French literature from Renaissance to Enlightenment
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Carminella SIPALA
Expected Learning Outcomes
The ultimate aim of this
course is to provide the conceptual knowledge and the method in order to be
able to study and to understand French
literature not only as cultural heritage but even as range of ideological,
thematic and linguistic models, that can be used in the European sphere.
The specific purpose of this
course it to acquire knowledge related to the languages tested by some French
writers in relation to changes in literary genre, public, purposes, historical
situation.
The course will pay
particular attention to reading anthology or complete works and grammatical
analysis of the text, from the metric-prosodic to the lexical and
morpho-syntactic, with particular attention to the recognition in the
construction of the text of the isotopic series, of global significance and
dialectic between individuality and suprapersonal codes.
The quantity and quality of
selected readings will therefore be necessary for assessing the oral and
therefore we recommend students to submit in advance to the attention of the
teacher reading list that you intend to submit.
The skills of analysis of
the literary text will be found during a mandatory test in progress that will
be preparatory to oral examination.
According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding
in a post-secondary level field of study and knowing the fundamental themes in
one's field of study;
2) ability to apply knowledge
and understanding in order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess
adequate skills both to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in
one's field of study
5) learning skills necessary
to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Course Structure
The course is hold in a classroom, through an alternance of two main
teaching modalities: lectures and practice exercises, in order to train the
student to the written test, that is preparatory to the oral examination.
Therefore, students who attend the course are requested to bring to each
lesson the anthology, as can be find online, on Studium
platform. The students can choose whether to employ a digital or paper version
of the books, that in class will be subject matter of textual analysis.
We
recommend students to access Studium
platform and confirm their presence to the "Letteratura
Francese dal Rinascimento all'Età dei Lumi" course: in order
to get material for the lessons and receive all further communications from the
teacher. For this reason, we recommend to check the registered email
address.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
A.
FUNDAMENTALS of French Literature (XVI-XVII-XVIII century) 6 ects
The
socio-cultural contest, the artistic and literary movements, major authors and
their works, in relation to the nineteenth century and the twentieth century,
with a choice from an anthology of at least 50 passages and reading in the
original, full version of the following 6 works (any
complete edition in French):
Racine, Phèdre
Molière, Les femmes savantes
Marivaux, La Nouvelle Colonie ou la Ligue des femmes
Denis Diderot, Jacques le
Fataliste
Voltaire, Candide
B. IN DEPTH-ANALYSIS 3 ects
Women’writing in France from Middle Ages to Modern
Age
The course aims to reconstruct the nature and
evolution of the figure of the woman writer, from the Medieval courts to the
salons of the age of Enlightenment, investigating the representation of the
body and life of women and studying at the same time, the relation between
women and power and the hypothesis of a specific recognition of women's
writing.
Textbook Information
A. FUNDAMENTALS of French
Literature (XVI-XVII-XVIII century)
Texts:
- HISTORY OF LITERATURE
P. Brunel, Histoire de la littérature
française, t.1 : Du moyen Age au XVIIIe
siècle, Bordas, Paris (pp. 77-88; 94-107; 111-153; 158-170; 174-190;
193-198; 200-202; 204-242; 244-268; 277-280; 289-300; 304-306; 309-311;
314-361; 363-370; 372-381).
- ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE
Littérature.
Textes et documents, vol. I (MoyenAge et XVIe sec.) vol. II (XVIIe
sec.) e vol. III (XVIIIe sec.), collection H. Mitterand, Paris,
Nathan
- OR BY UNIFYING HISTORY OF
LITERATURE AND ANTHOLOGY:
Lagarde-Michard, Les grands
auteurs français du programme, vol. II (XVIe sec.), III
(XVIIe sec.) e vol. IV (XVIIIe sec.), Bordas, Paris
- TEXT ANALYSIS (for students who are not attending
courses)
Catherine Fromilhague, Anne Sancier-Chateau, Introduction à l'analyse
stylistique, Armand Colin,
Collection: Lettres Sup., 288 p. (or equivalent volume)
B. IN DEPTH-ANALYSIS:
Women’writing in France from Middle Ages to Modern
Age
Texts:
·
Les femmes et la tradition
littéraire. Anthologie du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Première partie: XIIe-XVIIIe
siècles (Vicki Mistacco éd.), New Haven
et Londres, Yale University Press, 2005, 608 p. (the
detailed list of the chosen texts is available on the Studium
platform)
· Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse
de Clèves (any complete edition in French with commentary).
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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