Prof. TennesseeBob Peckham (427E Humanities -Tel. 7424. Home
587-6562. e-mail: bobp@utm.edu). I
strongly encourage use of my virtual or e-mail office any time of day or
night.
GOALS - Learn ways to approach literary masterpieces by reading and
studying a significantly wide variety of French literary works from the
Middle ages through the Enlightenment, along with some historical and
critical studies. Know the chronological outline of French literature, the
names and descriptions of major French literary genres, and understand
how the French developed a consciousness of their own literary history
with a sense of artistic community, through literary courts, salons,
cafés, schools and movements. Master the basics of explication de
textes.
PROCEDURE - Short lectures in class, daily preparation based usually
on a questionnaire or activity centered around readings for the day, handed
in on occasion. A test for each period (Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th
Century, 18th Century) consisting of identifications of passages, a small
number of historical and biographical recall questions and an explication
of a passage from an assigned work. A formal explication de textes
(written & oral). Opportunity for extra credit through reading and
research projects.
MEDIA - Course materials will be almost entirely internet-based or
internet-delivered.
