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Teacher
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FARACI DORA
(syllabus)
Representing Adam and Eve in Anglo-Saxon literature.
The course will focus primarily on the episode of the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Old English Genesis B, handed down in Ms Junius XI. The text enjoys a prominent role within medieval literature because of the way the biblical narrative is rewritten and elaborated, of the original features of the devil, Adam and Eve, and of the dialogues appearing in it.
The work will be flanked by other passages from Anglo-Saxon literary production, both in prose (Ælfric) and poetry (Christ and Satan, Dream of the Rood), where the fall of Adam and Eve is referred to.
The texts will be analyzed and critically discussed from a literary, linguistic and philological perspective, taking into account the peculiarities of Anglo-Saxon production and the influences derived from the Continent. Special attention will be paid to the stylistic and morpho-syntactic features of the texts under study, the manuscript mode of transmission and the relationship between word and image.
(reference books)
1.Texts:
- B. Mitchell - F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Blackwell, Oxford 2008.
- A. N. Doane, The Saxon Genesis. An Edition of the West Saxon Genesis B and the Old Saxon Vatican Genes University of Wisconsis Press, Madison 1991.
- G. P. Krapp, The Junius Manuscript, in Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 1, New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a01_01.htm
- Genesis A,B : Murray McGillivray (ed.). Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (OCOEP):
https://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/ASPR/GenABfram.htm
2. History of Old English Literature.
One of the following texts:
- M. Francini, La letteratura anglosassone, in M. Battaglia (ed.), Le civiltà letterarie del Medioevo germanico, Carocci, Roma 2017;
- M. Godden-M. Lapidge, The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991;
- F. C. Robinson, Old English, in B. Murdoch - M. Read (edd.), Early Germanic Literature and Culture, Camden House, Rochester-New York 2004, PP. 205-233;
- M. Amodio, The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA: 2014.
3. Textual criticism
- A.M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2010 (Parte I).
4. Old English Grammars
One of the following texts:
- B. Mitchell - F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Blackwell, Oxford 2008.
- R. Lass, Old English: a Historical Linguistic Companion, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993.
- G. Mazzuoli Porru, Manuale di inglese antico, Giardini, Pisa 1992.
- J. Wright, Old English Grammar. London: Oxford University Press, 1984 (3rd ed.), https://archive.org/details/oldenglishgramm02wriggoog/mode/2up
Additional material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during 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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