French Literature of the Eighteenth Century - 2nd semester
Code
711111052
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Teresa Almeida
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Identify the characteristic features of the French Enlightenment through reading some of its most representative texts;
b) To be aware of the most used genre in the 18th Century: The novel;
c) Learning to assess the differences between the works studied;
d) Recognize the distance between an autobiographical narrative and a fictional narrative:
e) Being able to organize a bibliography in the field of studies on the eighteenth century, in carrying out a critical reading of one of the works on the programme.
Prerequisites
Intermediate level of French (A2.2.)
Subject matter
Literature and Ideology: the French Enlightenment
I. Context
1. The ´Encyclopédie´ project of D´Alembert and Diderot
2. The new forms of literary sociability: the academies, salons and cafés
3. The world of publishing and reading
4. Women´s access to the literary institution
5. The concept of the male and the female author.
II. Forms and literary genres
1. The theater:´ L´Île des esclaves´ Marivaux
1.First person narrative: ´Manon Lescaut´ by Prévost and the definition of ´Sensibility´
3. The philosophical tale: Candide by Voltaire
4. The rhetoric of the letter and the epistolary novel: ´Lettres d´une péruvienne´ by Françoise de Graffigny (extracts); ´La Nouvelle Héloïse´ by Rousseau (extracts) and ´Les Liaisons dangereuses´ by Laclos
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Autobiographical temptation or the story of an impossibility.
Bibliography
Burgwinkle, W, Hammond, N. & Wilson, E. (Eds) (2011). The Cambridge History of French Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 350-411.
Chartier, R. (1996). Culture écrite et société: l´ordre des livres. XIVe-XVIIIe . Paris : A. Michel.
Darnton, R. (2002). Pour les Lumières défense, illustration, méthode (2002). Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux.
DeJean, J. (1991).Tender Geographies. New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press, p. 94-126.
Delon, M. (2007). «XVIIIe siècle» in TADIÉ, Jean-Yves (dir.), La littérature française: dynamique & histoire II. Paris : Gallimard, p. 9-294.
Goulemot, J.-M. (2005). La Littérature des Lumières. Paris : A. Colin.
Hollier, D. (dir.) (1993). De la littérature française. Paris: Bordas, p. 394-399, 418-424, 433-439, 448-453, 510-521.
REID, M. (dir) (2011). Les femmes dans la critique et l´histoire littéraire. Paris: Honoré Champion, p. 75-83.
Teaching method
Lectures: 60%; Seminars: 40%.
Theoretical analysis on the different points of the programme. Close reading of texts with students. Tutorial guidance, with a view to preparing research work.
Evaluation method
2 tests - 60%; 1 assignment- 30%; Attendance and/or participation - 10%.
Worker-Students should contact the teacher in the first two weeks of classes in order to establish a work programme.