FREN 391 - French Literature and Cultural Studies

We will examine how French cultural and social changes are discussed in short narrative forms, and see how fairy tales, fables, short stories, and novellas reflect upon important clashes of class, identity, ideology, and aesthetics. The course will cover texts from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We will discuss authors including Marie de France, Perrault, La Fontaine, Mme D’Aulnoy, Voltaire, Maupassant, Balzac, Flaubert, Bloy, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Tournier, Gripari. Conducted in French.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): FREN 212 or equivalent
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Not offered: 2024-25
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).