French Literature V

Code:

FLUP0726

Acronym:

LF5-1º

Instance: 2004/2005 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Modern Languages and Literature - Portuguese and English Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EFA	8	Official Study Plan - LEFA	4	2,5	5	-
EFI	21	Official Study Plan - LEFI	4	2,5	5	-

Objectives

Given the semester’s restricted duration, selections from the broad panorama of 16th- and 17th-century French literature are limited and necessarily introductory and disputable. The programme, through Rabelais, will seek to integrate the evolution of the narrative within the socio-political assumptions of Renaissance France that will, in time, lead to a flourishing production in drama. They are here put into perspective through the study of Corneille and Molière, based on a canonical renewal that has been explored in recent research in French Literature of the Grand Siècle. Therefore, these are the texts and thematic references that support them:

Program

1. François Rabelais, Gargantua: the thelemic apogee.
2. Pierre Corneille, L`Illusion Comique: reality and dreams mixed up.
3. Molière, Les Amants Magnifiques: the freedom to ‘aimer l`aimable’.

Main Bibliography

ABRAMOVICI Jean-Christophe, Obscénité et Classicisme, Paris, puf, 2003
BAKHTINE Mikhail, l`oeuvre de François Rabelais et la culture poplaire au moyen âge et sous la renaissance, Paris, Gallimard, 1970
BLOCH Olivier, Molière/Philosophie, Paris, Albin Michel, 2000
CONESA Gabriel, Pierre Corneille et la naissance du genre comique (1629-1636), Paris, Sedes, 1989
COUTON Georges, Richelieu et le théâtre, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1986
DANDREY Patrick, Les tréteaux de Saturne Scènes de la mélancolie à l`époque baroque, Paris, Klincksieck, 2003
DEFAUX Gérard, molière ou les métamorphoses du comique, Paris, Klincksieck, 1992
DEMERSON Guy, Rabelais, Paris, Fayard, 1991
DUBOIS Claude-Gilbert, L`Imaginaire de la Renaissance, Paris, puf, 1985
FORESTIER Georges, Corneille le sens d`une dramaturgie, Paris, sedes, 1998
FUMAROLI Marc, Héros et Orateurs, Paris, droz, 1996
GREEN Eugène, La parole baroque, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2001
JEANNERET Michel, Éros rebelle Littérature et dissidence à l`âge classique, Paris, Seuil, 2003
MONGRÉDIEN Georges, La Vie Quotidienne des Comédiens au temps de Molière, Paris, Hachette, 1966.
SPITZER Leo, études de style, Paris, gallimard, 1970.

Integral folio editions are recommended.

Complementary Bibliography

Other specific references will be indicated in the course of the semester, adjusting bibliographical references to the individual themes of each research, furthered as classes proceed.