College of Letters & Science
This seminar considers Machiavelli’s place within the society of letters, or more broadly, within the humanistic tradition. Students will seek to grasp the thread of his thinking across diverse texts and genres, while also evaluating the value, fortune and criticism of each work. Professor Kristin Phillips-Court (phillipscour@wisc.edu)
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the first semester of language instruction. 1 credit. Instruction and working hours are 15 in total (50 minutes each session). Students …
This course offers a survey of 17th-century Italian literature and examines the development of specific literary genres in the contexts of cultural and intellectual history. It provides methodologies and philological instruments necessary to the critical reading of a variety of narrative and poetic texts in the perspective of literary and cultural cross-currents of this time …
Besides offering a survey of early Italian authors while focusing on literary motifs and genres, this course emphasizes the importance of material culture and the necessity of its full consideration in textual criticism and interpretation of texts in general. Professor Jelena Todorovic (jtodorovic@wisc.edu).
“La vie de l’esprit de Voltaire à Balzac” L’objectif général de ce séminaire sera d’examiner la vie publique et privée de l’esprit des années 1720 jusqu’en 1832 (date de la publication de la nouvelle Louis Lambert de Balzac). Nos discussions seront axées sur les thèmes suivants: Les diverses significations du mot esprit chez les divers …
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the first semester of language instruction. 1 credit. Instruction and working hours are 15 in total (50 minutes each session). Students …
By the end of the 19th-century, masterpieces of the genre had established a set of conventions for the novel, seemingly all of which would be subverted, deconstructed, and playfully re-employed by French novelists over the course of the 20th-century. In this course, we will study the genre in many of its manifestations throughout the 20th- …
Ce cours concernera, en gros, la première moitié du 16e siècle, c’est-à-dire les temps du règne de François Ier, de l’épanouissement de « l’humanisme » et de la première Réforme. C’est une époque d’énorme diversité des genres, du lexique, des thèmes, des modèles. Nous lirons les poésies de Clément Marot, un best-seller du siècle, Pantagruel de François …
Ce cours obligatoire pour tout(e) étudiant(e) qui entre dans le programme de maîtrise et de doctorat en français est une initiation 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, …