FREN 10.20 Representations of war in French literature and film from the Middle Ages to the present

This course will explore the different ways in which French literature and cinema represent war and its effects from the Middle-Ages to the present. Texts and authors studied will include the “Chansons de Geste,” Chrétien de Troyes, Pierre Corneille, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Stendhal, Roland Dorgelès, Henri Barbusse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marc Bloch, Vercors, Joseph Kessel and film-makers such as Jean Renoir, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean-Pierre Melville, Louis Malle and François Truffaut.

Prerequisite

French 8 or permission of the instructor

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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