French literature 1 LM. Forms, genres, and critical approaches (2016/2017)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to present the French literature from the 16th to the 21st century and particularly through the myth of Medea, which will be studied in its evolution from the ancient times until contemporary French literature. Moreover, the professor intends to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools for the literary and linguistic analysis of the proposed texts. The lessons will be held in French, with the purpose of improving the students’ linguistic level as well.

Médée, midi, médecine, méditer : variations sur un mythe


Texts

J. BASTIER DE LA PERUSE, Médée, in La Tragédie à l’époque d’Henri II et de Charles IX, éd. M. Dassonville, Firenze, Olschki, “Théâtre français de la Renaissance”, vol. I, 1989, pp. 119-173

CORNEILLE, Médée, Paris, Flammarion, Coll. “Etonnants classiques”, 2014

Jean ANOUILH, Médée, Paris, Flammarion, Coll. “Etonnants classiques”, 2014

Pascal QUIGNARD, Médée, Bordeaux, Ritournelle, 2011



Critical Texts

M. BUSCA, Autour de deux sources de la Médée de La Péruse: Ovide et George Buchanan traducteur d’Euripide, in La tragédie et son modèle à l’époque de la Renaissance entre France, Italie et Espagne, Torino, “Biblioteca di Studi Francesi”, 2015, pp. 47-89

M. G. CIANI, Medea: variazioni sul mito, Venezia, Marsilio, 1991

N. DOIRON, La vengeance d'une déesse. La Médée de Pierre Corneille, “Poétique”, 3/2012, no 171, pp. 321-336

Stefano GENETTI, Méditer Médée, in Pascal Quignard, translations et métamorphoses, sous la direction de Mireille Calle-Gruber, Jonathan Degenève et Irène Fenoglio, Paris, Hermann, 2015, pp. 435-447

Chantal LAPEYRE-DESMAISON, Éclats de Médée, in “Contemporary French and Francophone Studies”, vol. 18, 3, May 2014, pp. 266-272
(articolo on line al link: http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Lapeyre-Desmaison%2C+Chantal)

C. RAMBAUX, Le mythe de Médée d'Euripide à Anouilh ou l'originalité psychologique de la Médée de Sénèque, “Latomus”, t. 31, Fasc. 4, 1972, pp. 1010-1036

François JOUAN, La Figure de Médée chez Euripide, Sénèque et Corneille, “Cahiers du Groupe interdisciplinaire du théâtre antique”, 1986, no 2, p. 1-17

Magia, gelosia, vendetta. Il Mito di Medea nelle lettere francesi, Milano, Cisalpino, 2006

Oral exam, in French, based on the texts analysed during the course.

STUDENT MODULE EVALUATION - 2016/2017