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FORE E-111/W European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages (21301)
Jan M. Ziolkowski, PhD, Professor of Medieval Latin and Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 103. Spring term.
A study of the culture--literary, artistic, and musical--that was produced and disseminated in the Middle Ages through the fusion of the classical educational system with the scriptures and liturgy of Christianity. Examines major authors and texts in which this culture took shape and expressed itself (such as Augustine, Benedict's Rule, The Song of Roland, Chrétien de Troyes, Tristan and Isolde, and Dante's Inferno). Relates the texts to Romanesque and Gothic art.
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FORE E-120a Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno (11584)
Nicolae Iliescu, PhD, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, Harvard University.
Graduate seminar. 4 units. Graduate credit $1,235. Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Sever Hall 204. Limited enrollment. Fall term.
A close analysis of selected cantos from the Divine Comedy: Inferno. The poem will be studied in its proper literary-historical and theological-philosophical context. Dante's conception of arts also will be emphasized. Inferno will be covered in its entirety. Knowledge of the Italian language is not necessary.
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FORE E-121 Boccaccio's Decameron (11583)
Franco Fido, PhD, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Thursday, 7:35-9:35 pm. Boylston Hall 104. Fall term.
This course begins with a short introduction to Boccaccio's times and literary career, and selections will be read from his minor works most closely related to the Decameron. The Decameron will be studied in its entirety: lectures and class discussions will appraise each tale in the context of the "day" to which it belongs, and each day within the general narrative that embodies the ideal of highly civilized life--the nobilmente vivere, or "nobly living."
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FORE E-152 Ancient and Modern Tragedy (11622)
Theoharis C. Theoharis, PhD, Editor, Boston Book Review.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $405, graduate credit $1,145. Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 pm. Sever Hall 213. Fall term.
In this class we will read Homer's Iliad and Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Topics under consideration: the persistence of exaltation through error in ancient and modern literature; the innocent criminality of the tragic hero; the prestige and permanence of rebellious suffering in the tragic form.
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