• FRW 5415 Readings in Old French Literature
• FRW 5593 Studies In 18th Century Literature
• FRW 5595r Studies In 19th Century Literature
• FRE 5060 Graduate Reading Knowledge in French
• FRE 5456 Comparative Stylistics
• FRE 5925 Tutorial in Professional Issues

Our own present-day digital revolution clearly shows that the means of transmission of knowledge has an enormous effect on the mentality of a culture. The transmission of the written word, whether in hand-written manuscripts or in the printed book, had a similar effect on the mentality of earlier ages. "Romance and the Book" is a seminar directed at students interested in the question of the transmission of literature in manuscript form in the Middle Ages. The object of our study will be Chantilly MS 472, a collection of eleven texts copied and assembled in Flanders around 1250. The manuscript is currently housed in the library of the beautiful château de Chantilly, located outside of Paris. Guest lectures by Norris Lacy, Sparks Professor at Penn State and David Johnson of the FSU English Department will enlarge the context of our inquiry. Professor Johnson, for example, will speak on what happens to the French knight Gauvain when he reappears in a Middle Dutch collection of texts very similar to Chantilly MS 472.

Le cours FRW 5593 du 18^e siècle offert pendant le semestre du printemps 2001 portera essentiellement sur les romans et les contes inscrits sur la liste des ouvrages dont la lecture est exigée pour passer le diplôme M.A. à F.S.U. (M.A. readling list). Nous étudierons entre autres, les particularités, la fonction, et l'efficacité des romans à la première personne, des romans épistolaires et du genre conte. Le cours sera organisé comme un séminaire c'est à dire que les étudiants participeront activement à l'analyse serrée des textes et selon les oeuvres qu'ils auront choisies, ils présenteront aux participant un rapport sur les études critiques les plus récentes, disponibles sur l'internet ou à la bibliothèque. Dans la mesure du possible, et selon le temps disponible, des passerelles seront jetées vers les art et la musique.

Liste des ouvrages qui seront étudiés:

• Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Viriginie

• Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste

• Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

• Montesquieu, Lettres persanes

• Prevost, Manon Lescault

• Rousseau, Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise

• Voltaire, Contes

Open to advanced undergraduates in French (register under FRW 4460). Why are so many of the protagonists of 19th century French literature nostalgic for an absent mother? This course will examine why a relation to the maternal was a crucial determinant of French Romantic culture and the gender ideology that underwrites it. We will focus on the aesthetic, historical and psychological factors that account for the preoccupation with an imaginary mother figure in representative 19th-century novels and poetry. Primary readings:

• Rousseau, Les Confessions I (excerpts)

• Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir

• Balzac, Le Lys dans la vallée

• Sand, François le Champi

• Flaubert, Madame Bovary

• Maupassant, Contes (excerpts)