Literature course IIz/IIIz + p: Different or the same? Writers on the road (18th-19th centuries) 3304-1DZXW-KL-36
The aim of the course will be to analyze several examples of French-language travel literature from the 18th and 19th centuries in terms of travelers' perceptions of themselves and others.
Selected topics covered during the course:
I. Theoretical part:
1) The specificity of travel literature
2) Travel in the 18th and 19th centuries and the profile of the writer-traveler
3) Preferred travel destinations
4) Perception of others – historical conditions
5) Traveling and the search for oneself
II. Practical part
1) Grand Tour literature
2) Travels to wild and inaccessible places
3) “Ethnographic” travels
4) “Travels to the East”
5) Travel as an escape
Mode
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The seminar leads to the following learning outcomes:
• Students have an advanced knowledge of terminology used in the humanities, particularly in philology.
• Students have an in-depth knowledge of processes occurring in the areas of culture, language, and literature.
• Students have in-depth knowledge of the culture of France and French-speaking countries.
• Students have in-depth knowledge of cultural institutions and phenomena in French and Francophone culture.
• Students are able to use various sources and methods, including modern information technologies, to search for, analyze, evaluate, select, and use the information necessary to participate in classes and to formulate critical judgments on this basis. They are fluent in the use of various lexicographical and grammatical sources.
• Students have in-depth research skills, including the analysis of other authors' works, the synthesis of different ideas and views, the selection of methods and construction of research tools, and the development and presentation of results, enabling them to solve complex problems in an original way to the extent necessary to participate in scientific discussion and prepare their own scientific works.
• Students are able to critically analyze and interpret various cultural products (language, literature, art) using original and new methods in order to determine their meanings, social impact, and place in the historical and cultural process.
• Students are able to formulate critical opinions about cultural products based on scientific knowledge and their own experience, and are able to present these opinions in various forms and media.
Assessment criteria
The final grade is based on your attendance (only two absences without the obligation to make up for absences during office hours), activity (1/4 of the grade), semester work (1/4 of the grade), and final test (written/oral) (1/2 of the grade). Detailed rules for passing the course will be provided to students during the first class.
Bibliography
Voyage en... (anthologies, Laffont series)
Valérie BERTY, Littérature et voyage, L'Harmattan, 2001.
Odile GANNIER, Travel Literature, Ellipses, 2001.
Marie-Christine GOMEZ-GERAUD, Philippe ANTOINE (eds.) Novel and Travel Narrative, PUPS, 2001.
François MOREAU (ed.), Metamorphoses of Travel Narrative, Champion, 1986.
Jean-Marc MOURA, Reading Exoticism, Dunod, 1992.
Friedrich WOLFZETTEL, The Traveler's Discourse, PUF, 1996.
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