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Fall 2002
This information effective
for Fall 2002.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Fall 2002
TTh 12-1:45
Instructor: Sharon Kinoshita
301 Oakes, 459-2395
sakinosh@cats.ucsc.edu
This course examines courtly literature in relation to the political and social structures of the twelfth century. Topics include medieval marriage, knighthood/chivalry and feudalism, and cross-cultural relations. This course assumes no prior knowledge of the middle ages, but requires a willingness to think about literary texts in historically and culturally specific ways. Lectures and discussion primarily in French. Primary readings in modern French translation with occasional work in Old French and Provençal. Secondary readings in French and English.
Assignments: historical quiz, short essay, oral presentation, and final paper. French majors are expected to write in French; others may write in French or English.
Graduate students will meet with the instructor one extra hour a week (TBA) for additional work in Old French and Provençal language and in secondary critical traditions. Assignments include two short critical précis and a final paper or annotated bibliography.
This course will read three
classic novels of the French nineteenth century: Stendhal's La Chartreuse
de Parme; Balzac's Le Pere Goriot; Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale.
The focus will be on the development of the novel form in representation of
the individual in 19th-century society. Readings, discussion, and two short
papers in French.