Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-FRA11-301F
- Title
- History of Old French Literature
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Description
- Learning outcomes
- Having survived only in fragmentary form before 1100, literature in Old French in the 12th and 13th centuries experienced a particularly fertile period in genres as diverse as the chanson de geste, the ancient and courtly novel, lyric poetry and drama. The two centuries that followed, although less spectacular from a literary point of view, were marked by incessant warfare and saw the emergence of new literary forms in prose historiography, drama, the novel and the short story. It therefore seems sensible to opt for a combination of chronological and generic presentation, with each of the two major periods corresponding to chapters devoted to the evolution of literary genres. The course follows the same principle with regard to Renaissance literature: the 16th century is divided into three periods in order to present literature in its broadest sense, with a place also reserved for theological-philosophical works, which were an integral part of the literary landscape of the period.
- Course content
- Overview of French literature from the Middle Ages to the 16th century (spring 2023, teacher: Palágyi Tivadar) Exam topics: 1. The chanson de geste: definition of the genre, epic cycles, question of origins, formal and thematic characteristics. 2. La Chanson de Roland (detailed analysis of the whole and of an extract) 3. The romance genre in the Middle Ages: romances of antiquity and the Tristanian legend (general presentation) 4. The novels of Chrétien de Troyes: Erec et Enide, Cligès, Yvain (general presentation), Lancelot ou le chevalier de la charrette (analysis of the whole and of an extract on the compulsory reading list) 5. Medieval historiography: Villehardouin, Robert de Clari, Joinville (presentation of the first part of the Conquest of Constantinople) 6. Didactic literature: bestiaries and the Roman de la Rose (analysis of the whole and of an extract from the text by Guillaume de Lorris) 7. Comic genres (fabliaux and Roman de Renart) 8. Lyric poetry in the Middle Ages: Thibaud de Champagne and Charles d'Orléans (analysis of extracts) 9. The young Renaissance (Clément Marot, Marguerite de Navarre, Jean Calvin) 10. The Renaissance in full bloom - La Pléiade: Ronsard and Du Bellay (analysis of extracts) 11. The humanists of the second half of the 16th century (Amyot, Henri Estienne) and Montaigne's Essays (presentation of chapters on the compulsory reading list)
- Assessment method
- Oral colloquium.
- Bibliography
- Lectures obligatoires : Chanson de Roland, Le chevalier de la charrette, Roman de la Rose ('re partie de Guillaume de Lorris) Extraits consultables sur le site https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lNnG2_6-oFtvYar0EwC5bjow2OSiypxg?usp=share_link Bibliographie : J.-Ch. Payen, La littérature française du Moyen Age, Garnier Flammarion, 1997 M. Zinc, Littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, P.U.F., 1992 D. Poiron, Précis de littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, P.U.F., 1983 D. Boutet, Histoire de la littérature française du Moyen Age, Champion, 2003 E. Baumgartner, Le récit médiéval, Paris, Hachette Supérieur, 1995 Robert AULOTTE, Le XVIe siecle, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991 TOURNON-BIDEAUX-MOREAU-POLIZZI, Histoire de la littérature française du XVIe siecle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004 A francia irodalom története, Maár Judit (szerk.), Bp., Eötvös Kiadó, 2011