FR10130 French Fictions

Academic Year 2022/2023

This module in French Literature focuses on the close reading and analysis of short literary texts in French. Its aim is to refine students' skills of (1) reading, with a critical focus, works by major French writers and (2) producing an analysis of short extracts from those longer texts studied. Students will learn to grasp not only literal but literary meaning and acquire a sense of the distance between the two.

Reading literature is a key way to develop language skills, since it involves deciphering complex structures.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:


If you participate assiduously in this module, attending both lectures and weekly tutorials, you should, on its completion, be able (1) to understand, describe, analyse, and discuss the interplay of language, form, and meaning within literary narrative texts in French; (2) to write a clearly structured critical analysis of a given passage from a longer work you have studied; (3) to show significant broadening of your command of French idiom, vocabulary and syntax through having paid close and detailed attention to a sizeable corpus of high-quality writing in French.

Indicative Module Content:

A weekly lecture and tutorial, the former demonstrating and the latter practising in a workshop setting how to read literary prose critically and how to write an analysis of an extract from a longer work you have read.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

12
Tutorial

12
Specified Learning Activities

48
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

122
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
One weekly lecture and one weekly tutorial/workshop. Weekly critical reading tasks to prepare for writing a critical analysis. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Reading French Prose (FR10080)


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: Submission of answers to a set question from the weekly worksheet. Minimum of 5 submissions required, uploaded to Brightspace by the Friday of the week the worksheet and story are studied. Throughout the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

10
Assignment: A critical analysis of a short extract Week 8 n/a Graded No

30
Examination: A critical analysis of an extract from one of the texts studied on the programme. 2 hour End of Trimester Exam No Graded No

60

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Class test feedback provided individually in tutor's written comments on returned work and also globally in final lecture.

Gratton, J. & LeJuez, B., Modern French Short Fiction (Manchester: Manchester University Press). Available from International Books, South Frederick St., Dublin 2
Name Role
Assoc Professor Douglas Smith Lecturer / Co-Lecturer