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  • FREN 308: Advanced Studies in Language

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Petterson The art of translation and its techniques are studied through analysis of the major linguistic and cultural differences between French and English. Translations from both languages will serve to explore past and present-day practices and theories of translation. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Open to juniors and seniors only or by permission of the instructor. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 313: George Sand and the Romantic Theater

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Masson George Sand, multifaceted woman and influential writer, allows us to explore the romantic theater as well as the overall theater production of the nineteenth century. The fact that Sand's theater was overlooked in her time and subsequently forgotten raises important questions of public recognition and literary posterity that we will examine. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 314: Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Fran ois Truffaut: An in-depth review of Truffaut's overall contribution to cinema. Includes readings from his articles as a film critic, a study of influences on his directorial work (Renoir, Hitchcock) and a close analysis of a dozen of his films using a variety of critical approaches: biographical, historical, formal, and psychoanalytical. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0 FREN 317 Commitment and the Contemporary French Poet Petterson An examination of twentieth and twenty-first century French poetry through the reception of Jean-Paul Sartre's mid-centur y Qu'est-ce que la littératur e (1948) and through poetry's elaboration of a pragmatic response to the charge that it is politically uncommitted. Readings ranging from Tzara's Dadaism, to the surrealism of Breton and Valéry on poetry and anarchy, to Césaire, Senghor and the wartime poetry of Eluard, Char and Ponge, to Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet in the wake of 1968, to the contemporary writings of Deguy, Four-cade, Cadiot, Hocquard, Réda, No l and Alféri, who pursue equally subtle challenges to the political and philosophical condemnations of poetry. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and LiSemester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 318: Narrative in the Twentieth Century

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Mistacco NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course explores innovative fiction by major novelists spanning the twentieth century, from André Gide at the threshold of ?the age of suspicion? (Sarraute) on. Challenges to canonical narratives, discourses of mastery and authoritative modes of storytelling in a wide variety of revolutionary works, including absurdist, avant-garde, and feminist texts are examined. Literary, historical, and cultural perspectives will be brought to bear on these narrative which chart vital developments in the twentieth-century novel. Authors include André Gide, Marcel Proust, Nathalie Sarraute, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grill et. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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  • FREN 319: Women,Language,and Literary Expression

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Mistacco NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. This course explores the notion of difference in fiction by twentieth-century women writers in France. It ex-amines challenges to literary conventions, patriarchal thinking and the dominant discourse in major works by Beauvoir, Colette, Chawaf, Wittig, Duras, and Djebar. Attention is focused on gender as a site of dissidence and on the creative possibilities as well as the risks in-volved in equating the feminine with difference. Perspectives on women, writing, and difference in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Se-lected readings from foundational and recent works by feminist theoreticians including Cixous, Kristeva, and Irigaray. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 321: Selected Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 327: A Fascination with Bodies:The Doctor's Malady

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Respaut NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The addictive interplay between doctors and patients as reflected in a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings, and in photography and film. The course will investigate the effect of sickness on family structure and the struggle with illness as a desperate ?dancing with the beast,? touching on mental and physical suffering of various kinds-hysteria and alcoholism, child-birth and abortion, tuberculosis, cancer, AIDS-represented in novels and short stories from Barbey d'Aurevilly to Gide, in the reflections of historians and psychologists (Michelet, Charcot), and in biographies, personal accounts and autofictions by Guibert and Er naux. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit:
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  • FREN 329: Colette/Duras:A Pleasure unto Death

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Respaut NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Two prolific authors whose works embrace the span of women's writing in the twentieth century and who correspondingly illustrate the essential features of modern expression by women. Attention to the phases of a woman's life, sexuality, the figure of the mother, exoticism and race, and the relation between fiction and autobiography . Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 330: French and Francophone Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prabhu NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. The course examines various texts from the post-independent Francophone world to understand pressing concerns in different postcolonial regions. Close attention will be paid to narrative techniques while studying questions concerning the rela-tionship with the metropolis and the functioning of language(s). Includes a brief introduction to the history of Francophone literature. Texts by Driss Chra bi, Maryse Condé, Axel Gauvin, Assia Djebar. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • FREN 331: Desire,Sexuality,and Love in African Francophone Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prabhu An exploration of interpersonal relationships within traditional or transgressive couples in African-Francophone cinema. Consideration of various cultural and social backgrounds will frame our discussion of such controversial issues as cliterodectomy, polygamy, and homosex-uality. Prerequisite: 211 (or for classes of 2010-2011 only, 210 may be substituted) and one additional unit, 212 or above. Distribution: Language and Literature or Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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