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Legends of the French Revolution
FREN259 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:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RLAN
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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