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Academic Year 2004/2005
Mystic Voices: Visionary Experience in the Middle Ages
ENGL 334 SP
The divine "vision" was a special form of religious experience in medieval Europe, one that could involve not simply sight, but hearing, and other senses as well. This class will consider texts reporting visionary
experience
as problems of representation. What kind of experience was a "vision"? Why were they so much more common to women than men? How were they to be interpreted? How could one know a truly divine vision from a false, or
worse,
satanic vision? How could experiences of such intensity be represented in writing? How does the authority of personal experience, especially that of women, come to be rejected or legitimized by dominant patriarchal
institutions?
MAJOR READINGS
Writings by or about Hildegard of Bingen, Richard Rolle, Bridget of Sweden, Margery Kempe, Pierre Bourdieu, and Paul Ricoeur.
Theoretical readings by Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu,
Michel Foucault, Walter Ong.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Several short (5 pp.) papers.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course satisfies the English Dept.'s pre-1800 and Theory Requirements and has a Research option.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Zieman,Katherine G.
- Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK305;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 25)
- SR. major: 6 Jr. major: 5
- SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: 4 FR: X
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005
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