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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2006-2007
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FREN G4105 Introduction To Medieval Literature 3 pts. A. Pairet-Vinas. 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 G4501 French Literature of the 19th Century 3 pts. E. Ladenson. A survey and textual analysis of prose and poetry of the 19th century
CLFR G8420 The Hermeneutic Tradition 3 pts. P. Force. A conceptual and historical study of what it is to read historically, with a focus on the hermeneutic tradition. Authors include Erasmus, Spinoza, Schleiermacher, Droysen, Dilthey, Heidegger, R. G. Collingwood, Gadamer, Habermas, Hayden White, and Paul Ricoeur
FREN G8560 The Idea of Genius C18th - C20th 3 pts. A. Jefferson. The idea of genius as it is developed in the modern period; genius as a quality vs genius as the individual; Exemplarity/Pathology
FREN G8595 Situationism 3 pts. S. Lotringer.
FREN G8624 Francophone Literature of Lebanon/Syria/Egypt 3 pts. M. Dobie. Readings in French as well as some Arabic/English language literary works and films from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt. Contextual readings in postcolonial theory, and on topics such as war and literature, gender in the Middle East.
FREN G4203 French Literature of the 16th Century 3 pts. J. Helgeson. Survey of prose: notably, Rabelais and Montaigne, and poetry, the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, Marot, Scève, the Pléiade, Desportes, the religious poets
FREN G8475 The End of Enlightenment, 3 pts, J. Stalnaker
A study of how the Enlightenment ended, and what its end results were from the perspective of its defenders and critics. Special attention will be paid to the notion of Counter-Enlightenment, and to the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Authors include Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos, de Gouges, de Sade, La Harpe, Bonald and de Maistre.
FREN G8518 Colette, 3 pts, E. Ladenson.
A close look at Colette’s life and works, concentrating on the ways in which she forged her own legend in her fiction and autobiographical writings.
FREN G8587 Literature and Anthropology in France, 3 pts, Vincent Debaene.
A historical study of the relationships between literature and anthropology in France throughout the 20th Century, from the birth of Durkheimian sociology to Barthes’ post-structuralism. Authors studied include Lanson, Agathon, Métraux, Griaule, Leiris, Lévi-Strauss, Blanchot, Bataille, Barthes, and Clifford.
FREN G 8716 Literature and Eloquence in Early Modern France, 3 pts, P. Force.
A study of the rhetorical tradition in French literature from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Authors include Montaigne, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pascal, Bossuet, Longinus in Boileau's translation, Rousseau, de Staël, Chateaubriand.
FREN G8840 Perec, 3 pts, Sylvere Lotringer.
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