One of the main aims of this Course of Study is to provide students with advanced knowledge of two foreign literatures related to the two languages of their choice, paying special attention to intercultural and transcultural dynamics. The course also aims at refining their ability to interpret cultural phenomena, using the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
French Literature III is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literature" area. It aims at providing the students with advanced knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth century French Literature with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students discover the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis at an advanced level.
At the end of the module, students will reach an advanced critical ability in the interpretation of exemplary texts in the original language, as well as the necessary competence for oral rewording, translation, rewriting and adaptation in Italian of the texts themselves. They will also be able to re-elaborate and communicate disciplinary knowledge in a specialized and non-specialized intercultural context.
Pre-requisite: French Literature II; French Language and Translation II
French Literature III is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literature" area. It aims at providing the students with advanced knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth century French Literature with special attention to intercultural dynamics and the theoretical-methodological debate; it helps students discover the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis at an advanced level.
At the end of the module, students will reach an advanced critical ability in the interpretation of exemplary texts in the original language, as well as the necessary competence for oral rewording, translation, rewriting and adaptation in Italian of the texts themselves. They will also be able to re-elaborate and communicate disciplinary knowledge in a specialized and non-specialized intercultural context.
Pre-requisite: French Literature II; French Language and Translation II
teacher profile teaching materials
Exile writers (from Hugo to Zola); authors and works that are subject to judicial proceedings (from Baudelaire and Flaubert to Brasillach); an important rethinking of the role of poetry and literature (from "art pour l'art" and "J'accuse!", to Sartre’s “engagement”): the relationship of 19th-20th Century French literature to society is complex and multifaceted. The course will propose several itineraries through the way novelists and poets have conceived that relationship in their works and their theoretical reflections.
Overview
Lagarde et Michard, XIXe siècle, Paris, Bordas, qualsiasi ed.
J. W. Burrow, La crisi della ragione. Il pensiero europeo 1848-1914, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002: prologo, chap. 2-4-5.
I. Novel
Texts – Select three texts among:
H. de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Zola, L’Assommoir
Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
Further readings / Critical bibliography – Select three texts among:
G. Lukacs, Balzac et le réalisme français, Paris, Maspero, 1979 [1935].
F. Moretti, Atlante del romanzo europeo, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
C. Ginzburg, “L’aspra verità. Una sfida di Stendhal agli storici”, in Id., Il filo e le tracce, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2006.
G. Sapiro, La responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France (XIXe-XXe siècle), Paris, Seuil, 2011, deuxième partie (“La conquête de l’autonomie littéraire sous le Second Empire”).
G. Philippe et J. Piat, La langue littéraire, Paris, Fayard, 2009, chap. 8 (“L’invention de la prose”) et 9 (“Émile Zola et la langue littéraire vers 1890”).
M. Bertini, L’ombra di Vautrin. Proust lettore di Balzac, Roma, Carocci, 2019.
II. Poetry
La poesia francese 1814-1914, a cura di L. Pietromarchi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.
Texts
C. Baudelaire, I fiori del male, trad. di G. Caproni e commento di L. Pietromarchi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008 (a selection of poems).
A selection of poems by other authors will be provided during the class.
Critical bibliography – Select two texts among:
M. Raymond, De Baudelaire au surréalisme, qualsiasi ed., “Introduction”.
G. Poulet, La poésie éclatée, qualsiasi ed.
J. Starobinski, La Mélancolie au miroir, Paris, Julliard, 1989.
Programme
Literature and Society in France, 19th-20th Century.Exile writers (from Hugo to Zola); authors and works that are subject to judicial proceedings (from Baudelaire and Flaubert to Brasillach); an important rethinking of the role of poetry and literature (from "art pour l'art" and "J'accuse!", to Sartre’s “engagement”): the relationship of 19th-20th Century French literature to society is complex and multifaceted. The course will propose several itineraries through the way novelists and poets have conceived that relationship in their works and their theoretical reflections.
Core Documentation
Course MaterialsOverview
Lagarde et Michard, XIXe siècle, Paris, Bordas, qualsiasi ed.
J. W. Burrow, La crisi della ragione. Il pensiero europeo 1848-1914, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002: prologo, chap. 2-4-5.
I. Novel
Texts – Select three texts among:
H. de Balzac, Le Père Goriot
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Zola, L’Assommoir
Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
Further readings / Critical bibliography – Select three texts among:
G. Lukacs, Balzac et le réalisme français, Paris, Maspero, 1979 [1935].
F. Moretti, Atlante del romanzo europeo, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
C. Ginzburg, “L’aspra verità. Una sfida di Stendhal agli storici”, in Id., Il filo e le tracce, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2006.
G. Sapiro, La responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France (XIXe-XXe siècle), Paris, Seuil, 2011, deuxième partie (“La conquête de l’autonomie littéraire sous le Second Empire”).
G. Philippe et J. Piat, La langue littéraire, Paris, Fayard, 2009, chap. 8 (“L’invention de la prose”) et 9 (“Émile Zola et la langue littéraire vers 1890”).
M. Bertini, L’ombra di Vautrin. Proust lettore di Balzac, Roma, Carocci, 2019.
II. Poetry
La poesia francese 1814-1914, a cura di L. Pietromarchi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.
Texts
C. Baudelaire, I fiori del male, trad. di G. Caproni e commento di L. Pietromarchi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008 (a selection of poems).
A selection of poems by other authors will be provided during the class.
Critical bibliography – Select two texts among:
M. Raymond, De Baudelaire au surréalisme, qualsiasi ed., “Introduction”.
G. Poulet, La poésie éclatée, qualsiasi ed.
J. Starobinski, La Mélancolie au miroir, Paris, Julliard, 1989.
Type of delivery of the course
The lessons will be in French.Type of evaluation
The exam will be in French.