French 382 - Survey of
Literature-2 (MWF 9-9:50). Completion of French 212 or departmental permission required.
Prof. TennesseeBob Peckham (427E Humanities -Tel. 7424. Home 587-6562. e-mail:
bobp@utm.edu)
Media - All material will either be linked to our course web
site:
http://fmc.utm.edu/~rpeckham/f382.html
or come from photocopies of copyright-free printed material. Students using the web
site should work from computers with the latest version of "RealAudio", to take
advantage of audio files (usually readings of poems).
Goals - Students will learn effective ways to approach literary
masterpieces by reading and studying a significantly wide variety of the best-known
French and francophone literary works (poems, short stories, excerpts from novels,
videos of plays) from the 19th and 20th centuries. They will examine the historical
development in literary representation, from Romanticism to Realism, Naturalism,
Parnassianism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Existentialism, as well as more
modern movements, at least one literary example from Québec, one from the
Maghreb and one from a Sub-Saharan African country. They will know the the names and
descriptions of major French literary genres in these centuries, and understand how
the French refined a consciousness of their own literary history with a sense of
artistic community, through literary cafés, salons, schools and movements.
They will gradually acquire the skill of writing a French literary explication, as
described in our WWW site (see TOOLS below).
Procedures - Classroom language will be mostly French, though I
may use some English commonplaces and motifs as illustrations. Most frequently we
will use use French question and answer, based both on preassigned recitational and
spontaneous insight questions. Participants should be willing to work together as a
group in certain activities. Any lectures will be brief and to the point. Some of
our material will be experienced on videotape.Students are held responsible for
accomplishing the appropriate "required outside reading" by the day of each century
test, and they will be mastering the "Explication de Texte" tool as we discuss the
literary works assigned for each class.
Grade Determination - tests on 19th and 20th century literature
(400), written explication de texte (100), oral explication de texte (100),
comprehensive final (200), project (100), class participation (100) for a total of
1000 points.
Attendance - MANDATORY, with 5 points removed for each unexcused
absence over 3.
TOOLS
Explication
de Texte - FRENCH LITERARY ANALYSIS @ GLOBE-GATE
French Grammar
Central
Leximagne -
l'Empereur des pages dico @ Globe-Gate
Chronologie
littéraire française 1848-1914
DIX-NEUF -
ressources sur le dix-neuvième siècle
La France et les Français
du dix-neuvième siècle
Fr382 Progressive Assignment
Questionnaire for the 19th Century
Fr382 Progressive Assignment
Questionnaire for the 20th Century
REQUIRED OUTSIDE READING
Textes introductifs -
LITTERATURE (Gallica, BNF)
L'Affaire Dreyfus
GOLDMANN ET LA CRITIQUE
LITTERAIRE MARXISTE (structuralisme génétique)
Parnasse
Auguste Comte et le positivisme
Note brève sur le
Réalisme et sur le Naturalisme
La
Création des éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française
Le romantisme
Salons littéraires,
philosophiques et culturels
LE SURREALISME (avec un
paragraphe sur le dadaïsme)
Le
symbolisme
LESSON LIST
A17 introduction, explication de textes, deciphering proverbs, literary salons
A19
Le Salon de Madame de Staël
La Vie de
Chateaubriand
François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), [extrait de
"René"]
A21
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-
1869)
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) - florilège
A24
GEORGE SAND ou la vie d'une femme
exceptionnelle
Lettre de George Sand à
Alfred De Musset
Réponse d'Alfred De
Musset
Alfred de
MUSSET (1810-1857)
Alfred de Musset,
"Tristesse"
A26
Victor HUGO
(Besançon,1802-Paris, 1885)
Victor Hugo, "Demain
dés l'aube"
Victor Hugo,
"Après la bataille"
Victor Hugo, "Nuits de
juin"
Victor Hugo, "La
Source"
A28-31
Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)
Alfred de Vigny, "La
Colère de Samson"
S02
GERARD DE
NERVAL (1808 - 1855)
"Le Monstre
Vert"
S04
STENDHAL (Henri Beyle)
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir (1830) Chapitre 6: L'ennui
S09
José Maria de
Heredia (1842-1905), "L'oubli"
José Maria de
Heredia (1842-1905), "Sur le livre des amours de Pierre de Ronsard"
S11
Charles-Marie
Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894), "Midi"
Charles-Marie Leconte
de Lisle (1818-1894), "Le Dernier souvenir"
Théodore
de Banville
S14
Stéphane
Mallarmé - biographie (chronologie)
Stéphane
Mallarmé (1842-1898), "Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui"
Lautréam
ont, "Maldoror"
S16
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire,
"Correspondances"
Charles Baudelaire,
"Harmonie du soir"
Charles Baudelaire,
"Chant d'automne"
Charles Baudelaire,
"L'Invitation au voyage"
Charles
Baudelaire, "L'Invitation au voyage" (avec des notes détaillées)
S18
Biographie [Arthur
Rimbaud]
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-
1891), "Sensation"
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-
1891), "Voyelles"
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-
1891), "Le Dormeur du val"
S21
Paul
VERLAINE (Metz,1844-Paris,1896)
Paul Verlaine
(1844-1896), "Colloque sentimental"
Paul Verlaine (1844-
1896), "Chanson d'automne"
S23
Biographie de Guy de
Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant, "La Parure"
S25
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) -
Centenaire (avec Lesttres de mon moulin)
Emile Zola, sa vie et son oeuvre
S28-007
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Gustave Flaubert, "Un coeur simple" (extrait
de "Trois contes", 1877)
O09
Test on 19th Century
O12
Anna de
Noailles un écrivain à publier
Anna de Noailles, "Il fera
longtemps claire ce soir"
Marcel Proust: A short
literary biography
Citations de Marcel
Proust
O14
Biographie de
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Guillaume
Apollinaire "La colombe poignardée et le jet d'eau"
André Breton
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme
O16
Jacques Prévert, un poète en liberté
Prévert, Jacques "LES
FEUILLES MORTES"
"Familiale", par Jacques
Prévert (1900-1977)
Jacques
Prévert, "Barbara"
O19
Henri Michaux - Biographie
Succinte
UN CERTAIN PLUME + (video
of dramatic interpretation)
O21-O23
Paul Valéry
[biographie]
Paul
Valéry , "Le cimetière marin"
O26
Biographie d'Antoine
d'Albert Camus
Présentation->ch.1.1 de "l'Etranger" (2 pages)
O28
Colette
Simone de Beauvoir
O30
Biographie de Jean-
Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul
Sartre, "Huis clos, extrait"
N02
Biographie
d'André Gide
André
Gide LA SYMPHONIE PASTORALE (4 pages)
N04
Boris Vian Web
Marguerite Duras
N06
Cocteau
multimédia: biographie et 1er chapitre "Les Enfants Terribles"
Yves Bonnefoy,
"J'ai confiance,..."
N09
Raymond
Queneau, Cent mille milliards de poèmes
Raymond
Queneau, Un conte à votre façon
N11
Le site officiel de Saint-Exupery
Georges
Perec
N13-N20
Biographie de Marcel
Pagnol
La
Gloire de mon père (présentation et 3 extraits) + version filmique
N23
Test on 20th century
N25
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Rev of Le racisme
expliqué á ma fille
Written explication de texte due
N30
MAME YOUNOUSSE
DIENG, de L'Ombre en Feu (Dakar, 1997)
Gilles
Vigneault, "Gens du pays"
Anne Hébert, "Neige"
Aimé
Césaire, "Pour saluer le Tiers-Monde - à Léopold Sédar
Senghor
D03
La chanson et le film (TBA)
Oral explication de texte due
D08
Final Exam (7:45 A.M.)
bobp@utm.edu
TennesseeBob Peckham
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
University of Tennessee-Martin
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