- Docente: Anna Soncini
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/03
- Language: French
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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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)
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
Looking at the couple.
The course aims to analyze the evolution of the representation of the couple among French and French writers from the end of the second world war to the present day.
Readings/Bibliography
Theorical essays: J.P. Sartre, L’être et le néant, 1943 ; Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe (1949) ; Suzanne Lilar : Le couple ; S. Lilar, À propos de Sartre et de l'amour, 1967 et Le malentendu du "Deuxième sexe", 1969 ; R. Barthes, Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Seuil, 1977 ; Jean-Claude Kaufmann, Sociologie du couple, PUF (1993), 2010
Narrative texts:
Georges Simenon, Antoine et Julie, (1953) Livre de Poche 2011
Suzanne Lilar, La confession anonyme (1960), Gallimard 1983
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour, Gallimard 1967
Jacqueline Harpmann, La plage d’Ostende, 1993
François Emmanuel, L’enlacement, seuil, 2007
Fatou Diome, Celles qui attendent, 2010
Grégoire Delacourt, Danser au bord de l'abîme, Lattès, 2016
Teaching methods
The teaching methods will concern the literary history and the textual analysis.
Several professors coming from other universities will participate in the course.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
The assessment consist in an oral examination of everything that has been proposed in class. Will be evaluated the critical and methodological capacities of the student, who must offer his own analytical reading of one novels of his choice among the novels proposed during the course. The student must demonstrate his own ability to read and analyze a text by interacting with the issues and theoretical texts proposed in class. A broad view of the problem, linked to a specific ability to analyze texts, the demonstration of a good knowledge of the French language are appreciated. The flat and repetitive knowledge of the work, an incorrect language leads to an average evaluation. With large gaps or insufficient knowledge of the language the oral exam is assessed negatively.
Office hours
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