Questions of Literary History

Teacher(s)

Zanone Damien;

Language

French

Prerequisites

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Main themes

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.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	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”.

Content

The title of the course is : The novel and the fantastic: how this genre is defined in the 19th century

Teaching methods

The course will start by a presentation of its theoretical question before thinking of it through the study of particular texts.

Evaluation methods

Online resources

MoodleUCL

Bibliography

Corpus d’étude principal :
- Roland, Jeanne-Marie [Manon, Mme], Mémoires particuliers [1795], dans La Fabrique de l’intime. Mémoires et journaux de femmes du XVIIIe siècle, éd. Catriona Seth, Paris, Robert Laffont, « Bouquins », 2013, p. 497-679.
- Sand, George, Histoire de ma vie [1854-1855], éd. Damien Zanone, Paris, GF-Flammarion, 2001, 2 vol., vol. I.
- Beauvoir, Simone de, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée [1958], Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 2007.
- Sarraute, Nathalie, Enfance [1983], Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 1985.
- Ernaux, Annie,  Les Années [2008], Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 2010.
- Despentes, Virginie, King Kong Théorie [2006], Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2007.
Corpus d’étude secondaire :
- Staal-Delaunay, Mme, Mémoires [1755], La Fabrique de l’intime, op. cit., p. 59-251.
Victoire Monnard, Souvenirs [1928], La Fabrique de l’intime, op. cit., p. 1051-1131.
- Guillery, Justine, Mémoires de Justine Guillery. 1789-1846, éd. Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
- Tristan, Flora, Pérégrinations d’une paria [1838], éd. Stéphane Michaud, Arles, Actes Sud, « Babel », 2004.
- Agoult, Marie d’, Mémoires [Daniel Stern, Mes souvenirs. 1806-1833, 1877], éd. Charles F. Dupêchez, Paris, Mercure de France, « Le Temps retrouvé », 2007.
- Leduc, Violette, La Bâtarde [1964], Paris, Gallimard, « L’imaginaire », 1996.
Roy, Gabrielle, La Détresse et l’Enchantement
- Cixoux, Hélène, Osnabrück, Paris, Éditions des femmes, 1999.
- Angot, Christine, Un amour impossible [2015], Paris, J’ai lu, 2016.

Faculty or entity

ROM