MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

FRM5040

Stendhal as novelist

Jacques Birnberg

Synopsis Stendhal (Henri Beyle) is one of the most widely studied French novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century. His fiction has attracted over the years 1947 (Bardèche) - 1990 (Crouzet) the continuous attention of practically all major French representatives of the various disciplines in the field of literary studies: from text edition to hermeneutics, from biography to intertextuality. This subject aims at acquainting MA candidates with Stendhal's major novels and with the various scholarly approaches to one of them, namely Lucien Leuwen. The subject covers such topics as what Stendhal meant by egotism; Stendhalisme versus beylisme; the history of the text edition of Lucien Leuwen; Lucien Leuwen and political history; studies of Stendhal's narrative in his main novels; hermeneutic studies as applied to Stendhal's novels.

Assessment (8 points) One class paper (1000 words): 10% + Bibliographical assignment (1500 words): 30% + Essay (5000 words): 60%

Assessment (12 points) Two class papers (1000 words each): 10% each + Bibliographical assignment (2000 words): 30% + Essay (5000 words): 50%

Preliminary reading

• Stendhal Le Rouge et le Noir, La Chartreuse de Parme, Lamiel, Armance ed. M Crouzet coll `Bouquins' Robert Laffont

Prescribed texts

• Stendhal Lucien Leuwen ed. M Crouzet, Garnier-Flammarion
• Berthier P and others Le plus méconnu des romans de Stendhal Lucien Leuwen Sedes
• Rude F Stendhal et la pensée sociale de son temps G Monfort

Recommended texts

• Australian Journal of French Studies 20: 2, 1983
• Bardèche M Stendhal romancier La Table ronde
• Blin G Stendhal et les problèmes du roman Corti
• Boll Johansen H Stendhal et le roman Ed du Grand Chêne
• Brombert V Stendhal et la voie oblique Yale UP and PUF
• Crouzet M Quatre études sur Lucien Leuwen Sedes
• Crouzet M Stendhal ou Monsieur Moi-même Flammarion
• Didier B et Neefs J Ecritures du romantisme I Presses universitaires de Vincennes
• Michel F Etudes stendhaliennes Mercure de France
• Prévost J La Création chez Stendhal Mercure de France