Specialization Seminar: French Studies

Year
1

Academic year
2021-2022

Code
02026028

Subject Area
French Studies

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Other Languages of Instruction
French

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
10.0

Type
Elective

Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Spoken and written proficiency in French.

Teaching Methods

- Lectures given by the instructor, or assigned to individual students (in cooperation with the instructor)

- Analysis, interpretation and discussion of the course readings and/or of further readings

- Individual assignments of interpretive-analytic papers, for in-class presentation.

Learning Outcomes

The programme was conceived in such a way that the students develop skills and practice of interpretation and analysis of the different literary texts that make the object of the study, accompanied by debates concerning the most relevant problematics that find themselves represented, figured or themed in the unit's required readings.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

Society, family relationships and violence, in french literature's texts from different authors and times: cultural representations and literary figurations

Zola, Émile (2007), Thérèse Raquin. Paris : Gallimard/ Folio.

Ionesco, Eugène ( 1954) Amédée ou comment s’en débarrasser, in Théâtre, tome I. Paris : Gallimard.

Duras, Marguerite (1989), L’Eden Cinéma. Paris : Gallimard/ Folio.

Ernaux, Annie (1987), La Femme gelée. Paris : Gallimard/ Folio.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Beauvalet-Boutouyrie, Scarlett e Berthiaud, Emmanuelle (2016). Le Rose et le Bleu. La fabrique du féminin et du masculin. Paris : Éd. Du Belin.

Brunel, Patrick (2002). La littérature française du XXème siècle. Paris : Éd. Nathan.

Duby, Georges e Aries, Philippe ( Dir.) ( 2000). Histoire de la vie privée. Tome IV. De la Révolution à la Grande Guerre. Paris: Points.

Memmi, Albert (1985). Ce que je crois. Paris : Grasset.

Perrot, Michelle (2015). La Vie de famille au XIXe siècle, suivi de Martin-Fug, Anne, Les rites de la vie privée bourgeoise. Paris : Points.

Perrot, Michelle (2012). Les Femmes et les Silences de l’Histoire. Paris : Flammarion.

Thélot, Claude (2008). Anthologie de la littérature française sur la famille. Paris : Éd. Le Cherche Midi.

Viart, Dominique (2011). Le Roman français au XXème siècle. Paris : A. Colin.