printer friendly pageFRENLIT 130: Survey of French Literature: Medieval and Renaissance
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
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Pichichero, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
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: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
FRENLIT 148: Outsiders, Conspirators, and the Masses: 19th-Century French Fiction
The emergence of new social types in nineteenth-century fiction. Questions: How do groups differentiate themselves? Which groups are heroized and which are villainized? Who belongs and who doesn't? Topics include social climbers, dandies, philosophers, the poor, students, criminals, actresses, crowds, and the bourgeoisie. Authors include Balzac, Stendhal, Sue, Nerval, Vigny, Flaubert, Zola. Taught in French.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
FRENLIT 189A: Honors Research
Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite:
DLCL 189.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
;
Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
;
Nakata, C. (PI)
;
Schnapp, J. (PI)
;
Wittman, L. (PI)
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
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
FRENLIT 202: Inventing the Enlightenment
How the idea of the Enlightenment emerged in French intellectual circles, and how it evolved over the course of the eighteenth century. Focus in particular on the articulation between the Enlightenment and its two most illustrious precursors: the Scientific Revolution and the grand siècle. Readings include texts by Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, d¿Alembert, Rousseau, Hume, and Kant.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
FRENLIT 250: When Poets Write Prose: 20th-Century French Poetry
Liberated from traditional forms and rhythms in the 19th century, poetry as an open field for exploration and self-redefinition in the 20th century. The poem as a fixed form, obsolete or artificial, endangers poetry as a privileged gate to truth, presence, ethics, or an authentic relation to the world. How in times of suspicion over the powers and failures of language, prose becomes the only truthful medium to approach a poetic essence beyond poetry. Readings include Mallarmé, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Dupin, Jacques Réda, and literary critics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
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