Criticism Presentations

See the questions posed in the syllabus under “Reading and Research Journal.” In your presentation, be sure you do the following:

1. Begin by introducing and abstracting one critical/scholarly work or a closely related group of such works. Discuss the “scope and importance” of the critical/scholarly work(s).
2. Identify key assumptions of the work(s).
3. Discuss the kinds of information/knowledge required to do the criticism/scholarship in question. Common knowledge? Specialized knowledge? Und so weiter.
4. Compare the critical/scholarly method in the work(s) you are reporting on with what you are used to from non-medieval criticism/scholarship.
5. Discuss with the seminar group what the criticism/scholarship in question does for our understanding of the literature we are reading.

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