On full engagement with and successful completion of this module, including regular attendance at lectures and seminars, students will have:
-- become acquainted with some major figures of contemporary French fiction and non-fiction;
-- developed your capacity to read French prose both widely and in depth ('close reading');
-- practised identifying connections and continuities across a range of works and voices;
-- developed your ability to articulate ideas and questions that are explicit and implicit in extracts discussed in seminars;
-- synthesised these skills of sophisticated reading into a structured critical analysis and essay.

A selection of short texts by contemporary French writers (male/female; fiction/non-fiction) on ideas of place including some of the following:
- Representations of the urban, the suburban, the rural
- Depictions of ways of living in and navigating between contemporary spaces
- Anthropological ideas of place and space
- Fictional versus non-fictional treatments of contemporary life in such spaces
- Writing as a space

Pass in FR20020 French Language 2a
Pass in FR20040 French Language 2b

Level 2 French literature / culture modules

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

Individual written feedback accompanying returned assignments. Global feedback on assignments in final lecture.