Introduction à l'analyse littéraire

3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023801ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Enrolling for this course means that you simultaneously take 'Pratique du français I' or have successfully passed ‘Pratique du français I’. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

French

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Tatiana Pieters
Sara Buekens (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

1. Students will learn strategies for developing textual commentaries and close reading analysis in analytical and synthetical ways (read vs. understand, make a written summary, take precise notes on literary images, wordplay, motifs, style, narratological features, intertextuality etc.).

2. The course will teach students the key concepts of rhetoric, narratology and stylistics applied to examples from 19th, 20th and 21st century French literature: time, space, characters, focalization, context, intertextuality, register, connotations, semantic networks, figures of speech (e.g. metaphor, metonymy, personification, allegory, hyperbole, oxymoron…), syntactic organization (verb tenses, sentence types, versification, enunciation), rhythm, irony, orality.

3. Countering the traditional progression from context to text, students will learn to recognize and explain the specificities of literary genre (French novel, theater and poetry) through certain defining characteristics (length, fiction, narration, prose, verse) both in examples seen in the course and in new, unread extracts. They learn to link narratological, rhetorical and stylistic characteristics and strategies to the ethical point of view of the writer (pragmatic vs. poetic issues) and to the cultural, political and social context of the literary work.

Course material

Course text (Required) : Een geprinte syllabus die een synthese biedt van het hoorcollege.

Additional info

This course is taught in French.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students can apply the key concepts of rhetoric, narratology and stylistics to examples from 19th, 20th and 21st century French literature in textual commentaries and close reading analysis. Students are able learn to recognize and explain the specificities of literary genre (French novel, theater and poetry) through certain defining characteristics (length, fiction, narration, prose, verse) both in examples seen in the course and in new, unread extracts. Students are able to link narratological, rhetorical and stylistic characteristics and strategies to the ethical point of view of the writer (pragmatic vs. poetic issues) and to the cultural, political and social context of the literary work.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Schriftelijk examen with a relative weight of 4 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context