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Study programmes 2012-2013Last update : 18/06/2013
LROM0133-1  Questions on history of 19 to 21C French literature

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Second Language, Professional Focus, 1st year3,5
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General, Research Focus, 1st year3,5
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, General orientation, Teaching Focus , 1st year3,5
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in French as a Second Language (réforme du master PMFRAN), 1st year3,5
Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General3,5
Lecturer :  Benoît Denis
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
The course will concern the following theme: «writing and revolution in the XXth century. Around Jean Paulhan's Fleurs de Tarbes». The close reading of this famous and complex essay will give the opportunity of redrawing the French debate on the nature and the function of the literary language, and more exactly, on the impact of the aesthetic break lauded by the avant-gardes. In this route, will be envisaged authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault or Julia Kristeva.
The reading of Jean Paulhan's work is compulsory. A additional list of readings will be supplied at the beginning of the course.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
At the end of this course, the student will be able :
  • To make understandable a complex literary text by refering it to the history of the literature in which it takes place.
  • To restore the terms and to seize the stakes of the French debate on the nature of the literary language.
  • To analyze texts which belong to the genre of the literary essay.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Recommended or required readings :  
A list of readings will be given at the beginning of the course.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Oral examination, consisting in commentary and close reading of texts from the course.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
The course, the readings and the examination are exclusively in French.
Contacts :  
ben.denis@ulg.ac.be


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