ENGLISH 8900
German Literature in Translation:
The Truth About Fiction: Arthurian Romancein France and Germany
Fall 2007
Time: / Mon.: 4:30pm to 7:00pm
Room: / GeneralClassroomBuilding527
Instructor: / Stephen Mark Carey, Ph. D.
Office: / GeneralClassroomBuilding 858
Office Hours: / Mondays 11:00am-12-00pm, Wednesdays 11:00am-12-00pm (and any time by appointment)
Telephone: / Office (404) 413 6591
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Course Requirements
You will need to attend all class sessions and submit all assigned work in order to fully benefit from this course. Reading assignments will be due each class. Prepare the reading for the date on which it appears. Since this course is intended to improve your reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as to introduce you to German, Latin, and French Literature, you are to write 5 reaction papers of three to five pages in length, on aspects of each work throughout the semester. Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date that they appear in the syllabus. Late papers will not be accepted for any reason. Each missing paper means a deduction of 6 points from your number grade. Each student will also give one 10 - 15 minute in class presentation on one of the authors, books, or themes treated in the seminar. Even one unexcused absence will jeopardize your grade. You automatically lose points every time that you are absent. You are bound by GeorgiaState policies on Academic Honesty. Students with disabilities will be accommodated to the full extent of the University policy and are encouraged to let me know if I can do anything to be of further assistance. There will be a 15 page final paper due on December 10th.
Grading Policy
14Class/Reading Assignments@14pts=196pts
43- 5 Page Reaction Papers@100pts=400pts
1Class Presentation@104pts=104pts
1Final Paper@300pts=200pts
TOTAL=1000pts
Course Books
Primary Texts
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain. Penguin Classics: New York: 1977.
Alain De Lille, Anticlaudianus or the Good and Perfect Man Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Toronto, 1973.
David Staines. trans. The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes. Indiana U.P.: Bloomington, IN, 1993.
Frank J. Tobin, Kim Vivian, Richard H. Lawson. trans. Arthurian Romances, Tales and Lyric Poetry: The Complete Works of Hartmann Von Aue Pennsylvania State University Press: College ParkPA, 2001.
Lais of Marie de France, Judy Shoaf, trans. Exemplaria (1991-1996) (Handout)
Wolfram Von Eschenbach. Parzival A. T. Hatto, trans. Penguin: New York, 1980.
Mikhail Bahktin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1981
Critical Essays
Stephen Mark Carey, "The Critics Remain Silent at the Banquet of Words: Marchand on the Names in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival" New Research: Yearbook for the Society of Medieval German Studies, 1(Lancaster, PA: Avari, 2009): 76 – 98.
Stephen Mark Carey,"Chartrian Influence and German Reception: Dating the Works of Chrétien de Troyes, "Arthuriana 20.3 (2010): 21-44.
Jane Chance,"The Artist as Epic Hero in Alan of Lille's 'Anticlaudianus',” International Journal of Medieval Studies. 18:1 (1983): 238-247.
Rosemary Combridge, "The Use of Biblical and Other Learned Symbolism in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue," Hartmann von Aue: Changing Perspectives. London Hartmann Symposium 1985. Eds. Timothy McFarland and Silvia Ranawake. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1988.
David Duckworth, The Influence of Biblical Terminology and Thought on Wolfram's Parzival: With Special Reference to the Epistle of St. James and the Concept of zwîfel. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1980.
Antonio L. Furtado, “From Alexander of Macedonia to Arthur of Britain,” Arthuriana 5.3 (1995):70-86
Arthur Groos, "Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Bow Metaphor' and the Narrative Technique of Parzival," Modern Language Notes 87 (1972): 391 – 408.
Arthur Groos, "Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife," Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages. Martin H. Jones and Roy Wisbey eds. London: Institute of Germanic Studies (1993) 257-276.
Thomas Elwood Hart, "The Quadrivium and Chrétien's Theory of Composition: Some Conjunctures and Conjectures," Symposium, 35 (1981)
D. R. Howlett, “The Literary Context of Geoffrey of Monmouth: An Essay on the Fabrication of Sources,” Arthuriana 5.3 (1995):25-69.
William C. McDonald, "King Arthur and the Round Table in the Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue." King Arthur: A Casebook. Ed. Edward Donald Kennedy. New York: Garland, 1996. 46-70.
James F. Poag, "Wîp und Grâl: Structure and Meaning in Wolfram's Parzival," Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 67.2 (1968): 204-211.
Rupert Pickens, " Le Conte du Graal: Chrétien's Unfinished Last Romance,"A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, Eds. Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert, Cambridge: Brewer (2005):159 – 187.
Monica Potkay,"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais," Christianity and Literature 57.3 (2008): 355-378.
Adrian Stevens, "Heteroglossia and Clerical Narrative: On Wolfram’s Adaption of Chrétien," Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages. Eds., Martin H. Jones and Roy Wisbey, London: Institute of Germanic Studies (1993):241-256.
Syllabus"Profecto minimum digitum sui Arturi grossiorem facit dorso Alexandri Magni!"
Charles Johnson, Ed., Selections from the Historia Rerum Anglicarum of William of Newburgh. (New York: Macmillan, 1920): 8. "Gaufridus hic dictus est, agnomen habens Auturi, pro eo quod fabulas de Arturo, ex priscis Britonum figmentis sumptas et ex proprio auctas, per superductum Latini sermonis colorem honesto historiæ nomine palliavit."
C. Johnson, Selections, 11. "In conclusion, he [Geoffrey] makes the little finger of his Arthur thicker than Alexander the Great's penis" (translation mine).
MondayAugust 20
1st Session / Introduction of the Class, raison d'etre, Theme and Organization.
Lecture: History and the Inception of the Romance I
History of the Kings of Britain /
Historia Regum Britanniae I
Monday August 27
2nd Session / Read: HRB up to book 4
Lecture: History and the Inception of the Romance II
Introduction to HRB
D. R. Howlett, “The Literary Context of Geoffrey of Monmouth: An Essay on the Fabrication of Sources,” Arthuriana 5.3 (1995):25-69.
Monday September 3 /
LABOR DAY – NO CLASSES
Historia Regum Britanniae IIMonday September 10
3rd Session / Read: Finish reading HRB
Lecture: History and the Inception of the Romance II
Antonio L. Furtado, “From Alexander of Macedonia to Arthur of Britain,” Arthuriana 5.3 (1995):70-86
1st Reaction Paper Due (HRB)
Alain de Lille:
ANTICLAUDIANUS
Or
The Good and Perfect Man /
Monday September 17
4th Session / Read: Anticlaudianus
Jane Chance,"The Artist as Epic Hero in Alan of Lille's 'Anticlaudianus',” International Journal of Medieval Studies. 18:1 (1983): 238-247.
sign up for presentations
2nd Reaction Paper Due (HRB)
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES
HARTMANN VON AUE
MARIE DE FRANCE /
EREC ET ENIDE
Monday September 24
5th Session / Read: Chréteien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide
3rd Reaction Paper Due (Anticlaudianus)
Stephen Mark Carey,"Chartrian Influence and German Reception: Dating the Works of Chrétien de Troyes, "Arthuriana 20.3 (2010): 21-44.
ERECMonday October 1
6th Session / Read: Hartmann von Aue’s Erec
Rosemary Combridge, "The Use of Biblical and Other Learned Symbolism in the Narrative Works of Hartmann von Aue," Hartmann von Aue: Changing Perspectives. London Hartmann Symposium 1985. Eds. Timothy McFarland and Silvia Ranawake. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1988.
William C. McDonald, "King Arthur and the Round Table in the Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue." King Arthur: A Casebook. Ed. Edward Donald Kennedy. New York: Garland, 1996. 46-70.
4th Reaction Paper Due (Erec et Enide)
MARIE DE FRANCE
Monday October 8
7th Session /
Read: The Lais of Marie de France
Monica Potkay,"The Parable of the Sower and Obscurity in the Prologue to Marie de France's Lais," Christianity and Literature 57.3 (2008): 355-378.( 5th Reaction Paper Due (Erec)
LE CONTE DU GRAAL
Monday October 15
8th Session / Read: Chrétien de Troyes’ Le Conte du Graal up to line 4815 (Perceval and Gawain leaver Arthur’s Court)
Rupert Pickens, "Le Conte du Graal: Chrétien's Unfinished Last Romance,"A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, Eds. Norris J. Lacy andJoan Tasker Grimbert, Cambridge: Brewer (2005):159 – 187.
( 6th Reaction Paper Due (Marie de France)
LE CONTE DU GRAAL
Monday October 22
8th Session / Read: Chréteien de Troyes’ Le Conte du Graal to the end
ArthurGroos, "Dialogic Transpositions: The Grail Hero Wins a Wife," Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages. Martin H. Jones and Roy Wisbey eds. London: Institute of Germanic Studies (1993) 257-276.
Thomas Elwood Hart, "The Quadrivium and Chrétien's Theory of Composition: Some Conjunctures and Conjectures," Symposium, 35 (1981)
( 7th Reaction Paper Due (Le Conte du Graal)
Wolfram von Eschenbach
PARZIVAL /
BAHKTIN and BACKGROUND
Monday October 29
9th Session / Mikhail Bahktin, “Discourse in the Novel,” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1981: 259 -422
( 8th Reaction Paper Due (Le Conte du Graal)
PARZIVAL PROLOUGE, BOOKS I – II
Monday November 5
10th Session / Read books I-II of Parzival
Read: Mikhail Bahktin, “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel,” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1981: 84 – 258
9th Reaction Paper Due (Bahktin)
PARZIVAL BOOKS III-VI
Monday November 12
11th Session / Read books III-VI of Parzival
Adrian Stevens, "Heteroglossia and Clerical Narrative: On Wolfram’s Adaption of Chrétien," Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages. Eds., Martin H. Jones and Roy Wisbey, London:Institute of Germanic Studies (1993):241-256.
10th Reaction Paper Due (Parzival/ Bahktin)
PARZIVAL BOOKS VII-IX
Monday November 19
12th Session / Read books VII-IX of Parzival
David Duckworth, The Influence of Biblical Terminology and Thought on Wolfram's Parzival: With Special Reference to the Epistle of St. James and the Concept of zwîfel. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1980.
Arthur Groos, "Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Bow Metaphor' and the Narrative Technique of Parzival," Modern Language Notes 87 (1972): 391 – 408.
11th Reaction Paper Due (Parzival)
PARZIVAL BOOKS X-XIV
Monday November 26
13th Session / Read books X-XIV of Parzival
Stephen Mark Carey, "The Critics Remain Silent at the Banquet of Words: Marchand on the Names in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival" New Research: Yearbook for the Society of Medieval German Studies, 1(Lancaster, PA: Avari, 2009): 76 – 98.
12th Reaction Paper Due (Parzival)
PARZIVAL BOOKS XV – XVI
Monday December 3
14th Session / Read books XV-XVI of Parzival
James F. Poag, "Wîp und Grâl: Structure and Meaning in Wolfram's Parzival," Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 67.2 (1968): 204-211.
13th Reaction Paper Due (Parzival)
FINAL DUE ON DECEMBER 10th