| Aims |
Analyze one period and one or more streams of European literature using a comparative perspective. Provide students with a basic understanding of this period and streams of literature, placing the latter in the broader context of the connections that European culture has progressively established across different countries, constituting a unique civilization sharing common evidence, references and connivances. Familiarize students with the aims, essence and methodologies of comparative research, and introduce them to the theoretical foundations of the comparative approach. Students are expected to demonstrate that they have acquired the skills taught during the course and that they have mastered the historical background and literary material characterizing the period and the streams of literature analyzed throughout the course.
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| Evaluation methods |
The evaluation of this course will consist of a double test:
1) A collective scientific poster (to be presented on December 13th, 2011) whose quality criteria will be specified in the introductory session.
2) An individual oral exam (to be presented to a maximum of two exam sessions, left to the student's choice) which will focus on the content of lectures and on the poster produced both by the student's group and on the other groups posters, presented at Posterothèque Day.
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| Teaching methods |
Lecture (the first part of the course [8 sessions] + conclusion [1 session]).
Coaching sessions to prepare the poster (2 sessions).
Posterothèque Day consisting of the oral presentation of the collective scientific posters (December 13th, 2011).
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| Content |
The Double : figures, stories, poetry will be the focus of the 2011-2012 general and comparative literature course. Representations of the double and the stories of duplicity abound in literary history and suppose different paradigms (doppelgänger, alter ego, double, Amphitryon myth, mirror, clone etc). This course will outline a systematization (chronological, thematic and theoretical) of this notion, through a number of authors clearly related to the literary tradition of the double (including Borges, Cortázar, Molière, Poe, Stevenson, Valery). This comparative analysis will allow both to reconstruct a possible history of the double in its meanings and typologies and to apprehend the concept of duplicity.
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| Bibliography |
- Borges, Jorge Luis, Fictions, trad. de l'espagnol par P. Verdevoye, Ibarra et Roger Caillois, Paris, Gallimard, 1974 (Folio, n° 614). ISBN : 2070366146 (nouvelles à lire précisées en cours).
- Moliere, Amphytrion, Paris, Gallimard, 2007 (Folioplus, n° 101). ISBN : 9782070344734.
- STEVENSON Robert Louis, L'Etrange Cas du docteur Jekyll et de M. Hide, préf. de J.-B. Pontalis, texte trad. et annoté par Charles Ballarin, Paris, Gallimard, 2003 (Folio, n° 3890). ISBN : 2-07-042448-0.
A non-exhaustive list of stories on the double will be posted after the introductory session to be used during the preparation of the poster Group, one of the evaluation tests of this course.
A brief bibliography on the preparation of scientific posters and abstracts will also be provided to students.
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