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FRENCH CULTURE AND LITERATURE II

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: FABRIZIO IMPELLIZZERI

Expected Learning Outcomes

This course is an introduction to 19th and 20th century French and francophone (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa) civilization, culture and literature. Various authors and works will be studied from different genres and the main literary movements that marked those centuries. Students will be provided with the linguistic, stylistic and critical tools suited to the analysis of anthological texts. Thanks to this course, students will be able to apply knowledge and understanding, make judgment, communicate and learn skills, in order to take up to Master’s Degree.

Detailed Course Content

This first part of the course will consist of a survey of 19th and 20th century French literature, with a particular focus on aesthetic movements and literatures that marked French culture and civilization, such as Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Surrealism, WWI and WWII literature, Existentialism. The main authors, genres and movements will be examined in context through the reading and analysis of some excerpts and texts.

Monographic course: Les francophonies littéraires des Suds ou la revendication identitaire d’une altérité post-coloniale (6h)

Textbook Information

French history of literature and anthology

André LAGARDE et Laurent MICHARD (collection dirigée par), Les grands auteurs Français – Anthologie et histoire littéraire, Paris, Bordas.

-          tome V | XIXe siècle

-          tome VI | XXe siècle

Ouvrage-guide conseillé exclusivement pour la révision du programme d’histoire de la littérature : Johan FARBER (sous la direction de), Bescherelle. Chronologie. La littérature française. Du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Paris, Hatier, 2019 [en version pdf téléchargeable sur Studium]

Methodology

Les genres littéraires – Les registres littéraires – Fiches de méthodes | Étude du texte littéraire – Figures de style – Vocabulaire littéraire : www.etudes-litteraires.com

Monographic course

Les francophonies littéraires des Suds ou la revendication identitaire d’une altérité post-coloniale (modulo di 6 ore)

-       Christiane CHAULET ACHOUR, Les francophonies littéraires, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Saint-Denis, 2016 (pp. 5-108, pp. 128-139, pp. 161-163).

-       Dominique COMBE, Les littératures francophones. Questions, débats, polémiques, Paris, PUF, « Licence Lettres », 2010 (pp. 242).

-       Jean-Louis JOUBERT, Les voleurs de la langue. Traversée de la francophonie littéraire, Paris, Éditions Philip Rey, 2006 (pp. 130).

-       (for more) R’Kia LAROUI, « Les littératures francophones du Maghreb », Littératures de la francophonie, Numéro 127, automne 2002, pp. 48-51. URL : id.erudit.org/iderudit/55807ac

-       (for more) Nadia GHALEM et Christiane NDIAYE, « Le Maghreb », in Introduction aux littératures francophones : Afrique. Caraïbe. Maghreb, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2004, pp. 197-267. URL : http://books.openedition.org/pum/10661

-       DOSSIER: anthology of extracts from the works of Tahar Ben Jelloun, Yacine Kateb, Assia Djebar, Amin Maalouf and Ahmadou Kourouma provided by the teacher on Studium.

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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