Littérature française et Intermédialité

3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1024356BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced 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

Students must have taken ‘Littérature française: entre urbanité et nature’, before they can enroll in this course. Enrolling for this course, means that you simultaneously take 'Literature and intermediality' or have successfully passed it. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

Dutch

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
100 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course focuses on the relationship between French literature and other arts and media from an intermedia perspective. Literature itself will also be conceived as a form of mediation: as a material and symbolic environment. The aim of the course is to hone the students’ critical skills with regard to hybrid literary forms, to provide them with the analytical tools needed to understand and examine a considerable proportion of ancient and contemporary literature characterized by intermedia or cross-media practices, and to help them develop a critical reflection on the impact of new media on the evolution of contemporary literary practices and on the extension of the notions of the “author” and the “reader” and of the field of “literature” itself.

Course material

Course text (Required) : powerpoint presentation + literary texts: chapters/extracts

Additional info

This course is taught in French.

Guidelines for the paper will be provided at the start of the academic year.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students can distinguish and illustrate several forms of intermediality and intermedial practices, by applying the theoretical framework to examples from French literature.

Students are able to describe and illustrate the role of intermediality in major French literary movements of the end of the 19th century and the 20th century: by identifying the various media encountered in/interacting with the text; 2) by analyzing the impact of these media on the construction and aesthetics of the text; 3) by analyzing the meanings attached to the presence of different media.

Grading

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

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

Mondeling examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: De docent houdt op het examen rekening met de taalkennis, overeenstemmend met het taalverwervingsniveau dat verwacht wordt verworven te zijn, en sanctioneert fouten wanneer deze zich voordoen. Het verwachte taalkennisniveau, en het daaraan gekoppelde aantal en type van aanvaardbare taalfouten, varieert uiteraard naargelang het studiejaar.

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