Offered Undergraduate Courses Dr. Flieger and her associates teach a succession of myth courses offered in an undergraduate Concentration in Myth and Folklore by the University of Maryland's English Department.
All texts are in English or English translation.
This is an introductory course designed to acquaint students with the functions of myth and give them the opportunity to read entire texts in translation. The Fourth World of the Hopis . The Mesopotamian Gilgamesh and Inanna provide an essential link between the myths they express and the cultures that produced them. The Prose Edda , Beowulf , and Malory's story of King Arthur. Beginning with the earliest appearances of the figure of Arthur in the history and folklore of the Welsh Triads, the Annales Cambriae , and in the works of Gildas, Bede, Nennius, William of Malmsbury, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, the course explores the Arthurian world through the ages.