FRENCH LITERATURE 3

Enrollment year

2015/2016

Academic year

2017/2018

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

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

ECTS

Lesson hours

54 lesson hours

Language

French

Activity type

ORAL TEST

Teacher

FORTUNATI VITTORIO (titolare) - 9 ECTS

Prerequisites

French Literature 2: students must have passed the first-year French Literature Examination.

French Literature 3: modern Language students must have passed the second-year French Literature 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

Lecture and analysis of Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951) by Marguerite Yourcenar.

French Literature 2:
Students are expected to study the history of 19th and 20th century French Literature, making use of the following text book: Bertini, Accornero, Bongiovanni, Giachino, Lire. Littérature et culture françaises, Milano, Einaudi Scuola, 2002, 2 vol.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Reccomended or required readings

Bibliography for those attending lectures
Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien, suivi de Carnet de notes, Folio

Bibliography for those unable to attend lectures
Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien, suivi de Carnet de notes, Folio
Levillain, Mémoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (Dossier), Gallimard
Fortunati; "Mon cher Marc": epistolarità dei "Mémoires d'Hadrien", in "Il Confronto letterario", anno XVII, n. 34, pp. 405-419
Rousset, "Une forme littéraire; le roman par lettre", in Forme et signification, Corti, pp. 65-108

Assessment methods

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

Further information

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

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