General information and syllabus
Wednesdays, 6-8:40
Armitage 124
Professor James Rushing, Department of German and Russian
Armitage 470
Telephone 856-225-6125 or 6136 (office), 609-714-9566 (home)
Office hours: 12:20-13:00 Thu Fri; 11:15-12:00 Mon Wed Fri;
5:00-6:00 Wed
The work of the course will consist of
• reading and discussing
literary texts,
• viewing and discussing
art works related to the texts,
• reading and discussing
one or more works of secondary literature,
• preparing and presenting
one oral report on a work of secondary literature and
• one oral report on primary
texts and/or images,
• and completing a term
paper analyzing a text or group of texts and/or a set of images, with secondary
research.
Tentative schedule
Jan. 17 “pictura laicorum litteratura est”: Orality, literacy,
and the role of the visual arts.
The Bible and religious art
Jan. 24 Genesis 1-4 and Gospel according to Luke
Bible illustration and religious art
The Latin Middle Ages, vernacular literature, and
the visual arts: The case of the Aenied
Jan. 31 Virgil, The Aenied
Feb. 7 Aeneas in the visual arts
Feb. 14 Aeneas in the visual arts
Orality becoming written / Hero song becoming history:
The Song of Roland and Roland iconography.
Feb. 21 The Song of Roland / Roland in the visual arts
Feb. 28 Roland in the visual arts
Courtly epic and its iconography: Iwein, Parzival,
Tristan.
Mar. 7 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival
Mar. 21 Parzival in the visual arts
Mar. 28 Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan
Apr. 4 Tristan in the visual arts
Apr. 11 Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain
Apr. 18 Yvain in the visual arts
Apr. 25 Yvain, Tristan and Parzival in the visual arts
May 6 Term
paper due.
This page was last updated on April 17, 2001. Send comments, questions,
or requests for information to German Department, Rutgers Camden (germanca@rutgers.crab.edu).
Or you can call us at (856) 225-6136.
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