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| Spring 2013 | ENGL 736.P1 | W | 6:00 - 8:40 | RH305 | Nicole Clifton | |
Title: Seminar: Medieval LiteratureCourse Description: May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when topic varies.PRQ: | ||||||
| Detailed Course Description:In the Middle Ages as now, stories about King Arthur were extremely popular. This course will study the development of the Arthurian legend, from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account in his History of the Kings of Britain, through the Old French romances of Chrétien de Troyes, emphasizing Middle English works of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Of Arthour and of Merlin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the various Mortes D’Arthur (Alliterative, Stanzaic, and Sir Thomas Malory’s prose masterpiece), alongside shorter, sometimes humorous romances of individual knights. Students may pursue connections to later re-tellings (Spenser, Tennyson, Twain, White) in term papers. | ||||||
| Course Requirements: Regular attendance and participation; each student will be responsible for running discussion in one class. Assorted short papers and assignments (such as annotated bibliographies, reports on critical readings, brief textual analyses). One 15-20 page term paper. | ||||||
| Required Texts: The following texts are available online as well as in hard copy, from http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm The Alliterative Morte Arthur The Stanzaic Morte Arthur Lybeaus Desconus Sir Launfal Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle Of Arthour and of Merlin does not have a classroom edition; we will read the manuscript transcription at http://auchinleck.nls.uk/mss/arthur.html, with the aid of notes from the scholarly edition, which I will place on reserve at the library. Hard copy required: Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances, any translation Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, trans. Faletra (Broadview) Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, ed. Stephen Shepherd (Norton) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed./trans. James Winny (facing-page ME and PDE) (Broadview) | ||||||
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