ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, French
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Classical, French and Italian Philology
Areas: French Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
General study of the French literature from the 19th century until nowadays.
The theoretical part deals with the study of the different movements of French literature from the 19th century.
The practical part consists of the analysis of the different French literary texts of the syllabus.
I. 19th Century
Historical introduction to the 19th century.
Part 1. Romanticism: Novels, poetry and theater.
General characteristics of Romanticism; the importance of feelings and of imagination, the relationship with nature, the “Mal du siècle”. Poetry. Romantic theatre. V. Hugo and the romantic drama.
Part 2. Balzac
Le père Goriot. Heroes and society. The novels of Balzac
Part 3. Parnasse, Baudelaire and modernity.
Parnasse. The search for formal perfection.
C. Baudelaire, the poet of modernity. Les fleurs du mal. «Correspondances », and the “synesthesies”. Spleen and the Ideal
Part 4. Realism and naturalism. G. Flaubert. Madame Bovary. G de Maupassant.
G. de Maupassant. The short story. The realistic technique and pessimism. Boule de Suif.
Part 5. Symbolism.
The use of symbols. The search of formal perfection. Recurring themes. Symbolism in poetry and theater. M. Maeterlinck. La mort de Tintagiles.
II. 20th century
Historical introduction to the 20th century.
Part 6. M. Proust.
A la recherche du temps perdu. Narrative technique, time, characters.
Part 7. Dadaism and Surrealism
Dadaism, the theories, manifestations and artistic realisations.
Surrealism. The theories and the writing techniques. The life of the group. Surrealistic poetry: the poets and their evolution
Part 8. Existentialism
Theories. Authors. A. Camus. La peste. The absurd and the humanism in A. Camus.
Part 9. The “Nouveau Roman”.
Characteristics of the “Nouveau Roman”. Authors and their work. Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute.
Part 10. Absurdism in theater
Main features of the absurd theater. S. Beckett, En attendant Godot.
Part 11. Theater and contemporary novels.
The contemporary theatre. B.-M. Koltès. Le retour au desert; Koltès´writing.
Contemporary novels, their main features and the main authors.
Mandatory Readings
1. V. HUGO. Ruy Blas
2. H.BALZAC, Le père Goriot
3. C.BAUDELAIRE, Les fleurs du mal
4. G.FLAUBERT, Madame Bovary
5. Poésies de A.RIMBAUD et S.MALLARMÉ
6. M. PROUST, Combray
7. A.CAMUS, L´étranger
8. M.YOURCENAR, Les mémoires d´Hadrien
9. S. BECKETT, En attendant Godot
10. B.-M. KOLTÈS, Combat de nègre et de chiens
11. J. POMMERAT, Cet enfant
12. P.MICHON, Les vies minuscules
Further mandatory readings will be assigned during class.
Histories of literature:
BANCQUART, M.C., CAHNÉ, P., Littérature française du XXe siècle, Paris: PUF.
BEAUMARCHAIS, J.P. de, et al., Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française, Paris: Bordas.
COUTY, D. (dir.), Histoire de la littérature française, Paris: Larousse.
LIGNY, C. de, La littérature française, Paris: Repères Nathan.
MICHEL, A., BECKER, C., BURY, M., BERTHIER, P., MILLET, D., Littérature française du XIXe siècle, Paris: PUF.
MITTERAND, H., (dir), Histoire de la littérature française, Paris: Nathan.
PRADO, J. de, Historia de la literatura francesa, 2 v., Madrid: Cátedra.
TADIÉ, J.Y., Introduction à la vie littéraire du XIXe siècle, Paris: Dunod.
Complementary bibliography:
BURY, M. (1994) La poétique de Maupassant, Paris: Sedes.
CASANOVA, P. (1997) Beckett l´abstracteur: anatomie d´une révolution littéraire, Paris: Seuil.
CROUZET M. (1981) Stendhal et le langage, Paris: Corti.
DELEUZE, G. (1964) Proust et les Signes, Paris, P.U.F., 1964.
MÉLANÇON, M., (1976) Albert Camus analyse de sa pensée, Fribourg, Editions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse.
NADEAU, M. (1964) Histoire du Surréalisme, Paris: Seuil.
PEYRE, H. (1974) Qu´est ce qu´est le symbolisme ? Paris: PUF.
RAYMOND, M. (1978) De Baudelaire au surréalisme, Paris: Corti.
TADIE, J.-Y., (1971) Proust et le roman, Paris, Ed. Gallimard, 1971.
UBERSFELD, A. (1974) Le roi et le bouffon, Etude sur le théâtre de Hugo de 1830 à 1839. Paris: Corti.
VAN THIEGEM, Ph. (1971) Le romantisme français, Paris: PUF.
Ability to recognize and characterize the literary movements and the most important authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Comprehension of the literary texts and their formal characteristics as regards their function and social space.
The teaching of this course will combine lecture and discussion of literary texts.
The grade will result from two tests, from two partial exams, both of which must be passed (at least 5/10). The first partial exam will correspond to the first part of the subject's program, the 19th century. The second sub-examination will correspond to the second part of the subject program, the 20th and 21st centuries. The second partial examination will correspond to the official final examination set by the University. In case of failure of the first partial examination, the student must take both parts on the date of the official final examination set by the university.
The student who suspends the first partial, or does not appear, will have to take the final exam that will suppose 100% of the grade.
In the June exam, 100% of the score will result from the written exam.
Those who are officially allowed to not attend classes may choose to take both partial exams or only the final exam: in the latter case, 100% of the grade will depend on the written test.
Two hours of personal work per each session hour.
Active participation in class and continued study.
Basic knowledge of French is required.
The class will be taught mainly in French.
In the case of having to move to "Scenario 2: distance" from the methodological point of view, the group would be divided if necessary and a mode of rotation would be sought in the practical classes or the student would move to classes of a telematic nature, in part or in whole; with regard to the form of evaluation, the final mark would result from an individual oral test of a telematic nature.
In the case of the "Scenario 3: closure of the facilities", classroom teaching would be replaced by virtual teaching; as regards the form of assessment, the final mark would be the result of an individual oral test of a telematic nature.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and the Revision of Grades shall apply
Manuel Garcia Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- French Philology
- Phone
- 881811836
- manuel.garcia.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Jennifer Nathalie Neveu
- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- French Philology
- Category
- Professor: Reader
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| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | D08 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | French | D08 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | French | C01 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | French | C01 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | C06 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C06 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | C06 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | C07 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C07 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | C07 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C08 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | C08 |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | C08 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | D10 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | D10 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D10 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (M-Z) | D11 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D11 |
| 06.07.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-L) | D11 |