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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2002-2003
CLFR G4001 - Theory of Literature II
Michael Riffaterre
The relation of literature to reality ; semiosis. A survey of tropes, especially metaphor and metonymy.
FREN G6703 - Evolution in Aesthetics : Diderot
Gita May
Aesthetic issues and controversies in the second half of the eighteenth century through an examination of Diderot's novels and writings on drama and painting.
FREN G8470 - Le Drame : Revolutions in French Theater
Joanna Stalnaker
This course will study various forms of the drame, an experimental theatrical genre conceived during the Enlightenment and fundamentally transformed by the French Revolution and the Romantic movement. Readings will include plays by Diderot, Mercier, Beaumarchais, Gouges, Sade, Pixerécourt, Hugo, Vigny, Dumas and Musset, in conjunction with theoretical texts in which these authors define the drame as a revolutionary departure form the Classical French tradition.
FREN G8506 - Hugo : le roman moderne
Michael Riffaterre
FREN G8544 Space and Time in the Novel
Henri Mitterand
FREN G8627 - Francophone Ethnographies
Madeleine Dobie
An examination of ethnographic methods and concerns in francophone literature ad film from the colonial era to the present day. This course explores the complex relationship between French colonial history and the ethnographic tradition, and considers different ways in which francophone writing has rejected, appropriated and transformed metropolitan ethnographic practices.
FREN G8730 - Twentieth-Century French Thought
NOTE: THIS COURSE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2004
Peter Connor
An introduction to a number of contemporary French theorists through close analysis of key texts. Authors will include Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot.
CLFR G8750 - Proust & Deleuze : Literature as Philosophy
Sylvère Lotringer
FREN G4000 - Theory of Literature, I
Michael 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.
FREN G8645 - Surrealism
Michael Riffaterre
A close description of surrealist imagery. Special emphasis on automatic writing and on the semioticization of the description.
FREN G4501 - French Literature of the 19th Century
Dominique Jullien
A survey and textual analysis of prose and poetry of the 19th century.
FREN G8091 - Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Research
M. Riffaterre & department faculty members
Practical applications of the theories discussed in French G8091 are presented by students and their sponsors in French G6005.
FREN G8102 - The Poet and His Love (6wk course)
Michel Zink
This course will examine the emergence of lyric poetry in France in the Middle Ages and its special characteristics, the changes it experiences during this period, the causes that could account for these changes, and their importance for the definition and the understanding of the idea of poetry.
FREN G8212 - Montaigne
Antoine Compagnon
A reading of Montaigne's Essais, with emphasis on the use of culture, philosophy of knowledge, and ethics; the self-portrait and the theory of writing.
FREN G8406 - Rousseau
Gita May
The development of Rousseau's thought and art as revealed in his major works of autobiography, fiction, criticism, and political theory, with emphasis on his impact on post-revolutionary writers.
FREN G8417 - Blaise Pascal, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric
Pierre Force
This seminar deals with the connections between hermeneutics and rhetoric in Pascal. We will focus on the notion of "Figure", which applies to both fields in a problematic way. We will use ancient hermeneutics and literary theory in order to define Pascal's general theory of interpretation.
FREN G8590 - Imaginary Homelands
Maryse Condé
The colonial subject searches for him/her self through the appropriation of an imaginary homeland, which does not fall into the Manichean structure of the colonized/colonizer relationship.
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