LROM0145-1

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

	Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (120 ECTS)	5 crédits

Lecturer

Benoît Denis

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

During the academic year 2014-2015, the course will have for subject «literary History and historicity of the text. Flaubert's Salammbô».
The course will ask the classic philological question : in what measure the sense of a past text is approachable to us ? The course will examine the main positions of the modern hermeneutics, before envisaging the contribution of the discipline of the literary history to the debate. We shall insist in particular on the concepts of «horizon of expectation» and of «space of the possibles». This whole theoretical reflection will then be implemented on a concrete case : Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô, whose reading is compulsory.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of this course, the student will be able:

To master and to use the theoretical concepts seen in the course;
To implement a detailed historicized reading of a literary text;
To operate the research procedures (bibliography, critical readings, etc.) necessary to reach the previous objective.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is organized as a seminar and requires the active participation of the students.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

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Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation will consist in an individual written work, on a subject to be chosen among a list.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks