Spring 2017  |  FREN 3310 Section 001: Literature of Revolution and Upheaval (67778)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 02/19/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik Hall 165
 
02/20/2017 - 02/22/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik Hall 335
 
02/23/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik Hall 165
Course Catalog Description:
A study of revolutionary movements in France seen through novels placed in historical context. Content may vary, but course will deal with radical historical, cultural and literary changes in France primarily in the modern period. prereq: 3101
Class Notes:
Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tbwilds+FREN3310+Spring2017
Class Description:
The French Revolution inspired a generation of French people to identify themselves as citizens for the first time, while unleashing passions that seemed to make it impossible to go on living together. In the heat of the moment, literary works incited revolutionary or counter-revolutionary action, generated visions of a collective future, and attempted to make sense of events that seemed to escape everybody's control. They contributed and continue to contribute to the understanding and valorization of events in the metropole and its colonies during the period, helping to consolidate a complex political and social crisis into what we think of now as capital R Revolution. In this course we will ask what literary works bring to the study of the Revolution, as both representations of society and as acts in themselves. How did these works of theater, poetry or fiction arouse political passions like outrage and terror, melancholy and loathing, hope and harmony, and to what ends? How did they represent and seek to influence events in France and the colonies? And how did revolution shift ideas about what literature itself could be or do? Over the semester, we will encounter texts by Beaumarchais, Chénier, de Gouges, Chateaubriand, Fiévée, Hugo and others, along with films by Éric Rohmer and Jean Renoir and a selection of historical and critical readings.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67778/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2016

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