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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2005-2006
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FREN G4401. French Literature of the 18th Century. 3 pts. Joanna Stalnaker, 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 G6001. History and Structure of the French Language. 3 pts.. 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 G8628. Islamic Narrative and Francophone Literature of Africa and the Maghreb. 3 pts. Richard Serrano. In this course we will examine a series of classical Islamic narratives in order to determine how Islamic modes of narration influence contemporary writing in French of Africa and the Maghreb. Particular attention will be paid to textual analysis and historical and cultural context beyond the immediate ideological concerns of Postcolonial Studies.
FREN G8237. Sixteenth-Century Poetry in France: Genealogy and Loss. 3 pts. James Helgeson, A tension between genealogy and its disruption pervades both early modern France and its literature. Introduction to the poetry of the period by examining the double impulse to search for origins (political, historical, poetic) and to lament their irreparable loss.
FREN G8532. Baudelaire. 3pts. E. Ladenson. A close look at Baudelaire’s works, with a focus on the scandal of Les Fleurs du mal and its trial.
FREN G8715. Intellectual Innovation in Early Modern France. 3 pts. Pierre Force. A study of changing conceptions of "the new" in science, philosophy and literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Authors include Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, La Bruyère, Fontenelle, Du Bos, Voltaire.
FREN G8733. 20th Century French Theater : Texts, Theories, and Productions. 3 pts. Mary Shaw. An introduction to major writers, theorists, and directors shaping 20th-century French theater, from Jarry’s and Lugné-Poe’s 1896 staging of Ubu Roi to Cixous’ and Mnouchkine’s 1999 Tambours sur la digue. We will read nine plays, paying close attention to the written texts and to the kinds of theater and performances they suggest, as well as to supplementary materials (program notes, illustrations, critical reviews, photos, and videos) documenting actual practices and productions
CLFR G4001. Theory of Literature II: Roland Barthes. 3 pts. Antoine Compagnon.
FREN G4025. Practicum in French Language Pedagogy. 3 pts. Pascale Hubert-Leibler. Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.
FREN G4301. French Literature of the 17th Century. 3 pts. 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 G4601. French Literature of the 20th Century. 3 pts. Sylvère Lotringer. Introduction to the major literary and critical works of the 20th century.
FREN G6005. Stylistics. 3 pts. Gilles Philippe. The linguistic fundamentals of the study of style: the function of language; language and discourse; pragmatic aspects of communication; theories of literariness; notions of style; models of classic rhetoric. The theories and methods of modern stylistics. Style resources: lexicon; syntax; prosody; the grammar of the text; composition; narrative techniques; argumentation; metrics; prosodics. The text and the intertext. Stylistic analysis from the 16th to the 20th century of French texts in prose and in verse.
FREN G8091 Proseminar: Introduction t Literary Research. 3 pts. Pierre Force and Faculty. Designed for first-year graduate students. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of literary research.
FREN G8406. Rousseau. 3 pts. Caroline Weber. 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 G8690x. The Invention of the Real. 3 pts. Elisabeth Ladenson.
A study of how the idea of representing reality in its most sordid aspects developed over the course of the 19th century, from Stendhal to Zola, with emphasis on the ways in which Zola shaped later conceptions of this evolution by retrospectively framing a genesis of Naturalism. Texts also include works by Balzac, Flaubert, and Maupassant.
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