| Title: | Displacements |
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| Course Section Number: | FRE-313-01 |
| Department: | French |
| Description: | FRE-313: Displacements. The philosopher Pascal cautioned against moving out of one's private sphere, even out of one's room, since the potential for petty distractions or moral vagrancy is too great. But during the Enlightenment, and then through the Romantic period to our own times, travel to far locales, interest in other cultures, and the phenomena of exile and migration have enthralled (or vexed) the imagination of artists and writers. This course will consider the theme of displacement in a multitude of its forms. What happens when we are displaced, either physically or imaginatively? Do we become a different self, with a new identity? Do we project ourselves onto other cultures? Do we become alienated or isolated? Is displacement a dystopia? Or, rather, can displacement condition us to become more tolerant, more resilient, or more inspired? These are some of the questions we will ask while exploring French literary works from all periods and a variety of genres. Works considered will address the confrontation between Europeans and the New World; political and existential exile; the phenomenon of travel, within Europe, across the Atlantic, or even into space; imagination as a means of escapism; Symbolist poetry as an expression of a radical (displaced) language; migration; and displacements caused by war. Authors include Joachim Du Bellay, Françoise de Graffigny, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Flaubert, Rimbaud, Marguerite Duras, and J.M.G. Le Clézio. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/15/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Detchon, Room 128
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| Faculty: | Quandt, Karen |
| Requisite Courses: | Complete FRE-301 and FRE-302 Minimum grade C- |
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