Description
FREN 331. POETRY. The goal of this course is to enable students to express themselves with increased sophistication and to practice “explication de textes”, this staple of French classical education. Students will study the biographies and also selected texts by nineteenth- and twentieth- century poets from France and the francophone world: Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valéry, Senghor, and Césaire. This course fulfills the Information Literacy (IL) requirement for the French major. Taught in French. Prerequisite: French 300-level course or by permission. Offered periodically, sem tthree hours.