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Semester 2
Love and Melancholy in Early Modern France (Ordinary) (ELCF09017)
Subject
European Languages and Cultures - French
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
3
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
In order to be eligible to take 3rd/4th Year Options, Visiting Students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of the appropriate language(s) and culture(s).
Course Summary
This course will explore, through the study of literary, philosophical and medical texts, attitudes towards love and melancholy in the Renaissance period.
Course Description
This course will explore, through the study of literary, philosophical and medical texts, attitudes towards love and melancholy in the Renaissance period. Love in its various forms (between friends, lovers, husband and wife, love between man and God, self-love) is a pervasive theme of Renaissance literature and thought. In sixteenth century and beyond, love was seen as a cause and a species of melancholy, the name of an illness and of a temperament that fascinated contemporaries because of its association with genius and madness. We will examine in particular the impact that philosophical and medical theories of melancholy had on the treatment of love in the literature of the period. Through the close analysis of a selection of texts belonging to a variety of genres - the nouvelle, the sonnet, the philosophical treatise - the course will aim to introduce students to some of the most original authors of the early modern period in France.
Assessment Information
Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%
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