Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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published within those years. During the seminar we will discuss styles, topics, and motifs of these texts in their immediate social-historical context. We will investigate how they participated in the construction of a concept of the child and of childhood that remains influential until today. Texts: Louisa May Alcott Little Women Francis Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz further texts and secondary literature will be provided in a reader or on Blackboard Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation and written assignments; oral presentation; <strong>Seminar</strong>: the above, plus 10-page paper. 050 626 Houwen Under the Greenwood Tree: Robin Hood and the Outlaw Tradition, 5 CP 2 st. di 12-14 HGB 20 “Many men speak of Robin Hood who never drew his bow”. This old proverb gives some idea of the widespread popularity of the Robin Hood legend. One could alter this proverb somewhat to say that “Many people speak of Robin Hood who have never read the texts (but did see the movie!)” The Robin Hood legend has survived in numerous texts in a variety of genres. The outlaw is first mentioned in late medieval chronicles and ballads and soon makes his way into plays. Little John and the Sheriff of Nottingham are there virtually from the start, but Will Scarlet and Maid Marian only start to play significant parts in the later (broadside) ballads from the seventeenth century. All texts reflect their times and many serve specific political or religious purposes as well. The course will examine the development of the RH legend and show how in each incarnation the legend reflects not just the literary tradition but also the concerns of the time. The relevant primary texts will be made available via Blackboard. However, since this procedure might involve a lot of printing you may want to consider buying the printed edition: Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, eds. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1997. Assessment/requirements: Übung: 6-8 pages essay (excl. title page and bibliography; no table of contents please); <strong>Seminar</strong>: 8-10 pages.
050 627 Houwen Wisdom and Experience: The Old English Elegies, 5 CP 2 st. di 14-16 GB 6/137 Nord The Old English elegies are “a relatively short reflective or dramatic poem embodying a contrasting pattern of loss and consolation, ostensibly based upon a specific personal experience or observation, and expressing an attitude towards that experience" and their characteristic scenery includes “the sea with cliffs, hail, snow, rain, and storms, plus the meadhall of heroic poetry with its lords, warriors, hawks, horses, and precious cups” (Greenfield). Depending on one’s precise definition eight or nine elegies may be distinguished: The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riming Poem, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, Resignation, The Husband's Message, and The Ruin. They form a genre of their own in that neither in form nor in contents do they resemble classical or more modern elegies. The course will revolve around these nine elegies. We will concentrate on the literary aspects and all poems will therefore be made available in translation, but some translation work is also envisaged (short passages from each poem). Primary and secondary material will be made available via Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: essay to be written in the last class under exam conditions. The topic may be decided in consultation with the lecturer. Only nonannotated primary texts may be used during the exam. 050 628 Houwen The Grail Romances, 5 CP 2 st. do 12-14 GABF 04/614 Süd Description: The mysterious vessel known as the Grail which starts its life as a platter but eventually turns into a chalice or a cup first appears in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal from around 1180. In Middle English its later history is recounted in Malory’s Morte Darthur. For the early history of the Grail we have to turn to other texts and it is the early history that is central to this course. In early accounts the Grail is equated with the chalice of the Last Supper in which Joseph of Arimathea preserved the blood of Christ. Joseph takes this vessel to Britain, presumably to play a part in the evangelising process. The two that we will study are Joseph of Arimathie from the end of the fourteenth century and extracts from Henry Lovelich’s The History of the Holy Grail (c. 1430). We may also have a look at the later print(s) of the Joseph of Arimathea legend. Assessment: The course will be rounded off with an essay. BA/MA Übung: 6-8 pages
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