Fiche de cours
English Medieval Lyrics
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Lucy Perry
Intervenant(s): -
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Cours
Semestre d'automne
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais
Public: Oui
Crédits: 0
Contenu
The medieval lyric: religious or secular, lyrics as communal song or solitary contemplation, songs about love, longer narrative ballads, celebratory carols, songs of mourning and regret. As well as analysing the texts and their poetic form, this course will consider issues of words and music, performance, and manuscript context. Through the selected texts we will explore different aspects of medieval culture, for example, the theological and religious, attitudes towards love and sex, and attitudes to the male and female body. The corpus of medieval lyrics is largely anonymous but we will study also some short poems of Chaucer.
Bibliographie
Text book: John C. Hirsh, ed. "Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads, and Carols" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
Exigences du cursus d'études
BA
