LES MOUVEMENTS LITTERAIRES ET LA POESIE DU 20E SIECLE

Paper Code: 
FRN 323
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Learning & Teaching Strategies

Assessment Strategies

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

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Two great poets : Valery/Apollinaire
Study of  “Le cimetiere marin”(Valery) /
Study of  “Cors de chasse”,/ “Rosemonde”  & “Zone”(from Alcools by Apollinaire)

12.00
Unit II: 

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)

12.00
Unit III: 

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)

12.00
Unit IV: 

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)

12.00
Unit V: 

Movement :  nouveau roman
“Douve parle » from  « Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve » (Yves Bonnefoy)
Extract from « Élégie »  in « Sphère »(Guillevic)

Essential Readings: 

(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

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