BERGAMO
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Syllabus
Course Objectives
MOD.1 LM I A:
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to analyze 16th and 20th French novels and autobiographical texts from a linguistic and historical-cultural point of view, he will have developed adequate critical and comparative capacities of understanding literary events and he will be able to identify their real stylistic, poetical and epistemological value in the history of literature and criticism.
MOD.2 LM I B:
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to analyze 17th, 19th and 20th century French theatre from a linguistic and historical-cultural point of view, he will have developed adequate critical and comparative capacities of understanding literary events and he will be able to identify their real stylistic, poetical and epistemological value in the history of literature and criticism.
Course Prerequisites
A very good knowledge of French for texts to be red in the original Language. Passes in the exams of French Language III and of French Literature III or Littérature Française des Pays Européens A et B.
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.
Assessment Methods
The examination is oral. Reading, translation (a required ability to continue the examination) and comment on literary 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.
Contents
MOD. 1 LM I A:
"Novels and autobiographical essays in 16th and 20th centuries French Literature: Rabelais, Montaigne and Valéry".
Through the study of François Rabelais' novel "Pantagruel" (1532), of Michel de Montaigne 's "Essais, I" (1588-1595) and of Paul Valéry's novel-essay "Monsieur Teste" (1926-1946), the student will adress the originality of the grotesque in the Renaissance, the wisdom and cultural relativism of Montaigne and the fragmentary and introspective form of Valéry.
MOD. 2 LM I B:
"The Tragedy of the Power in 17th, 19th and 20th centuries French theater: Racine, Vigny and Ionesco".
Through the study of Jean Racine's tragedy "Britannicus" (1669), of Alfred de Vigny's romantic drama "Chatterton" (1835) and of Eugène Ionesco absurd pièce "Rhinocéros" (1959), the student will learn the most important characteristics of "classical" French theater, and their modern and contemporary evolution in the avant-garde.
Contents will also be discussed in a teaching perspective, so as to provide opportunities for further analyses.
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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.
The course will be in first semester.
Texts to be red:
François Rabelais, "Pantagruel", in Lionello Sozzi (a cura di), "Gargantua e Pantagruele", "Classici della Letteratura Europea", Bompiani, Milano, 2012/2013 (limitatamente ai capp. indicati su Leganto),
Michel de Montaigne, "Essais", Livre 1( limitatamente ai capp. "Au lecteur", II "De la tristesse", IX " Des menteurs" , X "Du parler prompt ou tardif", XI "Des prognostications", XII "De la constance", XX " Que philosopher, c'est apprendre à mourir", XXI "De la force de l'imagination", XXVI "De l'institution des enfants", XXVIII "De l'amitié", XXX "De la moderation", XXXI "Des cannibales").
Paul Valéry, "Monsieur Teste", L'Imaginaire/ Gallimard, Parigi, 1946.
Michail Bachtin, "L'opera di Rabelais e la cultura popolare. Riso, carnevale e festa nella tradizione medievale e rinascimentale", Einaudi, Torino, 1979.
Hugo Friedrich, "Montaigne", Gallimard, Parigi, 1968.
Michel Jarrety, "Paul Valéry", Hachette Supérieur, Parigi, 1992.
Jean Racine, "Britannicus", présentation par Jacques Morel, GF- Flammarion, Parigi, 2016.
Alfred de Vigny, "Chatterton", édition de Pierre-Louis Rey, Folio Théatre, Gallimard, Parigi.
Eugène Ionesco, "Rhinocéros", Folio, Gallimard, Parigi.
Michela Landi (a cura di), "Letteratura francese. Dalle origini al Seicento", Le Monnier Università, Firenze, Parte Seconda. "Il Cinquecento", Parte Terza. "Il Seicento".
Michela Landi (a cura di), "Letteratura francese. Dall'Ottocento al XXI secolo", Le Monnier Università, Firenze, limitatamente alle pp. 52-61, 215-235.