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 I is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It provides the student with initial knowledge and understanding of 20th-century French contemporary literary culture through the reading of novels. It helps students discover the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis. At the end of the module, students will be able to read and understand literary texts employing the analytical methods and tools they will have learned in class; furthermore, they will possess the necessary communicative skills to re-elaborate the acquired disciplinary contents.
Canali
teacher profile teaching materials
Introduction to *In Search of Lost Time*
The course aims to provide, through reading, in both Italian and French, the first part of Recherche, "Du côté de chez Swann," some of the key concepts needed to access the most original building-world-universe of modern narrative.
Proust, Dalla parte di Swann, trad di G. Raboni, Milano, Oscar Mondadori.
Beretta Anguissola, Guida alla Recherche, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
S. Teroni (dir.), Il romanzo francese del Novecento, Bari Laterza, 2008.
M. Bongiovanni Bertini, Introduzione a Proust , Bari, Laterza, 1991, pp. 103-140.
in alternativa a Bertini :
A. Compagnon, Proust tra due secoli, Torino, Einaudi, 1992, pp.
Programme
(A-L stream)Introduction to *In Search of Lost Time*
The course aims to provide, through reading, in both Italian and French, the first part of Recherche, "Du côté de chez Swann," some of the key concepts needed to access the most original building-world-universe of modern narrative.
Core Documentation
Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, éd. A. Compagnon, Folio Classique, 2000.Proust, Dalla parte di Swann, trad di G. Raboni, Milano, Oscar Mondadori.
Beretta Anguissola, Guida alla Recherche, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
S. Teroni (dir.), Il romanzo francese del Novecento, Bari Laterza, 2008.
M. Bongiovanni Bertini, Introduzione a Proust , Bari, Laterza, 1991, pp. 103-140.
in alternativa a Bertini :
A. Compagnon, Proust tra due secoli, Torino, Einaudi, 1992, pp.
Attendance
Highly recommendedType of evaluation
Oral exam in Italian teacher profile teaching materials
The course will examine three twentieth-century French novels, to investigate transformations and declinations of the genre in the period from the First World War to the 1960s.
M. Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
A. Camus, Le premier homme
S. de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée
Programme
French novel in the twentieth centuryThe course will examine three twentieth-century French novels, to investigate transformations and declinations of the genre in the period from the First World War to the 1960s.
Core Documentation
Course materialM. Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
A. Camus, Le premier homme
S. de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée
Reference Bibliography
Further readings A. Compagnon, Proust tra due secoli, Torino, Einaudi, 1997, only introduction and chapter 1. T. Judt, The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998, capitolo 2, “The Reluctant Moralist: Albert Camus and the Discomforts of Ambivalence”. P. Cattani, Simone de Beauvoir, Roma, Carocci, 2026.Attendance
Non mandatoryType of evaluation
Questions in Italian