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This course is designed to consolidate students' knowledge of the twentieth-century French Literature through an in-depth study of Guillaume Apollinaire's literary works and of the French and European cultural and artistic framework of the time. The study of Apollinaire's works allows to carry out an analysis of the avant-garde phenomenon during the early 1900s as well as accurate considerations about the reception Apollinaire's works had in the second half of the twentieth century. An up-to-date examination of different levels of critical reading of Apollinaire's literary works will be carried out. The course will also provide useful tools to help students develop an appropriate intertextual and interdisciplinary methodology for analysing Apollinaire's works. 

On successfully completing the course students will be able to: contextualise the evolution of the twentieth-century French Literature in relation to the main socio-cultural developments that occurred in the European cultural framework of the time; apply appropriate analysis tools in order to identify key themes and motifs in the contemporary French literature; apply their analytical skills to the study of literary texts (especially poetical works and plays).

Lessons will be held with the support of slides and videos.

Oral examination. Students will have to demonstrate deep critical and analytical skills applied to literary works produced in France in the above-mentioned period through questions and exercices. Their good knowledge of related terminology, methodological competences, and autonomy in elaborating the course's topic will also be assessed.

During the course students are required to make an oral presentation based on a subject related to the course and previously submitted to the teacher.

Apollinaire and the Avant-gardes

This course will explore Guillaume Apollinaire's plays, poetry and prose. Students will acquire the theoretical knowledge and critical reading skills necessary to understand the fundamental role Apollinaire had in the European cultural framework of his time as well as the influence his work had in the second half of the twentieth-century. The course will also examine the collaboration between Apollinaire and the avant-garde movements that have renovated the European literary panorama at the beginning of the century.

Reference readings: / Opere di riferimento:

Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcool e Calligrammes.

Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Teatro, a cura di F. Bruera, Carocci editore (in press)

Useful readings for the analysis of texts: / Strumenti per l'analisi dei testi:

F. Bruera, Apollinaire passeur de culture méditerranéenne, « Il Confronto letterario », giugno 2018

K. Bonaudo, La publicité: une ressource pour Le Marchand d'Anchois de Guillaume Apollinaire, in Le théatre d'Apollinaire, Apollinaire et le théatre, Paris, Calliopée, 2016

L. Campa, Apollinaire, Paris, Gallimard, 2013

F. Bruera, « Des expériences théatrales oubliées : Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon », in Les Oubliés des avant-gardes, Chambéry, Université de Savoie, 2007

P. Read, Apollinaire et les Mamelles de Tirésias, La revanche d'Eros, Rennes, PUR, 2000 (disponibile sul sito : books.openedition.org/pur/35290)

F. Bruera, Apollinaire e Cie, Roma, Bulzoni, 1992

Apollinaire, 202 boulevard Saint Germain, a cura di F. Bruera, corrispondenza con Meriano, Savinio, Sanguineti, Ungaretti, Ravegnani, Marone, Raimondi, de Pisis, Roma, Bulzoni, 1992.

Readings about the historical and cultural framework of Apollinaire's time: / Strumenti per l'inquadramento storico-culturale:

Plurilinguisme et Avant-gardes, a cura di F.Bruera e B. Meazzi, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2011

François Noudelmann, Avant-garde et modernité, Paris, Hachette, 2000

Mario De Micheli, Le Avanguardie artistiche del Novecento, Milano, Feltrinelli (nelle edizioni con appendice)

No restrictions.

For any information about the course, students are requested to visit the teacher's website.

Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher.

The teacher is responsible of the Erasmus Exchange Programme with the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and with Paris X Nanterre.