FJ0B027 Modern and Contemporary French poetry

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 G12, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
FJ1A002 Practical French II
Knowledge of French at level B2 (CEFRL).
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course has three main objectives:
1. The first objective of this course is to take a (brief) look at contemporary French literature. We'll try to understand what this literature says, what it suggests about the world, history and the desires that run through it. In particular, I'll be drawing on Bruno Blanckeman's analysis in Les Fictions singulières (see bibliography).
2) Then, on a theoretical level, we will return to certain categories of analysis of poetry or certain poetic genres through the works studied.

Our analysis will be twofold. On the one hand, we will place the texts on the program in their authors' respective works. On the other, we will analyze the devices specific to these texts, in an attempt to understand the interrogations they echo. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- Identify and summarize the important features of poetics of the authors of the analyzed corpus. ;
- write an essay (dissertation) defining the basic aesthetic principles of the creation of these authors based on the analysis of the works of the 'compulsory reading';
- critically evaluate and analyze one selected work in a seminar paper.
Syllabus
  • I) Contemporary literature: a historical perspective.
  • II) Theory and methodology.
  • III) Analysis of works.
  • IV) Conclusion and evaluation.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Anthologie de la littérature contemporaine française : romans et récits depuis 1980. Edited by Dominique Viart. Paris: Armand Colin, 2013, 291 s. ISBN 9782200287238. info
  • JOUBERT, Jean-Louis. La poésie. 4e éd. Paris: Armand Colin, 2010, 223 s. ISBN 2200254599. info
  • VIART, Dominique and Bruno VERCIER. La littérature française au présent : héritage, modernité, mutations. Edited by Franck Évrard. Paris: Bordas, 2005, 511 s. ISBN 2047299524. info
  • JOUBERT, Jean-Louis. Genres et formes de la poésie. Paris: Armand Colin, 2003, 256 s. ISBN 2200261942. info
    not specified
  • poésie
  • Anthologie de la poésie française du XXe siècle : de Paul Claudel à René Char. Edited by Claude Roy - Michel Décaudin. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1996, 486 s. ISBN 2070322319. info
  • Poésie et altérité : actes du colloque de juin 1988 : les quatriemes Rencontres sur la poésie moderne. Edited by Michel Collot - Jean-Claude Mathieu. Paris: Presses de l'École normale supérieure, 1990, 153 s. ISBN 2728801606. info
  • Poésie et altérité :actes du colloque de juin 1988 : les quatriemes Rencontres sur la poésie moderne. Edited by Michel Collot - Jean-Claude Mathieu. Paris: Presses de l'École normale supérieure, 1990, 153 s. ISBN 2-7288-0160-6. info
  • Anthologie de la poésie française : les poètes et les oeuvres, les mouvements et les écoles. Edited by Jean Orizet - Serge Baudiffier - Jean-Marc Debenedetti. Paris: Larousse, 1988, 639 stran. ISBN 2035080320. info
Teaching methods
Lecture and seminar. In the seminar, students are supposed to have read the books on the list of compulsory readings and prepared for discussion the extracts in study materials. Paper.
Assessment methods
The credits will be assigned under these conditions:
- 1 fiche de lecture
- 1 paper (in oral or written form)
Language of instruction
French
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
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