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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : French

116-451 Themes in Contemporary Literature

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Professor Colin Nettelbeck and Dr Jill Anderson

Prerequisite/s:

A major in French (Post-VCE French stream), or equivalent.

Contact:

Two hours of lectures/seminars a week.

Content:

With an emphasis on psychocriticism and mythography, this subject will develop a global understanding of certain major transformations in 20th century culture. Literary texts by Nerval, Tournier and Duras will be used to illustrate the functions of myths in literature. Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis will also be applied in the interpretation of culture through literary texts of Michaux, Mallarmé, Artaud, Breton.

Assessment:

One class paper (3000 words) (40 %); one essay (3000 words) in French (60 %).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Breton, Nadja, Gallimard 1964.
  • Duras, L'Amant, Minuit 1984.
  • Michaux, La Vie dans les plis, Gallimard 1980.
  • Nerval, Aurélia, Garnier 1970.
  • Tournier, Les Roi des Aulnes, Gallimard 1982.
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