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François POIRIER, professeur de civilisation britannique

 
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CAPES et agrégation 2005 et 2006
News from Nowhere (1890) de William Morris
Agrégation interne à Paris 13

Plan du cours

Theme Sujet de dissertation Documentary analysis
(passages from C. WILMER, ed., op. cit.)
1. General introduction, the utopian tradition
2. Town and country, work and art "Those who have approached Socialism through the door, not of economics, or politics, but of art and morals, have done most to foster and to spread this vital spirit, both of criticism and of construction." P. xii, Hobson's preface to John Bruce Glasier's The Meaning of Socialism, 1919. 1. From " saw at a glance that their subjects were taken from queer old-world myths" p. 130 to "and turned to me smiling, and said: "Yes, why not?" " p. 132 (900 words)
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3. The great change: socialism, trade unionism, etc. Did Morris write his News from Nowhere for "an era of stability" or for "an era of desperation"? (p. 11 in Arnold Kettle, An Introduction to the English Novel, vol. 2, London: Hutchinson, 1953, 192 p.) 2. From "As a matter of fact" p. 133 to "would bring that peace about." p. 135 (768 words)
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4. Women's place The human body in the socialist ethics of News from Nowhere 3. From "But you will take me along" p. 163 to "without either muffling or caricaturing it" p. 165 (955 words)
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5. Education "That News from Nowhere is intent upon preserving, not to say sacralizing, Britishness, is beyond dispute." (John Buzard, "Ethnography as Interruption: News from Nowhere, Narrative, and the Modern Romance of Authority", Victorian Studies, Spring 1997, p. 455) 4. From "I said rather contemptuously" p. 66 to "for fear of fresh entanglements" p. 68 (879 words)
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6. Nature, the environment, conservation. General conclusion Past and future in News from Nowhere 5. From "You are thinking we don't make a great show" p. 224 to "the church-ales of the Middle Ages" p. 226 (955 words)
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Extraits supplémentaires pour l'entraînement à l'oral

Theme Topics to think about (a few examples, there are more possibilities than are listed here) Documentary analysis
Government, governance Plato. Marx's and Engels's Communist Manifesto. The local and the global. 6. From "HAMMOND What was the government of those days?" p. 108 to "I: So it was." p. 111 (957 words)
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Incentives to work Aristotle. Individual pleasure and collective arrangements. Production for survival or for profit. The force of habit. Fourier. 7. From "Now, this is what I want to ask you about" p. 122 to "at the same time to make as many articles as possible" p. 124 (888 words)
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Grumbling nostalgia The Coming Race.Pleasantness and boredom. Changes in literature. Dissent. Generation gaps. 8. From "(...) just at the rise of the hill we came" p. 172 to "wholly got rid of competition" p. 174 (889 words).
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Ch. II:"A Morning Bath" Reading the Thames waters as signs of change 9. From "I had by no means shaken off" p. 46 to "the west wind from Thorneycroft's" p. 48 (968 words)
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Ch. VI: "A Little Shopping" Children will be children... luxury and necessity, luxury and toil, commerce as a child's game 10. From "By this time we were within the shop" p. 72 to "to pay for such a thing as this?" p. 74 (1003 words)
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Ch. XIV: "How Matters are Managed" party politics, trade union democracy, community life and medieval nostalgia 11. From "Amongst us, our differences concern matters of business" p. 118 to "and I confess that I joined him." p. 120 (1024 words)
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Ch. XXVII: "The Upper Waters" Pleasure and work, arts and science, man and machines 12. From "This old man, whose name was Henry Morsom" p. 199 to ""we will meet it when it comes." p. 201 (867 words)
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Méthodologie de l'explication de texte en civilisation, voir :

Sujet de commentaire à l'écrit du CAPES externe 2005 :
cliquer ici (2,4 Mo!)
ou bien:
From "He sat silently thinking a little while" p. 157 to "the labour of every man who produces." p. 160 (1074 words)
ou encore, cliquer ici (32 Ko seulement!)

... et pour quelques idées sur ce passage, cliquer ici

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