French Poetry: Modernism and Avant-Garde

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4020131FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

French

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

David Gullentops (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
156 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The central theme of this course is the analysis of poetic creativity in 19th and 20th-century French texts. First, poetics are considered in relation to rhetoric, criticism and linguistics, investigating the relation between argumentation and creation in poetic texts. Then, the problem of poetic meaning is studied, presenting an approach to aspects such as mimesis and semiosis, intertextuality, motif and theme, interpretation context and interpretation configuration, mimetic and phenomenological space, etc.

For the exercise section students are asked to apply one of the discussed theories in a text they choose.

Course material

Course text (Recommended) : Poésie française : modernisme et avant-garde, Een syllabus van de cursus te verkrijgen bij het begin van de cursus., David Gullentops

Additional info

This course is taught in French. David Gullentops, "Poétique du lisuel", Paris, Paris-Méditerranée, coll. "Créis", 2001.

Complementary study material:
A course textbook.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The theoretical study of poetic creativity in 19th and 20th-century.

The students are able to recognize, to explain, to place in a broader context and to apply the theory on an unseen literary text.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 20% of the final mark.
LEC Practical Assignment determines 80% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral Exam with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Within the LEC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper with a relative weight of 80 which comprises 80% of the final mark.

Note: Lecturing and exam will take into account the linguistic acquisition according to the level of the student and the expected progress. Adjustments may be suggested and mistakes noticed when they appear. The degree of acquisition, the possible amount of errors and the specificity of the language skills will of course depend on the achieved level of language.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral presentation and written presentation (paper) of the analysis of a poem.

The paper is submitted before the beginning of the examinationperiod and discussed during the oral exam.

Paper: 100%

Evaluation matrix:

Since this course is evaluated by a paper, the evaluation criteria are defined by the examination correction keys.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context