Composante
LITTERATURE FRANCAISE ET COMPAREE
Discipline rare
Non
Description et objectifs
1ER SEMESTRE
COURS D’ANGLAIS DE M. JEAN-MARC CHADELAT
Bible et littérature dans le monde anglo-saxon.
Ce cours abordera l’influence profonde et multiforme exercée par l’Écriture sur la création littéraire dans le monde anglo-saxon à travers l’étude de plusieurs extraits d’œuvres emblématiques illustrant des genres divers. La postérité littéraire et artistique de quelques mythes fondateurs (la Création et la fin des temps, le meurtre d’Abel par Caïn), de plusieurs récits historiques (l’institution de la royauté par Samuel pour répondre aux exigences du peuple, la division du royaume puis la destruction du temple après la mort de Salomon), de divers personnages bibliques (Adam, Abraham, Noé), ou de lieux contrastés et symboliques (la terre et la mer, Jérusalem et Babylone) sera examinée dans une perspective herméneutique pour éclairer le sens des textes où ces motifs bibliques fonctionnent comme autant de signes à déchiffrer.
COURS D’ANGLAIS DE M. MICHEL ETCHEVERRY
Programme en cours d’élaboration.
COURS D’ANGLAIS DE Mme ANNE MARTINA
Cours 1 :The American Musical (I) : A Utopian Genre ?
Designed as an introduction to the American musical on stage and screen, this course will focus on the utopian drive at the heart of the genre. Further developing the line of thought sketched out in third year, we will analyze the specific role American musicals have played in the nation’s relentless process of cultural definition. From 19th-century minstrel shows, turn-of-the-century vaudeville and Ziegfeld revues, to 1920s Broadway shows and classical Hollywood films, musicals kept providing Americans with kaleidoscopic images of the nation. What vision of America did they shape? What American myths did they mold, perpetuate and ultimately question? Those and other issues – the genre’s problematic cultural status and ambiguous ideological stance, or the much-debated notion of “integration” – will be tackled over the semester.
NB : I strongly recommend students who plan to enroll in the course to buy early tickets for the production of West Side Story at the Paris Scène Musicale in the Fall, as a grouped outing is impossible for this show.
Cours 2 : American Gothic
This course will examine a major mode of American fiction writing – the Gothic. American Gothic narratives come in many shapes, crossing over different media, from 19th-century tales of guilt and terror (Brown, Poe, Hawthorne, James) to Hollywood’s uncanny works (Hitchcock, Lang), horror fiction (Friedkin, Kubrick, Lynch) and parodic rewritings (Sharman). Through close analyses of selected excerpts, short stories, novellas, and films, we will wonder whether American fiction is, in Leslie Fiedler’s words, “a literature of darkness in a land of light and affirmation.”
Pré-requis obligatoires
Niveau requis : Cours dispensé intégralement en anglais, destiné à des étudiants de niveau intermédiaire à avancé (niveau B2 et plus).
Syllabus
COURS D’ANGLAIS DE Mme ANNE MARTINA
Cours 1
Stage and film musicals on the syllabus:
*Leo McCarey, Duck Soup, Paramount, 1933 (starring the Marx brothers)
*Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz, MGM, 1939
*Vincente Minnelli, Meet Me in St. Louis, MGM, 1944
*Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma!, Independent, 1955
*Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, West Side Story, United Artists, 1961
*Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: An American Musical, 2015 (Broadway show)
Other suggested films:
*Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, WB, 1933
*Mark Sandrich, Top Hat, RKO, 1935
*Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, MGM, 1951
*Herbert Ross, Pennies from Heaven, MGM, 1981
Suggested reading:
*Rick Altman, The American Film Musical, Indiana University Press, 1987
*Steven Cohan, ed., Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader, London & NY: Routledge, 2002
*Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, Princeton UP, 2005
Cours 2
- Novels and short stories
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, or The Transformation [1798] (excerpts)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” [1835]
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia” [1838]
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw [1898], Penguin Classics, 2011
- Films
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter, 1959
Jack Clayton, The Innocents, 1961
Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, 1981
Tim Burton, Sleepy Hollow, 1999