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Les mouvements litteraires et la poesie du 20e siecle
This paper
a) retraces the journey of French literature through the last century .Te movements / inspirations covered are :dadaism, surrealism, theatre of the absurd, existentialism and the new novel
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b) focuses on the specific genre of poetry and the movements / inspirations covered are dadaism, surrealism, literature of faith (religious inspiration), committed literature, post-war poetry
( however, major individual poets whose works do not easily lend themselves to such classifications will also be studied. Note also that some of the movements are dominated by theatre and prose and thatthe poems to be studied in the same papery need strictly correspond to thosemovements )
Two great poets : Valery and Apollinaire
Study of “Le cimetiere marin”(Valery)
Study of “Cors de chasse”, “Rosemonde” “Zone”(from Alcools by Apollinaire)
Movements : dadaisme, surrealisme
Study of an extract from "La glace sans tain"from the collection « Les Champs magnétiques»by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.
Study of “Le miroir d’un moment”, “Bonne justice” and “Le Phenix”(Eluard)
Movements : literature of faith (religious inspiration), theatre of the absurd
Study of “La Messe la-bas”(Claudel)
Study of “Heureux ceux qui sont morts…” (Peguy)
Movement : existentialism
Study of “L'huître", "La bougie","L'allumette", "L'orange”, "Les poêles", "Le platane ou la permanance" and « Le cageot » (Francis Ponge)
Movement : nouveau roman
“Douve parle » from « Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve » (Yves Bonnefoy)
extract from « Élégie » in « Sphère »(Guillevic)
- An anthology of French poetry fromBaudelaire to the present day, C. A. Hackett, nouvelle ed,Oxford, Blackwell
- Manuel des etudes litteraires Francaises : Castex et Surer, Hachette
