Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Sigrid Rieuwerts
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 313
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Inhalt: The modern study of culture begins with the study of ballads. The eighteenth-century ‘dicovery’ of ballads in popular tradtion (that is, the putting of ballads into scholarly books) began an enduring debate which was crucial in defining what came to be called Romanticism. It is was no other than Wordsworth who claimed that English poetry had been absolutely redeemed by the publication of the ancient English ballads. Todays point of reference for works on traditional ballads, songs and narratives, is Child’s edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-98). Francis James Child (1825-1896) was to the traditional balladry of the English-speaking world what the Brothers Grimm were to fairytales. Our seminar will focus on the English and Scottish traditional ballad, explore its history and form, study the aesthetic distinctiveness of the ‘Child ballads’ and interpret them in relation to wide-ranging historical and contemporary cultural contexts and concerns. Starting with the history of the genre and some influential essays by Addison, Percy, Herder, Motherwell, Scott and Child, we will then concentrate on Scott’s Minstrely of the Scottish Border (1802-30), discuss individual ballads, singers and traditions as well as modern adaptations.
