Analysis of literary Representation

lrom2730  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

Analysis of literary Representation
5.00 credits
22.5 h
Q2

  This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2024-2025 !

Language
French
Prerequisites
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Main themes
The aim of this course is to help the student acquire a scholarly method to analyze literary texts (semiotics), and to situate its forms and figures in their historical and cultural context
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the specificity of literary representations (verbal images, figures and forms).
 
Content
This class will study how authors' imaginaries are inserted into and make the material of literary textuality revolving around a thematic (in 2019, Imaginary of transportation, in 2021, Imaginary of library, f.i.). Students will learn to study the structure of the forms and figures that are active in various literary texts, through narratological and semiological approaches. We will address the following issues: intertextual sources (literary, mythological, etc.), and other sources (artistic, religious, anthropological...), as well as the impact of their particular context (geographic, historical, social, psychological...). It will also deal with the reception of works, understood as the encounter of two imaginaries (the author's and the reader's) within the text. Each year, two books are analysed in details in the classroom and a list of approx. 10 books is suggested for reading - excerpts are read in classroom.
Teaching methods
The course is accompanied by PowerPoint presentations. The information is also on iCampus.
Evaluation methods
Oral examination (unless students are too many: in this case, written examination)
Other information
The corpus for study comes from contemporary French literature (19th century to the present day).
Bibliography
La bibliographie est déterminée chaque année en fonction de la problématique choisie. Elle se trouve sur icampus.
Teaching materials
  • 2 livres de poche à acheter + syllabus fourni
Faculty or entity


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

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Certificat universitaire en littérature

Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language

Master [60] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General

Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures

Master [60] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General

Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English

Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General

Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General