2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-LIN/03 (FRENCH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

French

ORAL TEST

GIORGI GIORGETTO (titolare) - 9 ECTS

Modern Language students must have passed the third-year examination of French Literature (Triennial Degree).

The course is based on those historical and critical rudiments which students will have acquired in the course of «French literature 3». The aim is to broaden the student’s literary awareness and to develop, possibly through set written papers, a variety of methodological and cultural competences and an adequate approach to literary texts in French.

First Year.
French Literature A c.p. (G. Giorgi)
Students have to attend the following course for 9 credits and 54 hours (3d and 4th trimesters):
Lectures of “Phèdre”(1677) by Jean Racine: Leo Spitzer, Lucien Goldmann, Roland Barthes, Francesco Orlando.

Second Year.
French Literature B c.p. (G. Giorgi)
Students have to attend the following course for 6 credits and 36 hours (3d trimester):
Lectures of “Phèdre” (1677) by Jean Racine: Leo Spitzer, Lucien Goldmann

Lectures

Bibliography for those attending Lectures (First Year) :
-Jean Racine, Phèdre, Paris, Classiques Larousse.
-Leo Spitzer, “Il récit de Théramène” (1948), in Id., Critica stilistica e semantica storica, Bari, Laterza, 1966.
-Lucien Goldmann, “Racine”, in Id., Le Dieu caché, Paris, Gallimard, 1955.
-Roland Barthes, “Phèdre”, in Id., Sur Racine, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1960.
-Francesco Orlando, Lettura freudiana della “Phèdre”, Torino, Einaudi, 1971.

Bibliography for those unable to attend Lectures (First Year) :
- Jean Racine, Phèdre, Paris, Classiques Larousse.
-Leo Spitzer, “Il récit de Théramène” (1948), in Id., Critica stilistica e semantica storica, Bari, Laterza, 1966.
-Lucien Goldmann, “Racine”, in Id., Le Dieu caché, Paris, Gallimard, 1955.
-Roland Barthes, “Phèdre”, in Id., Sur Racine, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1960.
-Francesco Orlando, Lettura freudiana della “Phèdre”, Torino, Einaudi, 1971.
-Giovanni Cacciavillani, Un’immortale bellezza. Lettura della “Phèdre” di Racine, Rimini, Panozzo editore, 2005.

Bibliography for those attending Lectures (Second Year) :
-Jean Racine, Phèdre, Paris, Classiques Larousse.
-Leo Spitzer, “Il récit de Théramène” (1948), in Id., Critica stilistica e semantica storica, Bari, Laterza, 1966.
-Lucien Goldmann, “Racine”, in Id., Le Dieu caché, Paris, Gallimard, 1955.

Bibliography for those unable to attend Lectures (Second Year) :
-Jean Racine, Phèdre, Paris, Classiques Larousse.
-Leo Spitzer, “Il récit de Théramène” (1948), in Id., Critica stilistica e semantica storica, Bari, Laterza, 1966.
-Lucien Goldmann, “Racine”, in Id., Le Dieu caché, Paris, Gallimard, 1955.
-Giovanni Cacciavillani, Un’immortale bellezza. Lettura della “Phèdre” di Racine, Rimini, Panozzo editore, 2005.

Oral exam, in French. The exam aims at testing the student's knowledge of French and of the topics discussed during the course.

Oral exam, in French. The exam aims at testing the student's knowledge of French and of the topics discussed during the course.