Proseminar: Old English Poetry: The Exeter Book
Do. 14.00-16.00
Geb. 23.21 Raum U1.72 Beginn: 06.04.2006
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The Exeter Book is the largest extant collection of Old English poetry dating from c. 975. It contains several long religious poems, such as Christ, Guthlac, Azarius, Juliana and the allegorical Phoenix. The book also contains well-known shorter poems, such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, Widsith, The Ruin, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, and Resignation. In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 riddles, a genre that would otherwise have been represented by a solitary example.
This seminar will give you the opportunity to repeat and enlarge your knowledge of Old English literature, to practice different methods of interpretation and to reflect upon the validity of various critical approaches.
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The texts and additional materials are available on the university's BSCW-Server (bscw.uni-duesseldorf.de) to which you will be invited, if you send your name and a valid email-address to holteir@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de.
Most poems are edited in most standard anthologies of Old English poetry, e.g.:
Mitchell, Bruce. An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford 1995.
Old and Middle English Poetry: An Anthology, ed. by Elaine Treharne. Oxford
2000.
Translations are available in:
Bradley, S .A. J. (Ed.). Anglo-Saxon Poetry. London: Dent & Sons 1995. Complete editions of the Exeter Book are:
Complete editions of the Exeter Book are:
The Exeter Book, ed. by George Philip Krapp and Elliott van Kirk Dobbie. New York 1936.
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, ed. by Bernard Muir. 2 Vols., Exeter 1994.
Useful internet resources:
Our own homepage:
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/html/textsoe.html
Exeter Cathedral:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/exeter.cathedral/welcome.html
Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html
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Voraussetzungen: Introduction to Medieval English Studies
Leistungsnachweis: Abschlussprüfung (mündl.), Präsentation oder Hausarbeit
Veranstaltungstyp: Wahlpflicht M.A./Prom.
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Der Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung ist geeignet für die Zwischenprüfung
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