Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Littérature et société / Literature and society is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It enhances both communicative and comprehension competences and it fosters students to analyse literary texts and investigate primary and secondary sources. The unit is also aimed at deepening knowledge of French literary history as related to society, littérature d’idées and to the complex and multiform genre of the essai. Students will look at literature as related to history, philosophical thought, and political thought.
At the end of the module, students will be able to: handle confidently theoretical-practical tools applying them to literary works and culture history; communicate the module contents (advanced level).
Requirements: Students must have already taken Classicismes et modernités/ Classicisms and modernities.
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Littérature et société / Literature and society is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It enhances both communicative and comprehension competences and it fosters students to analyse literary texts and investigate primary and secondary sources. The unit is also aimed at deepening knowledge of French literary history as related to society, littérature d’idées and to the complex and multiform genre of the essai. Students will look at literature as related to history, philosophical thought, and political thought.
At the end of the module, students will be able to: handle confidently theoretical-practical tools applying them to literary works and culture history; communicate the module contents (advanced level).
Requirements: Students must have already taken Classicismes et modernités/ Classicisms and modernities.
teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to investigate some moments of the literary and philosophical reflection on liberty: from the "invention of liberty" - as Starobinski defines it - of the 18th century, to the liberalism of the romantics, to the spiritual liberalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
B. Constant, De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes, in Écrits politiques
A. de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique
Alain, Propos sur les pouvoirs (section VII “L’esprit radical)
B. Croce, Storia d’Europa nel secolo decimonono.
Programme
Liberty: a philosophical and literary idealThe course aims to investigate some moments of the literary and philosophical reflection on liberty: from the "invention of liberty" - as Starobinski defines it - of the 18th century, to the liberalism of the romantics, to the spiritual liberalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Core Documentation
J.-J. Rousseau, Le contrat socialB. Constant, De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes, in Écrits politiques
A. de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique
Alain, Propos sur les pouvoirs (section VII “L’esprit radical)
B. Croce, Storia d’Europa nel secolo decimonono.
Reference Bibliography
Libertà, a cura di M.L. Lanzillo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008. J. Starobinski, L’invention de la liberté 1700-1789, Paris, Gallimard, 2006. I. Berlin, La libertà e i suoi traditori, Milano, Adelphi, 2005. G. Bedeschi, Storia del pensiero liberale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2015.Type of delivery of the course
Lessons will be in French.Type of evaluation
The exam will be in French.