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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
103 Jastak-Burgess Hall - University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-6882
The MA in Foreign Languages and Pedagogy requires
students to take both written and oral comprehensive exams in literature
and foreign language pedagogy.
The literature examination for the Master's degree in Foreign Languages
and Pedagogy is offered in November/December and April/May of each academic
year. It emphasizes not only the content (plot, setting, characters, etc.)
of each work but also its implicit values and its aesthetic and
philosophical underpinnings. An understanding of the contribution of
each work to its own period is essential. Students should have a
grasp both of the major French literary movements and of the cultural and
historical context in which they arose. Both the written and oral
portions of the exam are conducted entirely in French.
All students will read works from the lists for six of the seven
periods/areas. Please note that students must have taken at least one
course in the period/area not chosen for the exam. The written exam
will consist of six identifications covering the six periods/areas
selected, and an explication de texte. Two hours and forty minutes
will be allotted for the written exam, and the time limit will be strictly
observed.
The oral examination will focus on the Reading Lists for the six
periods/areas chosen, the student's course work, and any questions arising
from the written examination.
Because these reading lists require a number of choices between work A
or B, students must inform their advisers of their selections at least one
month prior to the date scheduled for the written exam. Any requests for
substitutions of works on the Reading Lists must also be submitted by this
deadline.
I. MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Works in Old French to be read in modern French translation.
l. La Chanson de
Roland
2. Béroul, Le Roman de
Tristan
3. Marie de France, Les Lais (extracts):
"Prologue",
"Guigemar", "Lanval", "Yonec", "Le
Laüstic" and "Le Chaitivel"
4. Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, le
chevalier à la charrette or Perceval ou le Conte du
Graal
5. Aucassin et Nicolette
6. La Farce de Maître Pierre Pathelin
7. François Villon, Le Testament (extracts):
"Ballade des dames du temps jadis"
"Ballade des seigneurs du temps jadis"
"Les regrets de la belle Heaumière"
Double ballade "Pour ce, aimez tant que voudrez"
"Ballade pour prier Notre Dame"
"Les Contredits de Franc Gontier"
"Ballade de la Grosse Margot"
"Epitaphe" ("Cy gist et dort...")
"Autre ballade" ("Icy se clost le testament")
In addition: "L'Epitaphe Villon" also called "Ballade des
pendus"
N.B. As with other centuries, students should be
familiar with the social and cultural history of the Middle Ages.
II. RENAISSANCE
Poetry
1. Ronsard - the following
poems, which can be found in the bulk pack for FREN 624 (on reserve in
Morris Library):
Les Amours
(1552/53) - nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15
La Continuation des Amours (1555/56) - nos. 17, 19, 20
Sur la Mort de Marie (1578) - nos. 24 and 25
Sonnets pour Hélène (1578/84) - nos. 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37
2. Labé, Sonnets
3. Du Bellay, Les Antiquités
de Rome and Les Regrets *
Prose
Fiction
4. Rabelais, Gargantua (or Pantagruel)
5. Marguerite de Navarre, L'Heptaméron
the "Prologue" and the "Première Journée"
Non-Fiction
6. Montaigne, Essais
I
26, De l'institution des enfants
I 28, De l'amitié
I 31, Des cannibales
III 2, Du repentir
III 9, De la vanité
III 13, De l'expérience
* Detailed knowledge is required only of those poems
from these collections that appear in French Poetry of the Renaissance,
ed. Bernard Weinberg (New York: Harper, 1954) Morris Library PQ 1173. W43
(on reserve).
III. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1. Descartes, Discours de la
méthode (I, II, III, IV) or Pascal, Pensées (édition à consulter:
Nouveaux Classiques Larousse)
2. Corneille, Le Cid and Horace or L'Illusion comique or Cinna
3. Molière, Le Misanthrope and Tartuffe
4. Racine, Andromaqueand Phèdre
5. La Fontaine, Fables:
"La Cigale et la Fourmi"
"Le Corbeau et le Renard"
"La Grenouille qui se veut faire plus grosse que le boeuf"
"Le Rat de ville et le rat des champs"
"Le Loup et l'Agneau"
"Le Chêne et le Roseau"
"La Laitière et le Pot au lait"
"La Poule aux oeufs d'or"
"L'Amour et la Folie"
"La Jeune Veuve"
6. Mme de La Fayette, La Princesse de
Clèves
7. La Rochefoucauld, Maximes
IV. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
1. Marivaux, Le Jeu de l'amour
et du hasard or Prévost, Manon Lescaut
2. Montesquieu, Lettres
persanes or Graffigny, Lettres d'une Péruvienne
3. Voltaire, Zadig andCandide
4. Diderot, Le Neveu de
Rameauor
Jacques
le Fataliste
5. Rousseau, Les
Confessions or La Nouvelle Héloïseor les deux Discours
6. Laclos, Les Liaisons
Dangereuses
7. Chénier, "La Jeune
Tarentine" and "La Jeune Captive"
V. NINETEENTH CENTURY
Prose Fiction (Novels and stories):
1. Chateaubriand, Atala or
René
2. Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir or
La Chartreuse de Parme or another novel*
3. Sand, La Mare au diable or Claire
de Duras Ourika
4. Balzac, Le Père Goriot or
Eugénie Grandet or another novel*
5. Flaubert, Madame Bovary or
L'Education sentimentale
6. Zola, Germinal, or L'Assommoir or
another novel*
*Permission of nineteenth-century specialist required.
Play/Essay:
1. Hugo, Hernani/Préface de Cromwell
Poetry:
1. Lamartine, "Le Lac"
2. Hugo, "Tristesse d'Olympio"
3. Musset, "La Nuit de mai"
4. Vigny, "La mort du loup"
5. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, "Les Roses de
Saadi"
6. Baudelaire:
"Spleen" ("Quand le ciel
bas et lourd...")
"Correspondances"
"Hymne à la beauté"
"Invitation au voyage"
7. Verlaine, "Chanson d'automne"
8. Rimbaud, "Le Bateau ivre"
9. Mallarmé, "Brise marine"
VI. TWENTIETH CENTURY
Fiction:
1. Proust, Combray or
Colette La Vagabonde
2. Gide, Les Caves du Vatican or
Yourcenar Le Coup de Grâce
3. Sartre, La Nausée or Beauvoir
L'Invitée or Camus L'Exil et le royaume
4. Duras or Perec or Robbe-Grillet or
Sarraute: One novel with prior approval.
5. Ernaux or Le Clézio or Quignard or
Sallenave or Tournier: One novel with prior approval.
Plays:
1. Anouilh, Antigone or
Bernanos, Dialogues des Carmélites or Claudel,
L'Annonce faite à Marie or Giraudoux, La Guerre de
Troie n'aura pas lieu
2. Beckett, En attendant Godot or
Camus Caligula or Ionesco Les Chaises
Poems:
1. Valéry, "L'Amateur de
poèmes", "Palme", "Ébauche d'un serpent",
"Les Pas"
2. Sélection de poèmes surréalistes (with prior approval) or
Apollinaire, La Chanson du Mal Aimé
3. Bonnefoy, "Théâtre" in Du mouvement et de
l'immobilité de Douve
VII. READING LIST FOR FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE
PROSE/FICTION
1-Bâ,
Mariama. Une si longue lettre
2-Camara,
Laye. L’Enfant noir
3-Chedid,
Andrée. L’Enfant multiple.
4-Condé,
Maryse. Moi Tituba… Sorcière
5-Confiant,
Raphaël. Ravines du devant-jour.
POETRY ONE (1) of the
following:
1-Césaire,
Aimé. Le Cahier d’un retour au pays natal.
2-Senghor,
Léopold Sédar. « Femme noire »
« Masque nègre »
« Neige
sur Paris »
«Poème liminaire »
« Congo »
« Joal »
3-Damas,
Léon-Gontran. « Ils sont venus ce
soir»
« Névralgie »
« Trêve »
« Hoquet »
« Solde »
« Limbé »
PLAYS TWO (2) of the following:
1- Dadié,
Bernard. Béatrice du Congo.
2- Césaire,
Aimé. La Tragédie du Roi Christophe.
-Une
Saison au Congo.
3- Tchicaya,
U Tam’Si. Le Destin glorieux du maréchal Nnikon Nniku,
prince qu’on sort.
4- Oyono-Mbia,
Guillaume. Trois Prétendants, un mari
Pedagogy
Reading List and Study Topics for the MAFLP Exam
Last Updated on 12/11/09
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