18093 - French Literature

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Bruna Conconi
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-LIN/03
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

The course will consist of two parts: a general introduction to XIXth Century French Literature and a monographic part about Books, Readers and Libraries in XIXth Century French Literature In addition to classes, film adaptations and theatre plays of the period will be shown.

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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