Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2014-2015
FREN 455 - FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA
Long Title: FROM NOSTALGIA TO HYSTERIA: BALZAC, STENDHAL, FLAUBERT, ZOLA
Department: French Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
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 555. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for FREN 455 if student has credit for FREN 555.