Les mouvements litteraires et la poesie du 20e siecle

Paper Code: 
FRN 323
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

                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  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 l          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 )             

             

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Two great poets : Valery and Apollinaire

Study of  “Le cimetiere marin”(Valery)

Study of  “Cors de chasse”, “Rosemonde” “Zone”(from Alcools by Apollinaire)

 

 

12.00
Unit II: 

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)

 

 

12.00
Unit III: 

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)   

 

 

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Movement : existentialism

Study of “L'huître", "La bougie","L'allumette", "L'orange”, "Les poêles", "Le platane ou la permanance" and « Le cageot » (Francis Ponge)

 

 

 

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Movement :  nouveau roman

“Douve parle » from  « Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve » (Yves Bonnefoy)

extract from « Élégie »  in « Sphère »(Guillevic)

 

                          

 

 

References: 

              (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

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015
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