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HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE: THE MIDDLE AGES, classes

TThe course shall be devoted to the poetics of  chansons de geste; to notions such as "courtesy" and matière de Bretagne  [the matters of Britain]; to the ideas of the chevaliers' adventure and "celestial chivalry"; to the female characters in medieval romances; to the motives and techniques of comic literature; to the birth of the theatre; and to main topics and forms which appear in lyrics. 

Analyzed texts:  

  • La Chanson de Roland;  
  • troubadours'  and trouvères' poetry  (selected texts);
  • Les Lais by  Marie de France;
  • Erec et Enide and  Le conte du Graal  by Chrétien de Troyes;
  • the  fabliaux (selected texts); 
  • La Farce de maistre Pathelin;
  • poetry by Charles d`Orléans;
  • Le Grand Testament  by François Villon

Credit: assiduity, speech, composition.

The credit for the classes is not necessary for the examination.

 

Bibliography - course books:

P.Y. Badel, Introduction à la vie littéraire du Moyen Age, Paris, 1969;

D.  Poirion, Précis de littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, 1983;

M. Zink, Introduction à la littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, 1993



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