Module Code - Title:
FR4622
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LITERATURE AND CULTURE 2: TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE IN FRANCE
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To develop students' knowledge of twentieth-century literature from a variety of critical perspectives.
To enable students to apply critical skills to the study of recent literature in French.
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:
Teaching and learning involve a mix of activities, including lecture-style presentations of texts and contexts, informal discussion of selected topics, formal oral presentations on agreed topics and extracts by each student, submission of a critical essay on an appropriate relevant question - all in the target language (French).
Prime Texts:
Camus (1950)
Les Justes
, Gallimard
Ernaux (1984)
La Place
, Gallimard
Perec (1965)
Les Choses
, 10/18
Other Relevant Texts:
Darcos (1989)
Le XXe siecle en litterature
, Hachette-Classique
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN APPLIED LANGUAGES
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN EUROPEAN STUDIES
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN IRISH DANCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN IRISH MUSIC
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN VOICE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN WORLD MUSIC
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION IN LANGUAGES
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Florence.LeBaron@ul.ie