I.      This course will focus on the dominant narrative forms of the time, which predate and lead up to the modern
novel.  Study of Christian epic, epic of revolt, courtly love, Arthurian romance, Tristan and Isolt, beast-epic
satire.  We shall scrutinize the relationship of literature to historical reality (the mind-set of a feudal -aristocratic
and classical-Christian culture, knighthood and chivalry, attitudes toward women, etc.) and the workings of
literature itself, from the perspective of modern criticism.  Among the critical approaches employed: Freudian,
Jungian, Marxist, gender related, intertextuality.

II.    One ten-to-twelve page paper (FRW 4410) or
        one twelve-to-fifteen page paper (FRW 6415).
        Active seminar discussion.

III.    La Chanson de Roland.  Le livre de poches.  "Lettres Gothiques"
         Raoul de Cambrai.  Le livre de poche.  "Lettres Gothiques"
         Lais de Marie de France.  Le livre de poche.  "Lettres Gothiques"
         Tristan et Iseut.  Le livre de poche.  "Lettres Gothiques"
         Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charrette.  Le livre de poche.  "Lettres Gothiques"

IV.    January      6                Introduction
                         13                Chanson de Roland I
                         20                Chanson de Roland II
                         27                Chanson de Roland III

        February     3                Raoul de Cambrai I
                         10                Raoul de Cambrai II
                         17                Raoul de Cambrai III
                         24                Marie, Lanval, Le Chèvrefeuille
 
        March        3                 Marie, Yonec, Le Rossignol
                         10                Secular Holiday
                         17                Roman de Tristan I
                         24                Roman de Tristan II
                         31                Roman de Tristan III

        April           7                Chrétien, Chevalier de la Charrette I
                         14                Charrette II
                         21                Charrette III