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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2001-2002
CLFR G4001y - Theory of Literature, II
M. Riffaterre
The relation of literature to reality; mimesis vs. semiosis. A theoretical reconsideration of tropes, especially metaphor and metonomy.
CLFR G8525 - Rimbaud
M. Riffaterre
A semiotic analysis of the major poems of Illuminations and Saison en enfer.
CLFR G8623y - Rhetoric and the Arts in Early Modern France
Team-taught by P. Force and H. Ballon
A study of the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France from the Renaissance to the 18th century using the categories of rhetoric in order to develop a more critical understanding of the "Baroque" and the "Classical."
CLFR G8715 - Céline and Burroughs
Sylvere Lotringer
Burroughs once met Céline, but they spoke different languages. Yet both were great picaresque and satirical writers often misread as utopian pessimists. Burroughs was looking for out-of-body experience, Céline was for stronger roots, yet both were haunted by the fate of the human race, which they kept investigating in biological terms, sexual and viral for Burroughs, hygienic and eugenic for Céline. The purpose of this class is not to collapse the two, but to sharpen their singularity through their resonance.
French G 4401y - French Literature of the 18th Century
G. May
The leading writers of the French Enlightenment, notably Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Analysis also includes such major novelists as Lesage, Prévost, and Laclos.
French G6001y - History and structure of the French language
P. Creamer
Situates the French language within the Romance languages by tracing its archaeology from classical to popular Latin, then through Middle Ages. The basic notions of historical phonetics and an introduction to Old French. Translate texts from the 11th to the 15th centuries, with focus on those of 12th and 13th centuries.
French G6005y - Stylistics
H. Mitterand
The linguistic fundamentals in the studies of style: the function of language, language and discourse, problems of working, pragmatic aspects of communication, theory of literarity, notion of style, models of classic rhetoric. The theories and methods of modern stylistic. Style resources: lexicon, syntax, prosody, the grammar of the text, composition, narrative techniques, argumentation, descriptive, metrics, prosodic. The text and intertext. Stylistic analysis from the 16th to the 20th century of French texts in prose and in verse.
French G6110y - Three Novels of Realism
H. Mitterand
Close readings of three novels of the Ôrealist' and Ônaturalistic' period: Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Germinie Lacerteux (Edmond de Goncourt), and L'Assomoir (Zola). The major issues raised will be of both a historical and an aesthetical order.
French G6120 - Fantastic Fictions
D. Jullien
Some of the major fantastic narratives of the 19th century: Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gautier, Huysmans, Maupassant, Mérimée, Nerval, Nodier, Potocki, Jules Verne, Villiers de l'Ile-Adam: main critical theories of the genre: Castex, Caillois, Todorov.
French G6620 - Intuition/Reasoning
J. Helgeson
An introduction to the conceptions of intuitive and geometric reasoning in philosophical texts and in modern narrative fiction, with particular emphasis on the French tradition. Readings include Plato, Aristotle, Rabelais, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Poe, Proust, Christie, Beckett and Auster.
CLFR G4000x - Theory of Literature I
M. Riffaterre
The concept of literariness. Universals of literature. Literary sign systems: sociolect, idiolects, figurality, meaning vs. significance. Reader response: ambiguity, hermeneutic models, theory of gaps, the author as reader rationalization. Interpretive communities, ideologies, and reading.
CLFR G8760x - Text and Image: Religious Genres in France and Italy, 1570-1650
M. Fumaroli
A study of the connections between painting and religious eloquence in France and Italy from 1570 to 1650, with a focus on the Catholic vs. Protestant polemics regarding the use of images in religious practice. (6-week class, 9/5 to 10/27/01)
French G8727x - Metaphor, Metonymy and Symbol
M. Riffaterre
A semiotic approach to tropology with examples drawn from French poetry (with comparisons with English poetry) from the 15th century to the present.
French G4301x - French Literature of the 17th Century
P. Force
Theatre: a study of comic and tragic plays of the 17th century. Corneille, Molière, Racine. Prose genres of the Classical period: religious eloquence (Boussuet's Oraisons funèbres); polemics (Pascal's Provinciales); the novel (Madame de Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves); the epistolary genre (Madame de Sévigné's Lettres); and the aphoristic genre (La Rouchefoucauld's Maximes).
French G4601x - 20th Century French literature Survey
A. Compagnon
Introduction to the major literary and critical works of the 20th century.
French G6655x - Elements of Fictional Narratology
H. Mitterand
History, plot narrative, character, motives, description, dialogue, time, space, point of view, enunciation, intertext, social discourse. Patterns proposed by semiotics, rhetoric, Sociocriticism, psychoanalysis.
French G6703x - Evolution of Aesthetics: Problematics of the 18th Century Novel
G. May
The ascendency of fiction as a literary genre: the epistolary form, the memoir-novel, techniques of illusion, narration, and characterization. Authors include Montesquieu, Lesage, Marivaux, Crébillon, Prévost, Madame de Graffingny, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade.
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