively by throngs of beautiful maidens).
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1.00 Credits
An investigatation of the history of the Latin sequence, a liturgical (and musical) form which originated in Carolingian Francia in the 9th century and flourished for two centuries.
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3.00 Credits
A performance-centered study of Shakespeare from early modern to present day performances.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the novel as a genre that has always served as a means of what we can call "enlightenment," at various stages of its being.
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3.00 Credits
In considering Spenser, Milton, and Marvell, how did each read and transform his predecessors?; how did each use the earlier poets to think out issues of religion, sexuality, gender identity, problems of narrative and verse?; how does each conceive of genre?; and what models of intertextuality and allusion developed by 20th-century scholars best account for the relations between Spenser and Milton?
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3.00 Credits
The Exeter Book is the largest collection of Old English poetry to survive in a single manuscript, a tenth-century anthology containing some of the best-known poems in Old English (The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, the Exeter Book Riddles) as well as others drawn from multiple literary traditions. We will read as much of this poetry as we can set against the background of the shaping events and concerns of tenth-century England, especially those set in motion by the Benedictine Reform and by contemporary developments in Anglo-Latin and Hiberno-Latin literature and Old English prose. A secondary goal of the course will be to introduce students to methods of research in several of the disciplines essential to the study of Old English poetry, including the liturgy, hagiography, eschatology, cosmology, biblical exegesis, mythology, and folklore of the early medieval West.
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