20750055 - Theories and Practices of Poetry

For both curricula, the international one and the one focused on the teaching of Italian as a second language, graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Cultural Professions 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, with the achievement of a high level of proficiency in the first language and an improved level in the second language for the MULTIPLE curriculum or in the single foreign language chosen for the DIL 2 curriculum; 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. Théories et pratiques de la poésie / Theories and Practices of Poetry is one of the characterising modules of the programme. The aim of the unit is to improve communicative skills, enhance specific competences in critical thinking and analysis of poetry history and poetics, and apply them to literary phenomena in French language in a transcultural perspective. The unit allows students to strengthen theoretical and methodological skills in order to handle confidently and autonomously the textual, theoretical, and philological kernels embedded in poetry as a genre-form. At the end of the module, students will be able to: communicate in oral and written form about the module contents; autonomously analyse texts and literary phenomena; apply tools and literary and philological theories to literary phenomena in a transcultural perspective. Requirements: Students must have already taken Classicismes et modernités/ Classicisms and modernities.

Curriculum

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Programme

The course aims to provide an exploration of the poetic work of Francis Ponge, a central figure in 20th-century French poetry. Starting from the reading of some of his most significant collections, the course will focus on the specificity of Ponge’s project: a poetry of "things" that combines linguistic rigor, attention to the world, and cognitive tension. The critical apparatus will allow for situating the author within the context of modern poetry and engaging with some of the most recent interpretative readings of his work.

Core Documentation

1. Poetry.
- Francis Ponge, Le Parti pris des choses, Paris, Gallimard.
- Francis Ponge, La Rage de l’expression, Paris, Gallimard.
- Francis Ponge, Le Savon, Paris, Gallimard.

2. Critical essays.
- Entretiens de Francis Ponge avec Philippe Sollers, Paris, Seuil.
- Bernard Beugnot, Poétique de Francis Ponge, Paris, PUF, 1990.
- Ponge et ses lecteurs, sous la direction de Benoît Auclerc et Sophie Coste, Paris, Kimé; oppure Politiques de Ponge, sous la direction de Benoît Auclerc et Bénédicte Gorrillot, Revue de sciences humaines, n° 316, 2014.

Reference Bibliography

See above.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The course aims to provide an exploration of the poetic work of Francis Ponge, a central figure in 20th-century French poetry. Starting from the reading of some of his most significant collections, the course will focus on the specificity of Ponge’s project: a poetry of "things" that combines linguistic rigor, attention to the world, and cognitive tension. The critical apparatus will allow for situating the author within the context of modern poetry and engaging with some of the most recent interpretative readings of his work.

Core Documentation

1. Poetry.
- Francis Ponge, Le Parti pris des choses, Paris, Gallimard.
- Francis Ponge, La Rage de l’expression, Paris, Gallimard.
- Francis Ponge, Le Savon, Paris, Gallimard.

2. Critical essays.
- Entretiens de Francis Ponge avec Philippe Sollers, Paris, Seuil.
- Bernard Beugnot, Poétique de Francis Ponge, Paris, PUF, 1990.
- Ponge et ses lecteurs, sous la direction de Benoît Auclerc et Sophie Coste, Paris, Kimé; oppure Politiques de Ponge, sous la direction de Benoît Auclerc et Bénédicte Gorrillot, Revue de sciences humaines, n° 316, 2014.

Reference Bibliography

See above.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam.