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Seminar : Literary History [ LROM2725 ]


5.0 crédits ECTS  15.0 h   2q 

Teacher(s) Zanone Damien ; Guiderdoni Agnès ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Prerequisites

Literary history and previous knowledge of different ways to analyse literary texts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bibliography

Texts to be studied in 2010-2011 :

  1. Mémoires et autres écrits de Marguerite de Valois, la Reine Margot, éd. Yves Cazaux, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 1986.
  2. Mémoires de la Grande Mademoiselle, éd. Bernard Quillet, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 2005.
  3. Mémoires de Justine Guillery. 1789-1846, éd. présentée par Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
  4. 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).

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Second Language
> Master [120] in Performing Arts
Faculty or entity
in charge
> ROM


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