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Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The emergence of new social types in nineteenth-century fiction. Questions: How do groups differentiate themselves? Which groups are heroized and which are villainized? Who belongs and who doesn't? Topics include social climbers, dandies, philosophers, the poor, students, criminals, actresses, crowds, and the bourgeoisie. Authors include Balzac, Stendhal, Sue, Nerval, Vigny, Flaubert, Zola. Taught in French.
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The essay, whose tradition is firmly rooted in France, resists conventional taxonomies and tests the plasticity of genre. Not only does the essay borrow from all Aristotelian categories, it also merges disciplines, conflating art and science while constructing its own system of logic and its own codes. With exemplary works by 20th-century French essayists, issues include generic hybridity, open-endedness, voice, form, rhetorical devices and style, and political engagement. Montaigne, Apollinaire, Proust, Valéry, Beckett, Artaud, Ponge, Yourcenar, Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Barthes, and Cixous.
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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.
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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.
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Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
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