| Week 1 |
Introduction |
Readings |
| Sept.
5 |
Introduction:
The Geography and
Languages of Northern Europe |
MSL
Reserve 1: Geography |
| Week 2 |
Medieval
Scandinavia |
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| 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 |
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| Sept.
17 |
Old Norse Literature |
Hrafnkel's
saga |
| Sept.
19 |
Old Norse Literature |
Hrafnkel's
saga |
| Week 4 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Week 6 |
Early Modern
Scandinavia |
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| Oct.
8 |
Reformation |
MSL: Reserve 8:Martin Luther and "Vasa Song" |
| Oct.
10 |
The Baroque |
MSL: Reserve 9: "Hercules" |
| Week 7 |
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| Oct.
15 |
The Baroque |
MSL: Reserve 10: Kingo - Leonora Christina - Witch Legends |
| Oct.
17 |
Age of Reason: Holberg |
Erasmus Montanus |
| Week 8 |
Romanticism |
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| Oct.
22 |
Romanticism |
MSL: Reserve 11: "The Viking" |
| Oct.
24 |
Blicher |
Tardy Awakening: "Tardy Awakening"
"The Hosier" |
| Week 9 |
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| Oct.
29 |
Hans Christian Andersen |
The Shadow and Other Tales: all stories |
| Oct.
31 |
Viktor Rydberg |
MSL: Reserve 12: Singoalla |
| Week
10 |
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| Nov.
5 |
TBA |
TBA
|
| Nov.
7 |
Second
Exam
|
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| Week 11 |
The Modern
Breakthrough |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Nov.
26 |
August Strindberg |
"The Father"
|
| Nov
28 |
Pontoppidan |
The Polar Bear |
| Week
14 |
Neo-Romanticism |
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| 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 |
