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Preference to freshmen. A crosscultural inquiry into Paris as a part of American culture, a myth, a longing, and source of inspiration. Role of artistic movements (Cubism, Surrealism, Existentialism) and cultural institutions such as the cafés, libraries, and salons in the life and creativity of the expatriate. Birth of their writing selves and existential questioning around issues of national and individual identities. Readings: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Anaïs Nin, and Baldwin. In English.

Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Exploration of the quest in diverse genres: medieval romance (Chrétien de Troyes), Ovidian fables (Marie de France), allegorical dream quests (Roman de la Rose), and the novel (Cervantes¿ Don Quixote). How do stories of bodily transformation or animal fables challenge epic narratives of patriarchy or moral transcendence, and grand narratives of civilization? How does the art of courtly love and medieval allegory replace the mythology of classical epics? Focus on close analysis of primary texts with secondary research.

Paris as inspiration and refuge for American writers when it was the cultural capital of the world. Role of artistic movements (Cubism, Surrealism, Existentialism) and cultural institutions such as the cafés, librairies and salons in the life and creativity of the expatriate. Birth of their writing selves and existential questioning around issues of national and individual identities. A cross-cultural inquiry into Paris as a part of American culture, a myth, a longing, and source of inspiration. Readings: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Anaïs Nin, Baldwin. In English.

What truths are in dreams? How does the quest for a symbolic object embody a moral struggle? What motivates a personal search for divine love? Study of arguably the most influential work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun. Focus on the work as erotic, allegorical quest for the mystical Rose, and scholastic encyclopedia through close analysis, secondary readings, and study of manuscript illumination. Use of medieval and modern French edition.

Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.

Preference to sophomores. Political, social, and cultural events in Paris from the Napoleonic era and the Romantic revolution to the 30s. The arts and letters of bourgeois, popular, and avant garde cultures. Illustrated with slides.

The myth of the feminine idol in French films in historical and cultural context. The mythology of stars as the imaginary vehicle that helped France to change from traditional society to modern nation after 1945. Filmmakers include Renoir, Truffaut, and Nelly Kaplan. The evolution of the role of women in France over 60 years. Lectures in English; films in French with English subtitles. This course must be taken for either 3 units or 5 units; cannot be taken for 4 units.

Comparative readings of the two poets in their respective national contexts, with attention to biographical and poetological frameworks. Canonic status and scholarly reception histories. Renewed interest in their work with regard to their distinctive practices of connecting prosodic form and extra textual referents. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German or French.

The body as locus for desire, pleasure, disease, mortality, sexuality, and gender; and as canon of beauty and reflection of cosmic harmony. How literature responded to the development of an anatomical gaze in arts and medicine; how it staged the aesthetic, religious, philosophical, and moral issues related to such a promotion or deconstruction of the body. Does literature aim at representing the body, or use it as signifier for intellectual, emotional, and political ideas? Readings from Rabelais, Ronsard, Labé, Montaigne; medical texts and archival documents from https://renaissancebodyproject.stanford.edu.