Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S VOICES IN FRENCH LITERATURE **** Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Readings from Mme. de Lafayette, Baudelaire, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with emphasis on the constitution of the "feminine" in literary texts as cultural, historical, and social artifact. ***** Also offered as FREN 460. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311, 312, or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Harter.