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75362 - Gender and Violence in the Old Germanic Literatures

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Davide Bertagnolli
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-FIL-LET/15
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative  Literatures (cod. 0981)

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                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative  Literatures (cod. 0981)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Nov 14, 2022 to Dec 20, 2022

Learning outcomes

The student already knows the old Germanic literatures and investigates the relation between gender and violence in the texts of the Nibelungs Cycle and in the modern rewriting of the Nibelung legend.

Course contents

This course examines one of the masterpieces of medieval German literature, Parzival, composed by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the early 13th century. It is probably the courtly text par excellence, in which Wolfram combines the themes and structure of the Arthurian romance with the Christian theme of the Grail; at the centre we find the figure of the young Parzival, whose spiritual growth is the main thread of the story. After a historical background, in which the outlines of the so-called "Swabian Age" will be traced, we will consider the sources used by the author and then analyse the text in terms of its narratological structure and content.

Readings/Bibliography

Text uploaded online on the website of the course.

Laura Mancinelli, Parzival, Einaudi, (any edition).

Massimiliano Bampi, Sui sentieri del Graal. Il Parzival di Wolfram von Eschenbach, Milano, Meltemi, 2022. (BOOK IS COMING OUT BY THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER).

Wolfram von Eschenbach “Parzival”. A cura di Adele Cipolla, in Mariantonia Liborio (a cura di), Il Graal. I testi che hanno fondato la leggenda. Traduzioni e commenti di Adele Cipolla, Silvia De Laude, Marco Infurna, Mariantonia Liborio, Francesco Zambon, Milano, Mondadori, 2005, pp. 1116-1700.

Other books will be suggested during the course.

Non-attending students have to contact Prof. Bertagnolli in order to define an exam bibliography.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be held in presence. You are strongly recommended to attend and actively participate in all of your classes as this is a key learning component of the course.

Knowledge of German is not required.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Video and audio materials in internet, lectures notes provided by the teacher

Office hours

See the website of Davide Bertagnolli

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.