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3.00 Credits
EdwigeTamaletTalbayev. tth 2.30-3.45 L5,Hu (0) A study of French representations of the Islamic Orient since the late eighteenth century. Focus on the Maghreb, with some attention to Islamic countries such as Egypt and Turkey. Topics include exoticism, perceptions of non-Western cultures in a modern context, and relations to imperialism. Readings from French travel narratives, Orientalist fiction and poetry, and essays documenting the development of Orientalism as a genre in the modern period.
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3.00 Credits
Maurice Samuels.
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3.00 Credits
Alice Kaplan. mf 11.35-12.50 Hu (0) Tr The literary and political career of French-Algerian writer Albert Camus (1913-60). His major novels and essays read both from a stylistic point of view and in the context of World War II, the Algerian War, and debates over terrorism, the death penalty, and humanitarianism.
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3.00 Credits
Alice Kaplan. m 2.30-4.20 Hu (0) Studies in twentieth-century French literature and the changing definition of authorship in France. Proust and the problem of the life versus the work of the writer; Céline and the problem of the politically and morally scandalous writer.
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3.00 Credits
Christopher L. Miller. t 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Exploration of Creole identity, with a focus on the French and English Caribbean and on Louisiana. The term "Creole" as inseparable from issues of race an d slavery . Readings of historical and literary texts, both well-known and obscure, from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Reading knowledge o f French required.
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3.00 Credits
Marie-Hélène Girard.mw1-2.15 L5,Hu (0) The letter in French culture, from personal account to historical document, including epistolary novels, travel literature, and manifestos. Authors include Madame de Sévigné, Pascal, Montesquieu, Laclos, Diderot, Balzac, George Sand, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola, and Simone de Beauvoir; artists include Delacroix, Manet, van Gogh, Chaissac, and Sophie Calle.
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3.00 Credits
OraAvni. tth11.35-12.50 Hu (24) Tr Classics of the French novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Characteristic works by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Breton, Sartre, and Sarraute. Readings and discussion in English.
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3.00 Credits
Farid Laroussi. mw 11.35-12.50 L5,Hu (0) An examination of contemporary French autobiography with a focus on family relationships. The functions of memoirs and confessions, the sociohistorical background of post-World War II France, and the evolution of intellectual life.
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3.00 Credits
Yue Zhuo. tth 2.30-3.45 L5,Hu (0) A survey of self-reflective texts used as manifestos by literary movements during the twentieth century, among them symbolism, dadaism, surrealism, existentialism, social realism, the nouveau roman, and Tel Quel. Emphasis on critical self-consciousness in the production of modern literary work and on the importance of the reader-writer relationship. Authors include Proust, Gide, Breton, Aragon, Artaud, Sartre, Blanchot, Ponge, Duras, Sarraute, and Quignard.
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3.00 Credits
Jean-Jacques Poucel. tth1-2.15 Hu (0) Tr The praxis, politics, and aesthetic of successive avant-gardes from a historical perspective. Shifting modes of media and representation, stylistic analysis, and theorizing the context of experiment. Emphasis on literature, with attention to painting, film, and performance. Cubism, Dada, surrealism, situationalists, and the Oulipo.
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