FREN 230 - Medieval and Early Modern Times

1 unit(s)

Studies in French literature, history, and culture from the Medieval to the Classical period. Topic for 2012/13a: The Politics of Seduction. Introduction to the literature and culture of France, with a special focus on woman as subject and object of desire. Readings include Tristan et Iseut, the love poetry of Ronsard and Labé, La Princesse de Clèves, a story of illicit passion by France’s first prominent female novelist, and classical theater’s greatest masterpieces of love and deception authored by Corneille, Racine, and Molière. The course concludes with Denis Diderot’s daring and celebrated narrative, La Religieuse, about a young woman’s struggle for emancipation in pre-Revolutionary France. Ms. Kerr.

Prerequisite(s): The intermediate level comprises a third-semester level (FREN 205), a fourth-semester level (FREN 206), a fifth-semester level (FREN 210), and a sixth-semester level (200-level courses numbered above 210). Prerequisite for all sixth-semester courses: completion of FREN 210 or the equivalent. Students desiring an introduction to the study of literature and culture may begin by electing FREN 212. FREN 210 or FREN 212 or the equivalent.

Two 75-minute periods.

Not offered in 2013/14.