FRENCH LITERATURE 3

French Literature 3, module 1 is part of the characteristic teaching of the literary and cultural curriculum of the Language, Civilization and Language Sciences study course, in line with the aims of the course and the Learning area of Literature and Cultures.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the broad lines of French literary history in the 16th and 17th centuries (history of ideas, poetics, evolution of literary genres), of the major authors and works in the programme; knowledge of some basic notions of narratology and linguistic-stylistic analysis and of appropriate literary terminology; ability to understand texts belonging to different literary genres.
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.

In order to ensure that this teaching can be optimally followed, a knowledge of French of B2 is useful. It is also useful to have a basic knowledge of some critical investigation tools provided in previous literature courses.

Title: Evolution of literary forms from the Renaissance to Classicism

The course will outline the essential lines of the cultural context and of the French literary production of the 16th and 17th centuries, in their links with the European context.
The course will focus on the general characteristics of humanistic-renaissance culture, the role of literary models, the aesthetic categories of Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism, the essential characteristics of the poetics of genres in its evolution and some major authors. The guided analysis of passages from some of 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.

1. Institutional part: History of Literature (16th and 17th centuries)
- 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 will be loaded on the moodle platform during the course.

Integral reading of:
- Madame de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves.
- Molière, a comedy of your choice between Tartuffe, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Le malade imaginaire, L'avare, Le Misanthrope, Les Précieuses ridicules, Les Femmes savantes.
- Racine, a tragedy of your choice between Andromaque, Phèdre, Bérénice.

3. Critical studies (secondary sources
- Agnès Rees-Caroline Trotot, Ronsard, Les Amours, Atlande, coll. "Clefs concours" (a choice of pages will be indicated during the course)
- 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, pp. 95-110, or Gabriella Violato, L'Andromaque di Racine e il lascito barocco, in Tre saggi su Racine, a cura di B. Papasogli, Pisa, Pacini, 2011, pp. 75-100, or Benedetta Papasogli, "Dans l'Orient désert quel devint mon ennui!", in Un verso di Racine, a cura di B. Papasogli, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013, pp. 51-67.
The texts indicated are available in bookshops (in some cases also in e-book version) or in the BALI library (Pal. Cosulich).
The critical bibliography may be subject to slight changes.

The exam interview, mainly in French, will verify the contents of the module, the knowledge of the works studied with the support of critical texts, the knowledge of the historical-literary context of the 16th and 17th centuries (cultural and literary movements, poetics, evolution of genres, main authors), the ability to understand a literary text and use critical and methodological tools to analyze it, the communication skills, the reflection on topics and texts.

The course is in blended mode, i.e. composed of classroom lessons and a part of activities to be carried out in asynchronous mode, starting from the materials deposited in Moodle (podcasts, ppts with commentary, worksheets, texts, short videos, quizzes), according to indications that will be provided from time to time. Both these modalities constitute an integral and indispensable part of the course
Lessons will be mainly face-to-face and in French. There will be moments of guided individual reflection (mainly during asynchronous activities in the blended mode) and interaction in the classroom (short exposés) and at a distance (participation in the shared forum and other activities on Moodle). The schedule of lessons in asynchronous mode will be communicated at the beginning of the semester and will be available on the Moodle platform.
All the teaching materials (texts and in-depth studies) uploaded during the course on the Moodle platform will constitute a subject of study and knowledge of them will be tested in the exam.
The performance of the activities in asynchronous mode (on Moodle) is an integral part of the course and will be evaluated for the exam grade. Failure to complete at least 75% of these activities will result in a reduction in the final exam grade.

If you are unable to attend classes regularly, please contact the lecturer before the start of the course.

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