FREN 357 - Survey of French Medieval and Renaissance Literature(D-2)

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Southern Adventist University

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Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. Close reading and discussion of selected works from the period (eleventh through sixteenth centuries) viewed in the socio-historical, intellectual, and artistic context: Chanson de Roland, Roman de Renart, Aucassin et Nicolette, Farce de Ma?tre Pathelin, and works by Chrétien de Troyes, Villon, Rabelais, the Pléiade, and Montaigne. FREN 358. Survey of French 17th and 18th Centuries Literature (D-2) (W) (3 hours) Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. This course is a study of neo-classical tragedy and comedy as illustrated in select texts of Corneille, Mohère, Racine, Marivaux, and Beaumarchais. It experiments in narrative fiction, including works by Mme de Lafayette and Prévost. The art of epistolarity: Pascal and the polemical letter, Mme de Sévigné and the personal letter, Voltaire and the traveler's letterFocus on topics: préciosit? ?and sensibility; feminism and modernity; rationalism an d esprit critique. FREN 458. Survey of French 19th and 20th Centuries Literature (D-2) (W) (3 hours) Prerequisites: FREN 244 and ENGL 216 or approval of the department. Studies the main literary works and currents in the modern era in their historical context. Based on an interdisciplinary approach linking literary theory with history, sociology, and psychology. Works studied: Chateaubriand, Réné ; Balzac, Le Père Goriot; Hug o, Hernani Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal; Gide, La Symphonie pastorale; Camus, L'Etranger; Duras, Moderato Cantabile.

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3.00

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www.southern.edu

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(423) 236-2000

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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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