Description
This is a compulsory core module for all first-year students on a degree with French. The aim of this module is to introduce students to different literary genres of writing in French (prose narrative, theatre, poetry) through the study of six representative works or selections of texts drawn from different periods of French literature, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and to equip students with the analytical skills they will need in subsequent years to study texts in greater depth.
A list of prescribed texts and editions for the academic year 2021-2022 will be circulated to prospective first-year undergraduates before the summer. Texts studied in recent years have included Marie de France’s Lais (12th century); Marguerite de Navarre’s ³¢â€™H±ð±è³Ù²¹³¾Ã©°ù´Ç²Ô (1559); Molière’s ³¢â€™A±¹²¹°ù±ð (1668); Denis Diderot’s ³§³Ü±è±è±ôé³¾±ð²Ô³Ù au Voyage de Bougainville (1796); selections of nineteenth-century sonnets; Eugène Ionesco’s La Cantatrice chauve (1950).
Students will attend a series of lectures (13 hours over two terms) and small-group seminars (14 hours over two terms) delivered by various members of the French Department.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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