Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-FRAD-333F
- Title
- La prose française au XIXe siecle
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Learning outcomes
- A) Knowledge Aware of other important examples of 19th century French novel (besides works which have been studied in the BA program). Aware of other important 19th century literary genres (such as the historical novel) which have not been studied in the BA program. B) Skills Able to easily understand and analyze 18th century texts with their specific vocabulary and stylistic features. Able to place 19th century texts within the framework of the history of French literature, genre and ideas, and to evaluate their characteristics in the light of the works of previous and future ages. C) Attitudes Interested in the literature of the country (France) associated with the language he/she chose to study. Wishes to be acquainted with this literature as thoroughly as possible. D) Autonomy and responsibility Seeks to acquire knowledge beyond the material of the seminar in addition to the obligatory texts, to get to know other works of the authors as well as the works of other authors. When interpreting texts in the history of ideas, he/she treats the sensitivity of a bygone era, which is reflected in his literary works and often differs from ours, with appropriate empathy and objectivity. At the same time, he/she uses the lessons of these works that are still valid today in shaping his own thinking and views.
- Course content
- Types of the novel in the romantic period : autobiographical and historical novels Realism and naturalism (theory and practice) Against naturalism : decadence and exoticism
- Assessment method
- Final grade based on a term-paper and an oral exam.
- Bibliography
- AMBRIÈRE, Madeleine (dir.), Précis de la littérature française du XIXe siècle, Paris, PUF, 1990. BECKER, Colette, Lire le réalisme et le naturalisme, Paris, Armand Colin, 20052. BLANCKEMANN, Bruno, Le roman depuis la Révolution française, Paris, PUF, 2011. COMPAGNON, Antoine, Les antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes, Paris, Gallimard, 2005. (Coll. « Essais, 2016.) DUBOIS, Jacques, Les romanciers du réel, de Balzac à Simenon, Paris, Seuil, Coll. « Point Essais », 2000. DUFOUR, Philippe, Le réalisme, Paris, PUF, Coll. « Premier Cycle », 1998. DURAND-LE GUERN, Isabelle, Le roman historique, Paris, Armand Colin, Coll. « 128 », 2008. MITTERAND, Henri, Zola et le naturalisme, Paris, PUF, Coll. « Que sais-je ? », 1986. MITTERAND, Henri, L’illusion réaliste, de Balzac à Aragon, Paris, PUF, 1994. PAVEL, Thomas, La pensée du roman, Paris, Gallimard, 2003. (Coll. « Essais », 2014.) PAVIE, Christophe, « Le roman au XIXe siècle », in Patrick BERTHIER – Michel JARRETY (dir.), Histoire de la France littéraire, III : Modernités (XIXe-XXe siècle), Paris, PUF, Coll. « Quadrige », 2006, p. 7-43. QUEFFÉLEC, Lise, Le roman-feuilleton français au XIXe siècle, Paris, PUF, Coll. « Que sais-je ? », 1989. RAIMOND, Michel, Le roman depuis la Révolution, Paris, Armand Colin, 1967, 20074. RAIMOND, Michel, Le roman, Paris, Armand Colin, 1989. TADIÉ, Jean-Yves, Le roman d’aventures, Paris, PUF, Coll. « Quadrige », 1996 ; Gallimard, Coll. « TEL », 2013.