selected texts of French humanities of XX century 3304-1DPXW-KHK-05
Classes will be devoted to translating and discussing selected texts of French humanities. Their primary goal will be to familiarize them with the vocabulary of contemporary humanities in French. Based on the texts of authors such as Michel Foucault, Philippe Ariès, Roland Barthes, René Girard, Jean Starobinski, Simone de Beauvoir and others, important topics in the history of ideas will be analyzed: family, women,death, madness, exclusion, sacred, power and punishment. Scholars' theses will be confronted with short literary texts on the issues discussed.
Mode
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
1. Ability to use basic theoretical approaches, research paradigms and concepts specific to literary studies.
2. Ability to substantive argument using the views of other authors and to formulate conclusions ..
3. Ability to use various sources and methods of searching and selecting information.
4. Acquiring basic research skills allowing to formulate and analyze problems.
Assessment criteria
Credit based on active participation in classes and a test.
Bibliography
Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Paris, Seuil, 1957.
Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, Paris, Gallimard, 1961.
Id., Surveiller et punir, Paris, Gallimard, 1975.
Philippe Ariiès, L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime, Paris, Seuil, 1973.
Id., L'Homme devant la mort, Seuil, 1977.
René Girard, Le Bouc émissaire, Paris, Grasset, 1982.
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