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Module Code - Title:

FR4621 - FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1: 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Year Last Offered:

2025/6

Hours Per Week:

Lecture

1

Lab

0

Tutorial

2

Other

0

Private

7

Credits

6

Grading Type:

N

Prerequisite Modules:

Rationale and Purpose of the Module:

To introduce students to the study of twentieth-century literature in French from a variety of critical perspectives. To give students the opportunity to examine particular authors in greater detail. To develop students' skills in communicating ideas in oral and written French.

Syllabus:

A number of literary texts of an appropriate linguistic level and representativity in terms of period and genre will be studied in this module.

Learning Outcomes:

Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: * Demonstrate familiarity with key issues arising in a selection of French literary texts from the first half of the twentieth century * Respond both orally and in writing to such issues. * Evaluate arguments relating to character, action, and interpretation with respect to prescribed texts. * Make an oral presentation to class in French on a prepared textual extract. * Write an analysis in French of an aspect of a prescribed text. * Reflect upon the literary text as a linguistic and cultural resource.

Affective (Attitudes and Values)

N/A

Psychomotor (Physical Skills)

N/A

How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:

The module will engage students in a number of classroom and other activities. In addition to the presentation of texts and contexts in the classroom, students will be engaged in oral discussion of selected points, required to give an oral presentation on an agreed topic, and required to prepare and submit a written analysis of a set question - all in the target language (French)

Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):

Prime Texts:

Radiguet (1923) Le Diable au corps , Gallimard
Mauriac (1927) Therese Desqueyroux , Livre de poche
Various (1992) Poetic anthology , Gallimard

Other Relevant Texts:

Darcos (1989) Le XXe siecle en litterature , Hachette-Classique

Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:

Semester(s) Module is Offered:

Autumn

Module Leader:

Florence.LeBaron-Earle@ul.ie