printer friendly pageFRENCH 112: Oscar Wilde and the French Decadents (COMPLIT 112, COMPLIT 312, FRENCH 312)
Close reading of Oscar Wilde's work together with major texts and authors of 19th-century French Decadence, including Symbolism, l'art pour l'art, and early Modernism. Points of contact between Wilde and avant-garde Paris salons; provocative, creative intersections between (homo)erotic and aesthetic styles, transgression; literary and cultural developments from Baudelaire to Mallarmé, Huysmans, Flaubert, Rachilde, Lorrain, and Proust compared with Wilde¿s Salomé, Picture of Dorian Gray, and critical writings; relevant historical and philosophical contexts. All readings in English; all student levels welcome.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Dierkes-Thrun, P. (PI)
FRENCH 118: Literature and the Brain (ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 318, PSYCH 118F)
Recent developments in and neuroscience and experimental psychology have transformed the way we think about the operations of the brain. What can we learn from this about the nature and function of literary texts? Can innovative ways of speaking affect ways of thinking? Do creative metaphors draw on embodied cognition? Can fictions strengthen our "theory of mind" capabilities? What role does mental imagery play in the appreciation of descriptions? Does (weak) modularity help explain the mechanism and purpose of self-reflexivity? Can the distinctions among types of memory shed light on what narrative works have to offer?
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Mann, J. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Mann, J. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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Walser, H. (PI)
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Wiebracht, B. (PI)
FRENCH 125: Religion, The Self, and Society in 20th-Century French Novels and Film
Survey course on religion, the self, and society in 20th-century French novels and film. Readings may include: Gide, Camus, and Bernanos for the novels, and films by Robert Bresson and others. Taught in French.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Lewallen, J. (PI)
FRENCH 132: Literature, Revolutions, and Changes in 19th- and 20th-Century France
Major literary genres, and social and cultural contexts. Focus is on the emergence of new literary forms such as surréalisme, nouveau roman, and nouveau théâtre. Topics of colonization, decolonization, and feminism. Readings include Balzac, Baudelaire, Césaire, Colette, and Ionesco. Taught in French. Prerequisite:
FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Kassabova, B. (PI)
FRENCH 140: Paris: Capital of the Modern World (FRENCH 340, HISTORY 230C)
This course explores how Paris, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, became the political, cultural, and artistic capital of the modern world. It considers how the city has both shaped and been shaped by the tumultuous events of modern history- class conflict, industrialization, imperialism, war, and occupation. It will also explore why Paris became the major world destination for intellectuals, artists and writers. Sources will include films, paintings, architecture, novels, travel journals, and memoirs.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Daughton, J. (PI)
FRENCH 199: Individual Work
Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Edelstein, D. (PI)
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FRENCH 219: The Renaissance Body in French Literature and Medicine (FRENCH 319)
If the Renaissance is famous for discovering unknown continents and ancient texts the body too was a new territory of conquest. How did literature respond to the rise of an anatomical gaze in the arts and in medicine and how did it stage 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 does it use it instead as a ubiquitous signifier for intellectual emotional and political ideas? The locus of desire, pleasure and disease, the body also functioned as a reminder of human mortality and was caught in the web of gender issues, religious controversies and new norms of behavior. Texts from prose fiction (Rabelais) poetry (Scève Ronsard Labé D'Aubigné) essays (Montaigne) and emblem literature. Extra documents include music scores tapestries paintings philosophical and anatomical plates from medical treatises. Taught in English. Visit the Web site:
renaissancebodyproject.stanford.edu
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
FRENCH 242: Seasons in North African Cinema and Literature
This course explores the emergence of Francophone cinema and literature from North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) in the post-independence era: aesthetics, language metissage and hybridization, ethnic interactions, gender relations, collective imagination and collective memory, nationalism, popular culture, religion, urbanism, post-colonialism, migration, and the Arab Spring will be covered. Special attention will be given to judeo-maghrebi history, and to the notions of francophone/maghrebi/"beur'/diasporic cinema and literature. Readings from Franz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Kateb Yacine, Albert Camus, Reda Bensmaia, Assia Djebar, Colette Fellous, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Michel de Certeau, Leila Sebbar, Benjamin Stora, Lucette Valensi, Abdelwahab Meddeb. Movies include Viva Laldjerie, Tenja, Le Chant des Mariées, Francaise, Bled Number One, Omar Gatlato, Casanegra, Le Silence des Palais, Les Sabots en Or, Harragas, La Saison des Hommes, L'Homme de Cendres, Mascarades. Taught in French. Films in French and Arabic with English subtitles.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ulloa, M. (PI)
FRENCH 312: Oscar Wilde and the French Decadents (COMPLIT 112, COMPLIT 312, FRENCH 112)
Close reading of Oscar Wilde's work together with major texts and authors of 19th-century French Decadence, including Symbolism, l'art pour l'art, and early Modernism. Points of contact between Wilde and avant-garde Paris salons; provocative, creative intersections between (homo)erotic and aesthetic styles, transgression; literary and cultural developments from Baudelaire to Mallarmé, Huysmans, Flaubert, Rachilde, Lorrain, and Proust compared with Wilde¿s Salomé, Picture of Dorian Gray, and critical writings; relevant historical and philosophical contexts. All readings in English; all student levels welcome.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Dierkes-Thrun, P. (PI)
FRENCH 318: Literature and the Brain (ENGLISH 118, ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, PSYCH 118F)
Recent developments in and neuroscience and experimental psychology have transformed the way we think about the operations of the brain. What can we learn from this about the nature and function of literary texts? Can innovative ways of speaking affect ways of thinking? Do creative metaphors draw on embodied cognition? Can fictions strengthen our "theory of mind" capabilities? What role does mental imagery play in the appreciation of descriptions? Does (weak) modularity help explain the mechanism and purpose of self-reflexivity? Can the distinctions among types of memory shed light on what narrative works have to offer?
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Mann, J. (PI)
;
Vermeule, B. (PI)
...
more instructors for FRENCH 318 »
Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
;
Mann, J. (PI)
;
Vermeule, B. (PI)
;
Walser, H. (PI)
;
Wiebracht, B. (PI)
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