FRENCH LITERATURE 3
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- LETTERATURA FRANCESE 3
- Course code
- LT003L (AF:381269 AR:287962)
- 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 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.
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 poetical texts will be loaded on the moodle platform during the course.
Integral reading of:
- Madame de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves.
- Molière, Les Précieuses ridicules, éd. "Le Livre de Poche" (introduction, notes et commentaire par Claude Bourqui), 1999.
- Racine, a tragedy of your choice between Andromaque, Phèdre, Bérénice.
3. Critical studies (secondary sources)
- I testi indicati sono disponibili in libreria (in alcuni casi anche in versione e-book) o nella biblioteca BALI (Pal. Cosulich). Gli studenti dovranno procurarseli per leggerli autonomamente. È vivamente consigliato iniziare a leggere le opere in programma a partire dalle primissime lezioni. In caso di dubbi chiedere per tempo delucidazioni alla docente
- 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.
Assessment methods
Teaching methods
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.
Further information
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