RLFR 230
Introduction to French Stylistics: The Art of Pastiche
Last Offered Spring 2014
Division I
Writing Skills
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
Generally speaking, pasticheurs are derivative artists. Yet many of France’s most original authors were agile pasticheurs, among them La Bruyère, Proust, and the experimental writers of the OuLiPo movement. What might the art of pastiche suggest about the relationship between imitation and creation, tradition and innovation, and past and present? Discussion of such questions will be grounded in the study of short texts by Rimbaud (as Villon), Zalmanski (as Madame de Sévigné), Janin (as Diderot), Flaubert (as Chateaubriand), and Queneau (as Proust). Analysis and explication of pastiches will strengthen students’ technical grasp of French. In the second half of the semester, students will apply their rhetorical, syntactical, and stylistic knowledge through weekly pastiche exercises, submitted as a final portfolio at semester’s end. Conducted in French.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3807
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 3807
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
active class participation, individual meetings, biweekly postings, 3 compositions (2 drafts each) and final portfolio
Prerequisites:
RLFR 105-106 or examination placement
Enrollment Preferences:
French majors and those completing a French Certificate
Distributions:
Division I
Writing Skills
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RLFR 230 - SEM French Stylistics
RLFR 230 SEM French StylisticsDivision I Writing SkillsNot offered
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