University of Liege | Version française
Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
LROM0013-2  In-depth history of 19 to 21C French literature

Duration :  45h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 3rd year5
Bachelor in Information and Communication, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures, German, Dutch and English, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, General, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History, 2nd year5
Bachelor in modern languages and literatures, general orientation, 2nd year5
Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, Musicology, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 2nd year5
Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 3rd year5
Bachelor in philosophy, 2nd year5
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 2nd year5
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 3rd year4
Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 3rd year4
One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Linguistics4
Lecturer :  Benoît Denis
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the second semester
Course contents :  
This year, the course will explore the theme « The French novel and the History : From the victory of 1918 to the defeat of 1940. Drieu La Rochelle, Aragon, Malraux et Sartre ». It will aim at studying, in the novelistic production of these four major writers of the XXth century, the way the fictional narratives have dealed with the contemporary history. This interrogation will be historic and political as well as aesthetics, answering a double question : what the novel has to say about this historic moment and which are the formal means that it used to make it ? A list of readings will be supplied in the beginning of the course.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The objective of the course is to confront the history of the French novel (and more precisely the history of the French novelistic aesthetics) and the political and social history of the second half of the XXth century. At the end of this course, the student will be able to think of the relationships between the change in literature and the sociopolitical transformations. At the end of the course, the student will also be able to operate a «historicisante» reading of the texts.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
None
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 :  
The students will have has to take note of the course. A list of compulsory readings will be supplied at the beginning of the academic year.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
The evaluation will consist of an oral examination, which will concern either the commentary of texts, or an explanation of a general problem of the course.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
The course, the readings and the examination are exclusively done in French.
Contacts :  
ben.denis@ulg.ac.be



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