GER 576

Spring 2007 All Classes

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Open Seminar in German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in literary phenomena (such as movements, genres and forms, relations, themes and types, interdisciplinary studies, women's studies) that go beyond the confines of a particular century.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: GER 510.

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GER 576 class schedule data for spring 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43209	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	G46 Foreign Languages Building	Niekerk, C Siebenpfeiffer, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Visible/Invisible - Literature and Photography in the Modern Aesthetic. Instructor: H.Siebenpfeiffer
	39103	Lecture-Discussion	R	4:00PM -5:30PM	MW	G46 Foreign Languages Building	Bornholdt, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: Marriage in Secular and Sacred Vernacular Literature and Art This interdisciplinary and co-taught seminar will look at expressions of medieval marriage in both secular and sacred texts and the visual arts. It will study reflections of the medieval marriage debate with a particular focus on vernacular literature and art in twelfth century France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and England. Possible topics to be discussed are consent marriage, the indissolubility of marriage, conjugal chastity, and spiritual marriage. The course will focus on hagiographic and fictional literature and, where applicable, the accompanying visual representation of marriage in medieval manuscripts and art. Legal, theological, and historical texts concerned with the marriage debate will serve as the underpinning for the discussion. The course will open with a discussion of central medieval thinkers shaping the marriage debate in the eleventh and twelfth century. Throughout the semester, emphasis will be placed on the interplay of history, theology, and romance. We will look at the dissemination of certain secular and sacred narratives and the development of the theme of marriage in the individual vernacular adaptations across genre and gender. The readings will also pay attention to female authorship, patronage, and ownership of both marital romance and literature concerned with secular and spiritual marriage. The course will be structured by thematic groups so that we can look at the idea of marriage in its various expressions : theological, legal, allegorical, dynastic, spiritual, and romantic. Most Monday sessions will be conducted by medievalists from UIUC (Stephen Jaeger, Marianne Kalinke, Megan McLaughlin, Carol Symes, Anne D. Hedeman, Renee Trilling, Karen Fresco) and by experts from other institutions (Gabor Klaniczay, Jane Geddes, Dyan Elliott).