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Courses: HLF

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY, lecture

During this course the following phenomena will be described: the chronology, the crisis of faith and the intellectual crisis, a new understanding of the role of a philosopher, of a writer and of the literature itself; new currents and new literary genres of prose and of theatrical plays; the profiles of some writers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Diderot); the characteristic of their literary works. 

Selected bibliography:  

monographies by Cassirer, by Guysdorf, by Erhard, by Proust, by Mauzi.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE XXth CENTURY, lecture

The lectures present the main evolutive tendencies in the  French literature of the XXth century (in poetry, in the novel and in the theatre) on their philosophic and aesthetic background:; they analyze as well in detail the works of the most famous authors and some aspects of the history of ideas.

 

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - RENAISSANCE, lecture

The lecture gives an introduction to literary and cultural problems in France of the  XVIth century. It aims to show the cultural and social basis of this period and the most famous literary works. Principal trends will be described (humanism, Neo-Platonism, petrarkism), as well as literary forms, poetry schools, and the actual state of the research on the subject. It will help to understand the works discussed during the classes and to prepare themselves to the examination in  Hstory of French literature of the XVIth century.

 

 

 

Selected bibliography:

Aulotte R. (dir.), 1991, Précis de littérature française du XVIe s., PUF.

Bideaux M., Tournon A., Moreau H., Histoire de la littérature française du XVIe siècle, Nathan,1991.

Lestringan F., Rieu J., Tarrête A., 2000, Littérature française du XVIesiècle, PUF, Paris.

Littérature française, Arthaud, ,1971, t.III, t.IV, t.V.

Ménager D., Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIe siècle., Bordas,1997.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - THE RENAISSANCE

        The class shall encourage the students to read selected texts of this period and to inteprete them. It consists in analyzing the texts together with the teacher, remebering the cultural and social context.     

   The programme will be the following:

  • The poetics of the Rhetoricians as appears in the recent studies;
  • Clément Marot;  
  • Erasm and Rabelais - the great challenge of education;
  • Marguerite de Navarre and her Heptaméron;
  • the text and the picture in the literature of Renaissance: Delie of Maurice Scève;
  • Pierre de Ronsard and the philosophical poetry: Hymns;
  • Michel de Montaigne and the New World - Essais: „Des Cannibales", „Des Coches".

Credit: activity, speech, composition.

Selected bibliography:

Aulotte R. (dir.), 1991, Précis de littérature française du XVIe s., PUF.

Cornette J., 1995, Chronique de la France moderne. Le XVIe siècle, SEDES, Paris.

Jouanna A., 1996, La France du XVIe siècle, PUF, Paris.

Lecoq A.-M., 1987, François Ier imaginaire. Symbolique et politique à l'aube de la Renaissance française, Macula, Paris.  

F. Lestringant, Rieu J., Tarrête A.,  2000, Littérature française du XVIesiècle, PUF, Paris,.

Ménager D., 1978, Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIesiècle., Bordas.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - THE SECOND HALF OF THE XXth CENTURY

A study of major literary phenomena of the 20th century (dadaism, surrealism, Theater of the Absurd, existentialism, Nouveau Roman...) and the most outstanding writers of the past century, such as G. Apollinaire, B. Cendrars, P. Valéry, A. Jarry, M. Proust, J.-P. Sartre, A. Camus, A. Robbe-Grillet, S. Beckett, E. Ionesco. Analysis of forms and themes of selected works will help to position them in the context of the entire literary output of the author, along with defining their position in the literary tradition. Students will be required to prepare short reports on aesthetic conceptions of particular writers (conceptions concerning creation, the role of language in the process of creating, relation of tradition and modernity, relations of literature with other arts…).

 

Credit (Ph. D.  Wiesław KROKER):  assiduity, activity, tests, composition.

Credit (Ph.D.  Marcin KLIK): active participation in class, short reports, test.

Bibliography for the classes of Ph. D. Wiesław Kroker: to be given during the classes.

 

Bibliography for the classes of Ph. D. M. Klik:

1. G. Apollinaire – Les colchiques, Le Pont Mirabeau, Zone, Les fenêtres, La jolie rousse, Lundi, rue Christine, La Colombe poignardée et le jet d’eau, Il pleut.

2. P.Valéry – Le Cimetière Marin, Les pas, Les grenades, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci, Monsieur Teste.

3. B. Cendrars – Pâques à New York, La prose du Transsibérien.

4. Les manifestes surréalistes d’A. Breton, poésie surréaliste (Breton, Desnos, Eluard, Aragon).

5. A. Jarry – Ubu roi.

6. S. Beckett, En attendant Godot,

7. E. Ionesco, La cantatrice chauve.

8. M. Proust – Du côté de chez Swann.

9. J.-P. Sartre – La Nausée.

10. A. Camus – L’Etranger.

11. A. Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie.

 

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - XIXth CENTURY, classes

The classes shall give the students an overview of the French literature of the XIXth century,  as well as present the techniques and the topics characteristic for the literary movements : the romantism, the realism, the naturalism, the symbolism.

Authors whose works shall be analyzed: Baudelaire, Gautier, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé Hugo, Musset, Vigny (poetry); Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo, Maupassant, Zola (prose); Maeterlinck (theatre).

Credit by Ph. D.  Joanna ŻUROWSKA: assiduity,speech, written homework.

Credit by Ph. D. Judyta ZBIERSKA-MOŚCICKA: assiduity,speech, tests, written homework.

1. Becker C., Lire le réalisme et le naturalisme, Paris, Dunod, 1993.

2. Bertrand J.-P. et all., Le roman célibataire d’«À rebours» à «Paludes», Paris, Corti, 1996.

3. Histoire de la France littéraire. Modernités XIXe-XXe siècle. Sous la direction de P. Berthier et de M. Jarrety, Paris, PUF, 2006.

4. Marchal B., Lire le symbolisme, Paris, Dunod, 1996

5. Marot P., Histoire de la littérature française du XIXe siècle, H. Champion, coll. Unichamp-Essentiel, Paris, 2001.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE XIXth CENTURY, lecture

The lectures present authors (poets, novelists, playwrights, philosophers, literary critics) and the literary phenomena which have marked all the century with their stamp.

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE: THE MIDDLE AGES, classes

TThe course shall be devoted to the poetics of  chansons de geste; to notions such as "courtesy" and matière de Bretagne  [the matters of Britain]; to the ideas of the chevaliers' adventure and "celestial chivalry"; to the female characters in medieval romances; to the motives and techniques of comic literature; to the birth of the theatre; and to main topics and forms which appear in lyrics. 

Analyzed texts:  

  • La Chanson de Roland;  
  • troubadours'  and trouvères' poetry  (selected texts);
  • Les Lais by  Marie de France;
  • Erec et Enide and  Le conte du Graal  by Chrétien de Troyes;
  • the  fabliaux (selected texts); 
  • La Farce de maistre Pathelin;
  • poetry by Charles d`Orléans;
  • Le Grand Testament  by François Villon

Credit: assiduity, speech, composition.

The credit for the classes is not necessary for the examination.

 

Bibliography - course books:

P.Y. Badel, Introduction à la vie littéraire du Moyen Age, Paris, 1969;

D.  Poirion, Précis de littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, 1983;

M. Zink, Introduction à la littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris, 1993

HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE: THE MIDDLE AGES, lecture

A panorama of the French literature from the end of the XIth to half the XVth century. The first lectures will be devoted to the main problems of the medieval civilisation, and the following will describe different literary genres of these times:  chansons de geste, lyric songs (troubadours and trouvères); the novel; the brief narrative forms; comic genres; theatre plays; allegoriec genres; lyrics of the XIVth and XVth centuries.

 

Selected classbooks:

Badel P.Y., 1969, Introduction à la vie littéraire du Moyen Age, Paris;

Poirion D., 1983 , Précis de littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris;

Zink M. , 1993, Introduction à la littérature française du Moyen Age, Paris.

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE XVIIth CENTURY, classes

The class presents the main problems appearing in the French literature of the XVIIth century. The students will analyse selected texts (poems, some plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, fragments of novels and of philosophical prose) and learn to work by themselves on a seventeenth-century text.

Credit: assiduity, test, composition.   

Selected bibliography: 

Moncond'huy D., 2005, Histoire de la littérature française du XVIIe siècle, Unichamp-Essentiel, Champion.

Tournand J.-C., 1997, Introduction à la vie littéraire du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Bordas, 1984, (Dunod, 3ème éd.).

Zuber R., Picciola L., Lopez D., Bury E. (1992), Littérature française dau XVIIe siècle, Paris, PUF, coll. Premier cycle. 

 



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