| Course ID: | FREN 4060. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Enlightenment and Revolutions |
Course
Description: | Study snapshots of French culture from the centuries before and after the French Revolution to explore moments of upheaval and the forging of new intellectual, economic, aesthetic, and political enterprises. Taught in French. |
| Oasis Title: | Enlightenment and Revolutions |
| Prerequisite: | FREN 3030 or FREN 3030H or FREN 3030E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The course aims to introduce students to and familiarize them
with the literature and culture of the two centuries that have
played the most important role in shaping the present century,
not only for France, but also for the West. By integrating
literature, art, history, music, politics, and philosophy, the
course would present as comprehenive, culturally intergrated and
educationally relevant view of France at its most culturally
influent. |
| Topical Outline: | Topics covered:
- The pre-Enlightenment: Lesage, Marivaux, Montesquieu
- The Enlightenment, the Revolution, Pre Romanticism:
The Encylop‚die, Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau
- Romanticism: Chateaubriand, Mme de Sta‰l, Vingy, Musset, Hugo,
Maupassant.
- Symbolism: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarm‚
- Realism and Naturalism: Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, Zola |