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Literary history is a critical construction, ever shifting, which tells us just as much about the context in which it is produced as the periods to which it refers: discourse which brings together past and present.
The course invites students to become aware of this phenomenon by discovering the principles and elements involved in the construction of this discourse.
Each year, a specific subject is chosen (an aspect of literary life, the development of a genre or a theme), which provides the main topic for study.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- set discourse on literature in a historical context and know how to recognise the principles they employ. To identify accounts of literary history as examples of built discourse.
- establish a link between literature theory (view of the the phenomenon of literature in general) and critique (view of individual works).
- set literary studies in the context of social sciences.
- produce a critique of the critique : to treat accounts of literary history as structures for analysis ; to highlight the strategies employed by different forms of criticism.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Students will be asked to present an oral exam at the end of the semester.
The course will start by a presentation of its theoretical question before thinking of it through the study of particular texts.
The title of the course is : The novel and the fantastic: how this genre is defined in the 19th century
Bibliography :
The main works studied is the following :
' Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir, éd. Michel Crouzet, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1997 [1830].
- Sand, George, Consuelo, dans Consuelo. La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, éd. Damien Zanone, Paris, Robert Laffont, « Bouquins », 2004 [1843].
' Flaubert, Gustave : Madame Bovary, éd. Jacques Neefs, Paris, Le Livre de Poche « classique », 1999 [1857].
