FREN 3240 - French Classics

(CA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Conducted in English.

M. Greenberg.

This course will survey the great classics of France (Literature, Art, Architecture) from the Middle-Ages to Modernity. We will read such texts as “The Song of Roland,” Montaigne’s “Essays” plays be Moliere and Racine, short fiction by Voltaire, and symbolist poetry. At the same time we will discuss, romanesque and gothic architecture (Notre Dame de Chartres), the building of Versailles, and the paintings of the Classical and Romantic periods.