Module Code - Title:
FR4626
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FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE 4 19TH CENTURY ART
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide students with the means to recognise and evaluate the links between art and society in 19th century France.
This is achieved by:
- giving an overview of the political, economic and cultural develpment of France from the revolution to circa 1880
- studying selected poems from mid century onwards
- analysing French painting ,paritcularlly the the realist/impressionist tradition
- reading and studying a selected realist/naturalist novel
Syllabus:
The module is structured around a lecture and tutorials.
The lecture will cover aspects of the development of France as well as introducing students to the study and appreciation of painting in the period.
The tutorials will concentrate on textual analysis of the poetry and the novels.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module student should to be able to:
* Have a good overview of the post revolutionary events that lead to the French industrial revolution and its cultural manifestation in the Second Empire.
* Understand the intellectual, artistic and literary developments underpinning romanticism and the transition to Realism and Impressionism.
* Analyse specific poems and paintings from the Realist/Impressionist period.
* Critically read and analyse a novel from the realist/naturalist tradition
* Evaluate the links that might exist between a work of art and the society that produced it.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
not applicable
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
not applicable
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The students will have one lecture and two tutorials. They will have to produce a study comparing a painting and a poem with particular reference to how these artefacts represent modern life. There will be a written examination at the end of the semester.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Zola, E. (1998)
Germinal
, Livre de Poche
Baudelaire,C. ()
les fleurs du Mal
, selected extracts
Evans, M.Godin,E (2004)
France 1815 - 2003
, Arnold
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
michael.g.kelly@ul.ie