Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

FREN 555 - FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA

Long Title: FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA
Department: French Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of 19th-century fiction through its discourses of displacement: its depiction of nostalgia and of "homelessness" in the first half of the century and of the crowd, the flaneur, and hysteria in the second. Readings in lyric, short fiction, the novel, and in critical theory. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 455. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 555 if student has credit for FREN 455.