French Language Literature and Culture

Recommended Prerequisites

Doctoral student is expected to have developed knowledge of the history of French and Francophone literature and culture.

Teaching Methods

1)Lectures.

2) Individual and group presentaions/talks, partial papers prensent by docrotal students in class.

3) individual and final work. 

Learning Outcomes

PhD student must be able to apply current themes and issues worked on in literary studies and cultural studies to French and Francophone texts and authors (from the 17th to the 21st century).They must be able to identify issues of literary aesthetics and literary history implicit in the authors and texts of French literature being analyzed. It must produce solid research on the subject of the Program and apply it to other authors of French literature. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The transversal theme of travel and viatic literature will be developped, in its conceptual, formal and aesthetic dimension (travel literature; travel in literature; travel anthropology), through the formulation of critical problems and case studies:

- Travel and utopia in the 17th and 18th centuries (Cyrano Bergerac, Voltaire, Denis de Veiras, Mercier, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre).

- Viatic literature and traveling writers in the Lumières.

- Imagology, otherness and the viatic writing and writers from Classicism to Romanticism.

- Travel as a journey of self-discovery: Albert Camus, La Chute.

- Travel as wandering and the search for metaphysical meaning: Samuel Beckett, En Attendant Godot.

- Travel as exile and the utopia/dystopia duality: Abdellah Taïa, Celui qui est digne d'être aimé.

- Travel as migration or the project for a bigger life: Catherine Mazauric, Mobilités d'Afrique en Europe. Récits et figures de l'aventure.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Active participation in classes including the presentation of works : 25.0%
Research work: 75.0%

Bibliography

Blanchart, M. (2017). Celles qui partent pour une terre lointaine. Paris: L'Harmattan.

Cogez, G. (2014). Partir pour écrire. Figures du voyage. Paris: Champion.

 Mazauric, C. (2012). Mobilités d’Afrique en Europe. Récits et figures de l’aventure. Paris: Karthala.

Racault, J.-M. (2017). Robinson & compagnie. Aspects de l'insularité politique de Thomas More à Michel Tournier. Paris: Pétra.

Requemora-Gros, S. (2017) (Dir.). Voyages, échanges, rencontres au XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Narr Biblio17. Thouroude, G. (2017). La Pluralité des mondes. Le récit de voyage de 1945 à nos jours. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris Sorbonne.

Tverdo, J. (1994) (Dir.). Ecrire le voyage, actes du colloque organisé par le centre interuniversitaire d’études hongroises. Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.