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Sep 27, 2024
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FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon
This course will examine the role of wit and its counterpart, ridicule, in nineteenth century French society through an analysis of Stendhal’s novel The Red and The Black, Balzac’s novel Illusions perdues, Patrice Leconte’s film Ridicule. We will explore how wit is characterized in these works and investigate the role of language in social success and self-definition. We will also consider the process by which France’s national identity became tied to its language and how wit arose as an aristocratic value and came to embody key cultural capital. The course will include critical readings as well (Hesse, Lilti, Corbin, Foucault). This course meets the pre-1900 requirement. All students wishing to enroll in French language courses must take the Language Placement Test. Only those students who have had no more than one semester of high school French are exempt from taking this examination; they may enroll in FREN 001 SC - Introductory French . The lower-division program in French studies is part of Northern Colleges’ Joint French Program. Conversation groups are conducted by a native French speaker for all lower-division courses; hours are to be arranged.FREN 044
Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent.
Instructor: F. Lemoine
Course Credit: 1.0
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