Fall 2007 French Courses

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FRT 3561/WST : Women in French Literature
Instructor: Brigitte Weltman-Aron
Class meetings: T, Period 4; R, Periods 4-5

The theme of this course will be: French Women Writers and/as Foreigners. The readings are in English translation and the class and assignments are in English.

French women writers have often discussed women’s status in France through the double lens of feminism and foreignness. The works we will read include:
Madame de Graffigny. Letters from a Peruvian Woman (18th century): an Inca princess is kidnapped and brought to France. Critique of sexism, racism, religious intolerance and social inequality.
Madame de Duras. Ourika (19th century): a Senegalese girl who encounters and fights racism in France.
Marguerite Duras. Hiroshima mon amour (20th century) + film by A. Resnais. A French woman makes a film about peace in Hiroshima and meets a Japanese man. The encounter makes her revisit her own past during the German occupation of France.
Sarah Kofman. Rue Ordener, Rue Labat (20th century). A Jewish girl is hidden by a woman during the German occupation of France.
Leila Sebbar. Sherazade (20th century). A Beur girl in contemporary France.

FRE 3440
Commercial French

Instructor: Nathalie Ciesco (Lecturer in French)
Office: 1A Dauer Hall (Basement)
Tel.: (352)392-2016 ext. 264
E-mail: nciesco@rll.ufl.edu
Website: http://plaza.ufl.edu/nciesco/

Prerequisite: FRE 2201
Credits: 3

Description of the course:
An introduction to business practices in France with particular emphasis on active use of business vocabulary and salient cultural differences. Major topics covered include written business communication, financial institutions, trade and advertising.

The other goal of this course is to also prepare the students to take the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (C.C.I.P.) exam: the Diplôme de Français des Affaires, 1er degré (D.F.A.1). This exam will be held on campus in December 2007, and students are very much encouraged to take it.

For more information about the DFA1, please go to: http://www.fda.ccip.fr/default.asp?metaid=92
Required Texts and Materials: (Textbooks only available at: Textbook Brokers – 1227 W. University Avenue)
• R.-J. Berg : Parlons Affaires! (Second Edition), Thomson/Heinle, 2006.
• Jean-Luc Perfornis : Vocabulaire progressif du français des affaires, CLE International, 2004.

FRW 4281 (4334) - READINGS IN THE 20TH CENTURY FRENCH NOVEL
Credits: 3. Prerequisites/prérequis: FRE 3320 and FRW 3100 or FRW 3101, or equivalent

FRW6288 (6825) - TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH NOVEL
Credits: 3

Professor Carol Murphy
Tuesdays, periods 9-11 (MAT 105)
cmurphy@rll.ufl.edu
392-2016, ext. 235

“La Vie n’est pas un roman:” Representing the Real in the (Post)Modern French Novel”

From collage to copié-collé, from photographic still to cinematographic, video, and digital imagery, from TV to dvd, cd-rom, and www, rapidly changing modes of representation and communication have shaped French and Francophone cultural production during the long twentieth century. A veritable explosion of new technologies, often developed at exhilarating speed, has mapped novel ways of perceiving, understanding, constructing, and archiving historical, social, political, personal, and aesthetic realities. These verbal, visual, and virtual facets of contemporary French aesthetic practice have redefined our notions of text and context, textuality and the textual and have moved us as readers from observers to seekers to producers.

In this course we will examine, through selected modern and contemporary French novels, the changing nature of perception as refracted in new ways of writing, reading, and understanding the world. How have novelists sought to represent changing notions of the real made possible by new technologies? How do words and the world intersect? How has the visual, verbal, and virtual revolution of the long twentieth century altered our perception of the real and transformed the very notions of writing, reading, and the novelistic genre?

A study of novels and selected passages will guide our study of works by Proust, Colette, Breton, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Sartre, Simon, Sarraute, Modiano, and Germain. We will examine, among other topics, the painterly aspects of writing, for instance, the influence of Impressionism and Surrealism on the novel, the rise of the ciné-roman, autobiography vs. autofiction, the novel as photographic image, mapping time and space, and the hybrid nature of the discursive.

FRW 4391/ FRW 6396
#3699-#8044

Concepts of French Cinema— French cinema Dr. Sylvie E. Blum
Thursday 9-11
(Prereq. FRE 3300)

Cette classe propose d’enseigner l’histoire et la critique du cinéma français dès origines à nos jours. Nous utiliserons différentes approches dans l’étude de films qui oscilleront entre fictions et documentaires, longs ou courts-métrages. Nous examinerons différents genres et styles. Ce cours est ouvert essentiellement à des non-spécialistes, et aux étudiants intéressés par l’acquisition d’un savoir historique, théorique et analytique en cinéma. Une série de films sera à voir individuellement, indépendamment et en conjonction avec le cours.
Parmi les problématiques : le film d’auteur, la représentation des sexes au cinéma, le cinéma classique, la Nouvelle Vague, le polar, le film colonial, l’adaptation littéraire, les genres, la star, les bandes dessinées, etc.

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