2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/03 (FRENCH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

LITERATURES OF EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

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

12

72 lesson hours

French

ORAL TEST

GIORGI GIORGETTO (titolare) - 12 ECTS

French Literature A advanced: candidates in the Modern Language Faculty must have passed the third-year examination in French literature.

French Literature B advanced; candidates in the Modern Langauage Faculty must have passed the A c.p. examination in French literature.

The course is based on those historical and critical rudiments which students will have acquired. The aim is to broaden the student’s literary awareness and to develop a variety of methodological and cultural competences and an adequate approach to literary texts in French.

French Literature A advanced.
Students are required to attend 54 hours of lectures worth 9 credits (1st and 2nd Terms)
Structural and Thematic Reading of Souvenirs pieux (1974) by Marguerite Yourcenar.


French Literature B advanced.
Students are required to attend 72 hours of lectures worth 12 credits (1st and 2nd Terms):
Structural and Thematic Reading of Marguerite Yourcenar's Souvenirs pieux (1974) and Archives du Nord (1977)

Lectures

French Literature A advanced.
Bibliography for those attending Lectures:
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenirs pieux, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-Philippe Lejeune, «Le pacte autobiographique», in Le pacte autobiographique, Paris, Seuil, 1975, pp.13-45.
-Georges May, L’autobiographie,Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1979.
-Giorgetto Giorgi, «Il tema del labirinto nell’autobiografia», in ID., Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milano, Bompiani, 1995, pp. 55-67.


Bibliography for those unable to attend Lectures:
Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenirs pieux, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
Philippe Lejeune, L’autobiographie en France, Paris, Colin, 1971.
-Philippe Lejeune, «Le pacte autobiographique», in Le pacte autobiographique, Paris, Seuil, 1975, pp.13-45.
-Georges May, L’autobiographie, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1979.
-Giorgetto Giorgi, «Il tema del labirinto nell’autobiografia», in ID., Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milano, Bompiani, 1995, pp. 55-67.




French Literature B advanced.
Bibliography for those attending Lectures:
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenirs pieux, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Archives du Nord, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-Philippe Lejeune, «Le pacte autobiographique», in Le pacte autobiographique, Paris, Seuil, 1975, pp.13-45.
-Georges May, L’autobiographie,Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1979.
-Monica Ferrari, «”Faire le vide en soi” come condizione di scrittura autobiografica in Marguerite Yourcenar», in Egle Becchi, Monica Ferrari, Giovanni Scibilia, Autobiografia d’infanzia tra letteratura e film, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1990, pp. 56-110
-Giorgetto Giorgi, «Il tema del labirinto nell’autobiografia», in ID., Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milano, Bompiani, 1995, pp. 55-67.


Bibliography for those unable to attend Lectures:
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenirs pieux, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-Marguerite Yourcenar, Archives du Nord, Paris, Gallimard, Folio.
-Philippe Lejeune, «Le pacte autobiographique», in Le pacte autobiographique, Paris, Seuil, 1975, pp.13-45.
-Georges May, L’autobiographie,Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1979.
Béatrice Didier, «Voyage et autobiographie chez Marguerite Yourcenar», in Voyage et connaissance dans l’oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar, mélanges coordonnés par C. Biondi et C. Rosso, Pisa, Editrice Libreria Goliardica, 1988, pp.95-111.
-Monica Ferrari, «”Faire le vide en soi” come condizione di scrittura autobiografica in Marguerite Yourcenar», in Egle Becchi, Monica Ferrari, Giovanni Scibilia, Autobiografia d’infanzia tra letteratura e film, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1990, pp. 56-110
-Giorgetto Giorgi, «Il tema del labirinto nell’autobiografia», in ID., Mito, Storia, Scrittura nell’opera di Marguerite Yourcenar, Milano, Bompiani, 1995, pp. 55-67.

Oral examination. The examination will be conducted in French.

Oral examination. The examination will be conducted in French.