Summer 2012/Gasarian FR 32 -- Readings on Nature in French

Summer 2012/Gasarian
Preliminary Syllabus
FR 32 -- Readings on Nature in French Literature II
FR 191 – Readings on Nature in French Literature
(concurently offered as 100-level literature course:
same readings but more homework)
Texts:
Rousseau: Les Confessions, Livres III, IV et VI (photocopies)
Rousseau: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire, (Garnier Flammarion)
Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny: Selected Romantic poetry (photocopies)
Eugène Sue: La Marquise Cornélia d’Alfi ou le lac d’Annecy et ses environs
Elibron Classics (www.elibron.com)
Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Desnos, Péret : Selected modern poetry (photocopies)
Schedule:
To be determined. Below are the 2011 meeting times:
Monday
1:00 – 2:30 pm.
Tuesday
8:45 – 11:15 am.
Thursday
3:00 – 5:30 pm.
Final grade: 3 Papers = 60 %
2 Oral reports and class participation = 40 %
Field Trip:
Wednesday, June 01, all day: Visite des “Charmettes” à Chambéry, suivie d’une
visite du centre ville (où Rousseau passa des années heureuses et formatrices)
Syllabus:
Below dates and assignments are from 2011:
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W 05/18
Orientation, Introduction to the course
Th 05/19
No Class
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M 05/23
Rousseau: Les Confessions, Livre III, p. 1 - 17 (photocopies)
Rousseau: Les Confessions, Livre IV, p. 18 – 28 (photocopies)
T 05/24
Rousseau: Les Confessions, Livre VI (photocopies)
Rousseau: Les Rêveries, Promenade X, Les Charmettes
Les Rêveries, Promenade II
Les Rêveries, Promenade V
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M 05/30
Rousseau: Les Rêveries, Promenade V + VII
Th 05/26
T 05/31
Exposés oraux sur Rousseau
Th 06/02
Lamartine (photocopies):
“Vers écrits dans la chambre de Rousseau”, p. 52
“Le Mont-Blanc”, p. 56-57
“Le Lac de B.”, p. 66-67
“L’Isolement”, p. 58-59
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M 06/06
Lamartine (photocopies):
“Le Soir”, p. 60-61
“Le Vallon”, p. 62-63
“La Solitude”, p. 68-70
First paper due
T 06/07
Hugo (photocopies):
“Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne”, p. 74-76
“Pan”, p. 76-78
“La Vache”, p. 79-80
“Tristesse d’Olympio”, p. 81-83
Th 06/09
Hugo (photocopies):
“Demain, dès l’aube”, p. 84
“Printemps”, p. 85
“Aux Arbres”, p. 86
“Je lisais…”, p. 87
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M 06/13
Exposés oraux sur Hugo ou Lamartine
T 06/14
Eugène Sue: Le lac d’Annecy et ses environs
Second paper due
Th 06/16
Eugène Sue: Le lac d’Annecy et ses environs
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M 06/20
Eugène Sue: Le lac d’Annecy et ses environs
T 06/21
Baudelaire
(photocopies)
Th 06/23
Rimbaud
(photocopies)
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M 06/27
Desnos, Péret (photocopies)
T 06/28
Third paper due