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We examine novels and essays by writers who have chosen French as their literary language in the 20th and 21st century. Works by Nemirovsky, Makine, Kundera, Kristeva, Cheng, others.
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Motherhood, romantic love, independence, sexuality, citizenship, fantasy, death: these are just some of the themes explored in women's novels, written in French, in the postwar period. We will read 8 novels together, exploring how they have finally become classics, even given what they say about life and what it means for women to write about it.
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What are some alternatives to (or subversions of) realism in fiction? We will examine four major experimental currents or movements in 20th-century imaginative writing: Surrealism, the nouveau roman, the Oulipo, and ecriture feminine. Discussion of works by Breton, Bataille, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Queneau, Perec, Duras, Wittig, Cixous, as well as selected critical essays.
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This genre-based writing course focuses on reading and writing as complementary communicative acts. Students analyze stylistic and grammatical features of contemporary texts written in different genres. Using these features, they then create their own French written work. The course also contains a strong grammar component, focusing on both theory and practice. Students study stylistic differences between French and English, prescriptive rules of French grammar, and the grammar of spoken French.
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Examines a significant current of French intellectual history -the concern by French writers with the rights and welfare of black populations, as exemplified by the work of Abbe Gregoire, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Balandier.
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An exploration of Aime Cesaire's work, focused on thre seminal texts: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Discours sur le colonialisme, and La tragedie du roi Christophe. We will consider the historical background of Cesaire's writings, and the evolving context of their inspiration and development. The course will be conducted as a seminar, involving intensive reading of texts and projections of films related to Cesaire's life and work.
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A study of Camus's writings as a journalist, playwright, novelist and political thinker, and of the controversies in which he was involved (the fate of Algeria, the occupation and liberation of France, relations with Catholics, Camus's anticommunism, the Camus-Sartre clash). The tension between his art and his commitments, as well as his influence during and after his life will be examined.
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Explores how war and love define romance. Readings will be organized around famous love stories (such as those of Dido and Aeneas, Lancelot and Guenievre, Tristan and Yseut), and less famous ones, in works from the 12th to the 15th century.
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The course will focus on improving communication skills - written and oral - enhance the ability to shape students' convictions, state and defend opinions, form arguments, hypothesize, negotiate and persuade others. Outstanding examples taken from classical texts from literature and essays (17th through the 20th centuries) that attempt to persuade, exhort, and argue opposing points of view on major social, political, economic, ethical and religious issues will serve as models.
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Complete basic course offering equal emphasis on speaking, listening, reading and writing as well as conveying a taste for the French savoir-vivre. Latest technology allows for surround-sound training by native speakers in dorm rooms. By year's end, students will be able to carry on conversations in simple, correct French, and will have read a full-length play in the original by a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and studied state-of-the-art movies like Amelie.
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Studies development of auteur theory in French film and criticism. Readings include Cahiers du cinema, Bazin, Deleuze, Godard, and Foucault. Viewings include Renoir, American and Italian auteurs, and post-new wave cinemas.
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Comprehensive review of French grammar and intensive vocabulary building combined with French literary and cinematographic masterpieces. Authors and filmmakers, whose reflections on enduring questions of human experience and the meaning of life are compared and contrasted, include Baudelaire, Camus, Kieslowski, Pagnol, Rimbaud, and Sartre. By the end of the term, students should be able to understand lectures in French and express their thoughts orally and in writing with confidence using correct French.
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Comprehensive review of French grammar and intensive vocabulary building combined with French literary and cinematographic masterpieces. Authors and filmmakers, whose reflections on enduring questions of human experience and the meaning of life are compared and contrasted, include Baudelaire, Camus, Kieslowski, Pagnol, Rimbaud, and Sartre. By the end of the term, students should be able to understand lectures in French and express their thoughts orally and in writing with confidence using correct French.
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Close readings of postwar French fiction and theory with emphasis on what is called "the feminine" in key psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary writings of the French poststructuralist tradition. What has been the legacy of fifty years of dialogue between French postwar theory and feminist practice in the US? Writers considered include Cixous, Duras, Hyvrard, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Wittig as well as Deleuze, Derrida, and Lacan.
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Topic for 2009-10: Montaigne.
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An advanced French language course, where students will explore Haitian culture in the classroom and in the community: in class through a variety of texts and media, in their community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and better cultural understanding. Students will be placed with community organizations within the Greater Boston area to teach French to Haitian-American children. Introduces students to some methodology for teaching a foreign language.
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An advanced French language course, where students will explore Haitian culture in the classroom and in the community: in class through a variety of texts and media, in their community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and better cultural understanding. Students will be placed with community organizations within the Greater Boston area to teach French to Haitian-American children. Introduces students to some methodology for teaching a foreign language.
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Presents the evolution of French from Latin to modern French, describes its main phonetic, grammatical, and lexical changes, discusses the various policies which attempted to rule the use of French and its dialects from the 9th century to the present.
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Explores novels, concepts, theories (Creolization, Divers, etc) that challenge any stable notion of identity and help to problematize the definition of postcolonial literatures in French. Works by Glissant, Chamoiseau, Maximin, Conde, Rakotoson, Segalen, Foucault, etc.
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A complete first-year course for non-requirement students. Provides a solid foundation in French for those with absolutely no prior knowledge of the language. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all emphasized, with class time devoted to oral expression. After French Bab, students should be able to engage in everyday conversation with native speakers, and read straightforward texts, both fiction and non-fiction, with relative ease.
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A beginning intermediate course emphasizing listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and including a study of grammar. Students become familiar with contemporary France through videotapes, feature length films, and multimedia and are introduced to French literature through a variety of texts.
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