- Docente: Bruna Conconi
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-LIN/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Humanities (cod. 8850)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have an adequate knowledge of French literature in relation to European literature; they will be able to read a literary text in French, both in textual and intertextual mode, with the necessary references to the history of French literary tradition. They will sharpen, as much as possible, their stylistic competences within their linguistic competences. They will have a passive knowledge of French.
Course contents
The course will consist of two parts: a monographic part about the representation of French history in XIXth and XXth century literature and a general introduction to the most important themes, works and authors of the period. In addition to classes film adaptations of XIXth and XXth century French novels will be shown.
Readings/Bibliography
Literary History of the XIXth and XXth century:
- Lionello SOZZI (ed.), Storia europea della letteratura francese. II. Dal Settecento all’età contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 (only chapters concerning XIXth and XXth century literature) or Jean-Yves TADIÉ (ed.), La littérature française: dynamique et histoire. Tome II, Paris, Gallimard, 2007 (only chapters concerning XIXth and XXth century literature)
Arnold HAUSER, Storia sociale dell’arte, edition at choice ((only chapters La generazione del 1830 and Il Secondo Impero)Erich AUERBACH, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, edition at choice (only chapters All’hôtel de La Mole, Germinie Lacerteux and Il calzerotto marrone).
Full reading of 3 of the following novels:
STENDHAL, La Chartreuse de Parme
HUGO, Les Misérables
FLAUBERT, L’éducation sentimentale
ZOLA, Germinal
FRANCE, L’île des pingouins
BARBUSSE, Le feu. Journal d’une escouade
CELINE, Voyage au bout de la nuit
SEMPRUN, L’écriture ou la vie
Monographic section
Texts analized during classes (uploaded in IOL) and 1 of the following works or 5 of the articles/chapters of books uploaded in IOL:
Benoît DENIS, Littérature et engagement de Pascal à Sartre, Paris, Seuil, 2000.
Jean KAEMPFER, Poétique du récit de guerre, Paris, Corti, 1998.
Les Mots de la guerre. Imaginaires, langages, représentations (sous la dir. de P. Puccini et F. Regattin), Bologna, Clueb, 2013.
Dolf OEHLER, Le spleen contre l’oubli, Juin 1848: Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Herzen, Paris, Payot, 1996.
Nelly WOLF, Le peuple dans le roman français de Zola à Céline, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1990.
Emile ZOLA, Il caso Dreyfus con una antologia di scritti contemporanei (a cura di T. Goruppi), Milano, Serra e Riva editori, 1985.
L’Affare Dreyfus. La storia, l’opinione, l’immagine, a cura di Norman L. Kleeblatt, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1990.
Micheline KESSLER-CLAUDET, La guerre de Quatorze dans le roman occidental, Paris, Nathan Université, 1998.
Léon RIEGEL, Guerre et littérature. Le bouleversement des consciences dans la littérature romanesque inspirée par la Grande Guerre, Paris, Klincksieck, 1978.
Maurice RIEUNEAU, Guerre et révolution dans le roman français de 1919 à 1939, Paris, Klincksieck, 1974.
Géraldi LEROY, Les écrivains et l’histoire. 1919-1956, Paris, Nathan Université, 1998.
Gisèle SAPIRO, La guerre des écrivains (1940-1953), Paris, Fayard, 1999.
Non-attending students will prepare the final exam following the previous bibliography with the support of these additional readings:
- Antologia cronologica della letteratura francese. L’Ottocento, Milano, LED, 1998:
De l’Allemagne di Madame de Staël
Hernani di Victor Hugo
Les Destinées di Vigny
Le rouge et le Noir di Stendhal
Le Père Goriot di Balzac
Madame Bovary di Flaubert
Les Fleurs du mal di Baudelaire
Les Misérables di Hugo
Germinie Lacerteux dei Goncourt
L’assommoir di Zola
Boule de suif di Maupassant
A rebours di Huysmans
Illuminations di Rimbaud
Poésies di Mallarmé
Les Déracinés di Barrès
- lAntologia cronologica della letteratura francese. Il Novecento, Milano, LED, 1999:
L’île des pingouins di France
Du côté de chez Swann di Proust
Le feu. Journal d’une escouade di Barbusse
Manifeste Dada di Tzara
Manifeste du surréalisme di Breton
Les Faux-Monnayeurs di Gide
Voyage au bout de la nuit di Céline
L’étranger di Camus
L’écume des jours di Vian
La modification de Butor
Moderato cantabile di Duras
Zazie dans le métro di Queneau
La route des Flandres di Simon
L’œuvre au noir di Yourcenar
Désert di Le Clézio
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures; participationis neverthelesshighly encouraged.
Assessment methods
The exam consists in an oral interview during which the methodological and critical skills acquired by the student will be evaluated . The student will be invited to discuss the texts covered during the course and to move within the sources and bibliographical material in order to be able to identify in them the useful information. The achievement of an organic vision of the issues addressed during the classes and their critical use, which demonstrate ownership of a mastery of expression and specific language, will be assessed with marks of excellence (28-30). Mechanical and / or mnemonic knowledge of matter, synthesis and analysis of non-articulating and / or correct language but not always appropriate will lead to discrete assessments (23-27); training gaps and / or inappropriate language - although in a context of minimal knowledge of the material - will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency (18-22). Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of guidance within the reference materials offered during the course will lead to failed assessments.
Teaching tools
Texts analized during classes will be uploaded in IOL.
Office hours
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