Literature and Culture of French Enlightenment

Literature and Culture of French Enlightenment

Lectures: 30

Seminars: 0

Tutorials: 0

ECTS credit: 3

Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Marinčič Katarina

The subject covers the most important authors of the French Enlightenment and Preromanticism (Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau). The presentation is structured around some basic topics: literature of the 18th century in the context of the philosophy of the Enlightenment; the social (political) engagement of the main 18th century writers; the development of the French theatre in the 18th century; the rise of the novel; changes in reading culture; French poetry in the 18th century; literary representations of historical events and of everyday life (the great memorialists).

J. Chouillet, L´Esthétique des lumieres, Paris, PUF, 1974. 230 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 15572834
B. Didier, Le roman français au XVIIIe siecle, Paris, Ellipses, 1998. COBISS.SI-ID - 8849762
M. Delon in P. Malandain, Littérature française au XVIIIe siecle, Paris, PUF, 1996. 521 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 18886242
P. Hazard, La pensée européenne au XVIII ème siècle : de Montesquieu à Lessing, Paris : Boivin et Cie, 1949. COBISS.SI-ID - 14123015 ali: http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/hazard_paul/crise_conscience_europ…
F. Gaiffe, Le drame en France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris : A. Colin, 1971. COBISS.SI-ID - 624731
D. Roche, La France des lumieres, Paris, Fayard, 1996. 651 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 8073314