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3.00 Credits
J. Naughton This course focuses on some of the major poets of the 19th century, by studying their work in the context of the greater political, social, and historical events of the time. Readings concentrate on representative texts of the following poets: Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, and others. (Formerly FREN 452.)
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3.00 Credits
J. Naughton This course analyzes some major poets of the 20th century in the context of greater artistic, political, and social movements. Readings focus on representative texts of the following poets: Apollinaire, Claudel, Valéry, Breton, Jouve, Emmanuel, Bonnefoy, Ponge, Jaccottet, and others. (Formerly FREN 453.)
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3.00 Credits
H. Julien This seminar examines the development and specificities of 20th-century autobiographical texts. While the main focus is on the texts themselves, some related theoretical problems are also considered, such as the conditions and possibility of writing the "self", autobiography's link to other types of personal writings, its relationship to fiction, and its role in our modern definition of "humanity." This genre being rooted in questions of the emergence of the "self," particular attention is given to women, homosexuals, and francophone writers, who were traditionally regarded as "other." Authors read may include Proust, Gide, Sartre, Beauvoir, Sarraute, Leiris, Yourcenar, Bigras, Laye, Leduc, and Roy. ( Formerly FRE
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3.00 Credits
B. Lintz This course focuses on the novel in the first half of the 19th century. The texts selected for discussion, as well as the visual materials used in the course, are centered on the representation of the hero in crisis in post-revolutionary France. The course examines critically such issues as le mal du siècle, changing conceptions of the self and gender relations in the wake of the French Revolution, social ambition and the desire to succeed, and the impact of the city on the individual. Works by such authors as Chateaubriand, Mme de Dura, Hugo, Sand, Constant, Stendhal, and Balzac are studied in the context of the dominant literary mode of romanticism and the changing political and social scene under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. (Formerly FREN 463.)
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3.00 Credits
B. Lintz This seminar focuses on the novel in the second half of the 19th century. Works by such authors as Dumas fils, Flaubert, Maupassant, Daudet, and Zola are studied in the context of the literary modes of realism and naturalism, and their reaction against romanticism. The texts selected for discussion, as well as the visual materials used in the course, are usually centered on the representation of women, changing definitions of femininity and masculinity, and leading social and ideological issues of the time. (Formerly FREN 464.)
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3.00 Credits
H. Julien This seminar examines some of the most important novels and plays of the first half of the 20th century, until World War II. Authors read generally include Gide, Proust, Breton, Malraux, Giraudoux. The following questions are discussed: How did these writers see their role in the rapidly changing social and political climate of the period How did they transform the two dominant literary modes of the end of the 19th century (naturalism and symbolism) to express more modern concerns How is one to understand the emergence of an introspective hero who so often searches for his or her identity on the margins of society (Formerly FREN 465.)
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3.00 Credits
H. Julien The concerns of this seminar are similar to those of FREN 450 ( formerly FREN 465); the works read, however, are from World War II to the present. Authors usually include Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Duras, Modiano, Le Clézio. (Formerly FREN 466.)
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3.00 Credits
H. Julien This seminar examines the literature written in French by Maghrebi and Beur women authors since the early 1980s. The product of a colonial and post-colonial history, this is a literature where cultures, histories, identities, genres, and languages intersect. It gives voice to new questions of identity and self-definition through the exploration of traditional as well as innovative forms of writing. In order to establish the historical and cultural contexts in which this body of literature has emerged and is growing, the course includes an overview of the history of Franco-Maghrebi relations and Maghrebi immigration to France. Through the reading of texts by Maghrebi and Beur authors, this course explores and discusses issues such as imperialism and colonialism, post-colonialism, cultural translocation, identity politics, gender and race, religion, multilingualism, sexuality, urban development and design, etc. Prerequisites: two 350-level literature courses. (Formerly FREN 470, Women's Voices in Contemporary Beur and Maghrebi Literature.)
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3.00 Credits
Staff This course is taught at the University of Burgundy and limited to France Study Group participants.
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3.00 Credits
Staff These seminars, offered on an irregular basis, provide the opportunity for extensive study of the works of the most distinguished authors writing in the French language. They are taught by faculty members who have particular interest and expertise in the literature to be examined.
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