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This intermediate-level course focuses on accent reduction. Students will learn how to transcribe French sounds while simultaneously engaging in systematic listening and pronunciation exercises. The exercises target vowels, consonants and basic intonational patterns. Expressive intonation may be addressed near the end of the semester if time permits. Class work will include memorization of short dialogues and scenes from films. Students will achieve better pronunciation, greater fluency, and increased self-assurance in spoken French by the end of the course.
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This course emphasizes conversation based on short stories, poems, a play, a novel, newspaper articles, short videos and oral presentations by students. Improving grammatical accuracy and enriching vocabulary in oral and written expression of French occur in the lively classroom discussions, as well as through written and oral analyses of the readings, compositions on student-selected topics, and through grammar review. Themes and emphases may vary from section to section.
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Designed to introduce students to methods of textual analysis, through reading and discussion of works in various genres (narrative prose, drama, poetry) from the French and Francophone world. Emphasizes the development of analytical skills, in particular close readings by a variety of authors from different periods.
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An examination of French society, economy, and institutions through key moments in a long history, in order to figure out what made French culture so distinctive—even though some have claimed recently that the “French cultural exception is dead.” Looking attentively at texts and contexts (the bibliography will include, e.g., Yves Lacoste’s Vive la nation!/Long Live the Nation, Jonathan Nossiter’s documentary film Mondovino, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem’s La Psychose française, les banlieues, and Ariel Kenig’s Quitter la France/leaving France, we will move beyond cliches, and attempt to understand how post-imperial France tries to adapt to the complex processes known as globalization and multiculturalism without losing its “national identity.” Special attention will be paid to the construction of Europe and to the notions of “European citizenship” and “European model.” Taught in English. Mandatory readings in French (book chapters, newspapers, an oral presentation in English or French, and a final paper (8,000 characters) in English.
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In this course, oral communication skills, writing practice, and a comprehensive review of fundamental grammatical structures are integrated with the reading of short stories and articles on current events taken from French magazines or newspapers, chosen for thematic or cultural interest. Students write weekly papers (essays or translations) and give at least one oral presentation in class.
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This language course provides students with opportunities to further develop their written and oral communication, as well as their listening and reading skills, through the use of French contemporary films, related readings, and presentations by guest speakers. Particular emphasis is given to the cultural and historical context within viewed films, as it relates to contemporary French society.
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This course on stylistics and translation aims to help students develop a richer, more nuanced and idiomatic command of both the spoken and written language. Systematic study of grammar is discontinued as more attention is devoted to topics such as descriptive and prescriptive stylistics, authorial style, varieties of spoken and written French and their literary representations, rhetorical figures, poetics, as well as translation theory and textual analysis. Writing exercises include pastiche, précis, explication de texte, an exercice de style, and theme. Additional exercises will target vocabulary development. Seminar-style participation in class discussions is expected, as are two oral presentations.
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This course prepares students for interacting at an advanced level of proficiency in both speaking and writing. Students will increase their vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic French, while discussing and debating topics of current interest as they are presented in French televised news broadcasts and other media. A flexible approach allows students to improve their language skills on an individualized basis.
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This course is designed to teach ways of reading and understanding works created from the Romantic period to the present day, in their cultural context. A range of texts from various genres is presented, and students refine their analytical skills and their understanding of various methodologies of reading. Texts by authors such as Balzac, Baudelaire, Cixous, Duras, Genet, Mallarmé, Michaux, Proust, Rimbaud, Sarraute, Sartre.
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This course is designed to familiarize students with works from the Renaissance, the Classical period, and the Enlightenment, as well as the cultural and historical context in which these texts are created, reflecting a dynamic period of significant change for France. Texts by such authors as Ronsard, du Bellay, Montaigne, Molière, Marguerite de Navarre, Corneille, Diderot, de Lafayette, Racine, Perrault, Rousseau. Students may read texts in the original languages or in translation.
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This course is dedicated to examining how medieval French literature was never really French in the first place. There was, after all, no political entity commensurate with modern France in the Middle Ages, and no unifying language with the symbolic power that French has, for better or worse, acquired in modernity. Nonetheless, linguistic differences mattered, and these differences were often also political ones, distinguishing north from south and centers from margins. Through close readings of Anglo-Norman, Franco-Italian, and Occitan texts, including narratives of colonial conquest and cultural traffic, we’ll have a chance to examine the porous boundaries of the medieval Francophone world. Primary texts will include authors such as Marco Polo, Brunetto Latini, Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Arnaut Daniel, the Song of Roland and the Song of the Albigensian Crusade. Readings and discussion in French.
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In addition to considering formal questions relating to the development of the novel in French, this course examines problems such as the appearance of narrative and historical consciousness, the representation of woman, and the relation between literature and society. Texts include such major works as Tristan and Iseult, Perrault’s Contes, Mme de LaFayette, Prevost, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos, and Sade.
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For description, see SPAN 2360.
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This course will present some of the major features of Québécois society, culture, religion, politics, and literature, from the early times of “Nouvelle France” (16th–17th century) to contemporary Québec. We will explore topics such as: the role of Catholicism, political activism, isolation and migrations, (post) coloniality and identity, Montréal. This is a truly multidisciplinary class, based on various pieces (voyage descriptions, political texts and memoirs, poems, theater plays, novels, films, songs, etc.). We will study excerpts from historical documents (Samuel de Champlain, the Jesuit descriptions of Quebec), or authors such as Emile Nelligan, Gaston Miron, Anne Hébert, Robert Lepage, Gilles Vigneault, etc.
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The class is an introduction to reading and interpreting women’s stories as they are represented, written, at times erased before being recovered in French and Francophone history and cultures. The course will analyze several figures/icons/images from the Old Regime to our time. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the analyses of different strategies and techniques of representation (esthetic, historical, scientific, autobiographical, and fictional). The corpus of works studied will include fictional and historical writing as well as paintings and films. Examples of such case studies could include: Joan of Arc, Marguerite de Valois, Marie-Antoinette, Heroines of fairy tales, Camille Claudel, unknown women workers, or well-known contemporary women authors such as Marguerite Duras, Marjane Satrapi, or Maryse Condé.
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This course will examine the various forms religious violence takes on: war, massacre, pillage, and torture—and consider the symbolic meanings invested in these forms of violence in the context of the work of René Girard (La Violence et le sacré). We will raise the question of what makes this sort of violence so intractable, and what has fostered the continuity of religious conflict over such a long span of time. For example, the ceremonial or ritualistic nature of this violence seems to give it an internal justification that is not subject to laws concerning human rights. Then, we will examine how a range of authors throughout history represent this violence in critical fashion. A number of texts present the impossibility of representing extreme violence, raising the question of how events can be witnessed when the witnesses are dead or traumatized by them. How can such extreme violence be represented or explained without being justified or rationalized? We will examine how the presentation of violence as a spectacle raises the question of personal responsibility in the context of large-scale and ongoing violence, implicating also those who observe but who do not directly participate. We will also consider Maalouf’s Les Croisades vues par les arabes (as well as his Identités meurtrières), Joinville’s La Vie de Saint Louis, Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques, Elie Wiesel’s La Nuit, Gillo Pontecorvo’s La Bataille d’Algers, Jean Genet’s Les Paravents, Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub’s Testimony, and Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain.
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Artifacts like perfume, jewelry, and cigarettes are often the focus of literary attention in France, not only for Epicurean motives but because, being essentially frivolous, without any evident social utility, they resemble in that respect aesthetic objects of art itself. This course proposes to read a number of works in which perfume, jewelry, and cigarettes are featured prominently, where their charms and seductions are illustrated and mobilized in the interest of broader allegorical aims.
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This course will be a comparative reading of several 17th-century tragedies. The authors we will read will be Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Corneille, and Racine. The course will attempt to delimit the origins of the modern state in the exclusionary practices that 17th-century tragedy stages for both contemporary (to the plays) audiences and to 21st-century audiences. Our critical apparatus will borrow from different theories of ideology and subjectivity, as they pertain to the theatrical experience.
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This course will use the concept “perversion” in its sexual, political, and theological definitions to examine the tensions of 17th-century French literature and culture. We will begin with a discussion of the work and trial of Theophile de Viau—a trial that set the tone of government intervention in poetic creation for the entire century. We will then look at other “scandals” including the heated debates of several religious women (Jeanne des Anges, Marie de l’Incarnation, Mme Guyon) who were involved in several of the theological scandals (possession) of the century. We will also look at some of the writings of P. Bayle and other Protestant and Catholic dissident intellectuals whose writings veered away from orthodoxy. Works by La Fontaine and his relation with N. Fouquet will be discussed in relation to the establishment of Louis XIV’s version of absolutism in the arts. Finally we will look at a tragedy or two by both Corneille and Racine where sexual passion is shown to pervert familial structures necessary—or thought so—for a well one.
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For description, see SPAN 4150.
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Guided independent study of special topics.
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The class is intended to be an introduction for beginning graduate students to the history and theory of psychoanalysis. We will be primarily interested in reading the early texts of psychoanalysis, especially Freud, while indicating the different directions analytic theory and practice will take in their later developments.
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This class gives students the opportunity to analyze literature, to practice theater, and to study French language at the same time. The final product of this course will be a public staged reading of a play in French (this play being conjointly determined by the students and the instructor). A staged reading involves performers reading aloud a text that they know well but they do not need to memorize, with only minimal movements, costumes, prop, or lights. Throughout the semester, we will work on literary interpretation as well as on the practice of reading (voice, expression). Texts from the 17th to the 21st century might be studied. Though a previous experience in acting would be nice, it is by no means required to attend the class.
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For description, see COML 4290.
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