History of French Language

We will examine the reflection on language, during the Eighteenth century.

We will then examine modern and contemporary peculiarities of French.

We will examine Eighteenth Century French, from the Encyclopédie, the Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos, the Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais, the revolutionary theatre and Le père Duchesne by Hébert. We will then define the rhetoric of French and francophone modern and contemporary literature.

• Marilia Marchetti, Retorica e linguaggio nel secolo dei Lumi. Equilibrio logico e crisi dei valori, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2002.
• Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses.

• Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro.
• Cécile Narjoux, Olivier Bertrand, Antoine Gautier, Laurent Susini, L'épreuve de langue française AU CAPES DE LETTRES MODERNES (Partie ANALYSE STYLISTIQUE), Paris, ELLIPSES (2011).
• Catherine Fromilhague, Anne sancier-Château, Introduction à l'analyse stylistique, Paris, ARMAND COLIN (2016).

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