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FREN 013/HUMS074 |
Albert Camus: The Major Works (Alice Kaplan) An exploration of the major works–fiction, theater, political essays–of French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960). |
GROUP B & C |
ADVANCED AND LITERATURE COURSES IN FRENCH |
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Gateway courses |
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FREN 160 |
Advanced Culture and Conversation
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FREN 170 |
Introduction to the Study of Literature in French de France, Molière, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Duras, Proust, and Genet. |
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Advanced Language Course |
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FREN 198 |
Applied Advanced French Grammar literary selections, and English-to-French translation. Intended to improve students’ written command of French and to prepare them for upper-level courses; recommended for prospective majors. |
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General fields courses |
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FREN 240/LITR 214/HUMS 201 |
The Modern French Novel (Maurice Samuels, Alice Kaplan) A survey of major French novels, considering style and story, literary and intellectual movements, and historical contexts. Writers include Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Camus, and Sartre. Readings in translation. One section conducted in French. |
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FREN 245/THST 245 |
Twentieth Century Theater (Christopher Semk) An introduction to the works of major twentieth-century playwrights, including Anouilh, Ionesco, Beckett, Sartre, and Genet. Special emphasis on theater of the absurd. The social, cultural, and political contexts of the plays; questions relating to theater in performance. |
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Special topics courses |
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FREN 300/HUMS 161/ENGL 203 |
Medieval Shorts (R. Howard Bloch, Ardis Butterfield) Study of the medieval verse tales that are at the root core of humorous, realistic, and idealist literature in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Readings include a wide range of short works such as French fabliaux, fables and lais, novella from Boccaccio’s Decameron, English short tales and lyrics. English translations will be available for all texts, which will also be studied alongside their original languages. |
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FREN 333/WGSS357 |
Women Vagabonds in Literature and Film (Morgane Cadieu) and analyze how they deconstruct the traditional spatialization of sex and gender. French and Francophone literature by Colette, Confiant, Sebbar, Breton, Modiano, NDiaye. Films by Duras, Akerman, Varda, Truffaut. Theoretical excerpts on feminism and space theory. |
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FREN 335/HUMS235 |
Orientalism in Literature and Art (Marie-Hélène Girard, Maryam Sanjabi) seventeenth century to the twentieth. Topics include the problems of Orientalism; encounters with peoples, monuments, and cultures of the Muslim Middle East; social and political critique; and the popular lure of Oriental exoticism. Readings in English. |
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FREN 347/HSAR 280 |
Ekphrasis (Thomas Connolly) An exploration of ekphrasis, understood both as the verbal representation of visual representation and, more broadly, as the way in which one artistic discourse represents, critiques, or transgresses another. Manifestations of this rhetorical device in both Western and non-Western cultures from antiquity to the present. |
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FREN 389 |
Lovers of the Ancien Régime (Pierre Saint-Amand) A study of love and relationship in the literature of Old Regime France. Topics include major actors (the libertine, the fop), spaces (the boudoir, the salon, and the garden), and social practices (conversation). Authors include Molière, Madame de Lafayette, Crébillon fils, and Laclos. Conducted entirely in French. For students of superior linguistic ability. |
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FREN 414/MMES 261 |
The Algerian War of Independence and Its Literature (Jill Jarvis) role of women in the insurgency; the construction of an Algerian national identity; the issue of political commitment for intellectuals; debates on terrorism and the use of torture. Some attention to film. Readings from the works of Camus, Dib, Kateb, Memmi, Stora, Blanchard, and Fanon. |