Intermedial Analysis of Literary Texts

Concept of intermediality. The film adaptations of Madame Bovary by G. Flaubert (comparative analysis: novel / films). Impressionism: literature and painting (G. Maupassant, P. Verlaine). The representatives of "L’Ecole de Paris" and their literary interpretation in Les Fires de Montparnasse by A. Lanoux. The image of Paris in literature (poetic texts by Ch. Baudelaire, G. Apolinaire; Paris in the month of August by R. Fallet). The image of France in The Promise of the Dawn by Romain Gary. Intertextuality in the work of M. Houellebecq. The sociology of P. Bourdieu in the work of A. Ernaux. The sung poetry (J. Prévert, J. Brel).

The aim of the course is to analyse literary texts in the light of intermedial theory.

PRC 3020 Tradition of literary genre in Francophone countries.

The concept of intermediality. Intertextuality, the interrelation between a literary text and different types of media, interdisciplinarity. The use of metadiscourse accross media (film, painting, visual culture) in the analysis of a literary text. Madame Bovary by Flaubert (the novel and its film adaptations). Impressionism in literature and painting (Maupassant, Verlaine). The image of Paris in literature (poetic texts by Baudelaire and Apollinaire; Paris in the Month of August by Fallet). Intertextuality in the work of Houellebecq. The sociology of Bourdieu in the work of Ernaux. Impressionism in art and literature (impressionistic writing). Impressionism and the School of Paris (L’Ecole de Paris). The comparison of the image of Paris in the works of Baudelaire and Fallet. Claude Chabrol‘s interpretation of Madame Bovary. The narrator and and other characters in Madame Bovary by Flaubert and in Chabrol‘s Madame Bovary. The role of the narrator.The impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Urban themes and Bodlerian modernity. Peculiarities of Houellebecq?s dystopias. Flaubert?s use of irony in Madame Bovary. The tragic fate of Modigliani in Lanoux‘s The Flames of Montparnasse (Les Fires de Montparnasse). Social criticism in the works by Ernaux. The dramatic nature of Brel‘s poetic The School of Paris (L’Ecole de Paris) and its literary interpretation in The Flames of Montparnasse (Les Fires de Montparnasse) by Lanoux. Space-time continuum in Baudelaire’s Paris spleen (Le Spleen de Pari). The tragedy of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary by Flaubert. Subtlety in impressionist painting and in the works of Maupassant and Verlain. Lanoux, “Crazy Years“ (The Flames of Montparnasse). The idealization of France in The Promise of the Dawn by Gary. Social exclusion in the works of Ernaux. Love in Prévert‘s and Brel‘s poetry. Literary and intermedial analysis of works by Flaubert, Baudelaire and Houellebecq.

1. Understanding of intermediality, as a subject and as a practice. 2. Knowledge of theories and approaches to the study of intermediality and the ability to apply them in the analysis of literary texts.