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Fall 2026 - 16:420:500 - Introduction to Rhetorical and Stylistic Analysis: Reading Twentieth-Century French Literature

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Semester(s) Offered: Fall
Instructor: Allamand, Carole
Credits: 3

Thursday 3:50-6:50 – ABW 4190

This course has been designed for first and second-year M.A. and Ph.D. students. It combines an introduction to French theory and literary analysis with a preparation for written and oral exams based on the French Department’s 20th-century reading list.

French thinkers figured prominently in the structuralist and...

Fall 2026 - 16:420:501 – Introduction to Literary Theory

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Semester(s) Offered: Fall
Instructor: Swenson, James
Credits: 3

Monday 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – ABW 4052

This course begins from the premise that a synoptic introduction to literary theory (based on a series of influential texts and a succession of schools) is no longer possible. We will instead take our point of departure from the observatoin (which is itself contestable) that literary study today is...

Spring 2027 - 16:420:616 - Studies in Medieval French Literature - Dialogue and the Dynamics of Genre

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Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Instructor: Pairet, Ana
Credits: 3

Tuesdays 3:50 - 6:50 PM - ABW-4190

How do premodern texts challenge literary categories that we often take for granted, such as poem, romance, genre, or author? Our seminar will examine the evolution of narrative fiction in the French vernacular (12th-15th C.), focusing on the dynamics of form, theme and genre. Attention will be given to the...

Spring 2027 - 16:420:673 - Caribbean Literature - Occupied Novels

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Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Instructor: Jean-Baptiste, Shanna
Credits: 3

Thursdays 3:50 - 6:50 PM - ABW-4190

This graduate seminar examines the relationship between anti-Black racism and the praxis of violence that undergirded the 1915-1934 American occupation of Haiti. Through close readings of several “occupied novels” (works by Haitian writers published during the occupation) we will investigate how Haitian writers used...

Note on Books for Courses

Purchase of books will not be available through the University bookstore. Because it saves as much as half off book prices and allows use of books unavailable to US distributors, students must order their books directly on the web.

You can order books from a variety of on-line bookstores. French books can be purchased from www.fnac.com, www.amazon.fr, www.chapitre.com, or www.schoenhofs.com, for example. Books in English (or with an ISBN beginning with 0) can be purchased from www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, or any other web site you can find. Please note: ISBN numbers are provided for each book. Be sure you order the correct version of the text. Check the ISBN before you order. Once you reach the web page, try a “full search” or “recherche détaillée” directly for the ISBN (when searching with the ISBN, do not include the hyphens). Books now have a 10–digit and a 13–digit ISBN, and you can search for either.