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LITT0005-1

Comparative literature B: from the 19th to the 21st century

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Duration :30h Th
Credits/ECTS :
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in ancient languages and literatures, classical orientation3
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in information and communication4
2nd year of a Bachelor's degree in modern languages and literatures, germanic orientation4
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in history of art and archeology, general orientation3
3rd year of a Bachelor's degree in history4
2nd year of a Bachelor's degree in modern languages and literatures, general orientation4
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in history of art and archeology, musicology orientation3
2nd year of Bachelor's degree in philosophy4
1st year of a Bachelor's degree in Romance languages and literatures3
required preliminary complement to register in the "licence" in Germanic languages and literatures3
Année préparatoire au master en Sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication4
Holder(s) :Marc Delrez, Christine Pagnoulle
Course contents : The course bears on three literary movements and moments in the development of European literatures: romanticism (end of the 18th and first half of the 19th century), modernism (end of the 19th and first half of the 20th C, and postcolonialism (after 1960).
Course objective : (1) Provide students with a survey of literatures written in European languages in the 19th and 20th centuries) ,
(2) highlight connections between various art forms, and between historical context and literary / artistic productions,
(3) promote reading habits (students have to read at least two books, see below),
(4) point to the role of translators.
Prerequisites : None.
Organization : The course is taught in the second part of the year, on Fridays from 4 to 6.
Salle Gothot (first floor, place du 20-Août).
Written notes : Reference texts and a syllabus will be on sale at Flash-copy (a copy shop rue Charles magnette) in the second half of January.
Reading some theory is obviously commendable, but in view of the amount of work students have to cope with we hardly insist. (Here are some titles just in case: Pierre Brunel, Claude Pichois et André-Michel Rousseau, Qu'est-ce que la Littérature Comparée ?, Armand Colin ; Eric Hobsbawm, L'ère des Révolutions 1789 - 1848, tr. Jean Chevalier, Complexe ; Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Macmillan.)
What is however compulsory is that the students should read one literary work for two of the three movements we look at.
(Romanticism)
  • Goethe, Les souffrances du jeunes Werther
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  • George Sand, La petite Fadette
(Modernism)

  • Franz Kafka, Le procès - 1922 (trad. André Vialatte, Gallimard Folio; ou Bernard Lortholary, Garnier-Flammarion)
  • Italo Svevo, La conscience de Zeno - 1923 (trad. Paul-Henri Michel, Livre de poche, 1999)
  • Virginia Woolf, La promenade au phare - 1927 (trad. M. Lanoire, LGF; Biblio Romans) ou Vers le phare (trad. Françoise Pellan, Gallimard Folio).
(Postcolonialism)

  • David Malouf, Dernières conversations dans la nuit (trad. Robert Pépin, LDP)
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cent ans de solitude
  • Salman Rushdie, Les enfants de minuit
Assessment : An MCQ on the content of the taught course and open questions on the books the students have read.
Contacts : Marc DELREZ
04 366 54 60 - fax 04 366 57 21
Marc.Delrez@ulg.ac.be

Christine PAGNOULLE
04 366 54 38 - fax 04 366 57 21
cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be
Remarks : The course is taught in French. Students whose mother tongue is not French can read in whatever language they choose, but have to take the examination in French.
Colleagues with specific expertise are called upon for presentation in their fields.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 18/05/2007
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