German Studies 406 Middle High German Literature II

Schedule-Spring 2001

Week 1 (22 January) The Empire and the Realm of the loving subject
Walther von der Vogelweide, Reichston 2.I-III; Ottenton 4.III-V
Heinrich von Morungen, I and XXX
Week 2 (29 January) Questing the audience: Parzival 1.1-4.26, 827.1-30, 114.5-120.10
Orientalizing prelude: Parzival Books I-II in English; 4.26-15.30; 20.19-29.26
Week 3 (5 February) Adventure and love, degree zero: Parzival Book III in English
Close encounters of the knightly kind: 120.11-129.4
Ravishing maidens: 129.5-142.10
Morungen, V and XXXII
Week 4 (12 February) Courtly society
Carnivalizing the king: (142.11-161.22)
Disciplining the courtly body (161.23-169)
Poet/lover and audience: Morungen, VII and X
Week 5 (19 February) Marriage and kingship: Parzival Book IV in English
Fatal attraction?: 179.13-196.2
Becoming regent: 196.3-203.11; 222.10-233.30
Reinmar, VI and XII

Week 6 (26 February) Romancing the Grail: Parzival Book V in English

Seeing and not seeing: 224-244
Sigune 2: 245-256.11
Reinmar, XIV and XXVIII
Week 7 (5 March) Arthurian and Grail Realms: Parzival Book VI in English
280-83; 295-301; 312-319.19; 329.15-337
The Crusades: Hartmann, V; Reinmar, V and XXXI
Week 8 (12 March) Summa theologica: Parzival Book IX in English
Sigune 3: 433-42
Saving souls/healing bodies: 446-77
Reimnar X and Walther 81; Walther 32
Spring break
Week 9 (26 March) Doppelweg and dominion: Parzival Books XIV and XV in English
732-44 and 781-86
Walther 49
 

Week 10 (1 April) The Empire of redemption: Parzival Book XVI in English

Healing the Fisher King, The Redeeming Question 787-98
Walther Mädchenlieder: 16, 51, 26
Week 11 (8 April) Constructions of the self:
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan, 1-240; 2001-130
Tristan's self-fashioning: 2482-3378, 3505-3750
Walther's poems of old age: 43, 70, 97
Week 12 (15 April) Literary history?; the hero as artist?
Tristan's swertleite, 4555-5065
Tristan and Isolde perform, 7605-8140
Wolfram, Lied II

Week 13 (22 April) The Empire of love:

Tristan, 11645-12502 (the love potion), 16621-17706 (the Minnegrotto)
Week 14 (30 April) Neidhart, selected Lieder
 
Books on Reserve in Olin 301
Bertau, Karl. Wolfram von Eschenbach. Neun Versuche (Munich, 1983) PT 1688 B53 1983
Bumke, Joachim. Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1991) DD 61 B94 1991
Bumke, Joachim. Wolfram von Eschenbach. Sammlung Metzler 36 (Stuttgart, 1991) PT1688 B94 1991
Fromm, Hans. Der deutsche Minnesang, Wege der Forschung 15 and 608 (Darmstadt, 1966 and 1985) PF 217 F93 v. 1-2
Fuhrmann, Horst. Germany in the High Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1986) DD141 F95 1986
Gottfried von Strassburg. Tristan, trans. A. T. Hatto (Harmondsworth, 1965) PT1525 .A425 1965
Groos, Arthur. Romancing the Grail (Ithaca, 1995) PT 1688 G87 1995
Haverkamp, Alfred. Medieval Germany 1056-1273 (Oxford, 1988) DD 126 H38 1988
Heinen, Hubert. Mutabilität im Minnesang (Göppingen, 1989) PT 1421 M87x 1989
Lexer, Matthias. Mittelhochdeutsches Taschenwörterbuch (Stuttgart, 1958) PF 4327 L67
Moser, Hugo and Tervooren, Helmut. Des Minnesangs Frühling (Stuttgart, 1977) PT 1421 L13 1977 v.1-2
Oettli, Peter. A First Dictionary of Middle High German (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1986) PF 4333 O28
Sayce, Olive. The Medieval German Lyric (Oxford, 1982) PT 215 S29
Schweikle, Günther. Minnesang, Sammlung Metzler 244 (Stuttgart, 1995) PT 217 S42 1995z
Schweikle, Günther. Reinmar: Lieder (Stuttgart, 1986) PT1637.R8 A7 1986
Schweikle, Günther. Neidhart (Stuttgart, 1990). Annex PT1571 .S41
Tervooren, Helmut, Heinrich von Morungen: Lieder (Stuttgart, 1975) PT 1537 H8 A47 1975