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Program

Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 10/31/1978

Funding Totals

$41,100.00 (approved)
$41,100.00 (awarded)

The Spirit of Truth: Interaction of Myth and Culture in Medieval Narrative Literature

FAIN: FS-10586-76

Stephen G. Nichols
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)

To conduct a seminar on the interaction of myth and culture in medieval narrative literature. The seminar will examine the intellectual, aesthetic and historical forces which acted to make narrative literature central to medieval man's perception of the reality of the world. The course will examine the epic, saga, romance, and chronicle.