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M.A.T. Reading List

Area B. Language/Linguistics

  • Battye, A., and M. Hintze. 1992. The French Language Today. New York: Routledge. (PC 2105.B37 1992)
  • Delattre, Pierre. 1951. Principes de phonétique française. Middlebury: Middlebury College.
  • Grevisse, Maurice. 1982. Le Français correct. Paris-Gembloux: Duculot. (PC 2460.G635 1982)
  • Léon, Pierre. 1978. Prononciation du français standard. Paris: Didier. (PC2137.L49)
  • _____. 1992. Phonétisme et prononciation du français. Paris: Nathan. (PC2135.L46 1992)
  • _____, Bhatt, P., and Baligand, R. 1992. Structure du français moderne. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.
  • Rickard, Peter. 1989. A History of the French Language. London: Unwin Hyman.
  • Sanders, C. 1993. French Today. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (PC2074.75.F74 1993)
  • Tranel, Bernard. 1987. The Sounds of French. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. (PC2135.T73 1987)
  • Walter, Henriette. 1988. Le Français dans tous les sens. Paris: Laffont. (PC2075.W29 1988) [in English: French Inside Out. 1994. New York: Routledge]

Area C. Culture and Literature

M.A.T. candidates should be familiar with the historical stages of France's development as a nation and with the major figures and trends: the Gauls, the Romans, the Franks, Charlemagne, the Capetian dynasty, the Ancien Régime, the Revolution, Napoleon, and so forth. French encyclopedias and books on French history are available at the Thomas Cooper library; works such as Les grandes étapes de la civilisation française (Paris: Bordas) are helpful. For contemporary institutions, a work such as Edmiston and Duménil's La France contemporaine is recommended.

Cultural knowledge may be tested indirectly in any exam format, or there may be objective, point-specific questions in the written and oral parts of the exam.

Drama

  • Corneille, Le Cid
  • Molière, Le Misanthroipe
  • Racine, Phèdre
  • Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro
  • Anouilh, Antigone
  • Beckett, En attendant Godot
  • Ionesto, Les Chaises
  • Sartre, Huis clos
Prose
  • Montaigne, from the Essais: "Des Cannibales" (I, 31)
  • Descartes, Discours de la méthode (excerpts in packet)
  • Pascal, Pensées (excerpts in packet)
  • Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves
  • Prévost, Manon Lescaut
  • Voltaire, Candide
  • Balzac, Le Père Goriot
  • Flaubert, Madame Bovary
  • Duras, Moderato Cantabile
  • Proust, Combray
Poetry
  • La Fontaine, Fables: "La grenouille qui veut ...," "La cigale et la fourmi," "Le loup et l'agneau"
  • Du Bellay, from Les Regrets: "France, mère des arts ...," "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse ..."
  • Ronsard: "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose ...", "Quand vous serez bien vieille"
  • Lamartine: "Le Lac"
  • Vigny: "La Mort du loup"
  • Hugo: "Fonction du poète," "Tristesse d'Olympio," "Demain dès l'aube"
  • Baudelaire: "Correspondances," L'Albatros," "Hymne à la Beauté," "Parfum exotique," "Harmonie du soir," "L'Invitation au voyage," "Spleen: Quand le ciel ..."
  • Verlaine: "Chanson d'automne," "Ariettes oubliées"
  • Mallarmé: "Brise marine," "Le vierge, le vivace ..."
  • Prévert: "Déjeuner du matin"
  • Apollinaire: "Le pont Mirabeau"
  • Eluard: "Les Lilas et les roses," "Liberté"
  • Césaire: "Soleil serpent"
Candidates should also be able to demonstrate general knowledge of the "francophonie" movement: regions included, common and diverging interests, postcolonial identities, and the works of some representative authors (to be determined in consultation with the Graduate Director).

Useful references:

  • Lagarde & Michard, Collection Littéraire (survey volumes fo the various centuries)
  • The Oxford Companion to French Literature
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature (condensed and updated version of the Companion, available in paperback)
  • Denis Hollier, A New History of French LIterature
  • Donald Stone, France in the Sixteenth Century (Prentice-Hall, 1969)
  • Jean Mesnard, ed., Précis de littérature française du XVIIe siècle (Paris: PUF, 1995)

 

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