Mythology of Scandinavian
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Syllabus


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Course Materials


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Scott A Mellor
1310 Van Hise Hall
Tel: 262-0863
Email: samellor@wisc.edu
Department of Scandianvian Studies

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19th Century Scandinavian Literature

 
 
Syllabus: Fall 2007
Welcome
Week 1 Introduction Readings
Sept. 5 Introduction: The Geography and
Languages of Northern Europe
MSL Reserve 1: Geography
Week 2 Medieval Scandinavia  
Sept. 10 Scandinavian Mythology MSL: Reserve 2: "the Lay of Thrym" and
"the Lay of Skirnir"
Sept. 12 Scandinavian Christianity MSL Reserve 3:, Life of St. Ansgar
Week 3    
Sept. 17 Old Norse Literature Hrafnkel's saga
Sept. 19 Old Norse Literature Hrafnkel's saga
Week 4    
Sept. 24 Scandinavian Monasticism MSL: Reserve 4: St. Birgitta
Sept. 26 Scandinavian Folklore MSL: Reserve 5: Plague Legends
Danish Folktales
: "The Pancake House"
"Prince Whitebear"
"The Story of a Kitchenmaid"
""Snow White"
"About Stolen Barley-Corns"
"The Elf Children"
Week 5  
Oct. 1 The Age of Chivalry

Scandinavian Ballads:"German Gladenswain"
"Sir Olaf and the Fairies"
"Marsti and his Wife"
" Ebbe Skammelson"
"Thorekarl of Asgarth"

Oct. 3 First Exam  
Week 6 Early Modern Scandinavia  
Oct. 8 Reformation MSL: Reserve 8:Martin Luther and "Vasa Song"
Oct. 10 The Baroque MSL: Reserve 9: "Hercules"
Week 7    
Oct. 15 The Baroque MSL: Reserve 10: Kingo - Leonora Christina - Witch Legends
Oct. 17 Age of Reason: Holberg Erasmus Montanus
Week 8 Romanticism  
Oct. 22 Romanticism MSL: Reserve 11: "The Viking"
Oct. 24 Blicher Tardy Awakening: "Tardy Awakening"
"The Hosier"
Week 9    
Oct. 29 Hans Christian Andersen The Shadow and Other Tales: all stories
Oct. 31 Viktor Rydberg MSL: Reserve 12: Singoalla
Week 10    
Nov. 5 TBA

TBA

Nov. 7

Second Exam

 
Week 11 The Modern Breakthrough  
Nov. 12 The Modern Breakthrough MSL: Reserve 15: "The Scream" and "I Look" Sex and the Modern breakthrough: Stringberg's "Wages of Virtue" and Kleve "Pyrric Victories"
Nov. 14 The Modern Breakthrough

MSL: Reserve 15: Money
Sex and the Modern breakthrough: Pontoppidan "If the Wild Geese Pass"

Week 12    
Nov. 19 Henrik Ibsen I "Enemy of the People"
Nov. 21 Henrik Ibsen II A Doll´s House
MSL: Reserve 16: Strindberg's "A Doll's House"
Week 13    
Nov. 26 August Strindberg

"The Father"

Nov 28 Pontoppidan The Polar Bear
Week 14 Neo-Romanticism  
Dec. 3 Finnish Literature MSL: Reserve 17: Juhani Aho
Dec. 5 Selma Lagerlöf MSL: Reserve 18: Mr. Arne's Gold
Week 15 Nordic Decadence  
Dec. 10 Ola Hansson Sensitiva Amorosa
Dec. 12 Hamsun Pan
Dec. 17 Final exam 07:25 P.M