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FARACI DORA
(syllabus)
The Marvelous in Medieval English and German Texts.
The course aims to present the "marvelous" in its various aspects (mirabilis, magicus, miraculosus and fantastic) in English and German medieval literature. Analytical reading of passages, mainly taken from medieval English literary works (such as Beowulf, Chaucer's The Squire's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeus) with references to the German tradition (e.g. Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach), will offer the starting point for reflections on the prodigious that sometimes proves to be predictable, ineffective or technological.
The texts, which will be placed in relation to the literary and historical-cultural environment that produced them and placed in an interdisciplinary context, will be the starting point for expanding knowledge relating to:
- the techniques used by various authors for the composition and elaboration of themes and motifs derived from different literary traditions;
- textual transmission (texts, paratexts, handwriting, miniatures);
- to diachronic linguistics.
The students, who will be guided by the teacher in the choice of themes and in the use of the main bibliographic tools, will have to present an individual or group report, which will be discussed in class in the final part of the course and which will focus on historical-literary topics, linguistic and textual related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.
Students are strongly advised to attend the course. Non-attending students are asked to contact the teacher at the beginning of the lessons.
(reference books)
Texts:
- G. Brunetti (ed.), Beowulf, Roma, Carocci, 2003 (passi scelti).
- The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)
- L. D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1987 (selected passages) .
- The Canterbury Tales and Other Works of Chaucer (Middle English): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/mect/index.htm
- M. Andrew and R. Waldron, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter, Exeter University Press, 2007 (selected passages).
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Gawain
(trad.: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/ready.htm)
- A.J. Bliss, A. J. Sir Orfeo. London, Oxford UP, 1954 (selected passages).
- Sir Orfeo: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays-sir-orfeo
- Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival (Mittelhochdeutscher Text nach der Ausgabe von
Karl Lachmann, Übers, u. Nachw. v. Wolfgang Sjriewok), Stuttgart, Reclam, 1981 (selected passages).
- Wolfram von Eschenbach. Parival: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/13Jh/Wolfram/wol_pa00.html
- Jacques Le Goff, Il meraviglioso e il quotidiano nell'Occidente medievale, Roma, Laterza, 1999.
- Fred C. Robinson, "Elements of the marvellous in the characterization of Beowulf: a reconsideration of the textual evidence", in Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, edited by Robert B Burlin and Edward B. Irving Jr., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. 119-138.
- Helen Cooper, "Magic that Does Not Work," Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 7 (1976), pp. 131 - 146
- Corinne J. Saunders, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance. Woodbridge, U.K., Rochester, N.Y., D.S. Brewer, 2010.
- Tara Williams, Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century, Penn State University Press, 2018.
- Michelle Karnes, “Wonder, Marvels and Metaphor in The Squire's Tale", in ELH, 82, no. 2 (2015), pp. 461–90.
- Scott Lightsey, "Chaucer’s Secular Marvels and the Medieval Economy of Wonder", in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 23 (2001), p. 289-316.
- 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, München: DTV 1990.
- David Crystal, The Stories of English, Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2004.
- Jeremy Smith, An historical study of English: Function, form and change, London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
- Peter von Polenz, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, Berlin: De Gruyter 2009
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