FRENCH PART I - faculty of arts and board of studies in journalism

A course of three lectures per week, with tutorial classes, throughout the year.

This course, which assumes that students have passed in French at the Matricu-

lation

Examination, is a pre-requisite for French Part

II.

External students should not attempt it unless they have exceptionally good qualifications and can obtain reliable assistance locally in the practical work. Students without these facilities are advised to take French Part IA.

SYLLABUS. (i) A study of modern France—its history and literature.

(ii) Prepared (from prescribed texts) and unseen translation into English.

(iii) Prepared and unseen translation into French; composition in French ; grammar and syntax.

(iv) Reading aloud, dictation, conversation.

(v) Theory and practice of phonetics.

Bongs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

See above under "French Subjects."

(b) Prescribed text

books:

*Burger, H.,

and James, R.

L.—La France d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.

^(Melb.

U.P.) ; passages to be indicated in class.

*Musset, A.

de.—Fautasio; On ne badine pas avec l'amour.

(In Nelson's

Three Plays by Musset,

or any other edition.)

*Berthon—Ni,e

French Poets

(Macmillan) ; the extracts from Lamartine (omitting

La vigne et la maison),

Vigny, Hugo (omitting

Guitare

^and

Le chasseur noir),

Musset, Leconte de Lisle, Verlaine.

*Lazare,

J. Elementary French Composition. (Hachette.)

(3)

(Allen

& Unwin.) 1870-1939.

(Hamish

(the first on Unseen Translation and of the Syllabus) ; 30 minutes' Dictation examination) .

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Note.—For section (i) of the Syllabus, first-hand knowledge of representative writers will be expected in the examination. Students are therefore required to read (in the original French) the following works :

(1) Either Stendhal—La Chartreuse de Parme or Le Rouge et le noir, (2) Either Flaubert, G.—Salammbô

or L'Education sentimentale, or Madame Bovary, (3) four of the following:

Hugo, V. Notre-Dame de Paris; Quatre-vingt-treize.

Gautier, T.—Le capitaine Fracasse.

Mérimée, P.—Chronique du règne de Charles IX.

Sand, G.—La mare au diable, or La petite Fadele.

Balzac, H.—Le père Goriot or Eugénie Grande!.

or César Вiгоtteaи.

Zola, E.—La fortune des Rougon or L'argent.

France, A.—Les dieux out soif

or La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauquc.

Bourget, P.—Le disciple.

Loti, P.—Рěchеиr d'Islande.

Barrès, M.—Les déracinés or Colette Baudoche.

Vigny, A. de—Cinq-Mars.

Guignebert, C.—A Short History of the French People. (Allen & Unwin.) Bury, J. France, 1814-1940. (Methuen.)

Brogan, P.—The Development of Modern France, 1870-1939. (Hamish Hamilton.)

Werth, A.—The Twilight of France. (Hamish Hamilton.) Maillaud, P. France. (O.U.Р.)

Saintsbury, G.—History of the French Novel. (Macmillan, 2 vols.) Kirby, F.—Students' French Grammar. (Macmillan.)

Petit Larousse illustré. (Larousse.)

Mansion, J.—French-English and English-French Dictionaries. (Harrap, 2 vols.)

*Mansion, J. Shorter French-English Dictionary. ( Наггар.)

*Mansion, J.—Shorter English-French Dictionary. ( Наггар.)

N.B.—The books mentioned above are available in the University Library ; but students taking the course in French Parts I, II and III, are strongly recommended to purchase a good grammar and a good dictionary, consulting the staff as to their choice.

EXAMINATION. One 3-hour and one 2-hour paper (the first on Unseen Translation into English, Composition and Prescribed Texts) ; the second on modern French literature; terminal tests in Translation into French; a 10-minute oral test in Reading and in Conversation on modern French history as dealt with in lectures ; a 30-minute Dictation test. The terminal test in Translation into French (except for external students) and all oral tests, including Dictation, must be completed before the written examination. Class work will be taken into account in the determining of examination results.

External students will take an additional 1#-hour paper on Translation into French.

FRENCH PART II

A course of three lectures per week, with tutorial classes, throughout the year.

Svu.AВus. (i) Translation into French, prepared and unseen.

(ii) Translation into English, prepared and unseen.

(iii) Dictation, conversation, practical phonetics.

(iv) Literature.

Course A (1956 and alternate years.)

(a) General course—French Literature of the 17th century (lectures in English: one hour per week).

(b) Special Study: to be announced later.

Course B (1955 and alternate years).

(d) Special study to he announced later (lectures in French:

one hour per week).

COURSE A (1956)

Boons. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Ogg, D. Europe in the Seventeenth Century. (Black.) Boulenger, J.—The Seventeenth Century. (Heinemann.)

Guignebert, C.—A Short History of the French People, Chapters XX-XXII.

(Allen & Unwin.)

Strachey, G. L.—Lаudmпrks in French Literature, Chapters 3 and 4. (H.U.L.) Ritchie, R.—France, Chapters 1-4. (Methuen.)

Lough, J.—An Introduction to Seventeenth Century France. (Longmans.) (b) Prescribed text-books:

(i) For translation-

*Schinz, A., and King, H. M.—Seventeenth Century French Readings. (Holt.) (ii) For oral work—

Four of the following (but not more than two works by any one author) : Corneille, P.—Le Cid, Polycucte, L'Illusion comique.

Molière, J.—TartuDe, Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

Racine, J.—Andromaque, Phèdre, Les Plaideurs.

These texts are all available in the Blackie or Manchester Univ. Press editions.

(An alternative text is Nine Classic French Plays. (Harrap, ed. Geronde and Peyre.) )

Students are required to read the above works, and to present them for oral examination during the first and second terms as indicated on the departmental notice board.

Rochet ave, S. Agrippa d'Аubigné. ("Je Sers.")

Régnier, M.—Oeuvres. (Ed. Dubech, La Cité des Livres.) Bonnefon, P.-2llontaigne et ses amis. (Colin.)

Nerval, G.—La Main enchantée. (Champion.)

Batiffol, L. (and others)—The Great Literary Salons (XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries). (Thornton Butterworth.)

D'Urfé, Н.—L'Astrée. (Masson.)

Huxley, A.—Grey Eminence. (Chatto & Windus.) Dorchain, A.—Corneille. (Gamier.)

Rostand, E.—Cyrano de Bergerac. (Charpentier.) Boutroux, E. Pascal. (Hachette.)

Gosse, E.—Three French Moralists. (Heinemann.) Palmer, J.—Molière. (Bell.)

Rébelliau—Bossuet. (Hachette.) Mauriac, F.—La vie de Racine. (Plon.)

Vaughan, C.—Types of Tragic Drama. (Macmillan.) Pascal, В.—(See references under Part III Honours.) Tilley, A.—Three French Dramatists. (C.U.P.) Brémond, H. Apologie pour Fénelon. (Perrin.) Ogg, D.—Louis XIV. (H.U.L.)

Voltaire, F. M. A.—Siècle de Louis XIV. (2 vols., Gamier.) Scarlyn Wilson, 1.—The French Classic Age. (Hachette.)

COURSE В (1955)

Воокs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading

Strachey, G.

L.—Landanarks

in French Literature, Ch. V. (H.U.L.) Ritchie,

R. France,

Ch. V-VI. (Methuen.)

(b) Prescribed text-books:

(i) For translation-

Rousseau—Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire. (Paris, Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, ed. Groethuysen; or Manchester Univ.

Press.)

(ii) For oral work—

Four of the following :

Lesage, A.

R.—Turcaret.

(Heath, or C.U.P.)

Marivaux, P.—Le jean de l'amour et du hasard. (Heath.) Prévost,

A.—Manon

Lescaut. (Blackwell, or C.U.P.)

Voltaire, F.— Candide (Blackwell), or Zadig (Heath or Cluny).

Voltaire,

F.—

Lettres Philosophiques. (Blackwell, or C.U.P.) Diderot,

D.—Selected

Philosophical Writings. (C.U.P.)

Beaumarchais,

P —Le

Barbier de Sévillе. (Blackie.)

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre—Paul et Virginie. (Nelson, or Manchester Univ.

Press.)

Students are required to read the above works, and to present them for oral examination during the first and second terms, as indicated on the departmental notice board.

Reddaway,

W. —A

History of Europe from 1715-1840. (Methuen.) Mowat,

R.—The

Age of Reason. (Harrap.)

Batiffol, L. et al.—The Great Literary Sпlons: XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries.

(Thornton Butterworth.)

Martin, B. K. French Liberal Thought in the Eighteenth Century.

Green,

F.—Minuet.

(Dent.)

Green,

F. French

Novelists: Manners and Ideas from the Renaissance to the Revolution. (Dent.)

Brailsford,

H.—Voltaire.

(H.U.L.) Sorel,

A.

Montesquieu. (Hachette.)

Schinz,

A.—Vie

et tEuvres de 1.-I. Rousseau. (Heath.) Mowat, R.—Rousseau. (Arrowsmith.)

Strachey, G.

L.—Books

and Characters. (Chatto & Windus.) Bell,

C.—Civilization.

(Penguin.)

Monnet,

D.—Diderot,

l'hoannie et l'amvre. (Boivin.)

BacKcuoUND COURSES. These courses, which are open to other students, are intended specifically for students in French, Parts II, III and IV, and are not a subject of examination. They are given as a background to the thought, literature.

art

and civilization of medieval and modern France.

A. Medieval Background (1956 and alternate years). This course will deal with such topics as the decay of Rome, early Irish and Anglo-Saxon scholarship, the monastic movement and reforms, Charlemagne, Abelard and his times, the troubadours and wandering scholars, the chansons de geste and early lyrics, the Gothic cathedrals, the Crusades, the Universities, etc.

В. Modern Background (1955 and alternate years). This course will deal with the Renaissance and its influence; the meaning of classicism; the decay of religious belief in the XVIIIth century and the rise of scientific thought. The origins of romanticism. The main currents of the XIXth century and their philosophical background (influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Darwin, etc.).

EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour papers (the first on Unseen Translation into English and Prescribed Texts, the second and third on Literature) ; terminal tests in Translation into French and in Dictation; oral tests, as indicated above. Class work will be taken into account in the determining of examination results.

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