Lecturer

• Dr. Luciano García García

Office

• D2-109

Office Hours (2008-09)

• Monday: 17:30-19:30
• Tuesday: 10:30-11:30 and 17:30-18:30
• Wedsnesday: 10:30-11:30

TIMING

STUDENT COURSE GUIDE

ASSIGNMENTS

• Paper writing instructions

CLASS MATERIALS

• Cuentos de vikingos: La muerte de Hjalma, La ley de la sangre, El viejo Stoerkodder
• Hjalmar's death (English version)
• Starkar the Old (English version)
• Medieval Epic
• Notes and materials1
• Song of Roland sketches

TOPICS (CLASSNOTES):

• TOPIC 1: THE MIDDLE AGES: THE EPIC AND THE NARRATIVE TRADITIONS. EUROPEAN EPICS. CHAUCER IN HIS EUROPEAN CONTEXT
• TOPIC 2: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE CONTINENTAL MILIEU
• TOPIC 3: ELIZABETHAN DRAMA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN DRAMA OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

SAMPLE EXAMS:

• Literatura inglesa y sus  relaciones con la literatura europea exam: multiple choice test
• Literatura inglesa y sus relaciones con la literatura europea exam: text commentary

LINKS:

• OLD NORTHERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE (SCANDINAVIAN, ICELANDIC, GERMAN, ANGLO-SAXON):

• "La ley de la sangre": http://webs.advance.com.ar/maiano/textos_tsx_org/txt/anonimo/la_ley_de_la_sangre.cnt.txt
• Northern European Studies Texts: http://www.northvegr.org/lore/main.php#sagas (See the Laxdaela Saga, Chapter 48 onwards, for the real sagas in English on "La ley de la sangre, Kiartan el invencible").
• Old Norse Sagas: http://www.google.es/search?q=Sturlunga+Saga&hl=es&lr=&start=30&sa=N
• TEUTONIC MYTH AND LEGEND, by Donald A. Mackenzie, An Introduction to the Eddas & Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, etc. 1912?: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/tml/index.htm

   

• THE BATTLE OF MALDON:

• http://www.airflow.net/maldon/
• http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/britannia/maldon/maldonbattle.html
• http://faculty.uca.edu/~jona/second/malnotes.htm
• http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a9.html

• LA CHANSON DE ROLAND:

• Old French version with an English translation: http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Texts/Period_02/Roland/001-049.htm
• Medieval Sourcebook. The Song of Roland: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roland-ohag.html
• Online Medieval and Classical Library Release. The Song of Roland: http://omacl.org/Roland
• Spark notes on La Chanson de Roland: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/songofroland/section14.rhtml
• GradeSaver Classis Note on the Song of Roland: http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/roland

• THE LAY OF THE CID / THE SONG OF MY CID:

• English translation:  see Medieval text in English below.
• See Medieval Festival below.
• Some brief notes: Awertynotes: http://www.awerty.com/elcid2.html
• Some brief notes: Bookrags (on payment): http://www.bookrags.com/guides/cantardemiocidelcid
• Facsimile edition at Biblioteca Virtual Cervante: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_obra/Cid
• Old Castilian, modern Spanish, and English versions by the University of Texas: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/cid/

• THE SONG OF THE NIBELUNGS:

• A summary of the plot: http://www.authorama.com/famous-men-of-the-middle-ages-3.html
• Complete translation into English: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Nibelungenlied/
• Introductory sketch: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Nibelungenlied/introduction.html
• Brief notes on this work and many more: http://www.enotes.com/lit/
  

• EUROPEAN TALE TELLING OF THE MIDDLE AGES

• Medieval sourcebooks: Tales of the Virgin: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tales-virgin.html
• Study Sheet: Medieval Tales: http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/tcnj/worldlit/fabliaux.htm
• Italian Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron: http://www.ilnarratore.com/anthology/boccaccio/boccaccio.html
• Study Sheet: Boccaccio's Decameron: http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/tcnj/worldlit/decameron.htm
• Research Guide to Chaucer: http://www.wcsu.edu/library/gd_chaucer.html
• Essential Chaucer: The Prioress and her Tale: http://colfa.utsa.edu/chaucer/ec28-17.html
• Middle English Other Than Chaucer: http://english.byu.edu/chaucer/mdengoth.htm

• THE PETRARCHIST TRADITION:

• Set reading of Petrarchist sonnets
• Canzoniere: vocabulary of sonnets
• Classnotes on Petrarchistic sonnets
• Class commentaries on Petrarchistic sonnets
• Francesco Petrarh and Laura de Noves: http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/
• La página de Garcilaso en Internet: http://www.garcilaso.org/
• Garcilaso sonnets: http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/Garcilaso.html
• Poesía (translation into of Garcilaso de la Vega’s sonnet 5): http://www.ltcconline.net/barclay/courses/102_amor/amor102_poesia.htm
• Sonetos del Siglo de Oro – Golden Age Spanish Sonnets: http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/
• Anthology of Spanish poetry: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/poetry.htm
• Intute Arts and Humanities List of links related to Spanish literature: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201198
• Pierre de Ronsard, Sonets pour Elene, Ebookothèque poétique: http://www.florilege.free.fr/recueil/ronsard.htm

• Ronsard's poems in French:: http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Document/ConsulterElementNum?O=NUMM-70286&Deb=1&Fin=1&E=TDM&ie=.html

• Shakespeare’s sonnets: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonn01.htm

• A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS  - EL CASTIGO SIN VENGANZA:

• Plot summary of the plays
• A Woman Killed...: commentary
• El castigo sin venganza: commentary
• A Woman Killed...: vocabulary notes
• A Woman Killed with Kindness Luminarium edition
• El castigo sin venganza. Vern Williamsen's edition
• Facsimile edition of El castigo sin venganza
• El castigo sin vengazanza. Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes. Video.
• Texto y contexto en El castigo sin venganza. Juan Manuel Rozas. Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes.
  

• GENERAL (pages containing studies and interesting links to Medieval texts (Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, The Song of Roland, The Song of the Nibelungs, the Lay of the Cid, and many more ):

• Medieval text in English:   http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/medieval.htm
• Medieval Festival: http://www.hozho.homestead.com/MedievalFestival-Literature.html
• Awertynotes: http://www.awerty.com