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Year 4 French.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Dr Jill Anderson.
Prerequisite: A major in French (Post-VCE French stream), or equivalent.
Contact: Two hours of lectures/seminars a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
At the end of the subject, students should be able to:
- apply certain methods of criticism on literary texts taken from a range of genres;
- elaborate their own research project, applying literary criticism to a work of their choice.
Content:
Feminist theory will be studied and applied to texts by such writers as Duras. Structuralist theory will be applied in studying novels; psycho-criticism and reader-response theory will inform interpretation of poetry, notably that of Mallarmé .
Assessment:
One class paper (3,000 words) (40 per cent); one essay (3,000 words) in French (60 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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