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3.00 Credits
Recommended as an introduction to the 300-level curriculum in French. Stresses clear, precise and idiomatic expression in both writing and speech through translation, exposés, debates, discussions and a series of short papers. Work on grammar and pronunciation as needed. (Kirk Anderson)
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3.00 Credits
Representative works of the 12th through the 15th centuries in modern French translation: La Vie de Saint Alexis, La Chanson de Roland, Tristan et Iseut, Chrétien de Troyes Yvain and Lancelot,Aucassin et Nicolette, Les Lais of Marie de France, La Chatelaine de Vergy, Le Mystère d'Ada m andthe poetry of Fran?is Villon. (Edward J. Gallagher)
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3.00 Credits
Not for a thousand years had there been such an upheaval in Western Europe as in the 16th century, marked by the end of Rome's hegemony and the consequent fragmentation of Christendom and, paradoxically, by a concomitant rediscovery of the pagan cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. We will consider these and other aspects of the period as we read and discuss the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre; Rabelais' seriocomical epics Gargantua; and Pantagruel; and selected essays by Montaigne, the inventor of the genre; as well as the poetic badinage of Marot, works of the Lyonnais poets Maurice Scève and Louise Labé;du Bellay's Les Regrets; and representative works from the prince of poets, Pierre de Ronsard. (Edward J. Gallagher)
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of what the phrase "lost in translation"implies. Translation is considered here not as an end in itself, but as an effective means to enrich vocabulary, to refine writing style, to review grammar and to appreciate better what is "untranslatable"in French and English. Not recommended for students seeking extensive oral practice in French. (Kirk Anderson)
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on great works of art and architecture, from the chateaux of the Loire Valley, Fontainebleau and Versailles to the great works of Napoléon, Haussmann and Fran?is Mitterand, weexamine the construction of French national identity while investigating the personal and political motives that have driven French heads of state to build a cultural empire with universal aspirations. (Cecile Danehy)
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3.00 Credits
Examines texts from mid-17th- to mid-18th-century France that influenced public opinion and shaped modern moral and social ideas. Special attention is paid to the notions of sociability, honnêteté, thebirth of individualism and to related questions of language and reciprocity. Readings include essays, plays and novels by authors like La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Molière, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot,Graffigny and Rousseau. (Jonathan David Walsh)
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3.00 Credits
From the late 17th century onward, French novels depict the waywardness of heart and mind, love and worldliness in stories that helped define the novel as we know it today. As they test the realms of nature and reason, they bear witness to the dramatic social and ideological changes that occurred over the course of the 18th century before the Revolution, changes reflected in sometimes disturbing power strategies between the sexes. Readings include works by Mme de Lafayette, Abbé Prévost, Crébillion fils, Mme Riccoboni, Diderot,Laclos and Sade. (Jonathan David Walsh)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies novels and short stories by contemporary women writers whose work defies traditional literary forms and introduces new modes of expression, whether as narrative experiments, figures of discourse or alternative texts-the body, for example, as metaphor or "text." We explore howthese writers respond to marginalization, subjugation or oppression through literature and how their stories operate on a political level. The course begins with a short introduction to French feminism. Authors include Cixous, Leclerc, Duras, Letessier, Hébert, Ernaux, Djébar, Tadjo, Ba.(Jonathan David Walsh) Connections: Conx 23006 Sexuality
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3.00 Credits
What is implied by the expression "the seventh art" How have French directors both resisted and appropriated the Hollywood formula How have they challenged social, political and sexual norms Discussion of films by Truffaut, Varda, Claire Denis, Godard, Bu?el, Tavernier and others. Lectures in English; readings, written work and discussions in English (Fr 246) or in French (Fr 346). (Jonathan David Walsh)
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis on representative shorter works in prose, theatre, poetry and cinema. Readings may include Proust, Apollinaire, Colette, Césaire, Sartre and the surrealists. Consideration of issues such as the decline of the realist novel, cross-pollination in the arts, the communal loss of innocence after the "Great War," and the birth of négritude.(Kirk Anderson)
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