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4.00 Credits
Serving as an overview of modern French literature, this class focuses on short texts (poems, plays, essays, letters, short stories) that reflect the fragile relationship between selfhood and authenticity. From Rousseau's ambitious program of autobiography to Sartre's belief that we are inveterate embellishers when it comes to telling our own story, French literature has staged the classic tension between art, artifice, and authenticity. This has not only inaugurated an intensely individual and unstable relationship to the notion of truth, but has also implicated the reader in this destabilizing process. Students in this class explore how the quest for authenticity has led to radical reevaluations of literary style. The course includes readings from Rousseau, Stendhal, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Duras, Sarraute, and Ernaux. The course is taught in French. Prerequisite: two years of college French (successful completion of intermediate courses) or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
GSS An introduction to the diversity of French women's voices in literature and cinema in the 20th century. Readings include works by Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Maryse Condé, Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Anne Hébert, Catherine Millet, Amélie Nothomb, and Nathalie Sarraute. Movies by Chantal Ackerman, Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Duras, and Agnès Varda are shown and discussed. The course is conducted in French. Prequisite: four years of French.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on a wide and diverse selection of writings (short works of fiction, poems, philosophical essays, political analysis, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, etc.) loosely organized around a single theme. The readings provide a rich ground for cultural investigation, intellectual exchange, in-class debates, in-depth examination of stylistics, and, of course, vocabulary acquisition. Students are encouraged to write on a regular basis and are expected to participate fully in class discussion and debates. A general review of grammar is also conducted throughout the course.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the major schools of 20thcentury French thought through a selection of texts that have had particular significance for philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literary theory, and sociology. Close reading focuses on Saussure, Barthes, Breton, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Bourdieu. Students less proficient in French may work on excerpts of larger works such as Derrida's Grammatologie, Deleuze's Anti-Oedipe, or Lacan's écri ts.Advancestudents may concentrate on authors of their choice. The course is conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 202 or the equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Throughout the 20th century, painters and poets evolved and worked side by side in the same avant-garde movements. Students read critical and theoretical texts that reflect an ongoing dialogue between painting and poetry. If literature can be a tool for examining painting, can visual aesthetics help with the reading of poetry? Readings include work by Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, Bonnefoy, Breton, Jaccottet, Leiris, Michaux, Paulhan, Ponge, Reverdy, and Valéry.
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4.00 Credits
A revolution was brought to the theory and practices of 19th-century French poetry by three of its most illustrious figures: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. As Victor Hugo's age of lyricRomanticism came to an end, these three poets took full measure of a modern subjectivity in crisis by making it a crisis of form, with increasing disenchantment, irony, self-reflexivity, and obscurity. Their challenge to figurative language brought poetry dangerously close to silence, madness, or death. Through a succession of close readings, students assess the range of this poetic revolution that constantly questioned the limits of literature and the possibility of meaning. The course is taught in French. Primary texts are in French, secondary sources are in English. Readings include Les Fleurs du mal and Le Spleen de Paris ( Baudelaire), Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer ( Rimbaud), and Poésies (Mallarmé).
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4.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to major novels of 20th-century France. The evolution of the French novel reflects the fate of a disintegrating genre, where mimesis is rejected. Through close readings and scrutiny of sociohistorical context, students explore the ambiguity of political commitment, the figure of the solitary antihero, and relevant aesthetic theories. Texts include works of Proust, Gide, Céline, Sartre, Camus, Duras, des Forêts, Robbe-Grillet, and Perec. The course is conducted in French.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses the complicated relationship between between 19th-century French novelists and the notion of literary entertainment. While they welcomed the feuilleton format (publishing novels in cliff-hanging installments), novelists often resisted the hostile takeover of a public that begged them to surrender stylistic experimentation for plot, aestheticism for entertainment. This conflict figures in the novels studied: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Balzac's Illusions perdues, Flaubert's Education sentimentale, Zola's L'oeuvre , Huysmans's à rebou rs. Studenalso examine secondary material about plot resistance to pleasure in art, and mimesis. The course is taught in French.
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4.00 Credits
Instruction includes grammar drills, review of reading, communication practice, guided composition, and language lab exercises. The course develops listening comprehension and speaking proficiency as well as reading and writing skills. Reading furnishes insights into many aspects of German civilization and culture, conveying what life is like in German-speaking countries today. This course is for students with little or no previous instruction in German.
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4.00 Credits
This course is for students with some background in German, but whose proficiency is not yet on the level of German 201. While emphasis is placed on a complete and accelerated review of elementary grammar and vocabulary, students hone their cultural proficiency and all four language skills (speaking, reading, writing, listening). Extensive work with the German tutor and in the Language Center is combined with conversational practice, writing simple compositions, and reading and analysis of modern German texts. Those who complete the course successfully are eligible to continue with German 202.
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