Listed in: French, as FREN-345
Laure A. Katsaros (Section 01)
This class will introduce students to essential voices in French and Francophone poetry, from the mid-nineteenth century to the contemporary era. It will focus on the emergence of poetic modernity, through some key themes such as the representation of identity and the self; the idea of dissonance; the conflict between realism and the fantastic; and the complex relation with the French language and French literary tradition.
We will read poetry by Charles Baudelaire; Arthur Rimbaud; Jules Laforgue; Guillaume Apollinaire; and the Surrealists Robert Desnos, René Char, and Gisèle Prassinos. Selections from Francophone literature will introduce poetry from a broad array of geographical areas and cultures, including French Guyana (Léon-Gontran Damas); Senegal (Léopold Sedar Senghor); Lebanon (Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Salah Stétié); Algeria (Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar); and Martinique (Edouard Glissant). Conducted in French.
Requisite: One of the following--French 207, 208 or the equivalent. Fall semester: Professor Katsaros.
Section 01
M 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM SCCE E208
W 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM SCCE E208
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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Black Label et autres poemes | NRF/Gallimard, colection , «poesie», 2011 | Leon-Gontran Damas | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.