printer friendly pageFRENGEN 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSGEN 81, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, GERGEN 181, HUMNTIES 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
Instructors:
Anderson, R. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
FRENGEN 192E: Images of Women in French Cinema: 1930-1990
The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context. The mythology of stars as the imaginary vehicle that helped France to change from traditional society to modern nation after 1945. Filmmakers include Renoir, Truffaut, and Nelly Kaplan. The evolution of the role of women in France over 60 years. Lectures in English; films in French with English subtitles. This course must be taken for either 3 units or 5 units; cannot be taken for 4 units.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
;
Gardner, D. (PI)
;
Giachetti, L. (PI)
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Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
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Gardner, D. (PI)
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Giachetti, L. (PI)
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Lasnier, M. (PI)
;
Pines, S. (PI)
FRENGEN 204: Songs of Love and War: Gender, Crusade, Politics
Medieval love, satirical and Crusade lyrics in the Old Occitan, and Old French traditions. Focus on deictic address, corporeal subjectivity, the female voice, love debates, and the body as a figure of political conflict. Also modern translation and reception of the troubadour tradition. Poets include Ovid, Bernart de Ventadorn, Bertran de Born, La Comtessa de Dia, Thibaut de Champagne, Sordello, Dante, Pound, and Neruda.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Galvez, 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.
Last offered: Spring 2009
FRENGEN 228E: Getting Through Proust
Seminar. Selections from
In Search of Lost Time. Themes: habit, heredity, constitution of the self; language, names, metaphor, and metonymy; aesthetics, music, photography, and painting; truth, lies, belief, and disenchantment; sleep, dreams, memory, time, modernity, and technology; friendship, love, homosexuality, jealousy, and mediated desire. Readings in French or English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Landy, J. (PI)
FRENGEN 233: The Afterlife of the Middle Ages (ITALGEN 233)
Literary works that evoke a medieval past in contrast to a historical present, and critical texts that treat aspects of the medieval or medievalism. How does the concept of medievalism emerge and evolve through the ages? The impact of the Reformation and romanticism, the study of Gothic architecture, and the use of the term medieval in modern political discourse. Authors include Hugo, Grimm brothers, Flaubert, Mâle, Pound, de Rougemont, Eco, Bataille, and Holsinger; films by Bresson and Pasolini.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Galvez, M. (PI)
FRENGEN 242: Women Mystics from the Middle Ages to the Present (ITALGEN 242)
The predominantly female mystical experience or direct-embodied encounter with a spiritual reality that is difficult, perhaps impossible, to reduce to words, or to explain rationally. Sources include European texts from the Middle Ages to the present by women and men who attempt to convey the experience metaphorically, to interpret it theologically and philosophically, and to transmit it actively to others.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Wittman, L. (PI)
FRENGEN 244: Historiography of Theater (DRAMA 166H, DRAMA 304)
Goal is to design an undergraduate theater history class. Standard theater history textbooks, alternative models of theater history scholarship, and critical literature engaging historiography in general.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
FRENGEN 265: The Problem of Evil in Literature, Film, and Philosophy (POLISCI 338E)
Conceptions of evil and its nature and source, distinctions between natural and moral evil, and what belongs to God versus to the human race have undergone transformations reflected in literature and film. Sources include Rousseau's response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Auschwitz; Günther Anders' reading of Hiroshima; and current reflections on looming climatic and nuclear disasters. Readings from Rousseau, Kant, Dostoevsky, Arendt, Anders, Jonas, Camus, Ricoeur, Houellebeck, Girard. Films by Lang, Bergman, Losey, Hitchcock.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Dupuy, J. (PI)
FRENGEN 267: French and Italian Literary Theory (ITALGEN 267)
Major French and Italian authors essential to the creation of contemporary literary theory. Many belong to the intellectual movement structuralism, even if they may disagree with some of its fundamental concepts. Post-structuralist works which permit a different approach to literature. Authors include Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, and Umberto Eco.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Apostolides, J. (PI)
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