Activity | Credits | Period | Academic staff | Timetable |
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Lezioni | 5 | I SEMESTRE | Maria Adele Cipolla | |
Esercitazioni | 1 | I SEMESTRE | Maria Adele Cipolla |
Germanic sources to the Alexander Legend in the Middle Ages. Intertexuality, Literary Genres, Relationships among Different Linguistic Areas
SYLLABUS
FIRST PART (3 weeks = 12 hours): Introduction to Germanic Philology
Historical Linguistics
Indo-European Languages
Germanic Languages
Old Norse
Introduction to Textual Criticism
- Baldi, Philip, 2008. English as an Indo-European Language, in Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto, eds. A Companion to the History of the English Language, Oxford, Blackwell-Wiley, pp. 127–141
- Driscoll, Matthew J. 2010. ‘The words on the page: Thoughts on philology, old and new’, in Quinn, J. and E. Lethbridge, eds., Creating the Medieval Saga: Versions, Variability, and Editorial Interpretations of Old Norse Saga Literature, Odense, University Press of Southern Denmark, pp. 87-104
https://www.academia.edu/13048340/The_words_on_the_page_Thoughts_on_philology_old_and_new
- E. König - J. van der Auwera (eds.), The Germanic Languages, London-New York: Routledge, 1994, The Germanic Languages, pp. 1-18
(biblioteca Busch: GER LT 355; biblioteca Frinzi: BF 180 C3)
SECOND PART (5 weeks = 20 hours): Introduction to Old Norse
Historical Background: the Colonization and Conversion of Iceland
Old Norse Literacy
Manuscript Traditions
The Text-Critical Treatment of ‘Poetic Edda’
The Editorial History of Snorri’s ‘Edda’
The Relevance of Old Norse Manuscript Traditions to Textual Criticism
- A. Cipolla, ‘Editing and Translating Snorra Edda: Some Observations on the Editorial History of Snorri’s Ars Poetica’, in Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in European Culture, eds Judy Quinn and Maria Adele Cipolla, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, Acta Scandinavica
- Greetham, D. (2013) ‘A history of textual scholarship’, in Fraistat, N. and Flanders, J. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship: Cambridge University Press,
- Quinn, J., ‘The Principles of Textual Criticism and the Interpretation of Old Norse Texts Derived from Oral Tradition’, in Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in European Culture, eds Judy Quinn and Maria Adele Cipolla, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, Acta Scandinavica
THIRD PART (2 weeks and half = 10 hours): The Hamlet Legend
The European Reception of Old Scandinavian Cultures
Saxo Grammaticus
‘Amlóða saga’ (prof. Ian Felce, Cambridge)
The Spread across Europe – Belleforest – Shakespeare - Zeno
- Clunies Ross, Margaret, and Lars Lönnroth, 1999. ‘The Norse Muse. Report from an International Research Project’, alvíssmál 9: 3–28
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/9muse.pdf
Fisher, P., Trans., and H. Ellis Davidson Ed., Saxo Grammaticus, History of the Danes, 2 vols., I. Text (pp. 1-9, pp. 65-68, pp. 82-100), II Commentary (pp. 59-66), Brewer, Cambridge, 1979-80
Three lectures on the ‘Amlóða saga’ will be delivered by prof. Ian Felce, Cambridge. A performance of the Ambleto (with an Introduction to Zeno's work by the musicologist M. Rossi Corradini) is scheduled. Students will be requested to attend.
Oral exam; midterm test (after the 5th week) on the first part of the course and on related bibliographical entries.
Suggestions for readings and bibliographical materials will be published on the e-learning page.
Activity | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
Lezioni | Momma Haruko and Michael Matto (eds.) | A Companion to the History of the English Language | Blackwell-Wiley | 2008 | (saggio di Philipp Baldi. "English as an Indo-European Language", pp. 127-141 | |
Lezioni | David Greetham | "A history of textual scholarship", in The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, ed. by N. Fraistat and J. Flanders | Cambridge University Press | 2013 | saggio di D. Greetham, "A history of textual scholarship" (cfr. e-learning space) | |
Lezioni | E. König e J. van der Auwera (eds.) | The Germanic Languages | Routledge | 1994 | pp. 1-18 | |
Esercitazioni | P. Gibellini & A. Cinquegrani (eds.) | Il mito nella letteratura italiana. V/2: L'avventura dei personaggi | Morcelliana | 2009 | A. Cipolla, Amleto (pp. 69-93) | |
Esercitazioni | P. Fisher & H. Ellis Davidson (eds.) | Saxo Grammaticus. History of the Danes | Brewer | 1980 | I. Text (pp. 1-9, pp. 65-68, pp. 82-100), II Commentary (pp. 59-66) | |
Esercitazioni | A. Cipolla & J. Quinn (eds.) | Studies in the Reception of Old Norse Literature: The Hyperborean Muse in the European Culture | Brepols | 2016 | - A. Cipolla & J. Quinn, Introduction - saggio di A. Cipolla, "Editing and Translatinh Snorra Edda: Some Observations on the Editorial History of Snorri's Ars Poetica" | |
Esercitazioni | M. Clunies Ross & L. Lönroth | The Norse Muse. Report from an International Research Project | 2009 | http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/9muse.pdf |
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