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Teacher
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FARACI DORA
(syllabus)
The voyage theme in medieval English and German literary texts.
The aim of the course is to investigate how medieval authors represented and reflected upon the theme of the voyage. Literary texts belonging to different genres will be analyzed from a historical, literary and philological perspective and will give the students the opportunity to learn the main stages of the development of English and German.
(reference books)
- C. Barber, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993.
- P. von Polenz, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1978.
- A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parte II).
-D. Wallace, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2002.
- D. Kartschoke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter, DTV, München 1990.
Further material will be given at the beginning of the course.
Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.
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Università Roma Tre