FREN 312 - POST-REV FRENCH LIT
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Department: French Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 202
Description: MAJOR LITERARY WORKS AND ARTIFACTS OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE: THE ROMANTIC LEGACY
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Fall Semester: Study of 19th- and 20th-century fiction through the special lens of the Romantic imagination. Readings from Chateaubriand, Desbordes-Valmore, Claire de Duras, Musset, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Prevert, and the new novelists. Emphasis on discussion and close textual analysis, all in French.
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Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of instructor.
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Spring Semester: French literature and cinema- from romanticism to postmodernity. The rise of capitalism, imperialism, globalization; romantic love and artistic ecstasy as attempts to deal with the "death of God"; can we distinguish "great works" from mere entertainment or "cultural constructions?"
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Prerequisite(s): FREN 202 or placement exam or AP credit or permission of the instructor.
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Course offered Spring 2005.
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Instructor(s): Wood.