The nature and development of French aesthetics and artistic traditions in painting, sculpture, and music will be presented, along with current topics including education, and the politics of modern-day France. FREN A201 or equivalent. This course is a survey of the chief literary currents and principal authors from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. This course is a survey of the chief literary currents and principal authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Major trends and ideas in 18th-century literature are examined.
Emphasis is on the works of the philosophes and on the development of the novel.
This course involves readings in French theory and in the novels of Balzac, Flaubert, Sand, Stendhal, and Zola. Texts may change. This course involves readings in French theory and in the works of Bernanos, Butor, Camus, Gide, Malraux, Proust, and Sartre. Texts may change. This course is a chronological view of the development of French drama from its origins to the 20th century through the intensive study of representative dramatists and their handling of the elements of theatre.