AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student:
- will have acquired knowledge regarding the birth and development of non-European francophone literature;
- will have mastered the tools of literary study;
- will be able to recognize the scientific limits and difficulties of literary history;
- will be able to recognize the different linguistic ancd cultural specificities present in literary texts;
- will be able to analyze and interpret theoretical and narrative texts;
- will be able to elaborate short texts of presentation of narrative works for a non-specific readership;
- will know how to present the contents and specific features of a narrative text for a non-specific readership, placing it in the cultural and historical context of origin;
- will know how to plan the display of advertising material relating to the literary text in a professional publishing context;

 

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures with presentations of critical methodologies.
Seminars with presentation of the same texts with other methodologies by the students

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The second part of the course, provided by Prof. Merello, will be a focus on the literary history, its natural process of evolution and the difficulty of adapting critical tools. The texts in the bibliography will be used in lectures and as a basis for analysis and discussion.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cesare Garboli, Don Giovanni, FR XVII Mo 51 

Georges May: Diderot et la religieuse: étude historique et littéraire, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1954, (FR CR XVIII Di 2 ) 

Philippe Bertault, Balzac, Hatier 1947, FR CR XIX BA 7 

Pierre Trahard, La porte étroite, Paris : Éditions de la Pensée moderne, 1968, FR CR XX GI 15  

Mariolina Bertini : Identità tempo memoria in Modiano (PDF)

Mariolina Bertini: tra oblio e memoria la Parigi segreta di Modiano (PDF)

AA.VV: Volodine (Classiques Garnier)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ELISA BRICCO (President)

IDA MERELLO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

as per calendar

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

interview and seminar

ASSESSMENT METHODS

At the end of the course the student will have to:
Knowing how to identify the thematic categories of different centuries
Being able to analyze a literary work from the point of view:
historical
Formal
Of kind
Theoretical
Linguistic

Exam schedule