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MODALITES DE CONTROLE
Première évaluation, contrôle continu
Lundi 10h15-12h15 D001 C. Duvey
- CIV 6G Between facts and Fiction : Travels and travel writing in the Early Modern and Modern Periods (17th-
18th centuries
This course aims to provide a général understanding of the évolution of a corpus of texts- that of travel narratives- which
constituted a most popular and respected genre in the 17th and 18th centuries. If Medieval travel narratives were often tapping
into mirabilia tradition, and Renaissance travel writing exposed new discoveries to an ever growing Reading public, the 17th and
18th centuries marked a new period in the history of travel and travel writing. Indeed, travels were more fréquent as commercial,
political and colonial relations expanded. The purposes of travel writing changed as well : not only was it to provide the relation
of entertaining adventures and curious discoveries but also it had to purvey reliable information to an educated readership.
Additionally, the appeal of the exotic gradually replaced that of the marvellous.
Thus, not only were previous narratives dismissed as fanciful, but also the benefits of intelligent forms of travelling highlighted,
and new methods set out to frame the practice of travelling and of travel writing. However, the frontier btweeen fact and fiction
remained, before the constitution of ethnography as an academic discipline in the 19th century, porous. Many instances of
staging and tale telling can be found in the travel narrative corpus while travels and travel writing pervaded novels of the time.
The purpose of this corpus is to investigate the methods of travelling and of travel writing, their évolutions throughout the period
and the relation of travel writing to other literary genres. This study will also offer an opportunity ti discuss the évolutions in the
perceptions of the world of foreign cultures, as reflected in thèse narratives.
MODALITES DE CONTRÔLE DES CONNAISSANCES
Contrôle continu :
- 1 written exam
- 1Oral Exam
Mardi 18h15-20h15 D001 C GAllien
E63AN3 Literature (26h CM + 26h TD) – 4 c
CM Formes et concepts littéraires
- Semaine 1-6 : Ce cours a pour objet d’introduire le genre de la nouvelle d’un point de vue historique et formel, de le situer
dans le contexte de l’œuvre de l’écrivain et dans son contexte éditorial afin de tenter de le définir, tout en posant la question de
son statut : genre mineur ou genre majeur ? La deuxième partie de ce cours se penchera sur un autre genre “mineur”:
l’autobiographie qui, en Amérique, ne cesse de se trouver à la source de sa fiction et de refléter le sujet américain dans tous ses
états.
PROGRAMME
1. Christine Reynier – Introduction to the British Short Story.
This course will deal wit the genre of the short story, its origins and its development, especially throughout the 20th century until
nowadays. The specificity of the British short story as well as the way it accommodâtes other literary genres will be dealt with zt
length. Where the short story stands within the work of writers, its connections with their novels or other Works of fiction or
non-fiction, with other short stories within cycles or collections and the impact such connections may have on the conception of
a genre long considered as minor will be examined. The publication of the short story, the way as the stratégies it adopts when
confronted with the laws of consumerism will be addressed. On the whole, registering the changes the short story genre has
undergone within such a context will aim at mapping out a generic territory which may not be exactly « minor »
Recommended reading
Primary sources
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Nocturnes. Five Stories of Music and Nightfall.2009.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. 1914.
Mansfield, Katherine. Bliss and Other Stories. 1920.
Swift, Graham. Learning to Swim and Other Stories. 1982.
Woolf,Virginia. A Haunted House and Other Stories. 1944.
2. Claudine Raynaud – Sampling American Autobiography
This series of lectures examines different facets of American autobiography, bith cradle of American littérature and Mirror of
American identity, from the Founding Fathers to Gertrude Stein’s provovative play with the genre to an example of postmodern
ethnic female autobiographical text. Particular emphasis will be placed on the modalities of self-expression and the changing
notion of subjectivity and its représentation, as well as on the constraints of the genre itself. Although excerpts will be handled
for the main texts Under study, students are expected to have read Douglass’s Narrative in its entirety and to Watch Malcom X
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Lectures
Week 1 Self and the early nation
Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative; Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography; Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (excerpts)
Week 2 The Slave narrative
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (full text)
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouNarr.html
Week 3 Self as ‘other’
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (excerpts)
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