Fiche de cours
Seminar: Fifteenth-Century Dream Vision Poetry
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Denis Renevey
Intervenant(s): -
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Séminaire
Semestre d'hiver
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais
Public: Non
Crédits: 0
Contenu
Following the writing of Le Roman de la Rose in the thirteenth century, dream-vision poetry became extremely popular throughout the Western world. In England, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote several of his major works as dream visions. The Pearl author himself uses the dream vision for his account of the subtle theological debate in which he is involved with his dead daughter. This seminar will be devoted to a close reading of two significant dream visions from a later period. Indeed, Lydgate's Temple of Glas and James I of Scotland's The Kingis Quair date from the early fifteenth century. Both texts are indebted to the French tradition and to Chaucer. We will explore several thematic issues which are often linked to that specific genre: notions of courtliness, ideas associated to Boethian philosophy, autobiography, politics and the question of the representation of women in such a genre.
Bibliographie
Set Text: Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions, ed. Julia Boffey (Oxford: OUP, 2003).
Exigences du cursus d'études
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