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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 January, Spring Movements, ideas and issues of special interest such as Dada and surrealism, the rebel and the outsider in modern French literature, history and literature; the idea of Utopia, etc. All works are read and discussed in English. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: May be repeated when topics vary. No credit toward French major, but may be used to fulfill part of the B.A. language requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically An investigation of various forms of lifewriting translated from French, including autobiography, memoirs, diary, and correspondence. Texts, read in English, represent a wide variety of writings by women and men, from the Renaissance through the late twentieth century, from Francophonia as well as from metropolitan France.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Critical examination of certain tenets of Romanticism as they reflect and form images of women in 19th-century French narrative prose. The impact and continuing influence of these images of femininity on contemporary ideals of womanhood are analyzed. Readings include texts by major 19th-century French novelists like Sand, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, etc. All works are read in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Examination of literary voices from Francophone countries including Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia. Topics include decolonization and the African identity, the search for self, the contradictions of life in the colonies and racism. Readings include works by Memmi, Ben Jelloun, Snow-Fall, Senghor. All works are read and discussed in English. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Same as AFST 43. (Formerly Decolonizing the Mind: Contemporary Literature From Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.)
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Selected from among major authors of France from the middle ages to the 18th century. No credit toward major in French but may be used to fulfill part of the B.A. language or humanities requirement. All works are read and discussed in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Selected from among major authors of France of the 19th and 20th centuries. No credit toward major in French but may be used to fulfill part of the B.A. language or humanities requirement. All works are read and discussed in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Study of the intersection of narrative and musical phenomena as manifested in the French literary tradition. No formal musical knowledge required but a sensitivity to musical and literary forms and techniques is exploited and formalized. Texts represent French literature from the Middle Ages to modern day. All works are read and discussed in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Examination of the knightly themes established in the 12thcentury courtly romances Ywain and Tristan and Iseut, and their various embodiments in major literary works of the 17th and 18th centuries: the "splendid century" of French Classicism, and the age of Enlightenment and pre-Romanticism. Readings include works by Chrétien de Troyes, Corneille, Racine, Lafayette, Prévost, Voltaire, Sta l. All works are read and discussed in Englis
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Examination of post-Nietzchean French literature showing the failure of the romantic ideal and the virtual impossibility of attaining and maintaining a heroic status for the modern protagonist. While archetypal criticism is the principal means of approaching the works, other methods are encouraged. Literary works by Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Giraudoux, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet and the surrealists. Critical theory by Northrup Frye. All works are read and discussed in English.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Exploration of literary works from French Caribbean islands including Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. Readings include works by Cesaire, Damas, Tirolien, Clitandre, Conde, Schwarz- Bart, Roumain, and others. Topics covered include colonialism, decolonization, racism, and the African heritage. All works are read and discussed in English.
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