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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 Princesse de Clèves, and a selection of shorter texts by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and La Fontaine. The format of the …

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 will explore the theories that underpinned the development of this new aesthetics and consider how it was put into practice …

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 offrira une introduction aux diverses théories de la littérature qui ont produit des formes importantes de l’analyse textuelle (l’approche rhétorique, …

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 previous knowledge of French the ability to read texts that are necessary or useful for their research. The basics of …

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 plus ou moins proche, plus ou moins mythique. Il est vrai que le Moyen Âge hérite des Anciens une foule …

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 d’écriture hebdomadaire comprendra des exercices de grammaire, des rédactions, et des traductions.  Pendant la seconde partie du semestre, nous considérerons …

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 help TAs, in-service language teachers and graduate students develop understandings regarding the acquisition, learning and teaching of languages in the …

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 will also read “short” texts by Balzac, Barbey, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Villiers, and Gautier.  We will use the short story as …