SoSe 13: S-Medieval English Literatures II: The Pearl Poet
Andrew James Johnston
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The Pearl Poet's works are amongst the most enigmatic and fascinating and also the most beautiful and polished literary texts transmitted to us from the Middle Ages. This course will take a closer look at what are arguably his most famous compositions, the chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a tale of love and adventure with a more than surprising sting in the tale, and the religious allegory Pearl, a compelling symbolic narrative about a father mourning for his daughter.
The two texts will make it possible for the class to gain insights into a wide variety of issues central to medieval literature in general as well as Middle English literature in particular and into the issue of how modern scholars deal with literary texts from an age very different from our own.
The two texts will be put at the participants' disposal before the course starts.
Schließen13 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung