Class Id: 8287
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Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
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Course Id: 3664
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Title: Topics in Medieval Literature: The Medieval Voice
Description: This seminar will investigate the multiple dimensions of the medieval voice: grammatical, logical, musical, and poetic. Topics to be discussed include the relation between sound and voice, the elements of writing, universals, rational and irrational noise, tone and timbre, syllabification, and rhyme. Authors to be discussed may include Aristotle, Prisican, Boethius, Porphyry, Anselm, Gaunilo, Abelard, Roscelin, Guilhem de Peitieus, Arnaut Daniel, Dante, Eustache Deschamps.
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Professors: Daniel Heller-Roazen
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