FREN245 - L'Amour et l'Obstacle

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Academic Year 2002/2003

L'Amour et l'Obstacle
FREN 245 SP

This course will study a variety of plays, poetry, and novels, spanning the centuries, in each of which, and each in its particular way, love, faced with an obstacle to its realization, either proves or refutes the proverbial dictum, "amor omnia vincit," and the poetic assertion of Emily Dickinson: "That love is all there is/ Is all we know of love..."

MAJOR READINGS

I. Poetry
Marie de France, LE LAI DU CHEVREFEUILLE
Choice of lyric poetry, Middle Ages to 20th Century

II. Theater
Corneille, LE CID
Moliere, L'ECOLE DES FEMMES
Marivaux, ARLEQUIN POLI PAR L'AMOUR
Marivaux, LE TRIOMPHE DE PLUTUS
Chamfort, LA JEUNE INDIENNE
Musset, ON NE BADINE PAS AVEC L'AMOUR
Hugo, RUY BLAS
Dumas fils, LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS
Cocteau, LES PARENTS TERRIBLES

III. Novels
Voltaire, CANDIDE
Gide, SYMPHONIE PASTORALE
Badian, APRES L'ORAGE

Optional readings: Corneille, POLYEUCTE; Racine, PHEDRE; Moliere, LE MISANTHROPE; Marivaux, LE JEU DE L'AMOUR ET DU HASARD; Constant, ADOLPHE; Gide, L'IMMORALISTE; Vilmorin, MADAME DE ***

Students will choose one of the optional read ings on which to write an essay.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Classroom presentations. 5 or 6 pp. paper on works not studied in class. Brief final exercise.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This is an introductory course intended for students who have completed FREN 215 or have placed out of FREN 215 through the placement test, but not taken more than one course in French beyond 215 and not yet studied abroad in a French-speaking country. Students who have already taken two courses in French beyond FREN 215 or studied abroad should take 300-level courses.

This course meets the pre-1800 requirement for the FRST major.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA FREN Grading Mode: Student Option

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Shapiro,Norman R.

Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: RLAN106

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 5

SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 4 SO: FR:

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Speaking

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003