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Apr 23, 2024
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FREN 413 - Le merveilleux littéraire du moyen âge aux Lumières Semester Offered: Second Semester Credits (Range): 3 hours Attribute: 3HU, CD Derived from the Latin mirabilia, the marvelous designates that range of phenomena between the natural and the supernatural that cannot be explained by human reason: talking animals, werewolves, and phantom ships in the lais of Marie de France; strange races of men in the travel narratives of Marco Polo; Mélusine, the fairy-wife who becomes a serpent one day a week; deformed infants who show God?s wrath or the excessive imagination of the mother in early modern medical texts. Enrollment Limit: 12 Instructor: M. Senior Prerequisites & Notes Two 300-level courses beyond 301
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