2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-FIL-LET/15 (GERMANIC PHILOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

FRANCINI MARUSCA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Acquisition of 12 CFU in Germanic Philology in the triennium.

The course aims at an advanced philological investigation of medieval Germanic texts, paying particular attention to Old English and Old High German traditions.

"The course aims at the acquisition of a knowledge in the fields of textual criticism and codicology, as far as medieval Germanic manuscript tradition is concerned. Old English, Old High German and Old Norse literatures will be introduced, and then Germanic medieval texts concerning the theme of Doomsday will be read, translated and analysed; "Voluspa", "Muspilli", and varorious Old English compositions, both in poetry and prose.

Lectures

-P. Chiesa, Elementi di critica testuale, Bologna, Patron, 2012 (II ed.), pp. 35-144; 185-202.
-M.G. Saibene, "Riscrittura e riuso delle immagini poetiche nel Wanderer", in M.G. Cammarota (a cura di), Riscritture del testo medievale: dialogo tra culture e tradizioni, Bergamo, Bergamo University Press, 2005, pp. 125-157.
-A.L. Klinck, The Old English Elegies. A Critical Edition and Genre Study, Montreal & Kingston-London-Ithaca, McGill-Qeen's University Press, 1992, pp. 30-35; 43-46; 47-49.
-S.B. Greenfield, "The Formulaic Expression of the Theme of 'Exile' in Anglo-Saxon Poetry", Speculum 30, 1955, pp. 200-206.
-M.V. Molinari, "Sul 'Carme di Ildebrando': nuove prospettive critiche e interpretative", in U. Schwab e M.V. Molinari (a cura di), Ildebrando. Quattro saggi e i testi, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2001, pp. 47-79.

Students who cannot attend must add the following:
-G. Brunetti, Beowulf, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2003, pp. 7-50.
-C. Pope, Seven Old English Poems, Indianapolis-New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1966, pp. 79-84; 91-96.
-Il Canzoniere eddico, a c. P. Scardigli, Garzanti, 1982, pp. 237-241; 317-320.

Students are required to write a paper, whose subject will be agreed upon with the teacher. The oral testing will focus on the contents of the course and the discussion of the paper.

Students are required to write a paper, whose subject will be agreed upon with the teacher. The oral testing will focus on the contents of the course and the discussion of the paper.