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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2003-2004
CLFR G4001 - Theory of Literature II
Peter Connor
What is an author, a text, a reader, an interpretation? What determines aesthetic judgments? Readings will include Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
CLFR G8460 - Readings in Literary Theory and (Analytic) Philosophy of Language
James Helgeson
FREN G4301 - French Literature of the 17th Century
Pierre Force
A one-semester survey of seventeenth-century French literature, with an emphasis on the relationship between literature and the major cultural, philosophical, and religious developments of the period.
FREN G6001 - History and Structure of the French Language
Paul Creamer
Situates the French language within the Romance languages by tracing its archeology 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.
FREN G6005 - Stylistics
Henri Mitterand
The basic linguistic and semiotic notions used in the literary analysis of various genres (poetry, novel, theater). As a practical application of these notions, every session will be dedicated to an explication de texte.
FREN G6640 - Autobiography in the 20th Century
Dominique Jullien
Autobiography as a literary genre in the 20th century, with attention to such forerunners as Augustine, Montaigne and Rousseau. Modern subjectivity as exemplified by Gide, Leiris, Sartre, Adamov, Barthes, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet, etc.
FREN G8403 - Pre-Romantic Currents In 18th-Century French Literature
Gita May
New trends in the second half of the 18th century; the emergence of the age of sensibility and individualism in literature and the arts. Works of fiction, autobiography, drama, poetry, and art criticism from Diderot, Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sedaine, Beaumarchais, and Chénier.
FREN G8490 - Writing Revolution, 1789-1848
Joanna Stalnaker
This course will explore experimentations in literary and historiographical form developed in response to the challenge of writing the revolutionary phenomenon. Authors will include Mercier, Roland, Condorcet, Sta‘l, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Musset, Sand, Michelet, Tocqueville.
FREN G8729 - Aragon, a Novelist
Henri Mitterand
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), a surrealist poet and politically committed writer, is also one of the greatest novelists in the 20th century. Texts to be read and analyzed include Le Paysan de Paris, Les Cloches de Bâle, Les Voyageurs de l'impériale, Aurélien, La Semaine sainte, Théâtre-Roman.
CLFR G4000 - Theory of Literature I
Madeleine Dobie
Narrative theory and representations of time (Aristotle, Augustine, Kant); narrative forms and genres (myth, epic, drama, novel, history, biography, autobiography) from a variety of perspectives (Propp, Lévi-Strauss, Greimas, Barthes, Genette, Ricoeur, Danto, Pavel).
CLFR G8800 - People, Masses, Multitudes: From Freud and Reich to Deleuze and Negri
Sylvère Lotringer
From Durkheim's notion of the "social" to Freud's "group psychology," Canetti's "masses," and Négri's "multitude," an examination of theories of the "collective band" in sociology, philosophy and literature.
FREN G4025 - Practicum in French Language Pedagogy
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
Designed for new teaching fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.
FREN G4401 - French Literature of the 18th Century
Gita May
The leading writers of the Age of Enlightenment, notably Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, and such major novelists as Lesage, Prévost, Marivaux, and Laclos.
FREN G4601 - French Literature of the 20th Century
Sylvère Lotringer
Introduction to the major literary and critical works of the 20th century.
FREN G8091 - Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Research
Pierre Force, members of the faculty
Designed for first-year graduate students. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of literary research.
FREN G8322 - Mapping French Classicism
Patrick Dandrey
(9/22 to 10/29) The spirit and the various elements - aesthetic, poetic and social - of French classicism (ca 1640-1700) examined from a topographical point of view in order to explore the imaginary and real spaces that have most marked the classical era.
FREN G8626 - Francophone Literature and Cinema of the Maghreb
Madeleine Dobie
Study of key texts, genres and intellectual currents of Maghrebian and 'beur' or immigration literature and cinema from the 1950s to the present. Authors include Yacine, Memmi, Fanon, Dib, Chraïbi, Boudjedra, Djebar, Khatibi, Ben-Jelloun, Tadjer, Mokkadem. NB. In Fall 2003, this course will be taught as an independent study course. Please contact the instructor for further information. Graduate
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