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FRENGEN 55N: After Epic: Romance, Lyric, and Novelistic Responses in Western European Literature

Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Exploration of the quest in diverse genres: medieval romance (Chrétien de Troyes), Ovidian fables (Marie de France), allegorical dream quests (Roman de la Rose), and the novel (Cervantes¿ Don Quixote). How do stories of bodily transformation or animal fables challenge epic narratives of patriarchy or moral transcendence, and grand narratives of civilization? How does the art of courtly love and medieval allegory replace the mythology of classical epics? Focus on close analysis of primary texts with secondary research.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3
Instructors: Galvez, M. (PI)

FRENGEN 168: American Writers in 20th-Century Paris

Paris as inspiration and refuge for American writers when it was the cultural capital of the world. Role of artistic movements (Cubism, Surrealism, Existentialism) and cultural institutions such as the cafés, librairies and salons in the life and creativity of the expatriate. Birth of their writing selves and existential questioning around issues of national and individual identities. A cross-cultural inquiry into Paris as a part of American culture, a myth, a longing, and source of inspiration. Readings: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Anaïs Nin, Baldwin. In English.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Alduy, C. (PI)

FRENGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, GERGEN 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

FRENGEN 190Q: Parisian Cultures of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Preference to sophomores. Political, social, and cultural events in Paris from the Napoleonic era and the Romantic revolution to the 30s. The arts and letters of bourgeois, popular, and avant garde cultures. Illustrated with slides.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Bertrand, M. (PI)

FRENGEN 219: The Renaissance Body

The body as locus for desire, pleasure, disease, mortality, sexuality, and gender; and as canon of beauty and reflection of cosmic harmony. How literature responded to the development of an anatomical gaze in arts and medicine; how it staged the aesthetic, religious, philosophical, and moral issues related to such a promotion or deconstruction of the body. Does literature aim at representing the body, or use it as signifier for intellectual, emotional, and political ideas? Readings from Rabelais, Ronsard, Labé, Montaigne; medical texts and archival documents from http://renaissancebodyproject.stanford.edu.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Alduy, C. (PI)

FRENGEN 260: Voltaire's Work and Life, or: Managing Enlightenment

A textual look at one of the figures that invented, embodied, and operated -- in their roles as intense agents of communication -- the European Enlightenment. Voltaire will be seen, above all, from the angle of his correspondence which, despite its seemingly personal nature, was mostly written for large groups or (often) paying readers looking for both instruction and entertainment.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5

FRENGEN 269: Transfigurative Lyric: Baudelaire and Mallarmé

Key lyrical works, prose poems, and theoretical essays by Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé. The rise of modernity and the birth of Modernism. Referential, non-referential, and anti-referential dimensions of the new lyric. Artifice and impersonality. Literary reflexivity and lucid illusion. The musical turn and the paradox of silence. The hundred-word sublime. The disenchantment and re-enchantment of the world.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Landy, J. (PI)

FRENGEN 277: Introduction to René Girard's Theory: Mimesis, Desire, Violence, and the Sacred

René Girard's ouvre has been hailed as one of the most powerful and influential theories in the human sciences. This reading seminar will provide a critical introduction to Girard's theory, emphasizing its epistemological and philosophical underpinnings and its potential for interdisciplinarity. Its relevance for anthropology, economics, political and social philosophy, religious studies and literary theory will be fully explored.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Dupuy, J. (PI)

FRENGEN 284: Philosophy and Poetry in 20th-Century French and Italian Theory (ITALGEN 284)

To what extent is poetry the other of modern philosophy? How does modern aesthetic theory understand the distinction and blur the boundaries between philosophical and poetic thinking? Authors include Croce, Gentile, Sartre, Bataille, Agamben, Ricoeur, Cacciari, Derrida, and Vattimo.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Wittman, L. (PI)

FRENGEN 286: Michel Foucault and Literary Theory

Michel Foucault can be seen as a philosopher, an historian or a theoretician of literature. In this course, we will study Michel Foucault's work in the perspective of literary theory. Using some of his major works as well as his numerous articles (published in 4 volumes after his death), we will see him as a major 20th Century literary theoretician.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
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