FREN 332 - Études de genre

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

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 2015, FRENCH 332-01: Études de genre: Le mariage et l’amour dans le roman français et francophone (3). The evolution of the prose narrative form that would become known eventually as the novel, through a careful study of the themes of love and marriage in texts written exclusively by women from the middle ages to the present. (HL) Kamara.

Planned Offering: Winter