At the end of the course, the student will have acquired:
- insight into the main theories about the relationships between the (popular) literary text and society (sociology of literature and socio-criticism mainly)
- practical skills to analyse a (popular) literary text with the theoretical and methodological tools devised by sociologists of literature and socio-critics
- competence for reflexiveness towards the functioning of the literary field and in particular towards the mechanisms of allocation of literary value
Main themes
Specificities of the issues of the sociology of literature (external analysis) and of socio-criticism (internal analysis)
Issue of the text-society relationship: historical perspective, contemporary perspective
Methods of sociological and socio-critical analysis
Critical study of the strategies of allocation of literary value (transcendence/immanence)
In-depth analysis of a (popular) literary text from the 19th or 20th century
Content and teaching methods
The course is devoted to the regional languages in Wallonia, and it adopts a triple approach : historical (from the segmentation of the Oïl language territory till today), formal (phonetical, phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical features of the dialects) and sociolinguistic (linguistic practices and behaviours of Walloon speakers).
Study of the Walloon literature that specifically uses the modern dialects of Wallonia, from their origins (about 1600) until today. Relevance of this dialectal literature.
The lectures of literary history are illustrated by the reading of the most important texts with notes and comments.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Références
Limes I. Les langues régionales romanes en Wallonie. Bruxelles, Traditions et parlers populaires Bruxelles-Wallonie, 1992.