FRH 418 PWRFUL FICTIONS:PROUST TO PRES

Powerful Fictions: Novels and Novelists from Proust to the Present

 

Examines the 20th-/21st-century French and Francophone novel, including the importance of the writer-intellectual in France, and the roles that literature, language, social mores, experience, and sexuality play in the construction of individual subjectivity and of the nation. Texts by authors such as Proust, Colette, Robbe-Grillet, Camus, Sartre, Sarraute, Duras, Nothomb, Daoud, Sarr.

 

Credits

4

Notes

Course includes some advanced grammar review. Conducted in French.

Prerequisite

Two 300-level courses in the French department above 301.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Attributes

AFRH, MOIB, W, WLC