A
course of three lectures per week, with one tutorial class 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.
Воокs. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
See above under "French Subjects."
(b) Prescribed text-books:
*Burger, H., and James, R. L.—La
France
d'hieret
d'aujourd'hui.(
М.U.
Р.) ; passages to be indicated on departmental notice-board.*Anouilh, J.—Antigone.
(ed. Landers, Harrap.)*Berthon—Ninе
French Poets.
(Macmillan.) The extracts prescribed in class.*Lazare, J.—Elementary French Composition.
(Hachette.)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
—LaChartreuse de
Parmeor 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.—
Chroniquedu
règnede Charles IX.
Sand, G.—La
mare
au diable,or La petite Fadette.
Balzac, H.—Le
pèreGoriot or
Еиgénie Grandet.or
CésarBirotteau.
Zola, E.—La
fortune des Rougon or
L'argent.France,
A.—Les
dieux ont soifor La
rôtisseriede la
reinePédauque.
Bourget,
P.—Le disciple.
Loti, P.—
Pécheur d'Islande.Barrès, M.-Les
déracinésor Colette Baudoche.
Vigny,
A.de
—Cinq-Mars.
(c) Recommended for reference:
Guignebert,
C.
—AShort 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.P.)Saintsbury,
G. History of the French Novel.
(Macmillan, 2vols.)
Kirby,F. Students' French Grammar.
(Macmillan.)Petit
Larousse illustré.(Larousse.)
Mansion, 3.—French-English
and English-French Dictionaries.
(Harrap, 2vols.)
*Mansion,
J.—Shorter French-English Dictionary.
(Harrap.*Mansion, J.—Shorter
English-French Dictionary.
(Harrap.)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.
ЕхАмгнАТгоx. 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 ten-minute oral test in Reading and in Conversation on modern French history as dealt with in lectures ; a thirty-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.
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FRENCH PART
II
A course of three lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.
SYылвus. (i) Translation into French, prepared and unseen.
(ii) Translation into English, prepared and unseen.
(iii) Dictation, conversation, practical phonetics.
(iv) Literature.
Course A
(1958 and alternate years).(a) General course—French Literature of the 17th century (lectures in English : one hour per week).
(b) Special Study :
Racine
(lectures in French : one hour per week).Course
В (1957 and alternate years).(c) General course—French literature of the 18th century (lectures in English: one hour per week).
(d) Special Study:
L'Encyclodédie
(lectures in French: one hour per week).COURSE A (1958)
Booкs. (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,
Chaps. XX-XXII.(Allen & Unwin.)
Strachey, G.
L.—Landmarks in French Literature,
Chaps. 3 and 4. (H.U.L.) Ritchie,R. France,
Chaps. 1-4. (Methuen.)Lough,
J. An Introduction to Seventeenth Century France.
(Longmans.) (b) Prescribed text-books:(i) For translation-
•Schinz, A., and King, H.
М.—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, Polyeucte, L'Illusion comique.
Molière,
J.
—Tartufe, LeMisanthrope, 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.
(c) Recommended for reference:
Rocheblave,
S. Agrippa d'Aubigné.
("Je Sers.")Régnier,
М .— С E и vrет.
(Ed. Dubech, La Cité des Livres.) Bonnefon,P.—Montaigne 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.—Siécle de Louis XIV. (2 vols., Gamier.) Scarlyn Wilson, H.—The French Classic Age. (Hachette.) COURSE B
(1957)
Books. (a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Strachey, G. L.—Landmarks in French Literature, Ch. V. (H.U.L.) Ritchie, R. France, Ch. V-VI. (Methuen.)
(b) Prescribed text-books:
(i) For translation-
Rousseau—Les réveries 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 jeu de l'amour et du hasard. (Heath.) Prévost, A.—Мапоп Lestant. (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 Séville. (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.
(c) Recommended for reference:
Reddaway, W.—A History of Europe from 1715-1840. (Methuen.) Mowat, R.—The Age of Reason. (Hamrap.)
Batiffol, L. et al.—The Great Literary Salons: XVllth and XVIIIth Centuries (Thornton Butterworth.)
Martin, B. K.—French Liberal Thought in the Eighteenth Century.
Green, F. Minuct. (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 ouvres de
J. -L
Rousseau. (Heath.)Mowat, R.—Rousseau. (Arrowsmith.)
Strachey, G. L.—Books and Characters. (Chatto & Windus.) Bell, C.—Civilization. (Penguin.)
Monnet, D. Diderot, l'homme et l'&uvre. (Boivin.)
BACKGROUND 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 (1958 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.
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В.
Modern Background
(1957 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.).Eхлмтхлт oN. 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.