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Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. This course will examine a quintessential French figure "l'intellectuel" from a long-term historical perspective. We will observe how this figure was shaped over time by such other cultural types as the writer, the artist, the historian, the philosopher, and the moralist. Proceeding in counter-chronological order, from the late 20th to the 16th century, we will read a collection of classic French works. As this course is a gateway for French studies, special emphasis will be placed on oral proficiency. Prerequisite: students must have two years of college-level French (or equivalent).n.

An examination of the current debates in France regarding national identity, secularism, and the integration of immigrants, notably from the former colonies. Course confronts films' and other media's visual and discursive rhetorical strategies used to represent ethnic or religious minorities, discrimination, citizens' resistance to government policies, inter-racial marriages, or women's rights within immigrant communities. By embodying such themes in stories of love, hardships, or solidarity, the motion pictures make the movements and emotions inherent to immigration tangible: to what effect?

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 124 or consent of instructor.

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 124 or consent of instructor.

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 124 or consent of instructor.

The course is reading, analysis and discussion of some of the most representative texts by 20th century Francophone writers from a variety of locations: the French Caribbean, Africa North and South of the Sahara. These works convey the changing aspects of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean societies and cultures: from oral to written, colonization and changes, tradition competing with modernity, particularly for women, building new identities immigration narrative. The course aims to broaden knowledge of the Francophone societies and cultures, as well as improve skills in speaking and writing in French. Lectures and discussions are conducted in French, most required readings and background material are in French as well. Reading in fiction, poetry and theater include Laye Camara, Ferdinand Oyono, Maryse Condé, Aimé Césaire, Leila Sebbar, Mariama Ba, and others. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.

From Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes (1996) to Christine Angot, Virginie Despentes, Nothomb, or Marie NDiaye, women writers have been regularly stealing the show since the 1990's. What does it say about the French society? What do they say about contemporary France, and how? Do they transgress literary genres, carving out new literary spaces for unspoken points of views, or are they transcending the notion of ecriture feminine that might too conveniently reduce their scandalous novels to a label? Prerequisite: FRENLIT 130 (or higher) or consent of instructor.

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.

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.