CULTURE ET LITTERATURE FRANCAISE II

L-LIN/03 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

FABRIZIO IMPELLIZZERI

Learning Objectives

This course is an introduction to 19th and 20th century French civilization, culture and literature. Various authors and works will be studied from different genres and the main literary movements that marked those centuries. Students will be provided with the linguistic, stylistic and critical tools suited to the analysis of anthological texts. Thanks to this course, students will be able to apply knowledge and understanding, make judgment, communicate and learn skills, in order to take up to Master’s Degree.

Course Structure

Lectures
Seminars/conferences
Presentations
Workshops

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Detailed Course Content

This first part of the course will consist of a survey of 19th and 20th century French literature, with a particular focus on aesthetic movements and literatures that marked French culture and civilization, such as Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Surrealism, WWI and WWII literature, Existentialism. The main authors, genres and movements will be examined in context through the reading and analysis of some excerpts and texts.

Monographic course: Le dandy comme projection et médiation du Moi dans l’écriture romanesque du XIX^ème siècle | Du dandysme mondain au dandysme littéraire en France au XIXe siècle (1), Le dandysme dans l’univers romanesque du XIXe siècle (2), Les métamorphoses du dandy esthète fin de siècle (3) (6h)

Textbook Information

French history of literature and anthology

André LAGARDE et Laurent MICHARD (collection dirigée par), Les grands auteurs Français – Anthologie et histoire littéraire, Paris, Bordas.

tome V | XIX^esiècle

tome VI | XX^e siècle

Methodology

Les genres littéraires – Les registres littéraires – Fiches de méthodes | Étude du texte littéraire – Figures de style – Vocabulaire littéraire : www.etudes-litteraires.com

Yves REUTER, L’analyse du récit, 3^ème édition, Paris, Armand Colin, « 128 tout le savoir », 2016.

Monographic course: Le dandy comme projection et médiation du Moi dans l’écriture romanesque du XIX^ème siècle (6h)

Karin BECKER, Le dandysme littéraire en France au XIXe siècle, Orléans, Éditions Paradigme, 2010.
Barbey d’AUREVILLY, Du dandysme et de George Brummell (suivi d’un essai de Baudelaire sur le dandysme), Paris, Éditions Payot & Rivages, « Rivages poche / Petite Bibliothèque », 1997.

Open in PDF format Versione in italiano