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Reading French Texts
Course code: FREN1102.
Course unit value: 0.5.
This course introduces students to three literary genres of writing in French and seeks to equip them with the analytical skills they will need in subsequent years to study texts in greater depth.
It is available to non-specialist students from outside the department who have a B or higher in French at GCE A level.
ESPS students for whom French is a minor language choose between this course and FREN1101 (The Making of Modern France).
Tutor: Dr Isabelle Moreau
Assessment: one unseen two-hour examination (100%). Satisfactory completion of the coursework is normally a prerequisite for examination entry.
Set texts:
- The Penguin Book of French Poetry 1820-1950: With Prose Translations, edited by William Rees. Penguin, 1992.
- Racine, Phèdre. Any edition with line numbers.
- Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron, ed. Simone de Reyff. Paris: Flammarion, coll. ‘GF’, 1982. ‘Prologue’ (pp. 39-49) and ‘Quatrième journée’ (pp. 286-335).
