91483 |
FREN 201 Intermediate
French I |
Odile
Chilton |
M T . Th . |
8:50 -9:50 am |
OLINLC 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.
Class size: 20
91484 |
FREN 202 Intermediate
French II |
Odile
Chilton |
M T . Th . |
10:10 - 11:10 am |
OLINLC 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. Class size: 20
91485 |
FREN 220 French
through Film |
Odile
Chilton |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
In
this intermediate course we will explore major themes of French culture and
civilization through the study of individual films ranging from the silent era
to the present and covering a wide variety of genres. We will examine the
interaction between the French and their cinema in terms of historical
circumstances, aesthetic ambitions, and self-representation. Conducted
in French. Class size: 20
91486 |
FREN 240 The Quest for Authenticity: Topics
in French Literature |
Marina
van Zuylen |
. T . Th . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
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. Class
size: 20
91862 |
FREN
/ LIT 315 Proust: In Search of Lost Time |
Eric
Trudel |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50 pm |
OLIN 306 |
ELIT |
See Literature section for description.
91487 |
FREN 329 Autobiography
and its Discontents |
Eric
Trudel |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Literature
This course will deal with questions such as “What does it mean to write
one’s life?” and “How does one write the self?” and, in doing so, will examine
the ongoing debates about the status of autobiography – and its recent
developments – in 20th and 21st
Century French literature and literary criticism. We will begin with a
consideration of the problem of confession, and appraise the renewal of forms
and genres – such as “autofiction” – by which “the
language of an adventure” is entrusted to “the adventure of language” (Serge Doubrovsky). The argument that autobiography in fact names
a mode of reading will also be considered when we address the question of
memory and writing. Readings include works by Christine Angot,
Roland Barthes, François Bon, André Breton, Marguerite Duras,
Annie Ernaux, André Gide, HervéGuibert,
Michel Leiris, Georges Perec,
Georges Perros, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Nathalie Sarraute. Additional readings by literary critics such as
Georges Gusdorf, Phillipe Lejeune, Paul de Man, Serge Doubrovsky,
and Régine Robin, among others. Taught
in French. Class size: 15