LETTERATURA FRANCESE DAL PREROMANTICISMO A “LES ANNÉES FOLLES”

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.

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 skills of analysis and synthesis of the literary text will be found during a mandatory test in progress that will be preparatory to oral examination.

The course is hold in a classroom, through an alternation of two main teaching modalities: frontal lessons 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. 

A. FUNDAMENTALS of French Literature (XIX-XX century) 6ects

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 6 works chosen from the following pairs (any complete edition in French):

1 poem:

Arthur Rimbaud, Le Bateau ivre or Blaise Cendrars, Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France;

1 collection of prose poems:

Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations or

André Gide, Les nourritures terrestres;

1 manifeste littéraire:

Jean Moréas, Le Symbolisme

Marinetti, Manifeste du futurisme;

1 play:

Victor Hugo, Hernani o

Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande;

1 tales collection:
Gustave Flaubert, Trois Contes o

Jules Laforgue, Moralités légendaires;

1 short novel:

Alain Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes o

André Gide, Les Caves du Vatican

B. IN DEPTH-ANALYSIS 3 ects

The Representation of Women’s Reading in 19th-century France

A. FUNDAMENTALS of French Literature (XIX-XX century)

Texts:

- History of Literature

P. Brunel, Y. Bellenger, D. Couty, Ph. Sellier, M. Truffet, Histoire de la littérature française, t.2 : XIX^e et XX^e siècle, Bordas, Paris, pp. 385-449, 456-516, 525-563, 581-622, 666-680, 705-708, 721-730.  

[P. Brunel, Y. Bellenger, D. Couty, Ph. Sellier, M. Truffet, Storia della Letteratura francese, t.2 : Ottocento e Novecento, edizione italiana a cura di Giovanni Bogliolo, Rapallo, CIDEB, 1987.

or :

Storia europea della letteratura francese, t.2. Dal Settecento all’età contemporanea, a cura di L. Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp.129-347]

- Anthology of Literature

Littérature. Textes et documents, vol. IV (XIX^e sec.) e vol. V (XX^e sec.), collection H. Mitterand, Paris, Nathan [Antologia cronologica della letteratura francese, diretta e a cura di R. Campagnoli, Milano, Ambrosiana, 1996, voll. 5 (Ottocento) e 6 (Novecento) a cura di Liana Nissim]

- or by unifying History of Literature and Anthology:

Lagarde-Michard, Les grands auteurs français du programme, vol. V (XIX^e sec.) e vol. VI (XX^e sec.), Bordas, Paris

- Commentaire littéraire (for students who are not attending courses)

Daniel Bergez, L'explication de texte littéraire, Armand Colin, Collection: Lettres Sup., 232 p. (or equivalent volume)

B. IN DEPTH-ANALYSIS
The Representation of Women’s Reading in 19th-century France

Texts:

·    S. Maréchal, Projet d'une loi portant défense d'apprendre à lire aux femmes par S***M***, Massé, Paris, an IX (1801)

·    Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon

·    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

·    F. Nies, La femme-femme et la lecture. Un tour d'horizon iconographique, «Romantisme»,  47, 1985, pp. 97-106

·    D. Fabre, Lire au féminin, « Clio. femmes, Genre, Histoire», 11, 2000

·    V. Feuillebois, «Victimes du livre»? Dangers et vertus de la lecture empathique chez Jane Austen, Pouchkine et Balzac, «Romantisme»,  174, 1 , 2016, pp. 101-110

·    More texts will be available on the Studium platform by March 2022

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