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LITTERATURE FRANCAISE (LES ORIGINES, LE MOYEN AGE, LA RENAISSANCE)
Course Outcomes (COs):
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Course Outcomes |
Learning & Teaching Strategies |
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On completion of this course, the students will be able to; CO11: Develop an understanding of the evolution of literary forms and movements CO12: Interpret the literary age, the representative authors and their individual style CO13: Research, analyse the socio-political conditions behind each literary phase & its iconic authors CO14: Critique the key themes in representative texts of the period CO15: 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
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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 2 of the poems : “France, mere des arts..”, “Heureux qui comme Ulysse..”(Du Bellay), “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
(Apart from the literary texts mentioned in the programme) :
1) Histoire de la litterature francaise, Lanson
2) Histoire de la litterature francaise, Castex et Surer
3) An anthology of French poetry, Oxford
4) History of French literature :Cazamian
5) Litterature francaise : Lagarde et Michel
