FREN 10.17 Saints, Martyrs, Demons

Many of French fiction’s most iconic characters have been marked as holy or unholy, saintly or damned. This course will ask what the famous saints, martyrs and demons of French cultural history have to say about morality, politics, and social issues (notably class, gender, race, and sexuality). Works by Racine, Voltaire, Sade, Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Eluard, Aragon, Bataille, Sartre, Barthes, Clouzot, Bresson, Césaire, and Yourcenar.

Instructor

Hollister

Prerequisite

French 8 or permission of the individual instructor

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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