Selected Chapters of French Literature I.
- Credits: 4
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
• Acquisition of knowledge about the main development lines in the history of French literature, about their most important representatives and their works. The course is primarily focused on acquiring knowledge in the field of development of French literature and its most important periods. In addition to gaining knowledge of the history of French literature, students will also acquire generally applicable knowledge, broaden their cultural horizon and understand the connections between socio-historical and literary phenomena and events. Based on gaining an overview of individual periods and specific literary works, students will develop personal attitudes to events and their reflections in literature. The given knowledge is also applicable in related subjects and fields of study.
Competencies:
• deepening critical thinking by reading and analyzing specific literary texts;
• understanding of basic terminology in the field of literary theory and its correct use in the analysis of literary works;
• competence to characterize individual literary directions, currents and schools and to abstract these characteristics from a specific literary text;
• competence in the field of linguistic analysis of a text on the basis of knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the period.
Skills:
• skill in the application of literary text analysis procedures - determination of the external and internal structure of the text, type of narrator, classification and characterization of characters, literary space, etc.;
• ability to analyze and express a critical opinion on representative works of selected authors of individual literary directions;
• the ability to assign a literary text to a specific literary period, current or school;
• skill in the intercultural approach to literature - the influence of world literatures on French literature and vice versa.
Indicative content
- French medieval literature
- French literature of the Renaissance and Humanism
- The Baroque period and the formation of classicism in French literature
- The pinnacle of French classicist literature – theater
- French literature of the Enlightenment
- Development of the novel in the 17th and 18th centuries
Support literature
Required:
1. BIÉTRY, Roland. Précis d’histoire de la littérature française. Volume I – Moyen-Âge, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Lausanne: Loisirs et Pédagogie, 2005. 173 pp. ISBN 978-2-6060-1055-3.
2. BRIX, Michel. Histoire de la littérature française. Voyage guidé dans les lettres du XIe au XXe siècle. Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck Supérieur, 2014. 376 pp. ISBN 978-2-8041-8930-3.
3. DARCOS, Xavier. Histoire de la littérature française. 2e édition. Paris: Hachette, 2019. 573 pp. ISBN 978-2-01-708263-7.
4. DUBOILE, Christophe. Précis d’histoire de la littérature française. Modèles et poétiques littéraires. Paris: Ellipses, 2012. 288 pp. ISBN 978-2-7298-7140-6.
5. VALETTE, Bernard. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Ellipses, 2014. 358 pp. ISBN 978-2-7298-8479-6.
Optional:
1. BRIX, Michel. Du classicisme au réalisme. Une histoire de la littérature française (XVIIe-XXIe siècles). Paris: Kimé, 2021. 337 pp. ISBN 978-2-38072-025-9.
2. D’ORMESSON, Jean. Une autre histoire de la littérature française. Tome I. Paris: Pocket, 2021. 320 pp. ISBN 978-2-266-31197-7.
3. DIDIER, Béatrice. Histoire de la littérature française du XVIIIe siècle. 2e édition. Rennes: PU de Rennes, 2003. 417 pp. ISBN 978-2-8684-7847-4.
4. GASTON-SLOAN, Delphine. Littérature française minute. 200 œuvres, auteurs et courants qui ont marqué l’histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Éditions Contre-Dires, 2018. 416 pp. ISBN 978-2-84933-477-5.
5. VASSEVIÈRE, Jacques – TOURSEL, Nadine. Littérature : 150 textes théoriques et critiques. 4e édition. Paris: Armand Colin, 2015. 542 pp. ISBN 978-2-200-60133-1.
6. VASSEVIÈRE, Jacques et al. Manuel d’analyse des textes. Histoire littéraire et poétique des genres. 2e édition. Paris: Armand Colin, 2018. 269 pp. ISBN 978-2-200-61995-4.
7. VIALA, Alain. Le Moyen-Âge et la Renaissance. Une histoire brève de la littérature française. Paris: PUF, 2014. 370 pp. ISBN 978-2-13-062830-9.
Requirements to complete the course
Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%
Student workload
Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
French
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 03.05.2022