The course aims to provide fundamental knowledge of the history of French literature, through the presentation of authors from the seventeenth century to the present day, with particular attention to works of world renown.
The teaching is inserted in the formative path of address, providing the basis for a comparative reflection of the literary history in relationship with the history and the history of the art, through fundamental knowledge for the relationship links
The student should have in general a geographical vision and history of Europe, as well as the knowledge of Roman numbers in their relationship with the indication of the centuries; it should also possess a level of knowledge of Italian standards and basic notions of Italian literature
6 CFU course: Frontal lessons. 9 CFU course: The frontal readings will be accompanied by in-depth seminars to be concluded with a day of study, preferably on the premises of the Alliance française
Six CFU course The course includes the presentation of: seventeenth-century literature (the genre of histoire comique: notes on the works of Sorel, Scarron, the theater of Corneille, Molière, Racine), of the eighteenth century (The novels of the philosophes: notes on the Lettres persanes by Montesquieu, the Contes philosophiques of Voltaire, the works of Diderot and Rousseau), of the nineteenth century (notes on Chateaubriand, Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Zola, Huysmans). of the twentieth century (Apollinaire, Gide, Proust, Céline, Valéry, Camus, Sartre, Ionesco, Butor, Queneau, Modiano, Volodine) 9 CFU course: in addition to the 6 CFU program, in-form studies on individual authors or movements (chosen by the student) are planned
Guide text: European history of French literature, Einaudi 2013. Other materials will be made available in the webroom (https://lingue.aulaweb.unige.it/) as the critical bibliography to be used in the seminar, subject to the choices of the students.
IDA MERELLO (President)
ELISA BRICCO
Colloquium and seminar
At the end of the course the student: 1) knows the general lines of literary history, 2) is able to recognize the works of the great authors of French literature 4) knows how to relate the works with the historical era, 5) can distinguish the characteristics of the great literary movements. 6) knows how to define the characteristics of the great literary movements.
