Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...

psychoanalytic approaches, feminism, queer theory, Marxism, New Historicism and
(Post-)Colonial Theory.
The Powerpoint presentations will be made available on blackboard. There is no
need to purchase a course book. Nevertheless, for those who are interested in
preparing or reading up on the course I recommend the following titles:
Berensmeyer, Ingo. Literary Theory. An Introduction to Approaches, Methods and
Terms. Stuttgart: Klett, 2009.
Harris, Jonathan Gil. Shakespeare and Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010.
Hopkins, Lisa. Beginning Shakespeare. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2005.
Attention: There will be no sessions on the 13 th and 20 th of December! The
material/Powerpoint presentations for the missed sessions will be uploaded on
blackboard.
Requirements for credits:
Regular attendance; successful completion of test in last session.
Seminare
050 627 Houwen
Saints and Sinners in Old and Middle English, 4 CP
2 st. di 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
Description: ‘On a day towards even Jerome sat with his brethren for to hear the holy
lesson, and a lion came halting suddenly in to the monastery, and when the brethren
saw him, anon they fled, and Jerome came against him as he should come against
his guest, and then the lion showed to him his foot being hurt. Then he called his
brethren, and commanded them to wash his feet and diligently to seek and search for
the wound. And that done, the plant of the foot of the lion was sore hurt and pricked
with a thorn. Then this holy man put thereto diligent cure, and healed him, and he
abode ever after as a tame beast with them.’ Tales such as this one (from Caxton’s
Golden Legend) and others like it, like the one about St Francis and the wolf of
Gubbio present only one window on a saint, but there are many others. Some saints
are reformed prostitutes (Mary of Egypt), others are soldiers of Christ (St. Edmund,
St. Oswald and St. Æðelðryð), some are virgin-scholars with a predilection for
learned debate (St Margaret), some raise the dead, others talk to animals or have
them nest in their folded hands and do not budge until the fledglings have flown from