FR 543

Fall 2010 All Classes

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French Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Flexible course limited only by the concentration of its material in French; may be activated by faculty proposal.

May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours if topics vary.

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FR 543 class schedule data for fall 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	56140	Lecture-Discussion	G	2:00PM -3:50PM	M	311 Davenport Hall	Mathy, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/10-12/08/10 Section Info: Literature, Politics, and the National Idea in France (16th century to the Present) The course focuses on the figure of the writer as public intellectual at critical moments in French cultural history: the emergence of the nation state, the philosophical critique of the monarchy, the Dreyfus Affair, the Cold War, May 1968, and the contemporary situation. The notion of intellectual field will help place individual works in the wider context of their authors? political engagement through the written word. Authors studied include du Bellay, Voltaire, Rousseau, Zola, Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze, Kristeva, L�vy, Badiou, and Finkielkraut. Readings from historians, sociologists, philosophers, and literary critics will provide analytical tools and historical background (texts by Balibar, Bourdieu, Burgui�re, Debray, DeJean, Ory and Sirinelli, and others). Readings and discussions are in French.