Seminar : Literary History
[ LROM2725 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
15.0 h
Teacher(s) |
Guiderdoni Agnès ;
Zanone Damien ;
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Language |
French
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Place of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisite: literary history and previous knowledge of different ways to analyse literary texts.
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Main themes |
The seminar will deepen localized issues. Depending on subjects and issues, texts from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century French literature will be selected.
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Aims |
It is thus presented as an introduction to personal research and preparation for the thesis in its various phases (analysis, problem setting, writing) from the point of view of literary history.
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Evaluation methods |
Written essay to be prepared individually or in small groups (depending on enrollment), led by the teacher. This work will lead to an oral presentation during a session of the seminar.
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Teaching methods |
Texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will be studies with Agnès Guiderdoni, texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with Damien Zanone ; the seminar will question the process of legitimation of literary forms that first appeared as private practices without purpose or avowed aesthetic. I twill be a way to question the borders of literature.
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Content |
This year, the seminar will focus on the following subject: "Literature after the Belles-Lettres" It will deal with literary forms that appeared at the end of Classicism and exhibits a new conception of Literature (which supplants the phrase « Belles Lettres at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). Among other forms, there are essays, memoirs, letters, autobiography, diary.
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Bibliography |
Texts to be studied in 2010-2011 :
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Mémoires et autres écrits de Marguerite de Valois, la Reine Margot, éd. Yves Cazaux, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 1986.
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Mémoires de la Grande Mademoiselle, éd. Bernard Quillet, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 2005.
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Mémoires de Justine Guillery. 1789-1846, éd. présentée par Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
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Mémoires de Madame Roland, éd. Paul de Roux, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 1966 et 1986, 2004 (paperback).
Recommended readings for a theoretical and historical basis : Fiction et Diction by Gérard Genette (Seuil, 1991) ; Qu’est-ce qu’un genre littéraire ? by Jean-Marie Schaeffer (Seuil, 1989) ; La Diplomatie de l’esprit. De Montaigne à La Fontaineby Marc Fumaroli (Gallimard, 2002) (chapters on memoirs) ; Histoire, Littérature, Témoignage. Ecrire les malheurs du temps by Chr. Jouhaud, D. Ribard and N. Schapira (Gallimard folio, 2009).
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Cycle et année d'étude |
> Master [120] in Performing Arts
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Second Language
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Faculty or entity in charge |
> ROM
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