FRN4806 - Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Leader: Philip Anderson

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

As for FRN3806

Objectives

On successful completion of this course students should have:

1. Acquired a familiarity with a range of 20th-century writing practices in French which are called "poetic", including a practical understanding of their formal features (e.g. versification).
2. Acquired an awareness of the evolution of these practices in their social, political and cultural contexts.
3. Developed a critical understanding of the issues involved in shifting definitions of the poetic and an evaluation of the specificity and usefulness of the term "poetic".
4. Developed and be able to deploy strategies which make sense of texts according to an understanding of their poetics.
5. Developed and be able to demonstrate 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.

Assessment

Essay in French (1500 words): 30%
Research essay in French (1500 words): 30%
Seminar presentation in French (1000 words): 25%
Notebook (500 words in French): 15%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar) per week