University of Warsaw » Faculty of Modern Languages » Institute for French Studies

Courses Descriptions

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - THE RENAISSANCE

        The class shall encourage the students to read selected texts of this period and to inteprete them. It consists in analyzing the texts together with the teacher, remebering the cultural and social context.     

   The programme will be the following:

  • The poetics of the Rhetoricians as appears in the recent studies;
  • Clément Marot;  
  • Erasm and Rabelais - the great challenge of education;
  • Marguerite de Navarre and her Heptaméron;
  • the text and the picture in the literature of Renaissance: Delie of Maurice Scève;
  • Pierre de Ronsard and the philosophical poetry: Hymns;
  • Michel de Montaigne and the New World - Essais: „Des Cannibales", „Des Coches".

Credit: activity, speech, composition.

Selected bibliography:

Aulotte R. (dir.), 1991, Précis de littérature française du XVIe s., PUF.

Cornette J., 1995, Chronique de la France moderne. Le XVIe siècle, SEDES, Paris.

Jouanna A., 1996, La France du XVIe siècle, PUF, Paris.

Lecoq A.-M., 1987, François Ier imaginaire. Symbolique et politique à l'aube de la Renaissance française, Macula, Paris.  

F. Lestringant, Rieu J., Tarrête A.,  2000, Littérature française du XVIesiècle, PUF, Paris,.

Ménager D., 1978, Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIesiècle., Bordas.



Courses details:
The programme, including the description of particular courses, is the same both for full-time studies and for part-time studies.
Show all
Show only this unit: Department for Methodology of French Teaching
Department for Romance Linguistics
Department for French Literature
Show year: I, II, III, IV, V
Courses: EKO, FIL, GK, GO, GO-FON, HF, HLF, JH, LEKT-DJ, LIC, ŁAC, MAG, MBJ, MBL, MET, MONO, NPJ, NPL, PED, PNJF, PNJF-ATL, PNJF-LABO, PP, PROS, PSY, PU, SOC, TEM, TLD, TnF, TnP, TP, UF, WF, WJ, WL, WoKF, ZHJ