20710214 - French Literature I

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 the French literary culture through the reading of exemplary texts analysed paying special attention to intercultural dynamics. 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 in the original language 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

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Mutuazione: 20710214 Letteratura francese I in Lingue e letterature per la comunicazione interculturale L-11 R A - L PIETROMARCHI LUCA

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 recommended

Type of evaluation

Oral exam in Italian

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Mutuazione: 20710214 Letteratura francese I in Lingue e letterature per la comunicazione interculturale L-11 R M - Z CATTANI PAOLA

Programme

French novel in the twentieth century

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.


Core Documentation

Course material
M. Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
A. Camus, Le premier homme
S. de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée




Attendance

Non mandatory

Type of evaluation

Questions in Italian