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2.00 Credits
Additional weekly two-hour session, in which texts and movies will be discussed in French. Students selecting Course 427T must concurrently register for Comparative Studies in Culture 227. Open to students who have sufficient degree of proficiency in French. Two credit hours. The TOC section is required for students who wish to count the course either toward a major/minor in French or toward a major/minor in Comparative Studies in Culture. C. Spencer
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4.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary French writers with a focus on the new means of representation of the body in literature. In addition, a study of the upheaval of the narrative techniques in the French novel. Works by Marcel Proust, Georges Bataille, André Breton, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute and Camille Laurens. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Staff
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the poetry of 19th century France covering poets from the Romantic, the Symbolist, and the Decadent movements. Topics discussed include: the difference between verse and prose; the structure or architecture of poetry; the difference between French and English poetry; the use of history in poetry; the role of religion in poetry; and the role of sexuality. Authors discussed: Lamartine, Marceline Desbordes- Valmore, Vigny, Hugo, Bertrand, Nerval, Baudelaire, and Mallarme. R. Garelick
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4.00 Credits
Individual Study
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors who have completed two 400-level French courses or by permission of the department. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
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4.00 Credits
Representations of non-Western cultures in French art and literature from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The roles of colonialism, exoticism, and gender. Treating genres such as the philosophical essay, the fictional memoir, and the epistolary novel (or novel of letters). Viewing paintings by artists such as Delacroix and Jerome. Authors to be read include: Montaigne, Montesquieu, Mme de Graffigny, Flaubert, Gide, and Camus. Taught in English. This is the same course as Comparative Studies in Culture 493G, 494G. R. Garelick
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of sexuality in theater; theater as ideological apparatus controlling sexuality; performance as destabilizing the representation of the desiring subject; the similarities and differences between theater and cinema in representing sexuality. Plays and films such as Rotrou's La Celimene, Moliere's Dom Juan, Truffaut' s Le Dernier Metro . Some theoretical texts/excerptsby Freud, Foucault, Butler. C. Spencer
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4.00 Credits
A study of the relation between theatre, transvestism and theatre from a literary, historical, social and political point of view. Texts by A. Behn, Defoe, Marivaux, Zola among others. Films by Almodóvar, Bu?el, B. Blier and B. Jacquot . C. Spencer
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course will examine the dandyist movement in France, which focused on fashion, self-presentation, theater, and social performance. We will be reading works by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Oscar Wilde, Jean Cocteau, Renee Vivien, and Rachilde. We will also examine the role of theatrical and dance performances, World's Fairs, music halls, and cabarets. R. Garelick
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4.00 Credits
The course will explore the changing meanings and perceptions attached to voice in its relationship to contemporary issues such as identity, gender and sexuality. Literary texts ( L'Ecole des femmes by Molière, The Rover by Aphra Behn, Sarrazine by Balzac) and films (Singing in the Rain, The Law of Desire, The Bad Education). Some incursions in opera, in particular Haendel and the vogue of castrati. This is the same course as Gender and Women's Studies 406. C. Spencer
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