Department of French

Reading Lists for French Scheduled Papers

General information

French language reference works

Grammar requirements for Part IA (in French)

Part IA

• Fr 1: Introduction to French literature, linguistics, thought and film

Part IB

• Fr 3: French literature, thought and history before 1300.
• Fr 4: Occitan literature, thought and history before 1356. Suspended for 2010/2011
• Fr 5: French literature, thought and history from 1300 to 1510.
• Fr 6: French literature, thought and history from 1510 to 1622.
• Fr 7: French literature, thought and history from 1594 to 1700.
• Fr 8: French literature, thought and history from 1690 to 1799.
• Fr 9: French literature, thought and history from 1789 to 1898.
• Fr 10: French literature, visual culture, thought and history from 1890 to 1958.
• Fr 11: Literature, visual culture, thought and history in the French-speaking world since 1945.
• Fr 12: A special subject in French culture: Early modern thought.
• Core Texts for Part IB Scheduled Papers

Part IB: new papers from 2012/2013

• Fr2: Structures and Varieties of French
  This paper will be taught for the first time in 2013/2014

Part II

• Fr13: The French language: variation and change.

Part II: new papers from 2012/2013

• Fr7: Topics in medieval studies: Defining the Human
• Fr9: Reason, Experience, and Authority: French Literature, Thought, and History, 1594-1700
• Fr12: Ethics and Experience: Literature, Thought and Visual Culture of the French-speaking World (1900 to the present)
• Fr15: A special topic in French studies (B): Ethics and the erotic in medieval Occitan writing