FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

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Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION

Disciplinary Sector:

French Literature

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None, even if it is advisable to have a general knowledge of French history of literature.

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FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION

AF code:

40Y04003

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam in French to assess the knowledge of authors, works, cultural-artistical movements and their historical contexts; the ability to critically comment on texts and argue one’s own analyses; the accuracy of exposition and the language competence.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims at developing in the students a methodological approach to literary texts not as a merely aesthetic appraisal, but also as a critical investigation of their socio-historical contexts, through a comparative analysis of leitmotifs, innovations and contradictions in several important movements of the considered period, such as the case of Romanticism in particular.

Contents

Patterns of Romanticism in the French literature of 18th and 19th centuries – See the detailed syllabus in Moodle. It will deal with the following authors:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Olympe de Gouges,
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre,
François-René de Chateaubriand,
Madame de Staël,
Alphonse de Lamartine,
Alfred de Vigny,
Honoré de Balzac,
Stendhal,
Victor Hugo,
Flora Tristan,
Aloysius Bertrand,
Gustave Flaubert,
Charles Baudelaire,
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore,
George Sand,
Arthur Rimbaud,
Louise Michel,
Émile Zola,
Stéphane Mallarmé.

Recommended Bibliography

Primary and compulsory sources:

- Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (French or bilingual edition) ;

- One novel among (French or bilingual edition):
H. de Balzac, Le Père Goriot;
Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme;
G. Flaubert, Madame Bovary;
G. Sand, La Ville noire;
É. Zola, L’Assommoir;

- Excerpts from the teacher’s dossier (50 pages).

Secondary sources for deepenings:

- Lagarde A., Michard L., Moyen Âge, XVIe siècle, XVIIe siècle, XVIIIe siècle, XIXe siècle, Paris, Bordas (several editions available);

- Brunel P. (éd.), Histoire de la littérature française, 2 tomes, Paris, Bordas, 1986, 1996;

- Adam A. et al., Littérature française, 2 tomes, Paris, Larousse, 1967-68.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures, distance learning, interactive teaching, cooperative learning; videos, documentaries and film screenings concerning the discipline.

Contacts/More Information

Language: French.
Attending the lectures is mostly suggested.
All analyzed and discussed materials will be available in the Moodle classroom.

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