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: new papers from 2012/2013

• Fr2: Structures and Varieties of French
  This paper will be taught for the first time in 2013/2014
• Fr3: Love, violence and power in France, 1100-1500
• Fr4: Rethinking the human: French literature, thought, and culture, 1500-1700
• Fr5: Revolutions in Writing, 1700-1900 (18th century)
• Fr5: Revolutions in Writing, 1700-1900 (19th century)

Part II: new papers from 2012/2013

• Fr7: Topics in medieval studies: Defining the Human
• Fr8: Living, loving and dying in Renaissance France
• Fr9: Reason, Experience, and Authority: French Literature, Thought, and History, 1594-1700
• Fr10: French Literature, Thought, and History, from 1690
• Fr11: Gender, Desire and Power in Nineteenth-Century French Culture
• Fr12: Ethics and Experience: Literature, Thought and Visual Culture of the French-speaking World (1900 to the present)
• Fr13: The French language: variation and change.
• Fr15: A special topic in French studies (B): Ethics and the erotic in medieval Occitan writing