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3.00 Credits
Analysis of works by women in France during the first 1,000 years of French literary history. Authors include Radegund, Dhuoda, Heloise, Marie de France, the female troubadours and trouvères, Marguerite Porete, Christine de Pizan and Louise Labé. Topics include the problem of female voices in manuscript culture; women's roles in convents, courts and the family; spirituality and heresy; sexuality and desire; changing ideas of honor; female authors' critique of misogyny and their rewriting of courtly and clerical models. Oral presentations and written projects. Taught in French. Prerequisite, 211 or 212.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the faces of love in different medieval literary genres. Authors and works read include Marie de France's Lais, Chrétien de Troyes, Guillaume de Lorris, Aucassin et Nicolette, Adam de la Halle's Le jeu de la feuillée, and the fabliaux. Prerequisite, One 300-level course or above, or consent of the instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Combines an introduction to 17th-century French culture and society with an analysis of the period's thinking on manners, morals, ambition, spiritual devotion, duty, self-love, hypocrisy and animal souls. Special attention to the role the passions play for this age in the works of authors such as Descartes, François de Sales, La Bruyère, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Lafayette, Molière, Pascal and Racine. (Oral Presentations.) Prerequisite, 211 or 212 or consent of instructor. One 300-level course strongly recommended. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Rousseau and Diderot, among other authors, contributed in different but important ways to the rise of sensibility and the emerging gender confusion in 18th-century France. Whereas the court case of Mlle Rosette in the first half of the century still points to the association of cross-dressing with madness, the life of the chevalier/chevalière d'Eon in the second half of the century indicates greater tolerance, if not acceptance, of gender-bending roles. Readings include fictional works, philosophical essays, biographies, and legal cases of the period. Prerequisite, 211, 212 or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of free thinkers and philosophers, rakes and scoundrels, and sex and seduction in French literature of the late 17th- and 18th-centuries. The course considers the ways in which the shifting notion of libertinage served to frame moral and intellectual reflections on individual freedom, society, sexual desire and human nature. Includes readings by Viau, Molière, Crébillon fils, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Casanova, Sade and Denon ; modern cinematic adaptations and selected works by the 18th-century painters Boucher and Fragonard. (Oral Presentations.) Prerequisite, 211-212 or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the ways in which an increasingly modern Paris looms large in the 19th-century imagination. Explores developments in the arts (drawing, caricature and photography) and writing (journalism and literature) to examine topics such as money, pleasure, looking, flanerie, fashion, social class and gender within the context of urban decay and renewal. Attention to the historical and social geography of Paris complements study of writers such as Mercier, Balzac, Girardin, Baudelaire and Zola and artists such as Texier, Daumier and Nadar. (Oral Presentations.) Prerequisite, one 300-level course or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the representation of spiritual crisis and social transgression in selected works of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Old French literature, including the Vie de Saint Alexis, the letters of Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France's Eliduc, Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain and Perceval, La Mort du Roi Artu, selected fabliaux, and Aucassin et Nicolette. Prerequisite, one course numbered 211 or higher. Oral presentations and written reports. Taught in French. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Selected "classic" 19th-century novels and the films they have inspired. While examining the place these novels occupy in the French cultural record, our perspective will also be comparative as we examine the modalities of each medium in terms of techniques and structures. How did these fictions represent French society and history, and how, in turn, does cinema translate these 19th-century novels? Authors may include works by Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert and Zola. Taught in French. Prerequisite, one 300-level course or consent of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine emerging and competing forms of the French novel in the first half of the 19th century, exploring their engagements ith romantic individualism, sentimental fictions, recent history and, ultimately, realist aesthetics. Authors studied may include Hugo, Balzac, Duras, Sand Girardin, Stendhal and Flaubert. Prerequisite, one 300-level course or consent of the instructor. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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3.00 Credits
Examines various representations of the wars that have marked 20th-century France. As tragic as wars are, they inspire texts in an unlimited variety of formats and media and tones (tragic, ambiguous, mundane and comical) that respond to specific needs, and impact their "public" in different ways. Course material includes 20th-century novels, fiction and documentary film; paper and electronic news media; monuments and museums, popular forms of expression (soldiers' letters, jokes, songs, games); and other visual arts. (Oral Presentations.) Prerequisite, one 300-level course or consent of instructor. Course may include off-campus visits. Maximum enrollment, 16.
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