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Oct 31, 2024
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FREN174 PO - Adultery in the Novel.When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
Instructor(s): M. Waller
Credit: 1
Nineteenth-century French novels are obsessed with the appeal and fear of adultery and adulteration-the mixing of races, nations, bloodlines, classes, etc. Tempted by incest, adultery, miscegenation, and a romantic attraction to the Other (race, class, region, nation), nineteenth-century French protagonists are frequently condemned to live in exile or die of grief…. Why did the forbidden but desired Other play such a starring role in literature after the Revolution? And why does romance play such an important role in Romanticism, the first great literary movement of post-revolutionary French society? Novels by d’Albe, Staël, Duras and George Sand and a recent French film that reminds us that these questions are also our own. All readings, writings and discussion in French. Prerequisites: FREN 044 PO or equivalent. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Language Requirement; Writing Intensive
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