Questions of Literary History

lrom2720  2017-2018  Louvain-la-Neuve

Questions of Literary History
5 credits
22.5 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Zanone Damien;
Language
French
Prerequisites
/
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 :

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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
Students will be asked to present an oral exam at the end of the semester.
Online resources
MoodleUCL
Bibliography
Corpus d'étude principal :
' Balzac, Honoré de, Modeste Mignon, éd. A.-M. Meininger, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 1982 [1844].
' Stendhal, Lamiel, éd. A.-M. Meininger, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio », 1983 [1839-1841 pour la rédaction ; 1889 pour la première publication].
' Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, éd. Jacques Neefs, Paris, Le Livre de Poche « classique », 1999 [1857].
NB : D'autres ouvrages ou extraits d'ouvrage seront diffusés sur Moodle.
Faculty or entity
ROM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
ROM2M
5
Master [120] in History
HIST2M
5
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language
FLE2M
5
Master [60] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
LAFR2M1
5
LITT9CE
5
Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
LAFR2M
5
Master [60] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
ROM2M1
5
Master [120] in Translation
TRAD2M
5
Advanced Master in Gender Studies
GENR2MC
5