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Litterature francaise : l’Age des Lumieres
Paper Code:
FRN 223
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
In this paper we shall closely study extracts or complete texts of classics accepted as representative of the major phases /movements from the age of enlightenment. For the coming session, complete texts of ‘Candide’ & ‘Zadig’, two novels by Voltaire, the great thinker/philosopher/satirist Voltaire will be studied.
12.00
Unit I:
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Intoductory lectures on the century, the movement and the author; Candide : chapters I – XV |
12.00
Unit II:
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Candide : chapters XVI – XXX |
12.00
Unit III:
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Zadig : till & including ‘la femme battue’ |
12.00
Unit IV:
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Zadig : till & including ‘les combats’ |
12.00
Unit V:
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Zadig : from ‘l’ermite’ to the end |
References:
- Candide : Voltaire. Flammarion/Didier/Hatier
- Zadig : Voltaire., Flammarion/Didier/Hatier
- Histoire de la litterature francaise, Lanson
- Manuel des etudes litteraires Francaises : Castex et Surer, Hachette
- An anthology of French poetry, Oxford
- History of French literature : Cazamian
- Litterature francaise : Lagarde et Michel
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