The Romance Languages and Literatures 445 - 20th-Century French Autobiography

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Colgate University

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H. Julien This seminar examines the development and specificities of 20th-century autobiographical texts. While the main focus is on the texts themselves, some related theoretical problems are also considered, such as the conditions and possibility of writing the "self", autobiography's link to other types of personal writings, its relationship to fiction, and its role in our modern definition of "humanity." This genre being rooted in questions of the emergence of the "self," particular attention is given to women, homosexuals, and francophone writers, who were traditionally regarded as "other." Authors read may include Proust, Gide, Sartre, Beauvoir, Sarraute, Leiris, Yourcenar, Bigras, Laye, Leduc, and Roy. ( Formerly FRE

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3.00

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www.colgate.edu

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(315) 228-1000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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