Medieval Narrative E-341
This course focuses on representative English and continental narrative literature,
including such works as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
romances by Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, the Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied,
El Cid, and Dante's Divine Comedy.
Textbooks for Fall 2007:
Gottfried von
Strassburg. Tristan. Penguin. ISBN 0140440984
Haddawy, trans. The Arabian Nights. Norton (reissue 1990). ISBN
0393313670
Hamilton and Perry, trans. The Poem of the Cid. Penguin. ISBN
0-14-044-446-7
Hanning and Ferrante, trans. The Lais of
Marie de France. Labyrinth, 1982. ISBN 0-939464-02-0
Hatto, trans. The Nibelungenlied. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044137-9
Sayers, trans. Dante's The Divine Comedy: Hell. Penguin.
ISBN 0-14-044-006-2
