- 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 Philosophy (cod. 0957)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
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 include a general introduction XVIIIth century literature, and will then focus on the theme of hospitality and on the question of the Other in the Enlightenment fiction.
Readings/Bibliography
Literary History of the XVIIIth century:
- Lionello SOZZI (ed.), Storia europea della letteratura francese. II. Dal Settecento all’età contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 (only chapters concerning XVIIIth century literature)
or
Jean-Yves TADIÉ (ed.), La littérature française: dynamique et histoire. Tome II, Paris, Gallimard, 2007, pp. 9-294.
or
Michel LAUNAY et Georges MAILHOS, Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Bordas, 1968.
Readings:
Montesquieu, Lettres persanes
Voltaire, L’ingénu
Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (uploaded in IOL)
Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse, Part II, letter XIV (analized during classes)
Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique, entry Catéchisme chinois (analized during classes)
Encyclopédie, entries Hospitalité and Hôtellerie de Turquie (analized during classes)
Monographic section
Texts analized during classes and the following articles/chapters of books are available at Mastercopy, via Cartoleria 4, and uploaded in IOL:
Colas Duflos, Les aventures de Sophie. La philosophie dans le roman au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2013, pp. 9-41 (cap. I, Voyages merveilleux de Sophie dans la Romancie e cap. II, Récit romanesque et discours philosophique).
Carlo Ginzburg, Tolleranza e commercio. Auerbach legge Voltaire, in Id., Il filo e le tracce. Vero falso finto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2006, pp. 112-137.
Enea Balmas, Il buon selvaggio nella cultura francese del Settecento, Fasano, Schena, 1984, pp. 73-115 e 259-292 (cap. III, Uroni e Irochesi, e cap.VIII, Da Diderot à Rousseau).
Lionello Sozzi, Il mito del buon selvaggio, in Id., (a cura di), Storia europea della letteratura francese. II. Dal Settecento all'età contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 431-443.
Frank Lestringant, le cannibalisme des Lumières, de Bougainville à Voltaire, in Id., Le cannibale. Grandeur et décadence, Paris, Perrin, 1994, pp. 236-249.
Marie-Claire Grassi, Pour une histoire de l'hospitalité, in Alain Montadon (a cura di), Les lieux de l'hospitalité: hospices, hôpital, hostellerie, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses de l'Université Blaise Pascal, 2001, pp. 27-40.
Sylviane Léoni, “Nous ne connaissons plus ce beau lien de l’hospitalité”, in Valeria Pompejano (a cura di), L’ospitalità e le rappresentazioni dell’altro nell’Europa moderna e contemporanea, Roma, Artemide Edizioni, 2004, pp. 111-121.
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 (25 “schede”):
Dialogues di Lahontan
Histoire de Gil Blas di Lesage
Les Mille et une Nuits tradotte da Galland
Lettres persanes di Montesquieu
Manon Lescaut di Prévost
Le Philosophe anglais di Prévost
La vie de Marianne di Marivaux
Lettres philosophiques di Voltaire
Le Sopha di Crébillon fils
Lettres d’une Péruvienne di Madame de Graffigny
Lettres anglaises, ou Histoire de Clarissa Harlove tradotta da Prévost
Discours sur l’origine de l’inégalité di Rousseau
voce « Genève » dell’Encyclopédie
Candide di Voltaire
La Nouvelle Héloïse di Rousseau
Les Confessions di Rousseau
Paradoxe aur le comédien di Diderot
Le Barbier de Séville de Beaumarchais
Jacques le Fataliste di Diderot
Tableau de Paris di Mercier
Les liaisons dangereuses di Laclos
Les 120 journées de Sodome di Sade
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte di Volney
Paul et Virginie di Bernardin de Saint Pierre
L’émigré di Sénac de Meilhan
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures; participation is nevertheless highly 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 available at Mastercopy, via Cartoleria 4, and uploaded in AMS CAMPUS-ALMA DL.
Office hours
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