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Dr. Jamison Class Meeting Time: T/Th 10:00 - 11:15 (Gamble 205) COURSE DESCRIPTION: Senior Seminar Course website: http://www.llp.armstrong.edu/5800/news.html Course blog: http://aasucapstone.blogspot.com/ Literature Shaped by History and History Changed by Literature Chronicles from the Middle Ages document that, in 778, a troop of Basques ambushed Charlemagne's rearguard, led by Roland, as Charlemagne's army was returning from a failed attempt to take Saragossa. Nearly three-hundred year later, one of the great monuments of medieval literature, The Song of Roland, transformed this historical event into an epic poem that exemplifies the medieval heroic code of conduct. In turn, The Song of Roland itself may have shaped history as some scholars speculate about its use as propaganda to gain support for the Norman Conquest. Using The Song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian romances, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, and selections from Cervantes' Don Quixote as common texts, this section of the Capstone seminar will focus on the relationships between literature and history, particularly in the development of chivalry. Reception theory and new historicism will serve as primary critical perspectives. Primary Texts: Secondary Texts: Suggested Texts: Grades: Topic Proposals: 10% Annotated Bibliography: 15% Draft One: 15% Final Draft: 30% Presentation and Abstract: 15% Participation and responses: 15%
Tentative Schedule: January
12, 14 January
19, 21 January
26, 28 February
2, 4 February
9, 11 February
16, 18 February
23, 25 March
2, 4 March
9, 11 March
16, 18 March
30, April 1 April
6, 8 April
13, 15 April
20, 22 April
27, 29
Carol Jamison
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