Litterature francaise : les origines, le Moyen Age et la Renaissance

Brief introduction to Greek tragedy, its themes, principles and the works of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides,

Arrival of Christianity; the Crusades;

Socio-political & cultural  condition of  France in the Middle Ages; the major ‘cycles’  of poetic and prose works,

the major ‘cycles’  of poetic and prose works (contn,)

  study of excerpts from “Chanson de Roland”

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 the poems “France, mere des arts..” & “Heureux qui comme Ulysse..”(Du Bellay) and of  “A  Cassandre” and “Il faut laisser maisons..” (Ronsard)

Socio-political & cultural  condition prevailing in   France before and during the “Renaissance”

Excerpts from “Gargantua” (Rabelais)

Socio-political & cultural  condition prevailing in   France before and during the “Renaissance”

Study of two essays by Montaigne