FRENCH LITERATURE 3

Enrollment year

2012/2013

Academic year

2014/2015

Regulations

DM270

Academic discipline

L-LIN/03 (FRENCH LITERATURE)

Department

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

Course

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Curriculum

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

Year of study

3°

Period

2nd semester (23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)

ECTS

Lesson hours

54 lesson hours

Language

French

Activity type

ORAL TEST

Teacher

GIORGI GIORGETTO (titolare) - 9 ECTS

Prerequisites

Modern Language students must have passed the second-year French Language Examination. Students from other disciplines whose knowledge of French is not up to standard are required to have passed the Language examination before taking the Literature Exam

Learning outcomes

Besides offering a broad perspective in historical and literary terms, the course, with the analysis of highly significant texts, is intended to provide basic methodological capacities (philological, or thematic, or narratological, or semiotic, or linguistic) for the analysis of the literary text.

Course contents

Structural and Thematic Analysis of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Mémoires d’Hadrien (1951)

Teaching methods

Lectures

Reccomended or required readings

Bibliography for those attending lectures
-M. Yourcenar, Mémoires d’Hadrien, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-G. Giorgi, Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milano, Bompiani, 1995.
-G. Giorgi, La funzione della mitologia greco-latina nei “Mémoires d’Hadrien” di Marguerite Yourcenar, in Elaborazioni poetiche e percorsi di genere. Miti, personaggi e storie letterarie. Studi in onore di Dario Cecchetti, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, pp. 433-443

Bibliography for those unable to attend lectures

-M. Yourcenar, Mémoires d’Hadrien, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-G. Giorgi, Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milan, Bompiani, 1995.
-G. Giorgi, La funzione della mitologia greco-latina nei “Mémoires d’Hadrien” di Marguerite Yourcenar, in Elaborazioni poetiche e percorsi di genere. Miti, personaggi e storie letterarie. Studi in onore di Dario Cecchetti, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010, pp. 433-443
-Anne-Yvonne Julien, Marguerite Yourcenar. “Mémoires d’Hadrien”, Paris, Belin, 1996, pp. 7-78.

Assessment methods

Oral examination. The examination will be conducted in French for students of Modern Languages and in Italian for those enrolled in other faculties.

Further information

Oral examination. The examination will be conducted in French for students of Modern Languages and in Italian for those enrolled in other faculties.

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