2014/2015

2014/2015

DM270

L-LIN/03 (FRENCH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

1°

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

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.

Interpretation and literary contextualization of:

a. Molière, Don Juan (1665)
b. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie (1788)

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, Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, vol.1, 2002 . The literary history of these periods are to be studied in full; a list of anthological pieces can be consulted on the departmental notice board. This section constitute required reading.

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

Lectures

Bibliography for those who attend lecures:
Molière, Don Juan, Classique Rarousse
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie, Paris, folio classique
Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, vol.1, 2002.

Bibliography for those unable to attend lectures:
Molière, Don Juan, Classique Larousse
J. Rousset, Le mythe de Don Juan, Paris, Colin, 1978
G. Giorgi, La rivoluzione scientifica secentesca, il mito di Don Giovanni e Molière, in Antichità classica e Seicento francese, Roma, bulzoni, 1987
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie, Paris, folio classique
A. Boissinet, Paul et Virginie de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paris, Bertrand-Lacoste, 1988
Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Beaubourg. Auteurs, textes, genres de la littérature française. Du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, vol.1, 2002.

Oral examination, preferably in French.

Oral examination, preferably in French.