Contemporary French Literature
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
The course aims at learning the foundations of the French contemporary literature as a heterogeneous cultural model and aims to consolidate the knowledge through readings aimed at emphasize the importance of the plurality of perspectives in the literary space. The course also aims to deepen the skills of critical reading and to provide methods and tools necessary for the analysis and interpretation of any literary text.
Expected learning outcomes
1, Students will be able to contextualize the evolution of French-language literature in relation to the main historical and cultural developments of the French cultural space, They will be able to grasp specific themes and motives of French contemporary literature with appropriate terminology and will be able to deepen the texts with appropriate methods and tools of analysis, 2) Students will be able to develop autonomy and flexibility in understanding the literary issues addressed during this course, They will then be able to answer questions of an interpretative and non-notional nature about texts and cultural contexts, developing critical skills, autonomy and awareness in the study of course topics, 3) Students will be able to examine texts and arguments in a comparative and critical manner and understand their concepts, structure and contexts, 4) Students will use notions and methodologies of literary criticism and related disciplines, looking for sources for documentation and knowing how to use bibliographic tools, both in traditional and electronic form.
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
Course syllabus
COURSE TITLE
The visual in contemporary French poetry between the 20th and 21st centuries
The course aims to illustrate - through the study of some exemplary cases between the 20th and 21st centuries - the way in which models from the visual arts (painting, photography, cinema, hypertexts) have been fundamental in the elaboration of a literary poetics in the 20th and 21st centuries. Starting from the consideration of how the presence of representations (drawings, paintings, engravings, collages, photographs, hypertexts) and of iconographic intertexts (aimed at French art, but not only) is preponderant in French poetic writing in the 20th and 21st centuries, we will reflect on the gaps and balances between figuration and discourse and on the question of the use of the image in the contemporary.
The course is in Italian and the texts will be translated.
Part 1 (3 CFU): Writing and image, theoretical aspects. Historical Excurus: from Baudelaire to Bonnefoy.
Part 2 (3 CFU): Typologies: Illustrations, poem-objects, poem-icons, logograms, defigurations.
Part 3 (3 CFU): Imagining the contemporary: Dominique Fourcade's work as a case study
The visual in contemporary French poetry between the 20th and 21st centuries
The course aims to illustrate - through the study of some exemplary cases between the 20th and 21st centuries - the way in which models from the visual arts (painting, photography, cinema, hypertexts) have been fundamental in the elaboration of a literary poetics in the 20th and 21st centuries. Starting from the consideration of how the presence of representations (drawings, paintings, engravings, collages, photographs, hypertexts) and of iconographic intertexts (aimed at French art, but not only) is preponderant in French poetic writing in the 20th and 21st centuries, we will reflect on the gaps and balances between figuration and discourse and on the question of the use of the image in the contemporary.
The course is in Italian and the texts will be translated.
Part 1 (3 CFU): Writing and image, theoretical aspects. Historical Excurus: from Baudelaire to Bonnefoy.
Part 2 (3 CFU): Typologies: Illustrations, poem-objects, poem-icons, logograms, defigurations.
Part 3 (3 CFU): Imagining the contemporary: Dominique Fourcade's work as a case study
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites are given for this examination. Knowledge of French is recommended, but not compulsory. The course will be in Italian.
Teaching methods
The teaching methods adopted will concern the use of the tools of textual analysis in a diachronic and synchronic perspective.
Teaching Resources
Bibliography:
For parts 1 and 2 (6CFU)
1) Anthology of texts (in French with Italian translation) available on the Ariel website in the Register space. The anthology is not in fact a book for sale, but will be compiled during the course of the course.
2) Critical PDF articles, online articles and sites that can be consulted in the Course Materials space on the Ariel Platform
Part 3 (+3 CFU = 9 CFU): Imagining the Contemporary: Dominique Fourcade's work as a case study
Bibliography:
1) Dominique Fourcade, Tutto accade, Milan, La Vita felice, 2012, translated and afterword by S. Riva.
For those who know French and for the master's degree in Languages, the text is recommended:
Silvia Riva, Chorégraphies poétiques: l'oeuvre de Dominique Fourcade, Milan, Mimesis, 2016.
To the above texts, NON-attending students will add the following essay:
Yves Bonnefoy, Poetry and Photography, Milan, O bar O, 2015.
For parts 1 and 2 (6CFU)
1) Anthology of texts (in French with Italian translation) available on the Ariel website in the Register space. The anthology is not in fact a book for sale, but will be compiled during the course of the course.
2) Critical PDF articles, online articles and sites that can be consulted in the Course Materials space on the Ariel Platform
Part 3 (+3 CFU = 9 CFU): Imagining the Contemporary: Dominique Fourcade's work as a case study
Bibliography:
1) Dominique Fourcade, Tutto accade, Milan, La Vita felice, 2012, translated and afterword by S. Riva.
For those who know French and for the master's degree in Languages, the text is recommended:
Silvia Riva, Chorégraphies poétiques: l'oeuvre de Dominique Fourcade, Milan, Mimesis, 2016.
To the above texts, NON-attending students will add the following essay:
Yves Bonnefoy, Poetry and Photography, Milan, O bar O, 2015.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will be oral and will consist of a dialogue on the topics covered in the course and on the critical readings assigned.
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
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