Obtaining a clear and adequately detailed picture of the Romance / Germanic cultural milieu from a philological, historical and literary perspective, as well as of the processes through which the forms, genres and conventions of the the literary tradition developed, focusing on the specific linguistic and literary character of the individual cultural areas.
Familiarity with and understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
Familiarity with and understanding of the principles of textual criticism.
teacher profile teaching materials
A) a preliminary language course (12 HOURS)
B) Lecture (30 HOURS)
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A) The preliminary course provides a grounding in the Old English Language;
B) The course will focus on a prose text drawn from those available in 'A Guide to Old English'; the text will be translated and analyzed from a linguistic as well as a cultural and literary perspective. Issues relating to its transmission will furthermore be considered.
Notes:
- Students enrolled for the L12 Lingue e Mediazione degree must pass the General Linguistics 1 exam before they take the Germanic Philology 1 exam; other students are strongly recommended to do likewise.
- Students are requested to register for the course by sending an e-mail to the lecturer (paolo.vaciago@uniroma3.it) indicating their name and matriculation number.
- Students unable to attend the course in person are requested to contact the lecturer well in advance of the session in which they intend to take the exam.
- additional material provided by the lecturer.
Programme
The course comprises:A) a preliminary language course (12 HOURS)
B) Lecture (30 HOURS)
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A) The preliminary course provides a grounding in the Old English Language;
B) The course will focus on a prose text drawn from those available in 'A Guide to Old English'; the text will be translated and analyzed from a linguistic as well as a cultural and literary perspective. Issues relating to its transmission will furthermore be considered.
Notes:
- Students enrolled for the L12 Lingue e Mediazione degree must pass the General Linguistics 1 exam before they take the Germanic Philology 1 exam; other students are strongly recommended to do likewise.
- Students are requested to register for the course by sending an e-mail to the lecturer (paolo.vaciago@uniroma3.it) indicating their name and matriculation number.
- Students unable to attend the course in person are requested to contact the lecturer well in advance of the session in which they intend to take the exam.
Core Documentation
- B. Mitchell - F. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Blackwell, Oxford, 2008, 7th edition (or later);- additional material provided by the lecturer.
Type of evaluation
The candidate will be asked to read and translate a few lines from the text analyzed during the course. Next, (s)he will be asked to answer questions concerning Old English, the main developments from Indo-European to Old English, and the literary and historical background of the text analyzed during the course