LITTERATURE FRANCAISE – L’AGE DES LUMIERES

Paper Code: 
FRN 223
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcomes

Learning & Teaching Strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

CO41: Examine & deduce the socio-politico-economic leading up to the age of Enlightenment

CO42:  Show the conflict of ideas & illustrate the role of philosophers in shaping history & literature

CO43: Interpret the literary age, the representative authors and their individual style

CO44: Critique the key themes in representative texts of the period

CO45: Appreciate & evaluate the essence of texts on their intrinsic merit as well as with reference to other texts/authors

 

 

 

Interactive lectures Demonstrations

Reading & Listening exercises

Assignments

Effective questions

 

 

 

 

Class tests

Assessments on the basis of simulated role playing

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Intoductory lectures on the century, the movement  and the author;
Candide :  chapters  I – VI

12.00
Unit II: 

Candide :  chapters  VII – XII

12.00
Unit III: 

Candide :  chapters  XIII – XVIII

12.00
Unit IV: 

Candide :  chapters  XIX – XXIV

12.00
Unit V: 

Candide :  chapters  XV – XXX
 

Essential Readings: 

1) Candide : Voltaire. Flammarion/Didier/Hatier
 

References: 

1) Histoire de la litterature francaise, Lanson
2) Manuel des etudes litteraires Francaises : Castex et Surer, Hachette

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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