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