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29890 - French Literature 1 (LM)

Academic Year 2023/2024

                
                        Docente:
                        Bruna Conconi
                    
                        Credits:
                        9
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-LIN/03
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative  Literatures (cod. 0981)

                                Also valid for
                                
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
                                    
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
                                    
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Feb 05, 2024 to May 08, 2024

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyse a French literary text, by making reference to the theory of the text and by developing his awareness concerning the workings of the textual production within one of the main tradition of the European culture. He will improve, as far as possible, his knowledge of the relationship between general literature and particular literature, as well as his own stylistic skills.

Course contents

Around the world in twenty masterpieces of French literature

The great European capitals seen through the eyes of some of the greatest French writers: the ruins and the ruin of Rome described in the Regrets and in the Antiquités de Rome by Joachim Du Bellay or in the travel journal and in the Essais by Montaigne; the famous description of the London Stock Exchange by the exiled Voltaire and the article Genève written by d'Alembert for the Encyclopédie; Paris before and after Haussmann, protagonist of Balzac's realist or visionary novels and evoked by Baudelaire. But also the East of Chateaubriand and Flaubert and the Far East of Loti, the America of Céline and Sartre, the Africa of Gide, Camus and Le Clézio. Lectures and class discussions will focus on these books among others.

Readings/Bibliography

12 ECTS

Chosen passages analized during classes (uploaded to the VIRTUALE platform) and:

complete reading of 4 of the novels analized during classes (list uploaded to the VIRTUALE platform);
study of 14 of the following articles/chapters of books:

- Paul M. MARTIN, Les Rome de Joachim du Bellay, à travers les Antiquités de Rome et les Regrets, in «Les études classiques», avril 1983, pp. 133-150.

- Gisèle MATHIEU CASTELLANI, Poétique du lieu: Rome, l’enfance et la mort, in AA.VV., Montaigne e l’Italia. Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi (Milano-Lecco, 26-30 ottobre 1988), Genève, Slatkine, 1991, pp. 339-350.

- Carlo GINZBURG, Tolleranza e commercio. Auerbach legge Voltaire, in Il filo e le tracce. Vero falso finto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2006, pp. 112-137.

- Karlhainz STIERLE, Le regard incertain. Paris dans la littérature de la fin des Lumières, in La capitale des signes. Paris et son discours, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2001, pp. 67-75, 573.

- Roland MORTIER, Un virtuose des ruines: Chateaubriand, in La poétique des ruines en France. Ses origines, ses variations de la Renaissance à Victor Hugo, Genève, Droz, 1974, pp. 170-192.

- Francis LACOSTE, L’Orient de Flaubert, in «Romantisme», 119, 2003, pp. 73-84.

- Tagirem GALLEGO GARCIA, Les voyages d’Edward Morgan Forster et Pierre Loti: des regards anglais et français sur l’Inde, in «Anales de Filología Francesa», n.º 24, 2016, pp. 45-63.

Wolfgang MATZAT, L’image de la ville et sa fonction dans Le Père Goriot, in «L’année balzacienne», 2004/1, n. 5, pp. 303-315.

- Lowry NELSON Jr., Baudelaire and Virgil: A Reading of Le Cygne, in «Comparative Literature», XIII, 1961, pp. 332-345.

- Arja FIRET, La Goutte d’Or : (ban)lieu(e) de mémoire littéraire, in «RELIEF», mars 2008, pp. 87-110, online

Jennifer WILLGING, Surveillance and Liberty in Céline's New York, the City That Doesn't Sleep (Around), in «Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature», vol. 29, issue 2, 2005, Article 10, online

- Yan HAMEL, Un touriste engagé, Sartre écrit l’Amérique, in AA.VV., Les Amériques des écrivains français, Genève, Droz, 2011, pp. 333-343.

- Phyllis CLARK, Gide’s Africa, in «South Central Review», Spring 1997, vol. 14, n° 1, pp. 56-73.

- Charlotte BUTTY, André Gide et les peuples d’Afrique-Équatoriale française. Entre suprématisme, responsabilité et empathie, in «Bulletin des amis d’André Gide», 2021, online.

- Irène FINEL-HONIGMAN, Oran: Protagonist, Myth, and Allegory, in «Modern Fiction Studies», 24, 1978, pp. 75-81.

Non-attending students will prepare the final exam following the previous bibliography, but they are also required to study the chapters concerning authors analyzed during classes in Antologia cronologica della letteratura francese, Milano, LED, 1996-1999.

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9 ECTS

Chosen passages analized during classes (uploaded to the VIRTUALE platform) and:

complete reading of 4 of the novels analized during classes (a list of them will be uploaded to the VIRTUALE platform);
study of 11 of the following articles/chapters of books:

- Paul M. MARTIN, Les Rome de Joachim du Bellay, à travers les Antiquités de Rome et les Regrets, in «Les études classiques», avril 1983, pp. 133-150.

- Carlo GINZBURG, Tolleranza e commercio. Auerbach legge Voltaire, in Il filo e le tracce. Vero falso finto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2006, pp. 112-137.

- Karlhainz STIERLE, Le regard incertain. Paris dans la littérature de la fin des Lumières, in La capitale des signes. Paris et son discours, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2001, pp. 67-75, 573.