335 Survey of French Literature II 3W Representative French authors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Social and historical background is included. 360 Special Topics 3FWIS Devoted to a subject chosen from the corpus of Francophone language, civilization, and literature. Possible topics include French African literature, and phonetics, drama, French Canadian literature, civilization and culture of the French Caribbean. This course may be taken more than once, provided different topics are covered.
Emphasis is on the life, customs, and character of the people today.
Given in French. 425 Literature and Life of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 3W La Chanson de Roland, Marie de France, Villon, Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, Ronsard and others are studied in modern French. Social and historical background is included. Given in French. 435 Literature and Life of the Classical Period 3W Art and ideas of the significant classical writers and the social and historical background.