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Graduate Course Descriptions: 2007-2008
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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 G6001. History and Structure of the French Language. 3 pts., Sarah Kay.
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 G8091. Proseminar: Introduction to 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.
FRENG8220. Literature and Ethics, Montaigne to Proust. 3 pts., Antoine Compagnon. Examination of the uses, the powers, the values of literature. Its relation with the good life, both private and public. Its initiation to identity and difference. With close readings of texts and critics.
FREN G8300. European Quarrels (1680-1715). 3 pts., Marc Fumaroli.
A study of the quarrels that structured the European intellectual debate before the Enlightenment, in literature, painting, music, and theology. Authors include Racine, Watteau, La Fontaine, and Couperin.
CPLS G4262. The Subject and the Universal. 1.5 pts., Etienne Balibar.
Based on a fresh reading of key passages in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the class will discuss the philosophical idea of a "collective subject" and the relationship between the categories of community and universality on which it is grounded.
FREN G8615. Gender and Sexuality in the Maghreb. 3 pts., Madeleine Dobie.
This seminar explores questions of gender and sexuality raised in literary works and sociological and historical studies of the Maghreb. The course is conducted in English with readings and films in French and English. Arabic language works are read in English/French translation.
FREN G4000. Theory of Literature. 3 pts., Caroline Weber.
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 G4401. French Literature of the 18th Century. 3 pts., Madeleine Dobie.
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. 20th-Century Survey. 3 pts., Philip Watts.
Introduction to the major literary and critical works of the 20th century.
FREN G6005. Stylistics. 3 pts., G. Philippe.
The linguistic fundamentals of the study of style: the function of language; language and discourse; pragmatic aspects of communication; theories of literarity; 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 G8650. Inventing France: Nation and Empire, 3 pts., Emmanuelle Saada.
This class is an exploration of the connection between nation and empire in the French political imagination since the Revolution. This investigation will intersect questions about the writing of history and social sciences, the historical production of republican discourses, the articulation of race, class and nation, and the relation between “internal” and “external” forms of imperialism. Interdisciplinary in focus, the course is based on close readings of primary texts (literary, philosophical, historical, sociological and political interventions) as well as contemporary historiographical, anthropological and sociological reflexions.
FREN G8714. Science and Literature in Early Modern France. 3 pts., Joanna Stalnaker.
A study of the relationship between the "new sciences" and literary expression in the 17th and 18th centuries. Primary focus on French authors (Descartes, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and Rousseau), with background on Bacon, Locke and Newton. Central questions: are "science" and "literature" operative categories during the early modern period? How does scientific method impact literary form and vice versa? What are the origins of the modern antagonism between science and literature?
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