CLFR G4000x Theory of Literature I 3 pts. 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, L�vi-Strauss, Greimas, Barthes, Genette, Ricoeur, Danto, Pavel).

CLFR G4000y Theory of Literature 3 pts. 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.

CLFR G4001y Theory of Literature II 3 pts. What is an author, a text, a reader, an interpretation? What determines esthetic judgments? Readings will include Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

CLFR G4001x Theory of Literature: Roland Barthes 3 pts. Reading Roland Barthes from Writing Degree Zero to Camera Lucida, with emphasis on theory, history, and criticism, on modernism and classicism.

CLFR G4002x Theory of Literature I: Intertextuality Revisited 3 pts. 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.

CLFR G4012 Some Puzzles for Theory 3 pts. Theory has not purged commonsensical ideas about literature. We tend to harbor a double, conflicting consciousness, at once textual and popular. Restoring theory to its oppositional edge so as not to turn it into a positivist technique, we plan to define it through the notions it countered, asking also why they survived.

FREN G4025x or y Practicum In French Language Pedagogy 3 pts. Designed for new Teaching Fellows. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of French language pedagogy.

CLFR G4090 Reading French Theory 3 pts. Introduction to French formalism 1940-1970. A seminal article or chapter read or discussed each week. Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Blanchot, Benveniste, Althusser, Foucault, Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida, Genette, and their foreign masters: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Saussure, Heidegger, Jakobson. Texts in English or French, discussion in English.

FREN G4105x Introduction To Medieval Literature 3 pts. 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.

CLFR G4190y Renaissance Lyric 3 pts.

FREN G4203x French Literature of the 16th Century 3 pts. Survey of prose: notably, Rabelais and Montaigne, and poetry, the Grands Rh�toriqueurs, Marot, Sc�ve, the Pl�iade, Desportes, the religious poets

FREN G4301x French Literature of the 17th Century 3 pts. 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 G4401 French Literature of the 18th Century 3 pts. The leading writers of the Age of Enlightenment, notably Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, and such major novelists as Lesage, Pr�vost, Marivaux, and Laclos.

FREN G4501x French Literature of the 19th Century 3 pts. A survey and textual analysis of prose and poetry of the 19th century

FREN G4508 From Baudelaire To Structuralism: Ins and Outs of Criticism 3 pts. Survey of French literary criticism as it shifts from rhetoric to history, from art to science, from impressionism to linguistics, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and after. Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Taine, Lanson, Proust, Thibaudet, Bachelard, Sartre, Barthes.

FREN G4601y French Literature of the 20th Century 3 pts. Introduction to the major literary and critical works of the 20th century.

FREN G6310 Racine 3 pts. A close reading of Racine's tragedies, with emphasis on the theory of the genre, the poetic language, the religious and social context, and the history of interpretation.

CLFR G6608 Modern Theories of Writing 3 pts. French Theory and American Criticism In the 1980s

CLFR G6609 Textes De Rupture 3 pts. Durkheim, Mauss, Gabriel Tarde.

CLFR G6625 Proust and the Arts 3 pts. A reading of Proust's novel from the point of view of its literary, philosophical and artistic context in Europe: Schelling and Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Bergson, Wagner and Fauré, Tolstoy, Eliot and Hardy, Ruskin and Turner.

FREN G8000 Baudelaire�s Le Spleen De Paris 3 pts. Close reading of Baudelaire's prose poems, with relation to the history and theory of the genre, the contemporary movement from prosody to free verse, the definition of modernity, the reception and influence of the collection, and the problematic meaning of a text that still challenges interpretation.

FREN G8020x or y (Section 001) The Oral and the Written in Francophone Literature 3 pts. A study of what it means to transform oral Myths and Tales into written literature; to go, as Congolese writer Tchicaya U�Tamsi puts it, �de la chose orale � la chose �crite� (from the oral thing to the written thing). The way in which orature (oral literature) plays with itself and the way in which writing �plays� with orality will be studied through different francophone African authors and French ethnologists: Tchicaya U�Tamsi, Marcel Griaule, Blaise Cendrars, Amadou Hampate Ba, Birago Diop, L�opold Sedar Senghor, Abdoulaye Sadji, Bernard Dadie, Ousmane Soce Diop, Jean-Louis Copans, Philippe Couty.

FREN G8091x-G8092 Proseminar: Introduction To Literary Research 3 pts. Designed for first-year graduate students. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of literary research.

FREN G8091x Proseminar: Introduction to Literary Research Designed for first-year graduate students. An introduction to the conceptual and practical tools of literary research.

FREN G8093-G8094 Study Abroad: Research Under the French University System 3-12 pts.

FREN G8220x Literature and Ethics, Montaigne to Proust 3 pts. 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 G8235 Text and Image in the Middle Ages 3 pts. In a very specific subfield of text/image studies, we will lool at works with an iconographic project.

FREN G8237 16th-Century Poetry In France: Genealogy and Loss 3 pts. 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 G8300x European Quarrels 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.

FREN G8312 Literature and Politics In the 17th Century 3 pts. Political power and its representation in memoirs (Cardinal de Retz, Saint-Simon); in drama (Corneille); and in political theory (Pascal).

FREN G8418 The Invention of Classicism 3 pts. French Neo-Classicism, as seen by its practitioners and its contemporary theoreticians (Corneille, Pascal, Boileau, D'Aubignac), and also by critics from the 18th to the 20th century (Voltaire, Lanson, Bray). Analysis of a few canonical works from the Classical period, in order to arrive at a definition of Classicism that will integrate the descriptive and normative aspects of the notion.

CLFR G8420y THE HERMENEUTIC TRADITION 3 pts. 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.

CPLT G8470 Le Drame: Revolutions In French Theater 3 pts. This course will study various forms of the drame, an experimental theatrical genre conceived during the Enlightenment and fundamentally transformed by the French Revolution and the Romantic movement. Readings will include plays by Diderot, Mercier, Beaumarchais, Gouges, Sade, Pixer�court, Hugo, Vigny, Dumas and Musset, in conjunction with theoretical texts in which these authors define the drame as a revolutionary departure form the Classical French tradition.

FREN G8490 Writing Revolution, 1789-1848 3 pts. This course will study a variety of literary and historiographical responses to the challenge of writing about the revolutionary phenomenon in France. Particular attention will be given to the question of how new literary and historiographical forms were invented, or old ones transformed, in response to this challenge. Readings will include works by Roland, Mercier, Rétif de la Bretonne, Beaumarchais, Sade, Hugo, Chateaubriand, de Staël, Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Flaubert, Michelet and Tocqueville.

FREN G8516y Women in/of Disorder 3 pts.

In this course, we will consider the configuration of various female characters in twentieth century literature of the French-speaking world, focusing specifically on what these characters reveal about the concerns � at once social and aesthetic � that mark the historical and political realities of their creators. Looking at texts from France, West Africa, North Africa, and the Caribbean, we will take note of the manner in which the presentation of �disorderly� women in many ways facilitates the expression of original and subversive discourse. We will explore, for example, the points of intersection between racial and sexual otherness, and examine such phenomena as domestic dissatisfaction, accusatory madness, and unbridled eroticism as fundamentally destabilizing of conventional narrative authority.

FREN G8532 Baudelaire 3 pts. A close look at Baudelaire's works, with a focus on the scandal of Les Fleurs du mal and its trial.

FREN G8560x The Idea of Genius C18th - C20th 3 pts. The idea of genius as it is developed in the modern period; genius as a quality vs genius as the individual; Exemplarity/Pathology

FREN G8587y Literature and Anthropology in France 3 pts.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,
M�traux, Griaule, Leiris, L�vi-Strauss, Blanchot, Bataille, Barthes, and
Clifford.

FREN G8595x SITUATIONISM 3 pts.

FREN G8606 Proust, Zion, Sodom 3 pts. Inquiry into the status of the narrator in the Recherche, his relationship with the protagonist and the author, his possible sexuality and Jewish identity. Close reading of the Recherche with respect to the representation of homosexuality and Jewishness, homophobia, and anti-semitism.

FREN G8615x Gender and Sexuality in the Maghreb 3 pts. 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 G8618 African Literature and Philosophy 3 pts. Negritude: Literature and Philosophy. The movement of Negritude started in the 1930�s in Paris by African and Caribbean francophone writers was at once a literary and a philosophical project. The literature of Negritude will then be studied in this seminar as literature and as philosophy.

FREN G8624x Francophone Literature of Lebanon/Syria/Egypt 3 pts. 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 G8626 Francophone Literature and Cinema of the Maghreb 3 pts. 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.

FREN G8629 Multiculturalism in French Literature and Cinema 3 pts.

FREN G8633x or y Cinema and Democracy in France In this class we will focus on the films of two moments of political crisis--The 1936 Popular Front and May 68--to examine the ways in which (mostly) fictional films ask their spectators to think both about the relation between aesthetics and politics.

CLFR G8670 The Anti-Moderns 3 pts. From Burke and de Maistre, an inquiry into the counter-revolutionary, anti-progress, frequently catholic, reactionary undercurrent that permeated modernism, and induced its ambivalent aesthetics, up to post-modernism. Modernism and its discontents in Coleridge and Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Renan, Huysmans and Bloy, Bernanos and Celine, T.S. Eliot and Pound, the College of sociology (Bataille and Caillois).

FREN G8690x The Invention of the Real 3 pts. 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.

FREN G8702 Flaubert. 3 pts. In French. Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale with focus on the novel's careful observance of society and its technical and stylistic virtuosity; critical studies since the 1970s; attention given to the history of French thought and the general problems of the romantic aesthetic.

CLFR G8730y Levi-Strauss on trial 3 pts. A historical study of some of the main controversies raised by Claude L�vi-Strauss' work, in the anthropological field as well as in the intellectual arena in general, between 1945 and 1970.

FREN G8740 Literature and Immigration 3 pts. An exploration of the intersection between France's history of postcolonial immigration and contemporary literary production. Through readings of novels, philosophical essays, and sociological studies we explore the varied and changing ways in which writers have rendered experiences of migration and the status of immigrants and their descendants in French society.

FREN G9001-G9004 Research In Stylistics and Poetics 3 pts.

FREN G9101-G9102 Research In Medieval Literature 3 pts.

FREN G9201-G9204 Research In French Renaissance Literature 3 pts.

FREN G9301-G9304 Research In French Baroque and Neo-Classical Literature 3 pts.

FREN G9401-G9404 Research In French Literature of the Age of the Enlightenment 3 pts.

FREN G9501-G9504 Research In the Literature of French Romanticism 3 pts.

FREN G9601-G9604 Research In Modern French Literature From 1885 To WW II. 3 pts.

FREN S9605-G9608 Research In Contemporary French Writing Since WW II 3 pts.

FREN G9611-G9614 Research In Modern Poetry From the Time of Baudelaire 3 pts.

FREN G9701-G9704 Special Studies In French Literature 3 pts.