FRENCH LITERATURE II
cod. 14396

Academic year 2022/23
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Alba PESSINI
Academic discipline
Letteratura francese (L-LIN/03)
Field
Letterature straniere
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

Through the course, students will obtain the ability to collocate the texts in the literary and cultural context.
During the course, the student will focus and learn to analyze literary texts in terms of form and content; to investigate in depth some of the topics covered in an independendent way; to relate the texts with the author's poetry; to formulate, communicate contents, analyses and opinions concerning the texts under examination; to decode the texts; to address the relation between an author's poetry and the aesthetic trends of his time

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course aims to trace the general outline of the evolution of the genre of the novel and the short story in the rich and delicate transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It will then analyze the texts of Maupassant, Proust and Breton

Full programme

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Bibliography

Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif, Folio.

Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann, Folio.

André Breton, Nadja, Folio.

Teaching methods

The course consists of lectures, during wich the presentation of histirical and literary contents will be supplemented by commentary and analysis of extracts from texts. The LEA Platform will be used in order to make available critical materials to enable students to carry out personal investigations of the course content

Assessment methods and criteria

The course aims to trace the general outline of the evolution of the genre of the novel and the short story in the rich and delicate transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It will then analyze the texts of Maupassant, Proust and Breton

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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