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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
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: Tamas, J. (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

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

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 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
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