FR3078
Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature
2016-2017
15
7
SCQF level 9
1
Academic year(s): 2016-2017
SCOTCAT credits : 15
ECTS credits : 7
Level : SCQF level 9
Semester: 1
Planned timetable:
This module explores theories relating to autobiography and écriture de soi as well as a variety of autobiographical practices reflecting significant trends in twentieth-century French literature. Students will read texts by major authors (for example Sartre, Perec, Sarraute and Ernaux) and will reflect on their thematic and stylistic features, with an emphasis on notions such as childhood, memory, (life)-writing, language, education and identity. Students will be encouraged to adopt a comarative approach in order to study the use of photography, myths, fiction and imagination in autobiography and autofiction and to conceptualise potential links between genre and gender.