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FROM VOLKSBUCH TO NOVEL FALL 2008 |
Location: Cupples I, Room 218
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Gerhild Scholz Williams
314-935-5151/5106 gerhildwilliams@wustl.edu
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Monday, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ((Ridgley, Room 325)) Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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During the early modern period, 1500-1750, prose fiction developed as one of the dominant literary forms. We will read and review several important literary expressions along this evolutionary trajectory that mark the narrative changes leading from late medieval/early modern Prosaromane (Volksbücher) to early forms of the novel. We will explore the relationship of facts and fiction, the influence of magic, demonology, and travel writings as well as issues of gender construction and their effect on the development of prose narratives.
REQUIREMENTS
| 1. | Three short papers (6-8 pages) about three texts of your choice or one long paper (15-20 pages) on a theme/topic of your choice |
| 2. | Participation in Discussion Groups. |
Required Texts:
| Thüring von Ringoltingen. Melusine. Ed. Hans-Gert Roloff. Stuttgart: Reclam 1991 UB 1484 |
| Fortunatus. Ed. Hans-Gert Roloff. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1996. UB 7721 |
| Historia von. Dr. Fausten. Fuessel/Kreutzer, eds. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1999 UB 1516 |
| Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen: Lebensbeschreibung . . . der Courasche. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2001 UB 7998 |
| Eberhard Werner Happel. Der Insulanische Mandorell. Weidler 2007 (to be distributed in class) |
E -Reserve: In addition to the required texts, the following articles/chapters will be available on E-Reserve
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| Williams | "Existentielle Vergeblichkeit: Ch. 4 “Bis dass der Tod” |
| Williams | “Faust as Witch: Transformations of the Faust Legend in Early Modern Germany” |
| Wisner | “Ideas and Laws Regarding Women” |
| Watanabe-O’Kelly | "Damals wünschte ich ein Mann zu sein: Kriegerinnen im Europa in der Frühen Neuzeit” |
| Tatlock | “Engendering Social Orde" |
| Wiesner | “Disembodied Theory" |
| Rublack | “Meanings of Gender in Early Modern Germany" |
| Müller | “Formen literarischer Kommunikation im Uebergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit” |
| Solbach | “Early Modern German Narrative Prose” |
| Müller | “Volksbuch/Prosaroman im 15./16. Jahrhundert – Perspektiven der Forschung” |
| Müller | “Fortunatus”: Textual History/Information" |
| Müller | "Ausverkauf menschlichen Wissens” |
| Müller | “Melusine in Bern: zum Problem der ‘Verbürgerlichung’ höfischer Epik im 15. Jahrhunder” |
| Müller | “Melusine”: Textual History/Information" |
| Birken | “Vor-Ansprache zum Edlen Leser” + Notes |
| Keller | “Berner Samstagsgeheimnisse: Die Vertikale als Erzählformel in der Melusine" |
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| Sept. 8 | INTRODUCTION Müller: “Volksbuch/Prosaroman im 15./16. Jahrhundert – Perspektiven der Forschung” Formen literarischer Kommunikation |
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| Sept. 15 | MELUSINE Müller: “Melusine”: Textual History/Information “Melusine in Bern: zum Problem der ‘Verbürgerlichung’ höfischer Epik im 15. Jahrhundert” |
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| Sept. 22 | MELUSINE Keller “Berner Samstagsgeheimnisse: Die Vertikale als Erzählformel in der Melusine” |
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| Sept. 29 | FORTUNATUS Müller: “Fortunatus”: Textual History/Information |
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| Oct. 6 |
FORTUNATUS FIRST
SHORT PAPER DUE |
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| Oct. 20 | FAUSTUS Williams “Faust as Witch: Transformations of the Faust Legend. . . " |
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| Oct. 27 | FAUSTUS Williams: Existentielle Vergeblichkeit (Ch. 4): “Biss dass der Tod. . .” BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PARAGRAPH FOR LONG PAPER DUE |
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| Nov. 3 | FAUSTUS Müller: “Ausverkauf menschlichen Wissens” |
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| Nov. 10 | COURASCHE Rublack: “Meaning of Gender in Early Modern Germany” SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE |
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| Nov. 17 | COURASCHE Wantanabe-Kelly: “Damals wünschte ich ein Mann zu sein. . . " |
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| Nov. 24 | COURASCHE Tatlock: “Engendering Social Order.” |
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| Dec. 1 | Der Insulanische Mandorell (1682) |
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| Dec. 8 | Der Insulanische Mandorell (1682)
THIRD SHORT PAPER DUE |
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| Dec. 15 |
LONG PAPER DUE DECEMBER 15 AT NOON IN MY RIDGLEY MAIL BOX |
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