17th and 18th century French Literature

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012040
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
French
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

 

Teaching Methods

Selected texts analysis, commentary and discussion. Use of adapted films.

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to read the syllabus French Literature contexts and texts. At the end of the course, they should be able to recognise France’s aesthetic and cultural trends in genres and modes between the XVIIth and the XVIIIth centuries. They should also be able, through the confrontation of these genres and modes, to project the XIXth century.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The syllabus main topic – “Tragic representations in French XVII and XVIIIth centuries drama and narrative” – will focus on the confrontation between different modes through the evolution of literary writing and its easthetic values. Selected texts will show different perceptions of discourse modes in different literary forms and different periods, as well as the explicit and expressive dialogue sustained by the authors themselves (e.g. Mme de La Fayette, reader of Racine; Rousseau, reader of Mme de La Fayette; Cyrano announcing Voltaire).

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Marta Dias Teixeira da Costa Anacleto

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Belaval, Yvon (1978). Au siècle des Lumières in Encyclopédie de la Pléiade - Histoire des Littératures III (p. 569-674). Paris : Gallimard.

Biétry, Roland (2006). Précis d'histoire de la littérature française : Tome 1, Moyen Age, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Paris : LEP.

Coulet, Henri (1981). Le roman jusqu´à la Révolution. Paris : Armand Colin.

Esmein, Camille (2005). Poétiques du roman. Paris : Honoré Champion.

Guellouz, Suzanne (2007). Le Classicisme .Paris : Gallimard.

Prigent, Michel, Lestringant, Frank, Zink, Michel et Darmon, Jean-Charles (2006). Histoire de la France Littéraire, Tome 2: Classicismes, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Paris : PUF.

Tatin-Gourier (2005). Lire les Lumières. Paris : Armand Colin.

Zonza, Christian (2006). Le Baroque. Paris : Gallimard.

Zuber, Roger, Fumaroli, Marc (2001). Dictionnaire de littérature française du XVIIe siècle. Paris: PUF.