BERGAMO
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Course Objectives
MOD. III A: At the end of the course, the student will have acquired an adequate historical, cultural and literary overwiew of 18th century and 20th century French Literature, with particular reference to the travel novel of Diderot and to the utopian novel of Voltaire and Gracq, and to the ideological battle fought by the figures of Enlightenment and the debate they caused.
MOD.III B: At the end of the course, the student will have acquired an adequate historical, cultural and literary overwiew of 19th century French Literature, with particular reference to the symbolist poetry in verses and prose of Baudelaire and Corbière.
Course Prerequisites
A good knowledge of French for texts to be red in the original Language. Passes in the exams of French Language II and French Literature II.
Teaching Methods
Lectures in French, with some parts of the program's texts orally analyzed and translated by the students with the teacher during the course. Lectures will be in French language.
Assessment Methods
The examination is oral. Reading, translation (a required ability to continue the examination) and comment on extracts from course texts, in order to test the linguistic, literary and specially critical competences of the students. The examination consists in three or four open questions for every module concerning literary and critical texts in the syllabus, in order to test the acquisition of the program's goals, and the quality of expression in French Language.
Contents
MOD.III A: " Wandering and utopian places in the 18th and 20th century French Novel: Diderot, Voltaire and Gracq".
Through the study of Diderot's "Jacques le fataliste et son maitre" (1785), of Voltaire's "Candide ou l'Optimisme" (1759) and of Gracq's "Les Rivages des Syrtes" (1951) novels, the student will adress the themes of wandering, of meta-literature, of moral, of power and of love which were at the heart of the Enlightenment debate till the Modernity.
MOD III B: " Symbolist Poetry of 19th century: Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Corbière".
Through the study of Charles Baudelaire "Les Fleurs du mal" (1857-1861) and "Spleen de Paris" (1869), and of Tristan Corbière's "Les Amours jaunes" (1873), the student will particularly adress the formal, aesthetical and grotesque innovations of the most important French poet of the Modernity and the work of an other singular author of the symbolist season.
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Students of the curricula "Linguistico-letterario" and "Lingue e culture orientali" will study for the exam all the program and the bibliography of the course of 9 cfu (MOD. III A and MOD. III B).
Students of the curricula "Processi interculturali" and "Turismo culturale", whose course is of 6 cfu, will study for the exam all the program and the bibliography of the MOD. III A and only the part concerning Baudelaire's "Les fleurs du mal" of the MOD. III B (and not the parts about Baudelaire's "Spleen de Paris" and Tristan Corbière 's "Les amours jaunes").
ERASMUS students will not be asked to translate French authors texts into italian during the oral exam, but they have to prepare the complete bibliography of the course in all its French and Italian parts.
Students are kindly invited to see the list of texts to be red and studied, which are a basic part of the program, on the application Leganto.
The modalities of the course and of the examinations described by the syllabus could be changed because of the authorities decisions in case of a new eventual epidemiological emergency.
BIbliography of the course:
Diderot, "Jacques le Fataliste et son maitre", préface d'Yvon Belaval, Folio Gallimard, Parigi, 1973.
Voltaire, "Candide ou L'Optimisme", in "Candide et autres contes", éd. par Frédéric Deloffre, Folio Gallimard n. 2358, Parigi.
Julien Gracq, "Le Rivage des Syrtes", José Corti, Paris, 1951, ed. it. di riferimento: "La Riva delle Sirti", trad. di Mario Bonfantini, L'Orma Editore, Roma, 2017.
Béatrice Didier commente "Jacques le Fataliste et son maitre" di Diderot, Folio Gallimard, Parigi, 1998.
Pierre Chartier commente "Candide" di Voltaire, Folio Gallimard, Parigi, 1994.
Charles Baudelaire, "I fiori del male", trad. e cura di Antonio Prete, I Classici Universale Economica Feltrinelli, Milano, 2003, testo francese a fronte.
Baudelaire, "Lo Spleen di Parigi, Poemetti in prosa", a cura di Alfonso Belardinelli, I Grandi Libri Garzanti, Milano, 1989, con testo francese a fronte.
Tristan Corbière, "Les Amours jaunes", présentation par Jean-Pierre Bertrand, GF- Flammarion, Parigi, 2018.
Michela Landi ( a cura di), "Letteratura francese, vol1: "Dalle origini al Settecento", Le Monnier Università, Firenze, 2021, limitatamente alla parte "Il Settecento" (pp. 327-485).
Michela Landi (a cura di), "Letteratura francese, vol 2: "Dall'Ottocento al XXI secolo", Le Monnier Università, Firenze, 2021, limitatamente alla parte sulla poesia simbolista (pp.133-166).