Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MOTIF OF VOYAGE IN WRITINGS FROM THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE ***** This course examines the written experience of traveling in the context of the 16th century France. It invites reflection on such topics as travel motivations, ethnography, exoticism and colonziation. It also explores the process of writing travel accounts (e.g. representation of the "Other" or disclosure of oneself). The readings include: explorations of Canada (Cartiar), the fantastic voyage (Rabelais), and travels in the Middle East (Chesneau), in Italy (Du Bellay, Montaigne) and in Brazil (Lery).