Duration
60h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : general | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Hélène Miesse, N...
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
If a student fails an examination during the first term:
- They are permitted to resit the assessed subject during the second term (May-June);
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course aims to provide students with the fundamental disciplinary skills required for the analysis of early Italian literary texts. The corpus will consist of poetic texts dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. These texts will be situated within their historical and cultural contexts. Stylistics, rhetoric, metrics, and literary history will be employed to contextualise the texts, describe their formal characteristics, and subsequently interpret their meaning and significance.
Particular attention will be devoted to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, which will be analysed both in its own right and in relation to various subsequent adaptations and reinterpretations (translations, iconography, adaptations).
The course will comprise lectures, guided discussions, debates, small-group work, and oral presentations. Students will be invited to examine the texts in order to describe them, identify their formal effects and meaning, and situate them within their historical and geographical contexts.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, students will have acquired the skills required to analyse early Italian literary texts, combining historical contextualisation with close textual analysis. They will be able to apply the methodology acquired during the course to other Italian texts comparable to those examined in class. They will have mastered the relevant terminology in both Italian and French.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No prerequisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught in French but makes use of Italian terminology. Texts will be provided in the original language and in translation.
The course will combine lectures and interactive sessions, delivered by the course coordinator and the language instructor. Students are expected to read and prepare in advance the material that will be discussed during the course.
Cultural activities (meetings, screenings, performances, lectures, etc.) will also be organised. Further organisational details will be communicated to students in due course.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
A+.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
The texts to be analysed and other course materials will be made progressively available to students via the eCampus platform.
Compulsory reading:
Dante, Divine Comedy (extracts), trans. Gérard Luciani, Paris, Gallimard (Folio bilingue), 2007, 336 pp.
Reference works:
Anthologie bilingue de la poésie italienne, Paris, Gallimard (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), 1994.
Bertrand, J.-P. and Demoulin, L., Qu'est-ce qu'un texte poétique ? Introduction théorique et anthologie, Liège, Université de Liège, 2002.
Bologna, C., Rocchi, P. and Rossi, G., Letteratura visione del mondo. Dalle origini alla controriforma. Edizione rossa, Turin, Loescher, 2021.
Casadei, A. and Santagata, M., Manuale di letteratura medievale e moderna, Bari, Laterza, 2007.
Groupe µ, Rhétorique générale, Paris, Seuil, 1982.
Lavezzi, G., Breve dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Rome, Carocci, 2017.
Menichetti, A., Prima lezione di metrica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Further information:
Exam(s) in session
Written examination in January, June, and August.
The January mid-term assessment counts for 20 per cent of the final mark if the mark achieved is 10/20 or higher.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Wednesdays, 12:00-14:00
Room A2 4/9
Contacts
Enseignant.e.s responsables :
Hélène Miesse et Letizia Imola
Helene.miesse@uliege.be
Letizia.imola@uliege.be