Classic French Literature

Code:

LLC085

Acronym:

LFC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	French Literature

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	5	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Português

Objectives

Introduction to Classical French Literature, discussing authors, works and themes that may contribute to the identification of its dynamics.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the teaching of this curricular unit, the students are expected to have acquired reading keys for an approach to classical French literature.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Classical French Literature: spatiotemporal limits of the designation
   
   
   
   • Concepts in definition: Classic, Classicism, Modern Age, Renaissance, Baroque, French Classicism, Quarrel of the Ancient and Modern, Lights, Illuminism, Pre-Romanticism.
   
   
   • Basic periodological texts of Du Bellay, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Boileau, Fontenelle, Rivarol, Perrault. 
   
   
   
   


2. Pedagogy and utopia in Rabelais


3. Essais, Michel de Montaigne (critical reading of selected texts)


4. La Princesse de Clèves
   
   
   
   • Authorship issues
   
   
   • Contributions to the formation of the modern novel
   
   
   
   


5. Revisiting a classic: Juan, Molière


6. Les aventures de Télémaque(1699), Fénelon: the 'pedagogy' of travel.
   
   
   
   • Politics and classical heritage.
   
   
   
   

Mandatory literature

Compagnon, Antoine; Um Verão com Montaigne, trad. João Goulão, Lisboa, Gradiva, 2016
Demerson, Guy; Rabelais, 1991
Fénelon; Les Aventures de Télémaque (ed. de Jacques Le Brun), Gallimard, 1995
Gevrey, Françoise; « Lectures à clés de La Princesse de Clèves au XVIIIe siècle », Littératures classiques, (N° 54), p. 191-203, 2004
Lazard, Madeleine; Rabelais l'humaniste, 1993
Marin, Louis ; L'Ecriture du soi: Ignace de Loyola, Montaigne, Stendhal, Roland Barthes, PUF, 1999
Perrin Francis; Molière chef de troupe, Plon, 2007
Scherer Jacques; La Dramaturgie Classique en France, Nizet, 1973
Vachon, G. A.; Rabelais tel quel, 1977

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, seminars and tutorials.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Trabalho de investigação	62,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of all assessment components (mini-tests and tasks to be indicated by teachers).