Histoire de la littérature française

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023274ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st and 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
90 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course is an introduction to the history of French Literature.

This course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of the French literary periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, its most important writers and literary movements. It will highlight the continuities but also ruptures in literary production and the originality or conformism of each author in relation to his or her period. Special attention will be paid to contextualization (intertextual, historical, biographical).

The students will be asked to read the texts (extracts from an anthology of texts) before each class and to prepare the theory in the manual (Xavier Darcos, Histoire de la littérature française, Paris, Hachette, 2019). During class, there will be room for textual analysis, interaction and discussion. In addition to the anthology of texts, students are also asked to read 4 novels.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Histoire de la littérature française, Xavier Darcos, Hachette (Paris), 2019

Additional info

This course is taught in French.

The anthology of French literature and the list of 4 novels will be provided at the start of the academic year.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students are able to recognize, identify and explain the specificity of an author or a literary movement.

The students are able to situate the most important events of the French literary history.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 40% of the final mark.

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

Schriftelijk examen with a relative weight of 60 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

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

Permanente evaluatie with a relative weight of 40 which comprises 40% 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