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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will examine three crucial moments in French history and culture: the rise to power of Louis XIV, the French Revolution, and the Vichy regime during the German Occupation. Through the reading of archives, memoirs, historical accounts, and novels, we will consider representations of three distinct regimes and the crises they created or meant to resolve. In addition, we will see films such as Rossellini's [The Rise to Power of Louis XIV], Hollywood's interpretation of [A Tale of Two Cities], and Claude Chabrol's dark account of occupied France, [Histoire de femmes].
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Readings in the French novel 1930-1980 variously centered on intellectual argument, the description of everyday life, formal experimentation and social psychology. Texts include works of high literary ambition as well as examples of popular and mass-market fiction. Particular attention will be paid to author-reader relations and to the meaning of form.
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This course examines the rise of a culture of memory in 19th century France in response to the stresses of modernization - including the Revolution, the growth of industrial capitalism, the rise of democracy, large-scale urban changes, and French colonial expansion. We will read memoirs, historical romances, science fiction, naturalist novels, and ethnographic fables by authors such as Chateaubriand, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verne, Zola, and Segalen, which tap into and often fabricate memories (personal, cultural, national, prehistoric) to help forge poetic responses to the shocks of modernity.
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What is violence? Visible and invisible, legitimate and illegitimate, the course will examine a selection of critiques of this ubiquitous phenomenon. Topics to include revolutionary violence in France and Haiti, the critique of colonial violence from Montaigne to Fanon and Ouologuem, and the Sartre-Merleau-Ponty-Camus debate over Soviet violence and the Algerian war. Critical writings to include Robespierre, Louverture, Benjamin, Sartre, Arendt, Foucault, Zizek, Badiou. Films will also be included.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The dark. The screen. The projector. The light in the dark. The music. The getaway car. The starlet. The director. The French New Wave. A course on how to read films through the revolutionary cinema of French New Wave directors François Truffaut, Robert Bresson, Jacques Demy and Jean-Luc Godard, and close contemporaries Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. We will also look at the films that inspired them, their call to aesthetic irreverence, and the Auteur theory at the heart of their theory and practice of filmmaking.
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This course is designed to provide a formal environment for French senior concentrators to refine their command of literature, culture, and thought, as well as to foster their writing skills. In addition, the seminar helps prepare students for the department's final comprehensive examination. Major texts from the French and francophone traditions will be studied weekly, and, in addition to being discussed, will serve as bases for writing workshops. An important part of the seminar will also be dedicated to the art of translation.
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This course will combine a general introduction to Literary Theory with the in-depth study of a small number of representative original texts. One half of our weekly time will be dedicated to a survey of the field using a teaching anthology, the other will concentrate on 4 or 5 texts on the theme of "Human and Posthuman" using authors such as Freud, Deleuze, Agamben, and Derrida. Taught in English. Texts for in-depth study may be read in English or the original language (French, German, Italian). Papers may be written in English or French.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Designed to provide future teaching assistants with the knowledge and conceptual tools needed to reflect critically on pedagogical practices in the second language classroom. Examines issues related to teaching language and culture in a university setting, highlighting the relationship between theory in Second Language Acquisition and language pedagogy and helping students understand the practical implications of theoretical frameworks in the field.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Medieval thought, Augustinian or Aristotelian, officially separates human beings from (other) animals. But medieval beliefs and practices-in commerce, religion, blazonry, horsemanship, genealogy, law, and mythology-trouble their separation. Texts of all kinds reflect this category disturbance, often highly imaginatively as in tales of talking or companion or criminal animals, or of metamorphoses such as werewolves. Copied in books made from the skins of some animals, and read to audiences wearing the furs of others, the scene of medieval reading questions the human-animal divide which language supposedly inaugurates.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of Montaigne's "Essais" (1581-1595) and of Descartes's and Pascal's responses to the great essayist's philosophy and literary form.
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