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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2004-2005
FREN G4003 - Teaching Advanced French Grammar and Stylistics
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
FREN G4105 - Medieval French Literature
Paul Creamer
An introduction to the literature of the French Middle Ages from La Vie de Saint Alexis to Villon's Testament. The changes in the language are approached through the study of the literary context represented by a canon of texts, with frequent exercises in translation.
FREN G4203 - 16th-Century French Literature
James Helgeson
Survey of prose: notably, Rabelais and Montaigne, and poetry, the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, Marot, Scève, the Pléiade, Desportes, the religious poets.
FREN G6703 - Evolution of Aesthetics: Diderot
Gita May
Major theories of literature and art in the second half of the 18th-century through an examination of Diderot's writings on the novel, drama and painting.
FREN G8092 - MA Essay Direction
FREN G8xxx - Women, Writing and Power (1750-1850)
Joanna Stalnaker
A survey of major works by women from the Enlightenment, French Revolution and first half of the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the relationship of women writers to the political and cultural institutions in power during their time. Readings will include works by Graffigny, Genlis, Charrière, Roland, de Gouges, Desbordes-Valmore, de Sta‘l and Sand.
FREN G8626 - 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.
CLFR G8820 - Consuming Signs
Sylvère Lotringer
The rise of French consumer culture in the 60s from theory (Lefebvre, Barthes, Baudrillard, Debord) to literature (Perec, Oulipo), art (Nouveaux Réalistes, Yves Klein) and politics (the Algerian War, May '68).
PEDA G4025 - Practicum in French Language Pedagogy
Pascale Hubert-Leibler
LITR G4000 - Theory of Literature: Intertextuality Revisited
Antoine Compagnon
Intertextuality was invented in the 1960s to characterize interrelations between texts. Soon ubiquitous, it remains nonetheless problematic. Understood subversively, it refers to any echo of a text - anterior or not - in another text; in a more traditional usage, its meaning has been restricted to sources and influences. The theory and history of the notion needs to be reviewed, with examples of some of its applications.
FREN G8091 - Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Research
Antoine Compagnon, members of the faculty
Designed for first-year graduate students. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of literary research.
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 G8845 - Romanticism and the Emotions from Mme de Sta‘l to Baudelaire
Patrizia Lombardo
Romantic literature has expressed the power of feelings in human life, stressing the contrast between melancholy and enthusiasm, hope and despair, historical consciousness and the analysis of the self. Authors include Mme de Sta‘l, Chateaubriand, Constant, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert.
FREN G8598 - Céline, Artaud: The Quest for Delirium
Sylvère Lotringer
Both Antonin Artaud and Céline were powerful writers and wild cultural critics whose delirium brought out in the open what was yet in the offing: madness, fanaticism, racism, war.
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