Month: September 2014

In this course we will read most of the works on the seventeenth-century M.A. Reading List, focusing on the second half of the century. Readings will include plays by Corneille, Racine, and Molière, Lafayette’s La …

The eighteenth century saw the emergence both of new literary genres, like the drame bourgeois, and of a new aesthetics that placed a premium on sensory experience and intense, subjective response to art.  This course …

Ce cours obligatoire pour tout(e) étudiant(e) qui entre dans le programme de maîtrise et de doctorat en français est une initation à la recherche dans le domaine littéraire. Le cours comportera deux volets. Premièrement, il …

Texts: Sandberg and Tatham, French for Reading (Prentice-Hall, 1968) [required] Collins-Robert French-English Dictionary [highly recommended] Photocopied materials (grammar worksheets, articles and excerpts for translation) The goal of this course is to give students with no …

Ecrire l’Orient au Moyen Âge Rêvé, fantasmé même, contemplé, voire subi, l’Orient hante la littérature médiévale française. Peu de genres littéraires ont échappé à cette fascination générale de l’Occident vernaculaire pour les merveilles d’un Levant …

Cours obligatoire pour les étudiants débutant dans le programme (voir exemptions possibles dans la section « Academic Requirements, M.A. program). Approfondissement de la grammaire française ; raffinement du style ; enrichissement du lexique.  Le travail …

This course is specifically designed to theorize practice through teaching strategies such as video feedback, video conferencing, video mails; in addition to shared reflection and/or creation of small language learning videos. It is intended to …

If this nineteenth centenary did not invent the French short story, it reinvented it.  Besides noted masters of the genre like Mérimée or Maupassant, whose names are today synonymous with the French short story, we …