FREN 4370

Detours of Desire

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course will examine some of the major texts of the French canon (principally but not exclusively 19th century) to analyze the role of "desire" in its various forms in some of the most noteworthy novels in the French tradition.  We will examine the different theories of "desire" as elaborated in the works of de Rougemont, Freud, Lacan, etc. to try to understand how different authors use (often unbeknownst to them) the socio-sexual constraints of their time to destabilize those very constraints and by so doing opening up potentially new paradigms for individual expressions of passion.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Taught in French.

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