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116-032 Puzzles and Mazes: Experimental Writing in Twentieth-Century France | |
Note | Formerly available as 116-279/379. Students who have completed 116-279/379 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Chris Andrews |
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 | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour seminar and a 1-hour tutorial and a 1-hour writing class per week |
Subject Description | Students will read a series of experimental literary texts in French, discovering the patterns and irregularities in their structure. Their understanding of how these texts are put together will be applied in a series of writing exercises employing constraints similar to those they discovered in their reading. They will also extend their understanding of the poetic function of language through the systematic study of wordplay and come to appreciate the literary potential of spoken French. On completing the course they should have an understanding of the historical relations between the approaches adopted by the authors of the prescribed texts and a sense of experimental possibilities as yet unexplored. |
Assessment | A classpaper on a specific text no more than 1000 words in French, and a folio of writing exercises in French of not more than 1600 words, and a comparative essay in French of not more than 1400 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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