Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French 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 ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Examination of the ways in which women have been represented in fiction, by themselves and by others, since the early modern period. Includes Mme de Lafayette, Graffigny, Baudelair, Sand, Villers de I'Isle-Adam, de Beauvoir, Duras, and Wittig, with emphasis on the constitution of "the feminine" in literary texts as a cultural, historical, and social artifact.