2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/03 (FRENCH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

French and Italian

ORAL TEST

FORTUNATI VITTORIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

A knowledge of the French language corresponding to the programme of the first year.

Sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century texts will be analysed in the light of implicit methodologies, while the course aims to stimulate reflections concerning different genres (fiction, poetry, theatre). It is also designed to offer the rudiments of history and literature and to enable the student to deal effectively with French literature from its origins down to the end of the seventeenth century.

- Poetical readings from the Renaissance to the Seventeenth century
- Voltaire, Candide (1759)

Students must be capable of expounding the history of French literature from the Middle Age to the end of Eighteenth century; the following manual is recommended: Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Lire. Littérature et culture françaises, Milano. Einaudi Scuola vol 1.

Not attending students must to contact the lecturer after the end of the course.

Lectures

Bibliography for those who attend lectures:
- Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Lire. Littérature et culture françaises, Einaudi Scuola, vol.1
- Voltaire, Candide, Le Livre de Poche

Bibliography for those unable to attend lectures:
- Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Lire. Littérature et culture françaises, Einaudi Scuola, vol.1
- Voltaire, Candide, Le Livre de Poche
- J. Van den Heuvel, Voltaire dans ses contes, Colin (IVe partie, III, IV, V, VI)
- A. Simounet, Candide et autres contes de Voltaire, Editions Pédagogie Moderne

Oral examination, preferably in French.

Oral examination, preferably in French.