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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.211.732 (01)
The Literature of Speculative Genres: Science Fiction, Bandes dessinées, MMOGs, Mangas…
W 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Anderson, Wilda
Gilman 418
GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-FREN
The Literature of Speculative Genres: Science Fiction, Bandes dessinées, MMOGs, Mangas…
The francophone and anglophone worlds have longstanding distinct if complementary traditions for staging the primordial literary gesture, the imagining of the “What if”. This course will confront the two cultures in early works like Cyrano de Bergerac’s Histoire comique des états et empires du soleil, C. N. Ledoux’s utopian workers’ paradise, or Jules Verne's novels. It will then address the modern literate spaces in which the two traditions cross-fertilize each other— for example the French reception of Philip K Dick’s oeuvre, Korogodski’s Pink Noise-A Posthuman Tale, Catherine Dufour’s Le Goût de l’immortalité, cyberpunk, mangas co-authored by francophone artists and writers, the “9e art” of the high graphic novels, especially the Cités obscures of Schuitten and Peeters, or hybrid French/anglophone MMOG communities like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. The materials will be in French or English, so the ability to understand French is necessary, with class discussion in English. Undergraduates are welcome with permission of the instructor, and this course may count for the French major or minor.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, GRLL-FREN
AS.212.801 (04)
French Independent Study
Schilling, Derek
French Independent Study
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Closed
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.212.785 (01)
The Enlightenment and its Critics
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Russo, Elena
Gilman 479
GRLL-FREN
The Enlightenment and its Critics
Are imperialism, universalism, soulless rationalism, reckless exploitation of nature, and social engineering the legacy of a so-called “Enlightenment project,” as many have argued in the wake of World War II? This course explores some core aspects of that critique, from Rousseau to Foucault, while testing them against examples of the plurality of discursive practices that we call Enlightenment. Readings and discussion in French. Course open to undergraduates with the instructor’s permission.
