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Les mouvements littéraires et la poésie du 20e siècle
This paper
a) retraces the journey of French literature through the last century .The movements / inspirations covered are : dadaism, surrealism, theatre of the absurd, existentialism and the new novel and 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 that the poems to be studied in the same papery need strictly correspond to those movements )
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Two great poets : Valery/Apollinaire Study of “Le cimetiere marin”(Valery) /Study of “Cors de chasse”,/ “Rosemonde” & “Zone”(from Alcools by Apollinaire) |
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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) |
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Movements in conflict : literature of faith (religious inspiration); theatre of the absurd Study of “La Messe la-bas”(Claudel) /Study of “Heureux ceux qui sont morts…” (Peguy)
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Movement : existentialism Study of 3 of the following : “L'huître", "La bougie","L'allumette", "L'orange”, "Les poêles", "Le platane ou la permanance" and « Le cageot » (Francis Ponge) |
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Movement : nouveau roman “Douve parle » from « Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve » (Yves Bonnefoy) extract from « Élégie » in « Sphère »(Guillevic)
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(Apart from the prescribed literary texts ) :
- An anthology of French poetry from Baudelaire to the present day, C. A. Hackett, nouvelle ed, Oxford, Blackwell
- Manuel des etudes litteraires Francaises : Castex et Surer, Hachette
