Ph.D. (1962), French, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julian E. Harris Professor of French
Publications on medieval topics:
- Sens and Conjointure in the Chevalier de la Charrette.
- Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love
- The Arts of Poetry and Prose
- Medieval French Romance.
- Internal Difference and Meanings in the "Roman de la rose"
Edited Volumes:
- The Romances of Chretien de Troyes. Includes his: "Chretien de Troyes: The Narrator and His Art"
- The Legacy of Chretien de Troyes. Includes his: 'The Art of Description'
- What is Literature? France 1100-1600
- The Medieval Opus: Imitation, Rewriting, and Transmission in French and Other Written Texts (Proceedings of the Symposium Held by the Institute for Research in Humanities October 5-7 1995 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Grants and Rewards:
- Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin (1967-1968); senior member (1990-1995)
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Research (1974-1975)
- The Hilldale Award in the Humanities (1994)
- Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly
- Prix Escalibur (1995)
- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands (1997-1998)
Offices:
Research Interests:
- Medieval poetics
- Interpretation of medieval texts
Courses regularly taught:
- French 430 (Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature)
- French 449 (Questions de civilisation-civilisation medievale [graduate]))
- French 703-704 (Medieval French Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries)
- French 705-706 (Medieval French Literature to 1300)
- French 843-844 (Old Provencal)
- French 939-940 (Seminars in Old French and Old Provencal Literatures)
- Medieval 363 (Philosophy, Science, and Poetry in the Middle Ages)
- Medieval 550/551 (Medieval Imagination)
- Medieval 550/551 (Woman and the Grail in Medieval Literature)
- Medieval 550/551 (The Round Table: from Troy to the Grail)
Address:
University of Wisconsin
Dept. of French and Italian
Rm 618 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel. (608)262-5011(262-3941)
FAX: (608) 265-3892 email: sihle@bus.wisc.edu
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