FRENLIT 130:
Authorship, Book Culture, and National Identity in Medieval and Renaissance France
Introduction to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The birth of a national literature and its evolution. Literature as addressing cultural, philosophical, and artistic issues which question assumptions on love, ethics, art, and the nature of the self. Readings: epics (La Chanson de Roland), medieval romances (Tristan, Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain), post-Petrarchan poetics (Du Bellay, Ronsard, Labé), and prose humanists (Rabelais, Montaigne). Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
FRENLIT 131:
Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in 17th- and 18th-Century France
The literature, culture, and politics of France from Louis XIV to Olympe de Gouges. How this period produced the political and philosophical foundations of modernity. Readings include Corneille, Molière, Racine, Lafayette, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, and Gouges. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
FRENLIT 132:
Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France
Major literary genres, and social and cultural contexts. Focus is on the emergence of new literary forms such as surréalisme, nouveau roman, and nouveau théâtre. Topics of colonization, decolonization, and feminism. Readings include Balzac, Baudelaire, Césaire, Colette, and Ionesco. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
FRENLIT 133:
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 141)
Major African and Caribbean writers. Issues raised in literary works which reflect changing aspects of the societies and cultures of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include colonization and change, quest for identity, tradition and modernity, and new roles and status for women. Readings in fiction and poetry. Authors include Laye Camara, Mariama Ba, and Joseph Zobel. In French. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
FRENLIT 165:
The French Short Story, 1690-1780
From fairytale to conte libertin, a century of fantastic stories. From 1690, how classical authors, folktale writers, translators of oriental fictions, aristocrats, and femmes du monde produce a corpus of short stories especially in the Parisian salon. The evolution of story writing through sources including: texts by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot; translation of the Arabian Nights by Antoine Galland; and tales such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. In French.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
FRENLIT 189B:
Honors Research
Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A, DLCL 189.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors: ;
Alduy, C. (PI);
Apostolides, J. (PI);
Dupuy, J. (PI);
Edelstein, D. (PI);
Galvez, M. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Landy, J. (PI);
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI);
Serres, M. (PI);
Wittman, L. (PI);
Onorato, C. (GP)
FRENLIT 199:
Individual Work
Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alduy, C. (PI);
Apostolides, J. (PI);
Dupuy, J. (PI);
Edelstein, D. (PI);
Galvez, M. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Landy, J. (PI);
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI);
Serres, M. (PI);
Wittman, L. (PI);
Onorato, C. (GP)
FRENLIT 207:
Writing Utopia in 18th- and 19th-Century France
Themes and ideas in portrayals of alternative societies. Political, moral, and scientific questions that challenge the cultural context. Readings of positive (utopian) and negative (dystopian) works include: Denis Diderot, Le Voyage de Bougainville; Voltaire, Micromégas; Louis-Sébastien Mercier, L'An 2440; Saint-Simon, Lettre d'un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains; Fourier, Le nouveau monde amoureux; Jules Verne, Paris au XXe siècle.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 222:
The Political Unconscious of the Ancien Regime
The lasting influence in Europe of absolutism. Topics include political theories, the importance of court life, art as a political tool, modifications in human sensibility, literature, and social transformations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 224:
Libertinage in 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature
Intellectual, political, and cultural history of France. The distinction between the intellectual and philosophical libertinage of the classical age and a moral libertinage more specific to the 18th century. Readings of representative works of libertine literature include Cyrano de Bergerac and Théophile de Viau, Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit from Crebillon, Les liaisons dangereuses from Laclos, and Point de lendemain from Vivant Denon.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 225:
Multicultural Moliere
Molière's life and work as a point of departure for the notion of multiculturalism. Born in a bourgeois family, Molière was in contact with social milieux including the French peasantry for whom he wrote farces, and the court of Louis XIV for whom he provided spectacles at Versailles. Major plays, including Tartuffe, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and Le malde imaginaire as the expression of the new court culture. Sociohistorical and contemporary literary approaches: Molière as the unifying artistic figure in a multicultural France.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 248:
Literature, History, and Representation (COMPLIT 250)
Literary works as historical narratives; texts which envision ways of reconstructing or representing an ancient or immediate past through collective or individual narratives. Narration and narrator; relation between individual and collective history; historical events and how they have shaped the narratives; master narratives; and alternative histories. Reading include Glissant, Césaire, Dadié, Cixous, Pérec, Le Clézio, Mokkedem, Benjamin, de Certeau, and White.
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 256:
Mind and Body in 20th-Century French Fiction
How fiction articulates the tensions among the sensuous, the sensual, the embodied, and the aspiration to purity, abstraction, and transcendence. Focus is on questioning dichotomies such as nature/culture, masculine/feminine, sacred/profane, and written word/voice. Authors include Gide, Camus, Butor, Duras, and Tournier.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
FRENLIT 293A:
Topics in French Literature and Philosophy
Five-week course. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
FRENLIT 293B:
Topics in French Literature and Philosophy
Five-week course. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
FRENLIT 299:
Individual Work
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alduy, C. (PI);
Apostolides, J. (PI);
Dupuy, J. (PI);
Edelstein, D. (PI);
Galvez, M. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Harrison, R. (PI);
Landy, J. (PI);
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI);
Serres, M. (PI);
Wittman, L. (PI);
Onorato, C. (GP)
FRENLIT 399:
Individual Work
For students in French working on special projects or engaged in predissertation research.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alduy, C. (PI);
Apostolides, J. (PI);
Dupuy, J. (PI);
Edelstein, D. (PI);
Galvez, M. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Harrison, R. (PI);
Landy, J. (PI);
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI);
Serres, M. (PI);
Wittman, L. (PI);
Onorato, C. (GP)
FRENLIT 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Alduy, C. (PI);
Apostolides, J. (PI);
Dupuy, J. (PI);
Edelstein, D. (PI);
Galvez, M. (PI);
Gumbrecht, H. (PI);
Landy, J. (PI);
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI);
Serres, M. (PI);
Wittman, L. (PI);
Onorato, C. (GP)
FRENLIT 151:
19th-Century Realism: Balzac Versus Flaubert
What is realism? Is cynicism more realistic than idealism? The French realist novel in its literary historical milieu; methods by which realist authors created an effet de réel. Philosophical shifts that motivated realism. Focus is on stylistic conventions and formal qualities of realist prose. Readings: novels by Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, and secondary readings from 20th-century criticism and theories of realism. In French.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
FRENLIT 247:
Science and Literary Discourse in 19th-Century France
How the sociopolitical intertwines with scientific fact on the literary canvas. Representations of contemporaneous technological inventions and scientific discoveries; modes of appropriating science and scientific discourse in literary production. Balzac, Sand, Zola, Villiers de l¿Isle-Adam, Cros, Valéry.
| Units: 3-5