The student will acquire solid familiarity with 17th and 18th century French literature, covering its range of cultural and generic expressions (poetry, theatre, novel etc.) and analyzing in detail some of its thematic. formal and intertextual aspects.
The student will further develop skills related to textual analysis as well as to the methodoly of literary and textual criticism.
The student will further develop skills related to textual analysis as well as to the methodoly of literary and textual criticism.
teacher profile teaching materials
Texts: Three novels to be chosen among the following : Diderot, Jacques le fataliste o La Religieuse; Laclos, Les Liaisons dangeureuses; Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves; Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse (selection of 80 letters from all the 6 parts of the novel); Voltaire, Candide.
Programme
This course will provide an overview of the cultural and literary context of 17th - 18th century French literature highlighting some of the main features of the period. It will then focus on the reading and analysis of three texts: La Princesse de Clèves, Candide and Les Liasons dangereuses, with the aim of tracing the evolution of the novel with regard to narrative strategies, stylistic and genre changes.Core Documentation
M. Bertini (a cura di), Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Le XVII et XVIIIe siècle (the passages to be read and analysed will be said in class). J. Rousset, Forme et signification, Paris, Corti, 1962 (Chapters I-IV).Texts: Three novels to be chosen among the following : Diderot, Jacques le fataliste o La Religieuse; Laclos, Les Liaisons dangeureuses; Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves; Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse (selection of 80 letters from all the 6 parts of the novel); Voltaire, Candide.
Type of delivery of the course
Language of exam: French. Students not attending the course will have the same syllabus as the ones attending regularly.Attendance
An e-learning platform with text analysis and articles for didactic support is available for students. The materials can be accessed on demand following the instructions provided on the professor’s web page.Type of evaluation
ORAL EXAM