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FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PART I

(b) Prescribed text-books:

*Burger, H., and James, R. L.—La

France

d'hier

et

d'aujourd'hui. (Meib. U.P.) Passages to be indicated in class.

*Berthon,

H.—Nine French Poets.

(Macmillan.) (As for the Ordinary Degree.) McMillan, D. and

G.—Anthology of the Contemporary French Novel.

(Dent.) EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers (the first on unseen translation into Eng- lish, composition and prescribed texts; the second on modern French literature) ; tests and class work as for the Ordinary Degree, with special stress on dictation and reading.

FRENCH PART II

A course of lectures and special tutorial classes weekly throughout the year, together with additional lectures.

SУ anus. (i)

French Literature of the 17th or 18th Century

(advanced treatment of the work set out for French Part II, Ordinary

Degree).

(ii)'

Special Literary Study:

Studies in Modern Poetry.

(iii) Seminars on selected contemporary French authors.

(iv) Advanced unseen translation into English.

(v) Advanced unseen translation into French.

(vi) Spoken French.

Essay Woaк. Candidates will be required to submit essays during the year (in lieu of an Annual Examination in this section) on the Special Literary Study, and on 18th Century Literature (General and Special Study).

ORAL, WoRK. Students will present themselves for a general oral examination on Section (i) of the Syllabus.

Вooкs, (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree).

(b) Recommended for reference:

For Part (i) of the syllabus:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree) and French Part III (Ordinary Degree), and in addition as set out under French Part III (Honours).

EXAMINATION. There will be no formal examination at the end of the Second Year. The literature of the XVIIth or XVIIIth century and the Special Literary Study will be tested by essays during the Second Year.

FRENCH PART III

A course of lectures and special tutorial classes weekly throughout the year, together with additional lectures.

SYLLABUs. (i)

French Literature of the 17th or 18th Century

(advanced treatment of the work set out for French Part II, Ordinary Degree).

(ii) Special Literary Study:

Studies in Modern Poetry.

(iii) Seminars on selected contemporary French authors.

(iv) Advanced unseen translation into English.

(v) Advanced unseen translation into French.

(vi) 'Spoken French.

EssnY WORK. Candidates will be required to submit essays during the year (in lieu of an Annual Examination in this section) on the Special Literary Study, and on 17th Century or 18th Century Literature (Special Study).

ORAL WORK. Students will present themselves for a general oral examination on Part (i) of the Syllabus.

Ponics. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree).

(b) Recommended for reference:

For Part (i) of the Syllabus:

As for French Part II (Ordinary Degree). and French Part III (Ordinary Degree), and in addition the following:

CoURsE A (1956 and alternate years.)

Michaud, J. F., and Poujoulat—Mémoires

pour

servir

d

l'histoire

de France.

(Firmin Didot.)

Tallemant des Réaux—Historiettes, 8 vols. (Gamier.) • Michaut, G. M.

A.—Les Débuts de

Molière,

La

Jeunesse

de

Molière,

Les

Luttes

de Moliдre au théôtre.

(Hachette.) Sainte-Вeuve—Port-Royal. (Hachette.) 7 vols.

Strowski,

F.—Pascal et son temps.

(Plon.) 3 vols.

Orcibal,

J.—Les

Origines

du jaіп isme

(Vrin.)

Gazier,

A.

Histoire générale

du

mouvement janséniste, 2 vols. (Champion.) Bremond, H. Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux, 11 vols. (Bloud and

Gay.)

Lancaster. H.

C. History of French Dramatic Literature

in

the XVllth Century.

(Johns Hopkins Press.)

Picard.

R.—Les Salons

littéraires. (Brentano's.)

Maulnier,

T.—Racine.

(Gallimard.) .

Tilley, A.

A.—Decline of the Age of Louis XIV.

(C.U.P.)

Hazard,

P.—La

Crise

de la conscience

еurорéеnпе

, 1685-1715.

(Boivin, 2 vols.) Turnell,

M.—The Classical Moment.

(Hamish Hamilton.)

Cоuкsн В (1957 and alternate years.)

Hazard, P.—La Crise

de la conscience

européenne,

1685-1715

(Boivin, 2 vols.) Hazard, P.—La Pensée еиroрéеnnе au XVIIIe siècle. (Boivin, 2 vols.) Tilley,

A.—Decline of the Age of Louis XIV.

(C.U.P.)

Trahard,

P.—Les

Maîtres

de la

sensibilité française

au XVIIIe siècle.

(Boivin.) Monglond,

A.—Le

Préromantisme français. (Arthaud.)

Rétif de la Bretonne—La

Vie de

mon père. (Rossard.) Picard,

R.—Les

Salons littéraires.

(Brentano's.)

Bury, J.

B.—The Idea of Progress.

(Macmillan.)

Le Breton,

A.—Le Roman

français

au XVIIIe Siècle.

(Lecèhe-Oudin.) Petit de Julleville,

L.—Le Théåtre ex France.

(Colin.)

Naves,

R.—Voltaire.

(Boivin.) Young,

A.—Travels in France.

Lanson,

G.—Voltaire.

FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PART II A course of lectures weekly throughout the year, with additional lectures.

Lectures will be given in 1957 and thereafter in alternate years.

Svumms: (i) Studies in 16th Century Literature. General notes on the century. More detailed study of Rabelais, Montaigne, Brantôme, Marot and du Bellay.

(ii) Special Literary Study. Ronsard: the Amours and the Sonnets pour Hélène.

(iii) Studies in 16th Century Language. A general study of the development of the French language in the 16th century.

Booкs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Pater,

W.—The

Renaissance. (Macmillan.)

Tillеу,

A.—Studies

гп the French Renaissance. (C.U.P.) Belloc, 1.—Avril.

(b) Prescribed text-books:

*Rabelais,

F. Pages

choisies. (Colin.)

*Montaigne,

М .—Selected

Essays. (Ed. Tilley & Boase, Manchester Univ.

Press.)

*Ronsard, P. de—Amours.

Sоnпets pour Hélène: (Société des textes français modernes.) or Ronsard, P.

de—

Poèmes. (Blackwell's French Texts.)

(c) Recommended for reference:

Brunot,

F.—

Histoire de la langue française. (Vol. II, Colin.)

Nyrop, K. Grammaire historique de la largue française. (5 vols., Picard.) Cohen, G.—Ronsard. (Boivin.)

Sainéan, L.—La Langue de Rabelais. (Boccard.)

Gougenheim, G.—Grammaire de la langue française du seizième siècle. (Les

langues du monde, I.A.C.)

EXAMINATION. (Preliminary Final Examination.) Two 3-hour papers, one on Parts (i) and (ii) of the Syllabus and the other on Part (iii).

. FRENCH PART IV

A course of lectures and special tutorial classes weekly throughout the year.

SyLLАВUs. (i) French literature of the 20th century, from 1885 to the present day. (ii) Free composition in French: advanced work. (iii) Spoken French.

EssAY Wоnі. Each candidate will be required to prepare and present, not later than the end of Second Term, a critical opus in French on an approved 20th century literary topic of his choice.

ORAL WoRK. Candidates will be expected to achieve considerable fluency and correctness in spoken French, and will present themselves for a viva vota, examination of Honours scope at the end of the year.

Booкs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Billy, A.—La littérature. française contemporaine: • (Colin.) Wilson, E.—Axel's Castle. (Scribners.)

(b) Prescribed text-books :

No books are prescribed, but the major authors to be studied are: Barrés, Clau- del, Pégstiy, Gide, Valéry and Proust. Other authors will include: Giraudoux, Marcel, Anouilh, Salacrou; Verhaeren, Jammes, Apollinaire, Supervielle, Aragon, Eluard; Alain-Fournier, Mauriac, Bernanos, Malraux, Van der Meersch, Sartre,

Camus, Saint-Exupéry. .

(c) Recommended for reference:

Lalou,

R.

Histoire de la littérature française contemporaine. (2 v., P.U.F.) Clouard,

Н.

Histoire de la littérature française, 1885-1914. (2 v., Albin

Michel.)

169

Picon,

G. Panorama de la nouvelle

littérature française. (N.R.F.) Thibaudet,

A.

Histoire

de la

littérature française

de 1789 d nos

jours.

(Stock.)

Montfort,

E.

—Vingt-cinq ans

de

littérature française. (2 v., Libr. de France.) Вoisdeffre, P.

de—

Métamorphose

de la

littérature. (Alsatia.)

Raymond,

M. De

Baudelaire

au

surréalisme. (Corei.) .

Michaud,

R.—Modern Thought and Literature in France.

(Funk and Wagnall.)

Lemaitre,

G.—Four French Novelists—Proust,

Gide, Giraudoux, Morand.

(О.U.P.) .

Fournier, A., and Rivière, J.Correspondance. (4 v., Gallimard.) Turnell, 1.—The

Novel in France.

(Hamish Hamilton.) Benda,

J.—La France

byzantine. (Gallimard.).

De Rougemont,

D.-

L'Amour

et "Occident.

(Plon.)

Brodin,

P.—Les

écrivains français

de

l'entre-deux

-

guerres. (Valiquette, Montreal.)

ЕхАМiNлтiox. Two 3-hour papers, one on drama and poetry (to be donc in French), the second on the novel and criticism; the critical opus (above men- tioned) on a selected topic; oral examination of one half hour on the year's work.