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At the master level, the literary formation prioritises the theoretical and methodological orientations. Therefore, there is no constraints regarding to the studied periods, but the questions envisaged are very precisely delimited, and the examples are chosen in order to prove concretely the efficiency of the theoretical tools which are used. The possible exportation of these tools to other corpuses will also be explained.
This course focuses on the fundamental dialogical dimension of the literary discourse : writing is not only about communicating information, it is about using the words of the Other and answering to him, about decoding what in his words was coded, unknown. Starting from this hypothesis, it will be underlined how texts are crossed by philosophical, religious, scientific, moral, political and aesthetical debates, but also which particular forms of answers they bring to the discourses of their time. The study of these interactions will rely on the history of literatures, ideas, mentalities and institutions, and will use Human Sciences which renew the research on these.
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The course will be entitled: « Women, Novel, Romanticism : Gender Trouble ». While in the classical era, tradition sees the novel as a female form (because women are both authors, characters and readers), a new distribution of roles between women and the novel takes place in the first half of the nineteenth century. When the novel form is recognized as a prominent literary form, it is more and more difficult for women to be accepted as authors: the leading role only left to them is that of heroine of the fiction. The course will try to understand this major change
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| Bibliography |
The main works studied will be the following :
' Balzac, Honoré de : Béatrix, éd. M. Fargeaud, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 1979.
' Duras, Mme de : Ourika. Édouard, Olivier ou le secret, éd. M.-B. Diethelm, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 2007.
' Flaubert, Gustave : Madame Bovary, éd. J. Neefs, Paris, Le Livre de Poche « classique », 1999.
' Sand, George : Indiana, éd. B. Didier, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 1984.
' Sainte-Beuve : Portraits de femmes, éd. G. Antoine, Paris, « Folio », 1998.
' Staël, Germaine de : Delphine, éd. B. Didier, GF-Flammarion, 2000, 2 vol.
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