Conversatorium of literary studies - Dangers of traveling in French literature of the 18th century: fiction and reality 3304-1DPXW-KL-018-OG
The journey in the eighteenth century has rich literature, it becomes the source, center and goal of enlightenment. Similarly, there is a certain type of travel-related hazards: robberies or sea storms that play the role of turning points or culminations in authentic relationships or in fictional fiction from the 17th century. The aim of the course will be to read how both travel ranges merge - the incipient adventure and the threat of sides of people or elements - in both types of works: authentic testimonies and fictitious tales. Perhaps a similar demarcation is not always justified?
Most often, examples of the relationship of authentic and fictional stories will come from the work of one author: enriched with encyclopedic definitions and journalistic polemics. Intellectual, moral and aesthetic challenges, temptations and threats that have a basis in the text, will sometimes be confronted with the accompanying graphic message.
At the end, the re-creation of a new concept of self, consciousness built on a constant confrontation with reality, by definition suspected of instability or hostility. Is this what modernity is about?
Course coordinators
Type of course
elective courses
Mode
Learning outcomes
The student in the course of reading should:
1 demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the issues related to the topic of the seminar
2 master the ability to analyze source materials
3 demonstrate the ability to present specific issues and animate discussions in the seminar group
4 to confront different interpretations verbally and in writing
5 present in a synthetic form a selected issue in the scope of the seminar program
Assessment criteria
Credit conditions for the course: active presence (knowledge of fragments of texts selected by the lecturer, as a starting point for discussion), exposé 10-15 minutes. on the topic selected from the program. Written work in the classroom (mid-semester) and the final test (20 min) allow the oral test (reading list and issues given in the middle of the semester).
Over three unexcused absences - delisting from the list.
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
Dictionaries and textbooks on French literature of the 18th century. Travel reports: Jan Potocki, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Rousseau, Diderot, Montesquieu. And the novels of those.