The University of South Carolina
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
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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