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A la Carte: A Menu of French Literature Courses for Spring 2010Graduate-Level Courses for Spring 2010Language Course Descriptions
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CAS LF 111
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CAS LF 121
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CAS LF 112
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CAS LF 122
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CAS LF 211
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CAS LF 221
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CAS LF 212
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CAS LF 222
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This course aims to improve student understanding of grammar with a thorough review of basic concepts. Additionally, the focus is on improved spoken and written French and aural comprehension through reading and discussion of literary texts (including classic & contemporary writers such as Guy de Maupassant, Albert Camus, Annie Ernaux) and films related to the themes discussed in class. Three hours of class meetings and one hour of viewing required at the lab weekly.
Prereq: LF212 or Placement test or equivalent
Class meets 3 hrs/week; 4 credits
University class schedule
Course Coordinator: A. Livni
This course enables students to develop a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding and use of spoken and written French by increasing language fluency and insight into French society. Course materials include contemporary French fiction and films, as well as articles on important issues in French society, both current and historical. Three hours of class meetings and one hour of viewing required at the lab weekly.
Prereq: LF303 or Placement test or equivalent
Class meets 3 hrs/week; 4 credits
University class schedule
Course Coordinator: A. Livni
Intensive practice of academic and creative writing in French. Translation and transcription. Individual projects and conferences. Manuscripts read and discussed in class.
Prereq: LF304 or Placement test or equivalent
Class meets 3 hrs/week; 4 credits
University class schedule
Course Instructor: N. Huckle
Advanced training in rapid and idiomatic French speech. Oral reports. Role playing; vocabulary building; targeted work on pronunciation, intonation and aural comprehension. Lab required.
Prereq: LF304 or Placement test or equivalent
Class meets 3 hrs/week; 4 credits
University class schedule
Course Instructors: L. Hawkes and A. Livni
Examines France's classic cultural symbols and evolution from monarchy into the revolutionary nation that introduced notions of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Survey of events in today's post-modern and post-colonial state. Uses film, video, articles to explore contemporary culture and politics.
Prereq: LF303
Class meets 3 hrs/week; 4 credits
University class schedule
Course Coordinator: A. Livni
Development of techniques for reading and interpreting French literary texts. Special attention to the study of lyric poetry, drama, and short narrative.
Section A1 taught by TBA.
Section B1 taught by Professor Irit Kleiman.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Close readings in the French novel from its origins to the nouveau roman. Attention to narration, themes, symbols, and schools. Investigation of the roman d'analyse, Romantic prose, realist fiction, and other types of narrative.
Section A1 taught by Professor T. Jefferson Kline.
Section B1 taught by Professor Jeffrey Mehlman.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
A course in the composition of French poetry, using classic poems form the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries as models. Taught by Professor Rosanna Warren.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
An examination of postcolonial novels by contemporary writers. Discussion of linguistic and literary issues related to the process of decolonization, including debates about continued use of French by modern African novelists. Taught by Professor Odile Cazenave.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Origins and definitions of major theatrical forms, especially tragedy. Close analysis of both theoretical and theatrical texts. Application of dramatic theory (Artaud, Grotowski) to plays by Claudel, Cocteau, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Genet, Beckett, and others. Taught by Professor T. Jefferson Kline.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Just what is "courtly literature"? Using le roi Arthur, Guenièvre, Lancelot, and Merlin as guides, this course follows the intertwined evolution of courtly romance and Arthur's very particular court romances. Also analyses issues of authorship and authority, social critique, and the emergence of "fiction". Taught by Professor Irit Kleiman.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Topic for Spring 2010: Decadence. The paradoxes of an anti-progressive vanguard; readings from such fin-de-siècle masters as Baudelaire, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Huysmans, Verlaine, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Bloy. Taught by Professor Jeffrey Mehlman.
“I like the word ‘decadent.’ All shimmering with purple and gold, it throws out the brilliance of flames and the gleam of precious stones. It is made up of carnal spirit and unhappy flesh and of all the violent splendors of the Lower Empire; it conjures up the paint of the courtesans, the sports of the circus, the breath of the tamers of animals, the bounding of wild beasts, the collapse among flames of races exhausted by the power of feeling, to the invading sound of enemy trumpets. The decadence is Sardanapalus lighting the fire in the midst of his women, it is Seneca declaiming poetry as he opens his veins, it is Petronius masking his agony with flowers.”
--Paul Verlaine
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Designed for graduate degree candidates preparing for language reading examinations. Develops skills in interpreting written French with minimal phonological or cultural references. Practice in translating passages relating to the sciences and humanities. No previous knowledge of French required. Students will not receive graduate credit for this course and there is no tuition charge. Taught by N. Huckle.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
Topic for Spring 2010: Travel Narrative in Early Modern France. From Montaigne’s reflections on the age of exploration to Voltaire’s satirical picaresque novel Candide. Real and imagined travel as adventure, freedom, captivity, constraint, inner voyage, discovery. Relevance of cultural, political, technological, and economic developments to the evolution of travel narrative. Authors studied will include Montaigne, Voltaire, Regnard, Dassoucy, Aulnoy, Marie de l’Incarnation, Montesquieu, and Prévost. Taught by Professor Elizabeth Goldsmith.
Please see the University class schedule for times, days, locations and prerequisites.
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