Learning objectives
The Course has the following educational objectives:
- competence of the main phases of Libanese history;
- kwoledge of some authors, representative of the contemporary literary panorama;
- capacity to analyse the text, in relation with the main mouvements of Libanese literature in French.
Prerequisites
Having a linguistic competence in French, compared to the B1/B2 level.
Course unit content
The Course aims at introducing students into Libanese Literature in French, through the study and the textual analysis of some contemporary novels that are particularly meaningful and interesting.
Full programme
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Bibliography
-- ANDREE CHEDID, Le message, Paris, Flammarion, 2000;
- CHARIF MAJDALANI, Villa des femmes, Paris, Seuil, 2015;
- YASMINE KHLAT, Cet amour, Tunis, Editions Elyzad, 2020;
- WAJDI MOUAWAD, Anima, Paris, Actes Sud, 2012.
Teaching methods
Lessons, taught with authentic documents and new technologies.
Assessment methods and criteria
The students' competences will be verified through an oral examination, which will implicates the evaluation of the following competences:
-knowledge of the main contents of the works examined, particularly in relation to the theme of war (themes, motives, rhetorical figures, images and symbols, meanings of the study of the spacial and temporal of texts;
- knowledge of the main lines of Libanese history, in relation to the works analysed;
- knoledge of the authors and of their itinerary.
Other information
The novels, the slides and videos, as well as the material given by the Teacher during her Course, or being researched during it, are part of the Programme and will be asked during the oral examination.
Students who will be present at the Oral Examination without the entire text of every novel in French and without the material assigned and available on Elly.Dusic website, will not be admissed to the Exam.
