Chretien de Troyes and the Tristan Legend (P00393)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00393

The course will explore the aesthetic and moral issues raised by the Tristan texts and by those romances of Chretien de Troyes most clearly dependent on them, investigate the problems of the texts using a mixture of close reading and general thematic study and consider the reception of the texts separately and as a multi-faceted intertextual construct in their twelfth-century context and by modern readers. It will consider the implications of the modes of literary composition and reception, the nature of cultural debate and the complexities of social and cultural change in the twelfth century.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Purchase of set texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

An appreciation of the modalities of literary creation and reception in a distant culture; an ability to analyse texts thematically and morally as well as poetically; an ability to communicate the results of the analysis orally and in writing.