Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-FRAD-453F
- Title
- History of the Development of French Lyrical Poetry
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Learning outcomes
- The course aims to introduce the development of French lyric poetry from the Renaissance to the Classical period. The essentially chronological approach is not limited to a survey of literary history, but also takes into account the major themes and significant works of the period.
- Course content
- 1. Introduction, requirements 2. The influence of antiquity in the 16th century 3. Ancient and modern conceptions of the poetic vocation 4. Clément Marot 5. Maurice Sceve 6. The love poetry tradition from Antiquity to the Renaissance 7. Pernette du Guillet and Louise Labé 8. The poets of the Pléiade: Ronsard and Du Bellay 9. . La Défense et illustration de la langue française 10. Philippe Desportes 11. the Baroque
- Assessment method
- Written exam at the end of the semester, based on the lecture material and the written material assigned for the current topic.
- Bibliography
- Platon, Ion (texte intégral) Platon, La République (extraits) Horace, Art poétique (extraits) Ronsard, Abrégé de l’Art poétique (extraits) René Rapin, Réflexions sur la poétique, 1674 (extraits)