Courses Descriptions
HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE: THE MIDDLE AGES, classes
- HLF
- Ist year, autumn term - 2h/week
- dr hab. Agata SOBCZYK, dr Ewa Dorota ŻÓŁKIEWSKA
- Department for French Literature
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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