Unit FRENCH LITERATURE II
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- A000129
- Curriculum
- Lingue e letterature
- Teacher
- Mariangela Miotti
- Teachers
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- Mariangela Miotti
- Hours
- 54 ore - Mariangela Miotti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- French
- Contents
- Biblical culture and classical culture in 16th century French literature through the analysis of the tragedies of Jean de La Taille, the biblical character of Judith and the reflections of Montaigne in his Essays.
- Reference texts
- Modulo A: The tragedies of Jean de la Taille.
Modulo B: the character of Judith in French literature.
Modulo C: Montaigne, the Essays library - Educational objectives
- The course aims to study the presence of classical and biblical culture in French literature.
Through the analysis of the texts on the program, supported by adequate critical instruments, the student must be able to grasp the particularity of the narrative form and understand the importance of the forms of the tradition of antiquity and of the Bible :
The fortune and role of classical authors and biblical stories in France;
The specificity of the different genres, poetry, novel, travel accounts, guides.
The role of intertextuality in literary texts.
The student must achieve the following skills:
Know how to read and interpret texts on the program;
Mobilize knowledge in literature from a critical perspective;
Interpret complex literary texts in the light of aesthetic, historical, rhetorical and cultural knowledge;
Interpret the multiplicity of sources, the intertwining between the tension that mythology, the fables of poets and religious tradition. - Prerequisites
- To understand the literary and critical language, the student must know French literature in its general evolution, from the XVIth to the XXth century and have a level of French language which allows him to follow the courses.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized by frontal lessons. Students will also be asked to participate actively with the presentation of critical readings which will be agreed and coordinated with the teacher.
- Other information
- Students will regularly find the educational material used during the courses on unistudium. This material becomes an integral part of the course program.
Students with disabilities and / or with DSA are invited to contact the professor at the start of the course in order to identify all the tools necessary to follow up profitably. - Learning verification modality
- The exam: oral conference on the subjects treated during the course and studied in the texts on the program.
The symposium aims to verify the level of knowledge, skills and critical capacity of the student. The length of the exam is closely linked to the student's performance. - Extended program
- Modulo A. Les tragédies de Jean de la Taille.
Textes :
Jean de La Taille, Saül le furieux, La Famine ou les Gabéonites, Elliott Forsyth (éd.), Paris, STFM, 1968.
La Famine : https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb447297284
Saül le furieux : https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb44729729g
Bibliographie critique :
Charpentier Françoise, Les tragédies de Jean de La Taille, « Cahiers Textuel », 18, 1999, p. 43-56
Emmanuel Buron, Modèle(s) générique(s) de la tragédie humaniste. La dramaturgie des frères Lsa Taille, « Seizième Siècle », n. 6, 2010, p. 17-32, https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/xvi_1774-4466_2010_num_6_1_970.pdf
Mazouer Charles, Le théâtre français de la Renaissance, Paris, Champion, 2013 (BUM)
Olivier Millet, La représentation du corps souffrant dans la tragédie humaniste et baroque (1550-1630), in Par ta colère nous sommes consumés. Jean de La Taille auteur tragique, textes réunis par Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, Orléans, Paradigme, 1998, p. 87-100
Frank Lestringant, Sénèque, la Bible et les malheurs fondamentaux de Saül à La Famine, in Par ta colère nous sommes consumés. Jean de La Taille auteur tragique, textes réunis par Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, Orléans, Paradigme, 1998, p. 175-190.
Frank Lestringant, La tragédie ou la colère de Dieu. Les tragédies saintes de Jean de La Taille : Saul le furieux, La Famine, ou les Gabéonites, in La tragédie sainte en France (1550-1610). Problématiques d’un genre. Sou la direction de Michele Mastroianni, Paris, Garnier, 2018, p. 269-312
Modulo B : le personnage de Judith dans la littérature française.
Textes :
D’Amboise Adrien, Holopherne, tragédie, 1580, in La tragédie à l’époque d’Henri III (1579-1582), II, 2, Firenze-Parigi, Olschki-PUF, 2000
De Coignard Gabrielle, Imitation de la victoire de Judith. Œuvres chrétiennes, 1595, éd. critique par C.H. Winn, Genève, Droz, 1995
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, La Judith, 1574, à Jeanne d’Albret, éd. critique par A. Baïche, Toulouse, Association des Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, 1971
Bibliographie critique :
Jacques Poirier, Judith: échos d’un mythe biblique dans la littérature française, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004 (https://books.openedition.org/pur/31718)
Modulo C : Montaigne, la bibliothèque des Essais
Essais III, 3 : De trois commerces ; III, 5 : Sur les vers de Virgile ; III, 9, De ka vanité.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_1907
Bibliographie critique :
Barbara Pistilli, Marco Sgattoni, La biblioteca di Montaigne, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Clavis, 2014
Lestringant Frank. La Bible et le Jardin : les deux voies de la Révélation dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas. In: Littératures 29, automne 1993. pp. 11-24; doi : https://doi.org/10.3406/litts.1993.1633;
François Rigolot, Introduction à l’étude du ‘commentaire’. L’exemple de la Renaissance, in Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani, Les commentaires et la naissance de la critique littéraire, Paris, Aux amateurs de livres, 1990.