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ROMANCE PHILOLOGY
cod. 12923

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Filologia e linguistica romanza (L-FIL-LET/09)
Field
Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />Through analysis of a text, students will be provided the tools to allow them to undertake independent historic, linguistic and literary study of Old French literature.

Prerequisites

It is requested that students have taken the 10 credit Romance philology course during the 3-year undergraduate program

Course unit content

<br />Roman de Tristan, “courtly version”, “common version”: examination of these two traditional labels.<br />The course will offer an in-depth analysis of the texts (Tristan di Thomas, Tristan di Beroul, Folies Tristan) and a historical contextualisation of the critical debate that flourished around them.

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Bibliography

<br />Recommended readings<br />J. Bedier, Le roman de Tristan par Thomas : poeme du XIIe siecle / publie par Joseph Bedier. - Paris : F. Didot et C., 1902; Les fragments du Roman de Tristan, poeme du XIIe siecle / Thomas d'Angleterre ; edites avec commentaire par Bartina H. Wind. - Geneve : Droz ; Paris : Minard, 1960; The romance of Tristran / by Beroul ; a poem of the twelfth century edited by A. Ewert. - Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1967-1970; Les deux poemes de la Folie Tristan / edites par Felix Lecoy, Paris, Champion; Thomas d'Angleterre. Le roman de Tristan par Thomas : suivi de La folie Tristan de Berne et La folie Tristan d'Oxford / traduction, presentation et notes d'Emmanuele Baumgartner et Ian Short ; avec les textes edite par Felix Lecoy,  Paris, H. Champion.

Teaching methods

The exam consists of an oral interview and preparation of a paper that demonstrates adequate level of maturation and critical autonomy

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