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Seminar in French Literature
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Credit: 4 hours.

Discussion and research on a specialized area in French literature. See Schedule for current topic.

May be repeated.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
61444
Lecture-Discussion
THE
3:00PM -4:50PM
R
1112 Foreign Languages Building
Proulx, F
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/18-12/12/18
Section Title:
French Lit Meets Queer Theory
Section Info:
French Literature Meets Queer Theory: The founding texts of American queer theory have a marked affinity with French literature and the nineteenth century. Michel Foucault famously claimed in The History of Sexuality that “the homosexual” became a species around 1870; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick likewise based her Epistemology of the Closet on nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century texts, including the work of Marcel Proust. This seminar will confront French nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels that arguably constitute a queer French canon (Balzac, Gautier, Proust, Colette, Genet, Leduc) with classic essays in queer theory by French and American critics (Foucault, Barthes, Wittig, Sedgwick, Butler and others). We will investigate queer theory’s roots in classic French literature and ask how that corpus can still fruitfully dialogue with more recent trends in queer and critical theory. Lectures in French; seminar discussions in French and English. Graduate students from programs other than French Studies may opt to submit all written work in English.
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