FR 571

Fall 2018 All Classes

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Seminar 16thC French Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

Discussion and research on a specialized topic in sixteenth-century French literature. See Schedule for current topic.

May be repeated.

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FR 571 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59763	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	1018 Foreign Languages Building	Keller, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Section Info: French Renaissance Worldmaking. The discovery of the American continent and new trade routes to Asia at the turn of the sixteenth century have had a tremendous impact on the European imagination of the world. The goal of this seminar is to uncover the imprint that the early modern revolution of knowledge about the world left on French texts of the period. How did Renaissance authors imagine the world and their place in it? How did they conceive of France’s position and role in a global context? In our readings, we will foreground the ideological and political dimensions of French Renaissance worldmaking and investigate its complex relationship with other issues that define what could be called the first age of globalization, such as revived fantasies of empire, an emerging idea of Europe, or the invention of cosmopolitanism. Select recent criticism on the global in early modern thought and literature will inform our discussion. Readings and class discussion in French.