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91521 |
FREN 201 Intermediate French I |
Odile Chilton |
M T . Th . |
8:50 am -9:50 am |
OLINLC 120 |
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
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91585 |
FREN 202 Intermediate French II |
Matthew Amos |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
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
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91520 |
FREN 220 French through Film |
Odile Chilton |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLINLC 120 |
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
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91522 |
FREN 235 QUARRELS OF THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS: Past,
Present, and Future in the French literary tradition |
Matthew Amos |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
FLLC |
We call the "Querelle des anciens et des modernes"
the conflict that raged at the heart of French letters from the late 17th to
the early 18th centuries and which pitted those who found the ancient Greeks
and Romans to be untouchable in terms of artistic merit against those who
considered contemporary esthetic innovations to be a progression beyond the
inheritance of Antiquity. Although we
will read several texts commonly included in the canon of the Querelle,
this course is not meant to be a survey of this specific historical conflict,
but rather a broader exploration of the roles played by the past, the present
and the future in the creation and reception of works of literature in the
French tradition. We will focus on
several authorial oppositions (Corneille/Racine, Voltaire/Rousseau,
Balzac/Flaubert, Sartre/Blanchot), oppositions which each time restate the place
of literature on the temporal spectrum. Readings from Montaigne, Corneille, De
Scudéry, De Sévigné, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Perrault, Crébillon fils,
Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, De Staël, Constant, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola,
Huysmans, Sartre and Blanchot. Taught in
French. Students should have completed
an advanced French language course or speak with the professor before
registering for this course. Class size: 20
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91523 |
FREN 335 Baudelaire, Rimbaud,
Mallarme |
Eric Trudel |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
FLLC |
A poetic revolution was brought to the theory
and practices of 19th 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.