FREN 3120 - French Stylistics

Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: FREN 3010 or FREN 3050, or CASE Q++. Students who have taken FREN 3130 are not eligible to take FREN 3120 for credit.

T. Alkire.

This course on stylistics, and its application to textual analysis and translation, aims to help students develop a richer, more nuanced and idiomatic command of both the spoken and written language. Systematic study of grammar is discontinued as more attention is devoted to such topics as descriptive stylistics, authorial style, varieties of spoken French and their literary representations, rhetorical figures and poetics, as well as textual analysis and translation theory. Writing exercises include: literary pastiche, isosyntactic imitation, intralingual translation, an exercice de style, stylistic analysis, and critical translation. Additional exercises will target vocabulary development and contrastive grammar. Seminar-style participation in class discussions is expected.