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 116-243 The Word and the Image: Art, Music, Literature and Society in 19th and 20th Centuries France

Note

Available as 116-343 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Ms Sylvia Sagona

Prerequisites

116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Contact

Three one-hour lectures/seminars a week

Subject Description

This subject will trace the development of the main literary and artistic movements in France from 1830 to the Post World War I years. The movements to be studied are Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Dada and Surrealism. Emphasis will be placed on the way literature, art and music interacted to produce a specific artistic climate. The lectures will be predominantly in French. Students who complete this subject should: be capable of identifying the main artistic and literary characteristics of each movement; be able to carry out textual analysis of the set literary texts; know how to approach pictorial analysis in the field of Fine Arts; be confident in expressing concepts in French.

Assessment

One 2500 word essay (in English) (40%), one 500 word résumé of essay (in French) (10%), one 20 minute oral presentation (in French) (25%), one slide test (25%).

Prescribed Texts

Booklets of selected texts can be obtained from the French Section.



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