| CODE | FRE2024 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Littérature du Siècle des Lumières | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | French | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The aim of this study-unit is to present the main movements and authors of the XVIIIe century and the major works written by Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau. Study-unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: to present different ways on representing alterity and elsewhere in the 18th century; to present major schools of thinking; to present different literary, esthetic and cultural movements; to analyse major works. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to retrace the main evolutions of the french thought in the 18th century ; to define the main characteristics of the representation of the other and the elsewhere ; to characterize the main literary, esthetic and cultural movements. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to analyse canonical texts ; to analyse major works ; to replace a work in his context ; to write a commentary or a dissertation on representations of alterity and elsewhere in the 18th century, to compare and analyse major works. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Diderot, Denis, Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville, Paris, Flammarion, 2003, « Etonnants classiques. Edition etablie par Dominique Lanni. Marivaux, La Fausse suivante, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2007, « Classique » Edition étabile par Pierre Malandin. Montesquieu, Lettres persanes, Paris, Gallimard, 1973 «Folio» Collectif, Contes excentriques des Lumieres, Paris, Magnard, 2008, « Classiques et Cie ». Edition etablie par Dominique Lanni. Collectif. Trois contes philosophiques des Lumieres, Paris, Flammarion, 2012, Etonnants classiques. Edition etablie par Dominique Lanni. Voltaire, L'Ingenu, Paris, Flammarion, 2006, Etonnants classiques. Edition etablie par Dominique Lanni. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite qualifications: Grade C or better at Matsec Advanced Level in French. | |||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Dominique Jean Lanni |
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