FRENCH LITERATURE
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ISABELLA LIBERTA' MATTAZZI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/03
Training objectives
- The objectives of the course are: acquisition of the ability to read complex texts; achievement of an adequate knowledge of basic notions of literary texts and the ability to critique the texts both within and across disciplines.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of French at C2 level is required.
Course programme
- "Paris literary capital"
The course will examine a choice of literary works between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the city of Paris appears as a real narrative catalyst and no longer as a simple background. Particular importance will be given to the relationship between architecture and symbolic language, as well as to the different ways of viewing and representing the urban context Didactic methods
- Lectures (with AV material support including films and photographs).
The lectures will require active participation from the students. Learning assessment procedures
- A student’s acquired knowledge will be verified by evaluating an adequate knowledge of the basic concepts and the acquisition of a capacity to critique the studied themes on the basis of the specific discipline [L-LIN 03], within the wider area [10/H1] which is dedicated to French literature, including interdisciplinary relationships with areas of visual culture and European literature.
Theoretical knowledge will be evaluated by asking questions on the subject matter and the themes of the course, so that the student can be evaluated for both synchronic and diachronic aspects.
There will be a 4 hour written exam (for those students who attend classes) with 4 questions (2 regarding critique and 2 on the texts), or, alternatively, an oral exam (for both students who attend, and those who do not.) Reference texts
- Testi letterari
-Testi scelti XIV-XVII secolo (forniti in pdf dalla docente)
- É. Zola, Au bonheur des dames (qualsiasi edizione)
-Ch. Baudelaire (le singole poesie da studiare verranno indicate durante il corso e verranno fornite in pdf dalla docente)
- A. Breton, Nadja (qualsiasi edizione)
- P. Modiano, Dora Bruder (qualsiasi edizione)
Testi critici
Riccardo Campi, Il fango e l’oro. Parigi da Voltaire a Breton, Carocci 2017
Isabelle Guillaume, Études Sur l'Assommoir de Zola, Ellipses
Walter Benjamin, Parigi capitale del XIX secolo (passaggi scelti del testo verranno forniti in pdf dalla docente)
