FRN4510

20th century French poetry: writing practices, reading, strategies

P Anderson

8 points - 3 hours per week - Second semester - Clayton

Objectives As for FRN3510 with the additional objective of showing a critical understanding of the issues involved in the shifting definitions of the poetic in the light of reading in the area of French literary theory from Structuralism to the present.
Synopsis This subject will consider a range of writing practices in French from verse forms to the récit poétique through representative texts and authors of the 20th century. It will examine formal features of these practices and other definitions of their poéticité. It will ask what (if any) particularly poetic sense they make and how they make sense, looking at the theoretical work of poets and literary theorists and testing it against writing practices.

Assessment One essay in French (1500 words): 25% - one research essay in French (2500 words): 30% - seminar presentation (1500 words): 25% - notebook on formal features of poetry (500 words): 10% - seminar participation: 10%

Prescribed texts

As for FRN3510

Recommended texts

As for FRN3510 and
Riffaterre M Semiotics of poetry Methuen

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