FREN 332 - Études de genre

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter

Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. This course gives students a general knowledge of the evolution of French literature and ideas over the centuries through the study of a single genre, its styles and techniques. Recent offerings include: L’Essai de Montaigne Camus; Ecriture feminine/Ecriture féministe? L’amour dans la poésie lyrique; Le conte et la nouvelle. May be repeated for degree credit if the genre is different.

Fall 2014 topic:

FREN 332: Études de genre: Theater, Culture and Society in Modern France (3). Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. An examination of the relations between modern and post-modern French society, politics, and the theatrical works that have emerged from or that testify to various historical events and periods. The readings include plays by Jean Giraudoux, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal, Matei Visniec, Helen Cixous, among others. (HL) Radulescu.