Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROBLEMATICS OF FRENCH NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Transformations of the formal characteristics of fiction in France as problematic engagements with the evolution of art, capitalism, the family, the sacred, subjectivity, etc. Texts: Balzac: "Le pere Goriot," "La fille aux yeux d'or;" Stendahl: "la chartreuse de Parme;" Flaubert: "L'Education sentimentale; Maupassant: "Boule de Suif;" Zola: "Germinal." ***** PREREQUISITE: Fren 311 or 312 or permission of the instructor. *****