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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Reading a selection of novels, short stories, historiography, and literary correspondence from 19th-century France, we will examine the troubling heritage of the French Revolution, the links between economic processes and narrative form, scientific and encyclopedic ambitions in literature, and the place of the fantastic and the macabre. Authors include Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and Barbey d'Aurevilly. Conference. Discussion in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. An examination of the novel and other narrative forms that developed in France from the 17th to the 19th century. The course will focus on the function of these new narrative forms within their social and historical contexts, with special emphasis on the institutionalized forms of public discourse that developed during the period and the various theories of representation upon which they drew. Authors covered will include Mme. de Lafayette, Prévost, Diderot, Laclos, Rousseau, Mme. de Duras, and Balzac. Discussion in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. The theory and decline of realism in the French novel will be discussed in Flaubert, Proust, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, and Sarraute. Focusing primarily on the evolution in narrative form from 1850 to 1960, this course will examine the shift in the modern novel from representing social structures or systems objectively to evoking subjectivity and provoking more complex reader-text transactions. Discussion in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. This course will examine narrative strategies since the late 1950s and their underlying aesthetic theories. The course will focus on several issues or problems, including the autonomy of the literary text, narrative as a space of encounter between objective reality and the creative imagination, and the construction of the subject through autofiction. How do the formal aspects of prose fiction place into question our experience of the self and the world To what extent are the self and the world disclosed through narrative, and what is the nature of this process Readings will include Robbe-Grillet, Perec, Duras, Hébert, Barthes, Modiano, Ernaux, and Condé. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. In this course, we will examine several plays by Corneille, Racine, and Molière. We will focus on how authority is established in a society where all authority is in question. We will look at the theatrical representation of kings, sultans, courtiers, nobles, doctors, servants, martyrs, and others in order to consider the various sources of power, authority, and sagacity in a political climate where dissimulation, spectacle, and divertissement often got you further than more traditional means. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference.
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Full course for one semester. Introduction to Francophone literature of the Caribbean. We will examine 20th-century Caribbean literature written in French including works by Maryse Condé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Rapha l Confiant, Edouard Glissant, and Aimé Césaire. Through the lens of contemporary postcolonial theory, we will look particularly at how these Caribbean writers figure political and social resistance in their works. We will discuss how these works underscore the inherent tensions between individual, national, and postcolonial identity. Discussion in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference. Not offered 2009-10
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores the emergence of a new poetic representation of the self in the 19th century and follows its development from the contemplative verses of Lamartine to the typographical experimentations of Mallarmé. Through reading a combination of canonical works (by poets of the Romantic, Parnassian, and Symbolist schools) and popular poetry, students will identify and reflect upon the rhetorical and prosodic innovations that upturned the idea of lyricism in the modern period. Topics include popular culture, the relation between the arts, hermeticism, irony, modernity. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will focus on poets since Mallarmé and the theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical projects of poetry in the context of modernity. Poets covered will include Apollinaire, Reverdy, Desnos, Eluard, Ponge, Bonnefoy, Guillevic, Réda, and Roubaud. The course will rely on close rhetorical readings in order to found an understanding of lyric poetry in the modern age, focusing on address, theories of performative language, relationships between figurative and literal language, and the materialism-textualism debate. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical avenues in 20th-century French theatre. Taking the concept of interprétation as a point of departure, we will examine the various intersections between modern theories of dramaturgy, acting, and stage production with a view to opening up the theatrical space to new modalities of reading. Authors studied include playwrights (Jarry, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Sartre, Beckett, Genet, Koltès, and Novarina) and major theoreticians of avant-garde theatre (Artaud, Grotowski, Brecht, Brooks, et al.). Students will gain a firsthand insight into the problems of staging and performing the theatrical text through watching excerpts of actual performances and in-class readings. Conducted in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
See Literature 400 for description. Literature 400 Description
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