FF:FJ0B639 French Novel and Modernity - Course Information

FJ0B639 Contemporary French Novel and Modernity

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Petr Vurm, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 12:30–14:05 zruseno C21

Prerequisites (in Czech)

FJIA017 French Literature II && FJIA018 Theory of Literature

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• French Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• French Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)

Course objectives

So obvious and widespread that it is the concept of postmodernism is far from universally be interpreted. It is also far from being revealed as a useful way to review literature from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century. However, explained Jean-François Lyotard as "rewriting modernity" and has the appearance of a medical history of modernity, it proves sufficiently operative when called to account for several trends in contemporary narrative literature. In its first part, the this lecture will attempt to make a historical perspective of the phenomenon and to identify the various aspects of it in the different areas she has achieved, eventually leading to a general definition reflecting both the philosophical and social and historical part of the culture and literature side. A seminar that will try to identify the phenomena previously described in the works of modernist and postmodernist.

Syllabus

• - 1ere séance : o Introduction ; Le moderne ; La modernité et le modernisme ; La modernité du point de vue de la conscience esthétique historique - 2e séance : o La modernité apres Baudelaire ; La modernité socio-historique ; La crise du modernisme comme celle des avant-gardes ; Critiques de la modernité et du modernisme. - 3e cours : o Modernisme et littérature - le roman comme recherche ; L'autoreprésentation comme l'un des projets supręmes du modernisme littéraire français - 4e cours : o Le postmoderne ; L'apparition de la notion ; Genese de la notion - une mise en perspective historique ; Une notion internationale ? L'acception du terme en Amérique et en France ; Questions dordre lexical ; - 5e cours : o Le postmoderne, la postmodernité et le postmodernisme ; Le postmoderne comme symptôme de crise ; La postmodernité et la fin de l'histoire ; la post-historicité - 6e cours : o Les notions qui reviennent ; Le postmodernisme et le déclin des avant-gardes ; Les dernieres avant-gardes littéraires - 7e cours : o Le postmoderne et la fin de la modernité et du modernisme ; Les néo-conservateurs et les néo-modernes ; Le postmoderne comme modernité relue - 8e cours : o Les modernistes I : Gide, Valéry, Roussel, Des Foręts - 9e cours : o Les modernistes II : Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Ricardou, Sollers - 10e cours : o Les postmodernistes I : Echenoz, Toussaint, Deville - 11e cours : o Les postmodernistes II : Redonnet, Rouaud, Robbe-Grillet (III) - 12e cours : o Les postmodernistes III : Barthes, Butor, Ben Jelloun, Chamoiseau

Literature

recommended literature
• DYTRT, Petr. Antologie textů k francouzské literatuře 1. pol. 20. století (Anthology of 20th Century French literature I). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 207 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7057-8. Digitální knihovna FF MU info

Teaching methods

Lecture and seminar

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Zkouška - ústní referát a esej

Language of instruction

French

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught only once.

Information about innovation of course.

This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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