FREN 503 SPECIAL TOPICS
Topics may vary. Please consult department for additional information. Instructor: Aresu
FREN 504 BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE OF FRANCE
This course includes an external history of the French language, an examination of hagiographic literature and the chanson de geste in their cultural and artistic contexts, as well as a bibliographic component to acquaint the students with library tools available for research emphasizing medieval resources but not excluding those for later periods. Students will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French. Instructor: Nelson-Campbell
FREN 507 TEACHING COLLEGE FRENCH Study of pedagogical principles applicable to the teaching of French. Includes practice teaching and performance reviews, design of pedagogical activities and peer observation. Instructors: Peggy Patterson, Jose Narbona, Indranil Dutta.
FREN 510 THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN
Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. Instructor: Nelson-Campbell
FREN 515 COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the kind of love that came to be called "amour courtois" in the nineteenth century. Instructor: Nelson-Campbell
FREN 540 WHY SADE?
Why read Sade today? Has the myth of the divine Marquis run its course? Readings by Sade, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, Bataille, Blanchot, Klossowski, and Beauvoir. Films include "Quils," "Marat/Sade," and "l'Age dor." Instructor: Shea
FREN 541 FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
What is Enlightenment? Does it define a period, an idea, a group of writers? Was there one Enlightenment or many? What is specific to the French Enlightenment? Readings include key eighteenth-century texts and major attempts to define Enlightenment. (Cassiren, Gay, Habermas, Roche, Gordon) Instructor: Shea
FREN 549 NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PUBLIC MEMORY IN FRENCH SOCIETY
This course identifies events, symbols, and shared experiences which constitute collective French memory and examines how public memory has shaped national identity in contemporary France. Instructor: Fette
FREN 555 FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA
Study of 19th-century fiction through its discourses of displacement: its depiction of nostalgia and of "homelessness" in the first half of the century and of the crowd, the flaneur, and hysteria in the second. Readings in lyric, short fiction, the novel, and in critical theory. Instructor: Harter
FREN 561 MODERN FRENCH SEXUALITIES
This course will explore the representation of sexuality in French novels and films from the early 20th-century to the present. primary readings will be supplemented by medical, philosophical, juridical, and psychoanalytic contributions to debates about sexuality in the modern period. Instructor: Huffer
FREN 564 LITERATURE, ART, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Study of selected works in literature and in art through the lens of psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of literary and visual art. Instructor: Harter
FREN 565 SURREALIST AND AVANT-GARDE NARRATIVES
The avant-garde and the logic of capitalism. The post-romantic precursors and the rise of a sacred and transgressive Art (Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, de Nerval). Ecstasy beyond the constructed subject: Breton, Artaud, Bataille, Aragon. Instructor: Wood
FREN 566 THE NARRATIVE AND THE OTHER ARTS
The seminar will focus on the aesthetic and ideological interplay between literature and the other arts. Figures and topics will include: neoclassical poetry and painting; Segalen and Gauguin's Tahiti; Baudelaire's art criticism; Delacroix, Chass-riau, Fromentin, Djebar, and French Orientalism; Cocteau, or the poet as film-maker, Simon and the Baroque; Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and the cinema; Ben Jelloun and Giacometti. Instructor: Aresu
FREN 567 THE POSTMODERN BREAK IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
Study of the questioning of philosophical modernity (starting with Descartes and the Enlightenment philosophers) by structuralist and poststructuralist thinkers and theorists of the postmodern condition and the post-history conjucture. Emphasis on the conflict between humanism and anti-humanism including in its theological and aesthetical ramifications: Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, Castoriadis, and others. Instructor: Goux
FREN 568 FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
Survey of moral philosophy from Descartes to today, exploring the relationship between the individual and society, the problem of freedom and values, questions of universality, humanism, the important moments of the constitution and deconstitution of the subject. Includes Philosophy of Descartes, Rousseau, Condorcet, Comte, Guyau, Durkheim, Fouillee, Bergson, Alain, Camus, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Lacan, Irigaray, Foucault, Levinas, and Ricoeur. Instructor: Goux
FREN 570 VERSIONS OF OEDIPUS
Through the myth, the tragedies, the complex, the Greek figure of king Oedipus has haunted our literary imagination, troubled our philsophical thought, and nourished our psychoanalytical investigation. This seminar explores this well-known figure in French modern playwrights who revisited this tragic character, as well as in the various philosophical and theoretical interpretations of the myth and its ramifications. Instructor: Goux
FREN 571FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS AND IMAGES
Cinema, psychaoanalysis, modern painting opened a new way of looking at images. This seminar, based on references to Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Castoriadis, Dagognet, etc...will explore the philosophical and aesthetical problems related to the role and power of images and to the relationships between the visual and the textual, including through paintings and film. Instructor: Goux
FREN 572 PROUST
Extensive close textual readings and broad-ranging meditations on the meaning of "A la recherche du temps perdu" in terms of the history of artistic modernism and social modernity. Taught alternately in French and English. Instructor: Wood
FREN 574 POETICS AND POLITICS OF FRANCOPHONIE
The seminar focuses on various literary, artistic, and political
expressions of « francophonie » as a both legitimated and contested concept. It encompasses a plurality of geo-cultural areas : sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and the Caribbean, and Quebec. It also examines how notions of postcolonialism and transnationalism intersect discourses of postmodernity. . Instructor: Aresu
FREN 578 CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT: TOWARD A SYMBOLIC ECONOMY
Exploration of the idea of a "symbolic economy" that widens and transforms notions of production, exchange, and consumption in anthropology, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Includes Mauss and Levi-Strauss (on "exchange of goods," "exchange of words," and "exchange of women"), later developments of Bataille, Lacan, Baudrillard, Irigaray, and others, and the theory and practice of "economic criticism" (e.g., Balzac, Zola, Gide, and others). Instructor: Goux
FREN 579 MARX, BATAILLE, BAUDRILLARD, POSTMODERNITY
Taught in English. Exploration of the shift from a Marxist political economy of class struggle, through Bataille¹s "general economy" (e.g., economic activity as a cosmic phenomenon), to Baudrillard¹s "indetermination of the code" and "simulation" in postmodernity. Texts by Marx, Mauss, Bataille, Athusser, Ernest Mandel, and Baudrillard. Instructor: Wood
FREN 582 DISCOURSE OF DISSIDENCE
The seminar relects on the concept of dissidence-a political, but esthetic and epistemological one as well, through several literary and artistic figures, as well as genres and periods, from Francois Villon to the present (Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Rousseau, de Gouges, Rimbaud, Gauguin, Breton, Genet, Magritte, Ducharme, Godard, Jelloun, Arcand). Instructor: Aresu
FREN 584 AESTHETIC THEORIES OF MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Exploration of such artistic and literary movements as Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, "Refus Global," "Lettrisme," "Situationnisme," "Oulipo," "Tel Quel," and "Les Perpendiculaires." How does one define the "avant-gardes?" Course may be repeated for credit. Instructor: Goux
FREN 585 (S) NOVEL, FROM BELLE EPOQUE TO 1950
Survey of the evolution of the novel and the vicissitudes of the modern subject and identity. Includes Proust, Gide, Malraux, Drieu la Rochelle, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Genet, Camus, and Sarraute. Prerequisites: FREN 301 or 304, and 312. Instructor: Wood
FREN 587 TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH
This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a variety of French and Francophone novels of the twentieth century. Topics will include the relationship between the self and narrative form; the role of memory; violence and representation; and the construction of gender, sexuality, nationality and race. Instructor: Huffer
FREN 588 CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSTRUCTIONISM, THE SUBJECT AND THE SOUL
Taught in English. Is the subject a "construction"? Is consciousness a neurological event? Philosophy, religion, and aesthetics in the face of cultural critique, cognitive science and poststructuralism. (Mostly)short readings from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bataille, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, cognitive science, philosophy of mind. Instructor: Wood
FREN 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY (variable credit)
Instructor: Staff
FREN 700 SUMMER RESEARCH (variable credit)
Instructor: Staff
FREN 800 THESIS RESEARCH (PHD) (variable credit)
Instructor: Staff