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Love, Violence and Laughter: Medieval and Early Modern German Literature and Culture up to 1740
Course code: GERM2106.
Course unit value: 0.5.
This course will cover major narrative and lyric texts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Consideration will be given to both predominant themes (courtliness and heroism; conflicting demands of love and society; transgression) and broader literary theoretical questions (alterity; developments in medieval narrative technique; textual in/stability).
The course is conducted through a mixture of lecture and discussion classes. Students will have plenty of opportunity to learn to read medieval texts in the original.
Assessment: one assessed 2,500 word essay (50%); and one unseen two-hour written examination (50%).
Tutor: Dr Sebastian Coxon.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
Term 1
- Das Nibelungenlied, ed. Siegfried Grosse. Stuttgart, 1997. (Reclam UB 644.) This edition has a modern German translation and extremely helpful commentary.
- Kleinere mittelhochdeutsche Verserzählulngen, ed. Jürgen Schulz-Grobert. Stuttgart 2006. (Reclam 18431.)
Term 2
- Hartmann von Aue: Iwein, ed. Volker Mertens. Frankfurt am Main 2008. (Deutscher Klassiker Verlag im Taschenbuch 29.)
- Walther von der Vogelweide: Werke. Band 2: Liedlyrik, ed. Günther Schweikle.Stuttgart 1998 or later editions. (Reclam 820.)
