Méthodologie de la Littérature française générale et comparée

The aim of the course is to enable students to manage knowledge processes autonomously, broadening the spectrum of methods most useful for reflecting on literary activity and on the products of French literature, understood as cultural heritage but also as a place of production of ideological, thematic and linguistic models active in the European context.

To understand a text by choosing the most effective approach to be applied in order to interpret/produce meaning; to understand the relationship between interpreter-method-sign and the outcome from time to time of the assumption of different perspectives; to exercise individual sensitivity and mastery of tools in the guided interaction with the literary text; to judge in a personal way both the path taken and the outcome of that path; to recognise the intention that guides the act of communication and to govern one's own communication: in order to develop these skills, the students will be offered a variety of working tools and situations will be created in which they can experiment independently with what they have acquired, in seminar spaces and in teaching simulations.

Texts:

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861.

Available at the link:

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30066464d

https://fleursdumal.org/1861-table-of-contents

 

Charles Baudelaire, Épaves, Amsterdam, À l'enseigne du Coq [Bruxelles, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise], 1866.

Available at the link:

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb317738332

https://fleursdumal.org/1866-les-epaves-table-of-contents

 

(The use of annotated reproductions and even with facing text is permitted as long as they contain the complete original editions indicated above)

 

Charles Meryon, Eaux-Fortes sur Paris, 1850-1854, in

Campbell Dodgson, The etchings of Charles Meryon, London, The Studio, 1921 (Préface e Introduction, pp. 1-24, with choice of images).

Available at the link:

https://archive.org/details/etchingsofcharle00mr/mode/2up

 

Excerpts presented in class from other works by Baudelaire (and/or other authors) - and in particular from later, illustrated editions of Les Fleurs du Mal from the 19th and early 20th century - will be made available on the Studium platform.

 

Studies

- Baudelaire e i suoi illustratori, in Baudelaire. Due secoli di creazione, Atti del convegno di studi, Genova, 9 novembre 2020, a cura di I. Merello e A. Schellino, Genova, Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, 2021 (Introduzione di I. Merello pp. 7-13 and n.6 articles pp. 23-148);

- Walter Benjamin, Notes sur les "Tableaux parisiens" de Baudelaire, (conférence prononcée au “Foyer d’Etudes et de repos” de l’Abbaye de Pontigny en mai 1939)

- Pierre Bourdieu, Le champ littéraire, «Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales», vol. 89, septembre 1991, pp. 3-46;

- Philippe Hamon, Imagéries. Littérature et image au XIX^e siècle, Paris, José Corti, 2001 (préface et chapp. 4, 5, 7, 8: pp. 7-39, 147-226, 245-315);

- Roman Jakobson et Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Les Chats" de Charles Baudelaire, «L'Homme», 1962, tome 2 n°1, pp. 5-21;

- Rémi Labrusse, Baudelaire et Meryon, «L'Année Baudelaire », Vol. 1, Baudelaire, Paris, l'Allégorie (1995), pp. 99-132;

-  Charles Mauron, Des métaphores obsédantes au mythe personnel : 
introduction à la psychocritique, Paris, Corti, 1962 [chapp. 1 
(pp.9-34), 3 (pp.58-63), 6 (pp.107-110), 8 (pp.131-147)];

- Benoît Monginot, Allégorie et tautologie: la politique du poème, de Baudelaire à Mallarmé, «Romantisme», n. 152 (2011-2), pp. 109-152.

- Nina Rolland, «Dans la rue et le bitume ne poussent que les fleurs du mal»: jouer et déjouer Charles Baudelaire et sa poésie dans le rap français, «Itinéraires» [En ligne], 2020-3 | 2021

- Carminella Sipala, Baudelaire e la costruzione del corpo moderno, in «...dove catturare l'anima...» Cahier d'amitié. Scritti in onore di M. Gabriella Adamo, a cura di R. Corona, Roma, Aracne, 2016 (pp. 35-47).

 

This list may be supplemented by articles and excerpts from books offered in the classroom during lectures.

At the close of the course (May 2026), the final list of the examination programme - for frequent and non-attending students - will be published in 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.