FRENCH LITERATURE II
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- VERA GAJIU
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/03
Training objectives
- The course aims to analyze and comment some French literary texts from a historical-political, critical, formal, symbolic and interdisciplinary point of view. At the end of the course, the student must be able to read and interpret them within the historical-political, critical and literary context. The student must also be able to use, independently, lexical and stylistic tools for the analysis of texts.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of French at B2 level is required.
Course programme
- Métamorphoses (dis)continues: (r)évolutions littéraires au XXe siècle
Didactic methods
- The course will be structured in lectures (with the use of audio / video material, photographic images and other supports). An active dialogue with the students will be appreciated. Students will be interviewed in way to reflect together on the topics on program.
Lessons will be held mainly in French, with the possibility of using Italian for the explanation of more complex topics. Learning assessment procedures
- The exam will consist in ascertaining an adequate capacity for reading and critical interpretation of the literary texts in question, taking into account the historical-political and literary context of the time.
The attending students will be able to choose between a written test with six questions and an oral interview. Non-attending students will have only the oral interview. Both written and oral exams are in French. Reference texts
- Exam program for attending students:
1) Literary works (to read in French):
- Claude Cahun, Aveux non avenus, Éditions du Carrefour, Paris, 1930
- Violette Leduc, Thérèse et Isabelle, 1966
- Monique Wittig, Le corps lesbien, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1973
- Anne Garréta, Sphinx, Grasset, Paris, 1986
- Virginie Despentes, Les Jolies choses, Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 1998
- Nina Bouraoui, Garçon manqué, Stock, Paris, 2000.
2) Critical works and articles:
- Jennifer Waelti-Walters, Damned Women. Lesbians in French novels, 1796-1996, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, pp. 127-137.
- Virginie Despentes, King Kong Théorie, Grasset, Paris, 2006
- Alexandra Bourse, “Claude Cahun : la subversion des genres comme arme politique”, Itinéraires [Online], 2012-1 | 2012, Online since 01 September 2012, connection on 29 July 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1300; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/itineraires.1300
- Michele A. Schaal, Une troisième vague féministe et littéraire: les femmes de lettres de la nouvelle génération, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2017, pp. 1-47, 98-153, 226-294
- Eva Feole, Corpo a corpo con il linguaggio. Il pensiero e l’opera letteraria di Monique Wittig, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2020.
Non-attending students have to contact the teacher.
