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Academic Year 2003/2004
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.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FREN
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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