Suitable for students just out of 202. Short readings in preparation for writing will provide food for thought and discussion. Grammar points will be reviewed as necessary. No experience in literature is required and students do NOT have to have taken FR 331. An overview of the literature and culture of 12th and 13th-century France, concentrating on the reading and discussion of a wide range of genres, and including the study of medieval art and architecture, manuscript illuminations, and a range of modern films interpreting medieval life and culture.
All texts are available in modern French translation.
Dr. Finn E. Sinclair Reading and discussion of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the 20 th century, focusing in particular on the themes of love, death and power and their metamorphoses across the ages. The course will serve as an introduction to critical analysis and no previous study of poetry will be assumed. Required for graduate students. Works include Beauty and the Beast , Colonel Chabert , Madame Bovary , A Day in the Country , Candide , The Red and the Black , and Cyrano de Bergerac . Emphasis on European theoretical currents.