91083

FREN 201 Intermediate French I

Odile Chilton

M T . Th .

8:50 -9:50 am

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC

For students with three to four years of high school French or who have acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. In this course, designed as an introduction to contemporary French civilization and culture, students will be able to reinforce their skills in grammar, composition and spoken proficiency, through the use of short texts, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as video. Students will meet in small groups, with the French tutor for one extra hour per week.

91087

FREN 202 Intermediate French II

Jason Earle

M . . . . . T . Th .

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Olin L.C. 208 Olin 204

FLLC

For students with three to four years of high school French or who have acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. In this course, designed as an introduction to contemporary French civilization and culture, students will be able to reinforce their skills in grammar, composition and spoken proficiency, through the use of short texts, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as video.

91084

FREN 215 French through Translation

Odile Chilton

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC

Intended to help students fine-tune their command of French and develop a good sense for the most appropriate ways of communicating ideas and facts in French, this course emphasizes translation both as an exercise as well as a craft in its own right. The course will also address grammatical, lexical and stylistic issues. Translation will be practiced from English into French, and vice versa, with a variety of texts drawn from different genres (literary and journalistic). Toward the end of the semester, students will be encouraged to embark on independent projects.

91535

FREN 240 Quest for Authenticity: Topics in French Literature, 1789-present

Jason Earle

. T . Th .

10:10 -11:30 am

ASP 302

FLLC

Serving as an overview of modern French literature, this class will focus on short texts (poems, plays, essays, letters, short stories) that reflect the fragile relationship between selfhood and authenticity. From Rousseau’s ambitious program of autobiography to Sartre’s belief that we are inveterate embellishers when it comes to telling our own story, French literature has staged with relish the classic tension between art, artifice, and authenticity. This has not only inaugurated an intensely individual and unstable relationship to the notion of truth, but has implicated the reader in this destabilizing process. This class will explore how the quest for authenticity has led to radical reevaluations of literary style. Readings from Rousseau, Stendhal, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Sartre, Duras, Sarraute, Ernaux. Taught in French. Prerequisites: two years of college French (successful completion of the Intermediate) or permission by instructor.

91085

FREN 335 Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme

Eric Trudel

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

Olin 301

FLLC

A poetic revolution was brought to the theory and practices of 19^th century French poetry by three of its most illustrious figures: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. As Victor Hugo’s age of lyric romanticism came to an end, these poets took full measure of a modern subjectivity in crisis by making it a crisis of form, with increasing disenchantment, irony, self-reflexivity, and obscurity. Their challenge to figurative language ultimately brought poetry dangerously close to silence, madness or death. We will, through a succession of close readings, assess the range of this poetic revolution, one that constantly questioned the limits of literature and the very possibility of meaning. Taught in French. Primary texts in French, secondary sources in English. Readings include Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris (Baudelaire), Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer (Rimbaud), Poesies (Mallarmé).