UCL - Analysis of literary Representation

[ROM2730]

[22.5h] 5 credits

This two-yearly course is taught in 2011-2012, 2013-2014,...

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
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Aims

At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the specificity of literary representations (verbal images, figures and forms).

Main themes

The aim of this course is to help the student acquire a scholarly method to analyze literary texts (semiotics), and to situate its forms and figures in their historical and cultural context

Content and teaching methods

This class will study how authors' imaginaries are inserted into and make the material of literary textuality. We will analyse the structure of the forms and figures that are active in the literary text, through narratological and semiological approaches. We will address the following issues: intertextual sources (literary, mythological, etc.), and other sources (artistic, religious, anthropological), as well as the impact of their particular context (geographic, historical, social, psychological). It will also deal with the reception of works, understood as the encounter of two imaginaries (the author's and the reader's) within the text. The works studied are taken from the contemporary period (from 19th c. to the present).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Assessment: Written examination