French Literature 3
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide third-year specialist students with an overview of French Literature, from Renaissance to Classicism, and offers a focus on important texts of this period. A reflection is offered on the relationship - thematic, stylistic, cultural - between period and authors considered and modernity.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: 1) An essential framework of French Literature, from Renaissance to Classicism, according to the authors considered, 2) Understanding basic elements in order to analyse texts' structure (metrical, stylistic, theatrical and narrative devices). Skills. 1) Ability to identify the main expressive features (stylistic, thematic and structural) of every literary work and recognize the author's identity in it 2) Ability to date literary works in chronological and cultural connection with modernity, 3) Ability to use coherently critical contributions 4) Ability to read works and identify themes and formal issues.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
1 Program
No change. Critical material is available on Ariel's website.
2 Methods of delivery
The lessons in attendance are replaced by two complementary modes of telematic delivery of teaching, synchronous and asynchronous. I conduct the synchronous lessons on Teams platform in the regular schedule (Monday h. 10.45, Tuesday h. 10.45, Wednesday h. 14.45), giving the access code on Ariel to participate in the class LETTERATURA FRANCESE 3. These lessons will be regularly recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself, divided into three distinct parts (I turn off the recording every 20 minutes, to improve the quality of the recording and to give space to direct interventions, questions, comments in 'class' not recorded). The lesson may be shorter than the usual two hours, but. in case, it will be accompanied by power point with audio, which I load in the Teams class, on the Materiale del Corso (direct text commentary, translation, image commentary) asynchronously.
If possible, there will be a meeting in presence at the end of each unit.
The Ariel website will be the venue for any organizational communication.
3) Methods of learning verification
The exams will be conducted orally on Teams platform.
No change. Critical material is available on Ariel's website.
2 Methods of delivery
The lessons in attendance are replaced by two complementary modes of telematic delivery of teaching, synchronous and asynchronous. I conduct the synchronous lessons on Teams platform in the regular schedule (Monday h. 10.45, Tuesday h. 10.45, Wednesday h. 14.45), giving the access code on Ariel to participate in the class LETTERATURA FRANCESE 3. These lessons will be regularly recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself, divided into three distinct parts (I turn off the recording every 20 minutes, to improve the quality of the recording and to give space to direct interventions, questions, comments in 'class' not recorded). The lesson may be shorter than the usual two hours, but. in case, it will be accompanied by power point with audio, which I load in the Teams class, on the Materiale del Corso (direct text commentary, translation, image commentary) asynchronously.
If possible, there will be a meeting in presence at the end of each unit.
The Ariel website will be the venue for any organizational communication.
3) Methods of learning verification
The exams will be conducted orally on Teams platform.
Course syllabus
Intitolato in inglese The literary emergence of women: from the Lyon Renaissance to the Court of Louis XIV
1. The first module is dedicated to the Lyonese Renaissance and to the analysis of Pernette Du Guillet's Rymes and Louise Labé's Sonnets: the aim is to investigate the specificity of this feminine writing and to question the cultural and literary demands it poses, more or less explicitly.
2. The second module is dedicated to the court of Louis XIV and proposes a reflection on the role of women in the seventeenth-century classical imagery through the analysis of a character, a queen, of the Racinian theater, Andromaque.
3. The terse module develops the 17th century reflection through the analysis of the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette, an author at the Court of Louis XIV, who chooses a woman as the protagonist of the first French novel considered 'modern'.
1. The first module is dedicated to the Lyonese Renaissance and to the analysis of Pernette Du Guillet's Rymes and Louise Labé's Sonnets: the aim is to investigate the specificity of this feminine writing and to question the cultural and literary demands it poses, more or less explicitly.
2. The second module is dedicated to the court of Louis XIV and proposes a reflection on the role of women in the seventeenth-century classical imagery through the analysis of a character, a queen, of the Racinian theater, Andromaque.
3. The terse module develops the 17th century reflection through the analysis of the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette, an author at the Court of Louis XIV, who chooses a woman as the protagonist of the first French novel considered 'modern'.
Prerequisites for admission
The course, which is held in French, the materials and the examination bibliography presuppose skills in literary history, use of terminology and critical analysis gained in previous courses of French Language and Literature 1 and 2.
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching: a summary of French literary history focusing on the two periods examinated; an analysis of texts structure (rhetorical, stylistic, theatrical and narrative adevices).
No compulsory- attendance
No compulsory- attendance
Teaching Resources
- Introduction aux Rymes de Pernette Du Guillet, pp. 19- 746; pp. 57-74. (Ariel)
- Rymes de Pernette Du Guillet et Sonnets de Louise Labé, Anthology of texts (Ariel).
-Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Jean Racine, Andromaque, revue et augmentée d'un dossier critique par Patrick Dandrey, Paris, Le livre de Poche, 2001.The critical dossier is an integral art of the oral exam
Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Madame de Lafayette, La princesse de Clèves, any edition
Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Non attending students
File: critico aggiuntivo (ARiel)
- Rymes de Pernette Du Guillet et Sonnets de Louise Labé, Anthology of texts (Ariel).
-Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Jean Racine, Andromaque, revue et augmentée d'un dossier critique par Patrick Dandrey, Paris, Le livre de Poche, 2001.The critical dossier is an integral art of the oral exam
Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Madame de Lafayette, La princesse de Clèves, any edition
Anthology of critical essays (Ariel)
Non attending students
File: critico aggiuntivo (ARiel)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam: the exam will consist of an interview in French
Students will have to analyse the French texts and to put them into their historical and literary context. They will have to recognize the elements of feminine writing and the problems it involves and to analyse structural and thematic elements of the texts structure (rhetorical, stylistic, theatrical and narrative devices).
Evaluation criteria: Students ability to date literary works and to use critical contributions coherently. The critical reasoning, the quality of the exhibition, the reflection on gender writing between Renaissance and Classicism will also be evaluated
Students will have to analyse the French texts and to put them into their historical and literary context. They will have to recognize the elements of feminine writing and the problems it involves and to analyse structural and thematic elements of the texts structure (rhetorical, stylistic, theatrical and narrative devices).
Evaluation criteria: Students ability to date literary works and to use critical contributions coherently. The critical reasoning, the quality of the exhibition, the reflection on gender writing between Renaissance and Classicism will also be evaluated
Unita' didattica A
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Tuesday from 2.30 to 7.30 pm.
square S.Alessandro 1, 2nd floor