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Learning & Teaching Strategies |
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On completion of this course, the students will be able to; CO71: Appreciate the poets with their myriad contrasting world views CO72: Evaluate the main characteristics of 20th century poetry CO73: Explore the source & the confluence of their journey CO74: Assess the achievements of the literary movements CO75: Appreciate texts, authors |
Interactive lectures Demonstrations Reading & Listening exercises Assignments Effective questions |
Class tests Assessments on the basis of simulated role playing
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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)
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)
Villon
Socio-political & cultural condition prevailing in France before and during the “Renaissance” Ronsard and La Pleiade;
Study of complete text of the poem “La ballade des pendus”(Villon)
Study of complete texts of 2 of the poems : “France, mere des arts..”, “Heureux qui comme Ulysse..”(Du Bellay), “A Cassandre” and “Il faut laisser maisons..” (Ronsard)
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)
Movement : nouveau roman
“Douve parle » from « Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve » (Yves Bonnefoy)
Extract from « Élégie » in « Sphère »(Guillevic)
(Apart from the literary texts mentioned in the programme) :
1) An anthology of French poetry from Baudelaire to the present day, C. A. Hackett, nouvelle ed, Oxford, Blackwell
2) Manuel des etudes litteraires Francaises : Castex et Surer, Hachette