FREN259

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FREN259

Legends of the French Revolution FREN259 SP

Next Offered in 9899 SP

This course will examine Revolutionary political culture as it was narrated and represented by (guillotined) participants of the French Revolution, 19th-century novelists, and present-day film-makers. Special topics will address freedom of the Press and pornography as social criticism; Revolutionary rhetoric and its influence in theater, festivals, and music; women's movement and gender dynamics in art and literature; "family romance" and the Revolutionary collective unconscious; correlations with the revolutions of 1830, 1848 and 1870.

MAJOR READINGS

Balzac, LES CHOUANS
Chenier, Poetry
Gouges, LES DROITS DE LA FEMME ET DE LA CITOYENNE
Hugo, QUATRE-VINGT-TREIZE
Jacobin discourses by Danton, Marat, Robespierre,
Saint-Just
Pornographic political pamphlets against Marie-Antoinette
and Louis XVI
Roland, MEMOIRES (excerpts)
Rousseau, LE CONTRAT SOCIAL
Sade, LA PHILOSOPHIE DANS LE BOUDOIR
Michelet, HISTOIRE DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE (excerpts)
FILMS:
DANTON, (Andrzej Wajda)
MARAT/SADE, (Peter Brook)
LA MARSEILLAISE, (Jean Renoir)
LA NUIT DE VARENNES, (Ettore Scola)

Napoleon (Abel Gance)

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Grading mixed. Oral reports, short papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RLIT

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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