Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL IN FRENCH ***** This course will explore the construction of the modern self in a variety of Fench and Francophone novels of the twentieth century. We will focus on the relationship between the self and narrative form; the role of memory; violence and representation; and the consruction of gender, sexuality, nationality and race in the modern novel. Readings will include: Proust, Colette, Camus, Perec, Hebert, Duras Ben Jelloun, and Djebar.