20710470 - Littérature et société

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.
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Programme

The course aims to explore the notion of style through theoretical and textual analyzes on texts from French literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending students will work on texts and bibliography provided in class; non-attending students will instead follow the program indicated here.

Core Documentation

L. Spitzer, Saggi di critica stilistica. Maria di Francia, Racine, Saint-Simon, Firenze, Sansoni, 2004.
E. Bordas, “Style”. Un mot et des discours, Paris, Kimé, 2008.
M. Macé, Styles, Critique de nos formes de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 2016.


Type of delivery of the course

The course will be held in French.

Type of evaluation

The exam will be in French.