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116-029 The Word and the Image: Art, Music, Literature and Society in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century France | |
Note | Formerly available as 116-243/343. Students who have completed 116-243/343 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Ms Sylvia Sagona |
Prerequisites | 116-007 French I: Cultural Perspectives and 116-008 French I: Language in Context II or 116-015 Post-beginners French IIB or equivalent. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour seminars and a 1-hour tutorial per 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 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 | A 3000 word essay (in English), and a 20-minute oral presentation (in French), and a slide test. |
Prescribed Texts | Booklets of selected texts can be obtained from the French Section. |
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