FRENCH LITERATURE 3
- Academic year
- 2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- LETTERATURA FRANCESE 3
- Course code
- LT003L (AF:248566 AR:136092)
- Modality
- Blended (on campus and online classes)
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/03
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 3
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: ability to apply more and more independently to the literary texts the critical and methodological tools of linguistic, stylistic and thematic analysis acquired in previous literature courses; ability to independently face a critical text and apply the acquired knowledge to the contextualization of literary phenomena within the society that produced them.
3. Autonomy of judgement: being able to formulate working hypotheses (also in view of the design of the "elaborato finale"); being able to independently elaborate the critical readings carried out by putting them in relation to the texts in order to formulate a personal judgement, argued in a coherent and effective way.
4. Communication skills: understanding the presentation of an academic speech and a literary and critical written text; presenting the learned contents in an appropriate way in French; being able to present a problem and/or a literary work in a clear and coherent way; being able to conduct an analysis of a literary text in an appropriate way; being able to interact briefly in French in lessons on the problems dealt with.
5. Learning skills: applying the progression of knowledge in the historical-cultural-literary field to the critical reading of a text and a literary phenomenon; knowing how to place a work in the cultural and literary context of production and in the development of the type of belonging; formulating interpretative hypotheses based on the knowledge learned; learning to develop an appropriate discourse to convey literary content.
Pre-requirements
Contents
The course will outline the essential lines of the cultural context and of the French literary production of the 16th and 17th centuries, in its links with the European context.
The course will focus on the general characteristics of humanistic-renaissance culture, the relationship between literature and the arts, the role of literary models, the aesthetic categories of Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism and the essential characteristics of the poetics of genres in its evolution. The guided analysis of passages from the works in the program and of anthological pieces is planned. This type of activity will provide models of a critical approach to texts of different types (narrative, poetic, theatrical), in order to consolidate the learning of critical methodologies and to encourage the application of previously acquired analysis tools, as well as to support individual reading conducted independently by students.
Referral texts
- Alain Viala, Une histoire brève de la littérature française, volume 1 (Le Moyen âge et la Renaissance) e volume 2 (L'âge classique et les Lumières), PUF, 2014 e 2015.
OR:
- Storia europea della letteratura francese, vol. I, a cura di L. Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, part II (Il Cinquecento) and part III (Il Seicento). For the XVIIth century, alternativly: Federico Corradi, Introduzione al Seicento francese e al Classicismo, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2006.
2. Works (primary sources)
- Selected passages from:
Pierre de Ronsard, Les Amours.
Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets.
François Rabelais, Gargantua.
Michel de Montaigne, Essais.
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables.
The selected texts will be loaded on the moodle platform during the course.
Integral reading of:
- Madame de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves.
- Molière, a choice between Tartuffe, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Le malade imaginaire, L'avare, Le Misanthrope, Les Précieuses ridicules, Les Femmes savantes.
- Racine, Phèdre.
3. Critical studies (secondary sources):
- Mireille Huchon, Préface à: Rabelais, Gargantua, éd. Mireille Huchon, Gallimard, "Folio classique", 1994 e 2007.
- Marie-Claire Thomine, Pierre de Ronsard, Les Amours, Paris, PUF, 2015, pp. 41-69; 79-86.- Jean Rousset, the chapter «La Princesse de Cleves», in Forme et signification, Paris, Corti, 1962.
- Daniela Dalla Valle, the chapter «Délivre l’univers d’un monstre qui t’irrite (Phèdre, II, 5, v. 701)», in Un verso di Racine, a cura di B. Papasogli, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013.
Assessment methods
Participation in activities on the online learning platform will be verified. A brief analysis of a text related to the programme will be required. The paper (2-3 pages) will be discussed during the exam interview and will be evaluated on the basis of the criteria of comprehension of the text, clarity and effectiveness of the presentation, articulation of the discourse and ability to analyze; the result will be included in the final evaluation.
Teaching methods
All the materials needed for the course will be uploaded in its moodle page https://moodle.unive.it/login/index.php . An access code will be provided at the beginning of the course.
The lessons will be held mainly in French.
Further information
Type of exam
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