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French Literature Pick As Many As You Research Paper

¶ … French literature? (Pick as many as you think are correct) Detective stories

Songs sung by traveling minstrels (troubadours) and entertainers and jesters (jongleurs)

Oral histories evoking the exploits of saints and kings

Long verse poems telling the stories of heroes like Charlemagne, knights and ladies and their confrontations with giants, monsters, and the supernatural world

Gothic novels

The Renaissance - pick out which of the following elements characterize the changes and innovations of the Renaissance era in France - the late 15th century to the early 17th century.

An interest and celebration of the arts and thinking of ancient Greece and Rome

An attraction to humanism - a view of the world where individual choices direct one's actions more so than religious conviction

c.

Royal support for music, architecture, and art

d.

The bubonic plague

e.

The Hundred Years War

Question 4

Which of the following were important Renaissance writers?

a.

Francois Rabelais - an author of satirical and licentious works.

b.

Joachim...

Classicism favors order, moral precision, restraint and good manners. It was particularly at home in the court of which French King?
a.

Louis XIV

b.

Charles VII

c.

Francis the first

Question 6

Following the Revolution, Romanticism emerged as a leader in the world of literature - it stresses subjectivity and self-expression, individual feeling over collective imperatives, celebrates nature, and loves the intrigue of colorful characters from history. Which of the following could be considered Romantic authors?

a.

Samuel Beckett, author of "Waiting for Godot"

b.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote that all people are…

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