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Keys for the analysis of Fiction

Clés pour la fiction 02DMI721 / 3 ECTS – 18h / Évaluation session 1 : assidu·es CC ; non-assidu·es ET Dossier / Évaluation session 2 : ET écrit 1h30

18h – Pierre-Yves Le Cam

This course aims at exploring how a fictional text works in order to understand what the text purports to convey but also how one may construct a critical analysis of it using various stylistic tools and critical theories. Various extracts from novels will be studied in class with a particular focus on syntax, speech, lexical fields, rhetorics and genre.

Recommended readings to reinforce your literary background:

  • Gérard Genette, Figures III, Seuil, collection Poétique, 1972
  • Françoise Grellet, Anthologie de la littérature anglophone, Hachette, 2015
  • Françoise Grellet, A Handbook Of Literary Terms : introduction au vocabulaire littéraire anglais, Paris : Hachette, 2009.
  • Geoffrey Leech, Style in Fiction, London : Longman, 1992