This course is designed for students who have completed or are 
completing French Conversation and Composition.  Introduction 
to French Literature (Honors) will continue teaching isolated 
topics in linguistics and culture, thus building upon knowledge 
acquired in prior courses, and will present students with a 
large sampling of French and Francophone literature, of 
different forms, from different periods, and from several 
cultures.  This course will form the gateway to the Major, the 
two courses being required for further study of the language, 
culture, or literature.

Genres: Poetry, theater, prose.  Authors (poets): Ronsard, du 
Bellay, La Fontaine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Val‚ry, C‚saire 
or Ponge.  Theater: MoliŠre, Corneille, Racine, Anouilh, Vian, 
or Beckett.  Prose: Voltaire, Balzac, Chateaubriand, Stendhal, 
Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet, or Sembene.  Topics: poetry 
(metaphor, voice, personification); theater (action, gesture, 
costume, plot, setting, props; prose (narrative voice, irony, 
kinds of narrator, tense of narration, historical setting).  
Linguistics topics might include: performance utterances, 
dialogic situations, levels of discourse.  Social topics might 
include: courtly literature, urbanization, rise of the 
bourgeoisie.