FRENCH LITERATURE
Oral exam
The course aims to rethink some of the salient stages of French fantastic narrative production and to provide analytical methods of fantastic narrative by putting the focus of reflection, often to contest some obvious limitations, the well-known essay by Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique.
The fantastic story in France by Jacques Cazotte at Marie Ndiaye
a) Theoretical module:
Tzvetan TODOROV, Introduction à la littérature fantastique, Paris, Seuil, 1970, pp. 188.
b) Text analysis:
- Jacques CAZOTTE, Le Diable amoureux (any edition available).
- Charles NODIER, Inès de Las Sierras (any edition available).
- Honoré de BALZAC, Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu (any edition available).
- Théophile GAUTIER, La cafetière; Onuphrius; Omphale; La morte amoureuse; Le pied de momie (in Récits fantastiques, Paris, Flammarion, any edition available).
- MÉRIMÉ Prosper, La Vénus d’Ille; Lokis; Djoûmane (in La Vénus d'Ille et autres nouvelles, Paris, Flammarion, any edition available).
- Guy de MAUPASSANT, Le Horla 1° e 2° versione; La main d’écorché; Sur l’eau (in Le Horla et autres contes d'angoisse, Paris, Flammarion, any edition available).
- Marguerite YOURCENAR, Comment Wng Fo fut sauvé; L’homme qui a aimé les Néréides; Le sourire de Marko; Notre-Dame-des-Hirondelles; La fin de Marko Kraliévitch (in Nouvelles orientales, any edition available).
- Marie NDIAYE, Un temps de saison, Paris, Les éditions de Minuit, 1994/2004.
Non-attending students will have to integrate the theoretical module of the program with the following parts of texts:
- Gérard GENETTE, Discours du récit, in G. GENETTE, Figures III, Paris, Seuil, 1972, pp. 65-273.
- Lubomìr DOLEZEL, Heterocosmica. Fiction e mondi possibili, Trad. It. di Margherita Botto, Milano, Bompiani, 1999, only the chap. V. «Modalità narrative».
Le letture per gli studenti frequentanti verranno presentate a lezione
Lessons face to face
You can contact the teacher in Italian or in French at the following e-mail address; giosale@uniss.it