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
Flaubert, L'Education sentimentale, GF
Zola, Germinal, GF
Baudelaire, I Fiori del male (con testo a fronte), Marsilio, 2007
Programme
Poetry and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. This course is intended as a critical introduction to some of the great masterpieces of nineteenth-century French poetry and the novel, understood as a declination of, or reaction to, the Romantic revolution of the early nineteenth century. The development of French poetry will be analysed starting from Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, while the history of the novel will be addressed through three declinations of the ‘heroic’ character in as many novels: Rastignac, the conquering hero of Balzac's Père Goriot; Frédéric Moreau, the anti-hero of Flaubert's Sentimental Education; Etienne Lantier, the revolutionary hero of Zola's Germinal.Core Documentation
Balzac, Le Père Goriot, Le Livre de Poche;Flaubert, L'Education sentimentale, GF
Zola, Germinal, GF
Baudelaire, I Fiori del male (con testo a fronte), Marsilio, 2007
Reference Bibliography
Lagarde et Michard, XIXème siècle, Paris, Bordas (i capitoli che saranno indicati) Luca Pietromarchi (dir.), La poesia francese (1814-1914), Bari, Laterza, 2012. E. Auerbach, Mimesis, Gallimard (tr. it. Einaudi): i capitoli che saranno indicati. Alain Viala, De la Révolution à la Belle Epoque, Paris, Puf, 2017. In alternativa a Viala : M. Milner, Le Ressourcement romantique, in Littérature française 7. De Chateaubriand à Baudelaire, Paris, Arthaud, 1985, pp. 90-170.Attendance
Recommended attendance. Additional bibliography for non-attending students.Type of evaluation
Oral exam to be taken in French.