University of Sheffield, Department of French

University of Sheffield, Department of French
Book Lists – Set Texts for L3 Approved Modules
The following books are essential reading for the relevant module, and students are
required to purchase a copy and read it in advance of the module commencing in Autumn
2012. Please pay attention to editions specified (where relevant). Full reading lists (including
secondary literature) will be made available via MOLE at the start of the academic year.
FRE305/306 Film Studies
Dr Julia Dobson and Dr Renate Günther
Students are not required to purchase the following films, as there are multiple copies of
each of the following set films in the IC. Students may, however, wish to watch a selection
over the summer prior to starting the module.
 La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
 Le petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
 Cléo de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
 Nathalie Granger (Duras, 1972)
 Sans toit ni loi (Varda, 1985)
 Rien à faire (Vernoux, 1999)
 De battre mon cœur s’est arrêté (Audiard, 2004)
FRE329/330 Feminism in Contemporary French Culture
Dr Renate Günther
 Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe, Gallimard (Folio), 2009, Vols. 1 & 2
 Luce Irigaray, Je, Tu, Nous, Routledge, 1993
FRE341/342 Gender, economy and society in France
Prof. Jan Windebank
 Maruani, M (ed) (2005) Femmes, genre et sociétées: l'état des savoirs, La Découverte:
Paris, ISBN: 2-7071-4412-6
FRE343 Contemporary Visual Arts in France
Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson
N/A
FRE363/364 Le Siècle des Lumières
Dr David McCallam
TBC
FRE367/368 Le rire gaulois
Dr Penny Simons
 Fabliaux du Moyen Age edited and translated Jean Dufournet, GF Flammarion: Paris,
1988, ISBN 2-08-070972-0 [N.B. please only purchase this edition]
 La Farce de Maitre Pierre Pathelin edited and by Jean Dufournet, GF Flammarion: Paris,
1986, ISBN 2-08-070462-1 [N.B. please only purchase this edition]
 Le Lai du Lecheor in Three Old French Narrative Lays: Trot, Lecheor, Nabaret (edited,
translated and introduced by Leslie Brook and Glyn Burgess, 1999), available from this
web site http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/los/narrativelays.pdf [download]
Other texts will be made available via MOLE.
FRE371/372 Literature and Politics of the Post(-)colonial
Dr Audrey Small
 Camara Laye, L’Enfant noir (any edition)
 Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (any edition)
 Fatou Diome, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (any edition)
FRE373/374 Contemporary French Theatres
Dr Julia Dobson
 Le Théâtre du soleil, 1789 (Théâtrales, 1995)
 Michel Vinaver, Les Travaux et les jours (L’Arche, 2003)
 Bernard-Marie Koltès, Combat de nègre et de chiens (Editions de Minuit, 1990)
 Hélène Cixous, Tambours sur la digue (Théâtre du soleil,2001)
 Marie NDiaye, Papa doit manger (Editions de Minuit, 2003)
 Olivier Py, Illusions comiques (ACTES SUD, 2006)
FRE385/386 Constructions Identitaires dans la France du XXe siècle
Tutor: Dr Sophie Watt
 Marcel Proust, Un amour de Swann (1913)
 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932)
 Sarah Kofman, Rue Ordener, Rues Labat (1994)
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive (1946)
 Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, Masques blancs (1952)
 Monique Wittig, Les Guerrières (1969)
 Annie Ernaux, La honte (1996)
For information, the following films will also be used on the module (but students are not
required to purchase / watch these in advance):
 Raoul Ruiz, Time Regained (1999)
 Bertrand Tavernier, Coup de Torchon (1981)
 Joseph Losey, Monsieur Klein (1976)
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Gillo Pontecorvo, La bataille d’Alger (1966)
Moufida Tlati, Les silences du palais (1994)
Diane Kuris, Entre nous (1983)
Agnès Varda, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)
All critical articles will be put on MOLE
FRE387/388 Poetry and Performance
Dr Helen Abbott
 Jacques Réda, Les Ruines de Paris (Gallimard, 1993) ISBN 978-2070327379
 Jacques Roubaud, Є (Flammarion, 2004) ISBN 978-2070325245
(The book’s title is a mathematical symbol, which makes it hard to search for – you may
wish to follow this Amazon link : http://www.amazon.fr/ERoubaud/dp/2070325245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339677841&sr=8-1)
 EITHER :
Michèle Aquien, Dictionnaire de Poétique (Livre de Poche, 1997) ISBN 978-2253160069
OR :
Michèle Aquien & Georges Molinié, Dictionnaire de Rhétorique et de Poétique (Livre de
Poche, 1996), ISBN 978-2253130178
All other texts will be made available via e-Text on MOLE
FRE395/396 Etudes de cas sociolinguistiques du français
Dr Catharina Schampaert-Peersman
 Lodge, Anthony. 2004. A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French. Cambridge University
Press. ISBN 9780521821797