Spring 2017  |  FREN 8270 Section 001: Critical Issues: Prose (67780)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 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
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Virtual Rooms ROOM-TBA
Course Catalog Description:
Significant critical issues relating to prose writing of selected authors or periods.
Class Notes:
Please check out more information on this course! http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mbrewer+FREN8270+Spring2017
Class Description:
"Inventing Childhood in Modernity: Sites of the Child in French Literature and Critical Thought." In this seminar we will study the emergence and symbolic constructions of the child and childhood in French literature, literary criticism, and theory. Focusing on specific historical contexts, we explore ways of reading the diverse and often contradictory representations of children in literature, cultural history, and critical thought. We will identify the particular concepts, discourses, and images through which the child's experience of language, sexuality, and ideology come to be configured. In the process, we propose to map out the sites of the child's socio-symbolic relation to the permeable thresholds between the self and other, the intelligible and the sensible, and the public and private realms. In our readings and discussions, we take up the child in historical contexts from the middle ages to the nineteenth century through selected essays by philosophers (Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau) and cultural historians (Ariès, Flandrin, Badinter, Perrot). The major part of the seminar will then focus on the writing of childhood in the 19th and 20th centuries in the work of Jules Vallès, Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Monique Wittig, Scholastique Mukasonga, and François Truffaut. Childhood in critical thought will be studied in essays by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Julia Kristeva, and Giorgio Agamben. (Note: Students who have a reading knowledge of French are most welcome to participate in English). Presentations and seminar paper.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67780/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 November 2016

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