GLITS 313 A: Literature Across Places
Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages
Jointly offered with
GERM 298 A: Topics in Literature and Culture
ITAL 354 A: Travels, Migrations, and Exile:
Taught by Annegret Oehme and Beatrice Arduini, this class explores literary expressions of cross-cultural interactions between European and Non-European cultures in the Middle Ages, as well as representations of "Otherness" in cultural settings and literary texts.
Students will engage with a wide range of literary texts; explore how diversity and interconnectivity materialize in the contexts of politics, commerce, migration, religion and similar philosophical and cultural frameworks; and examine how such ‘modern’ global phenomena find root in the 'premodern' world. While focusing on German and Italian-speaking areas, this class will take a critical view of Eurocentric approaches.