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Fall 2018 | FREN 8230 Section 001: Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought (33421)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3-9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Virtual Rooms ROOM-TBA
- Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Critical issues relating to works in criticism/thought related to French/Francophone literature, philosophy or culture.
- Class Notes:
- See course description at http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cherbuli+FREN8230+Fall2018. NOTE: Class meets in FolH 307B
- Class Description:
- This seminar seeks to initiate dialogue between theories of "the multitude," and historical inquiries into the status of the collective as a creative force in pre-Revolutionary France. Historians and literary critics of premodern Europe analyzing the idea of the "collective" generally build on either of two very divergent stories. The first story, elaborated as part of theories of sovereignty and popular power, sees the collective masses "the multitude" as originally a premodern phenomenon whose great utopian potential was squelched after the disappointments of 18th- and 19th-century political revolutions. The second story, arising from histories of literature, art, and theater, identifies practices of writing that are anonymous, collective, and multimedial, suggests that many modern aesthetic structures (the author, the genius, the artistic school), emerge from these group practices. Both narratives -- the lost sovereignty of the populace as well as obsolete strategies of performance and composition-- share a somewhat nostalgic belief in the collective's foundational role in modernity. What is the relationship between the political power of the "people" (whose approbation was said to subtend every non-despotic ruler) and the aesthetic power of the collective, a feature of theatrical composition and novelistic writing in the early modern period? When does a coterie become a collective, and when does a collective become a mob? What are the origins (historical, theoretical and aesthetic) of the concept of crowd-sourcing? Of what, precisely, is the crowd a "source?" Readings will include theoretical works on the crowd (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Tarde, Canetti, Foucault, Negri); and works that are crowd-making/representing, including prints, plays, memoires, natural philosophy, journals, and police treatises (Mercier, Corneille, Sevigne, Callot, Spinoza, Bayle, Donneau de Vise, La Mare). Perspectives and research from outside the French canon will be warmly welcomed.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
50% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
60% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
1 Special Project(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33421/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Fall 2018 | FREN 8230 Section 002: Critical Issues: Criticism and Thought (34121)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3-9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 8
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Critical issues relating to works in criticism/thought related to French/Francophone literature, philosophy or culture.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34121/1189
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