Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 80)
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Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year
Coordinator: To be advised.
Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.
Contact: Two one-hour lectures and one one-hour tutorial a week.
Objectives:
At the end of the subject, students should be able to:
- examine the different ways of reading a poem;
- analyse how poetic texts function;
- demonstrate a knowledge of the general evolution of poetry in French literature.
Content:
The major part of this subject will be concerned with the understanding of poems by some of outstanding figures in French poetry from the 16th century to the 20th century such as Ronsard, Nerval, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Eluard. The examination of theoretical concepts will always be related to and illustrated by the study of poetic texts.
Assessment:
One class paper (2,000 words) (40 per cent); one essay (3,000 words) in French (60 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 80)
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