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FRENCH 6295-476
CLASS#1300
DR. BOURDERIONNET
An Exploration of French Chanson in the 20th Century
If you have heard of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf, you know that the French take their chanson seriously.
Do you know that Piaf is considered one of the last representatives of a genre of chanson that emerged in the late
19th century? Do you know that chanson incorporated jazz music very early on and with such success that a number
of songs now part of the American standard repertoire were actually composed in France?
This course proposes to explore many aspects of French popular music throughout the twentieth century
and beyond, with a particular focus on the transformations of the genre of chanson over time. We will look at the
significance of chanson from a variety of perspectives: historical (wars, labor movements, decolonization, youth
movement, etc.) cultural (evolution of the way people shared and experienced songs: cabaret, phonogram, radio,
concert halls, video, internet) and literary (the relationship between chanson and the French literary tradition and
movements).
We will listen to a selection of songs, each week. The lyrics will be made available in pdf format via
moodle. Students will be responsible for finding the song recordings on Youtube (or on the UNO media server if so
directed).
We will also read a selection of articles and chapters from books in French or English (see bibliography
below) that will be made available by pdf (either on Moodle or on electronic reserve at the library).
Lectures (all in French) will be posted on Moodle once a week. Twice during the summer session, students
will be asked to respond in French to assigned material and questions via a discussion forum on Moodle. There will
be a mid-session exam (after four weeks of class) and a final exam at the end of the session. Students will not have
to purchase any books for this course but they will be required to pay exam fees ($20 to Proctor U services per test)
for online testing.
Selected bibliography:
Brunschwig, Chantal; Calvet, Louis-Jean; Klein, Jean-Claude. Cent ans de chanson française.
Paris: Seuil 1981
Calvet, Louis-Jean. Chanson et société. Paris: Payot, 1981
Cantaloube-Ferrieu, Lucienne. Chanson et poésie des années 30 aux années 60: Trenet,
Brassens, Ferré... ou les "enfants naturels" du surréalisme. Paris: Nizet, 1981
Conway, Kelly. Chanteuse in the city: the realist singer in French film. Berkley: UCP, 2004
Grimbert, Philippe. Psychanalyse de la chanson. Paris: Hachette, 1996
Hawkins, Peter. Chanson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000
Hennion, Antoine. Les professionnels du disque: une sociologie des variétés. Paris: Métailié,
1981
Looseley, David. Popular music in contemporary France. Oxford: Berg 2003
Ory, Pacal. L’aventure culturelle française 1945-1989. Paris: Flammarion, 1989
Stovall, Tyler. Paris Noir. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996
Szendy, Peter. Tubes. La philosophie dans le juke-box. Minuit, 2013.
Yonnet, Paul. Jeux, modes et masses: la société française et le moderne 1945-1985.
Paris: Gallimard, 1985
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DIRECTED STUDY
DR. JULIANA STARR
FRENCH 6397-476
CLASS # 1301
This course is restricted: special departmental permission is required to enroll. Only students in
need of it to fulfill a special requirement or to complete their degree will be allowed to enroll.
Subjects treated in recent times: “Current events in France through readings of the media; “The
legend of Tristan and Iseut in Medieval French Literature”, “Balzac et Flaubert”, etc…
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COMPARATIVE ROMANCE CULTURES: LOVE AND VIOLENCE
ROML 6205-476
Class #1517
Dr. Eliza Ghil
THIS COURSE CAN BE TAKEN TWICE FOR A MAXIMUM OF SIX CREDITS
Thiscourse,conductedinEnglish,exploresthethematicandstylisticrelationsbetweenloveand
violenceinearlymodernRomancecultures.Ourstudywilltakeusintimefromthe12thtothe17th
centuries,andinspacefromOccitania(medievalsouthernFrance)tonorthernFrance,Italy,and
ultimately,Spain.
Wewillfollowseveraldirectionsofinquiry:1)lyricalimagery,i.e.,metaphorsofcaptivity,huntingand
warasusedbythelovertoarticulatetheintensityofhisdevotion,e.g.bythetroubadourBernartde
Ventadorn(active1150-1180),andbythetrouvèreThibautdeChampagne(1201-1253);2)narrative
plots,e.g.,inthe“lai”(‘shortnarrative’)byMariedeFrance(“Guigemar”)inwhichtheloverknight
wageswarandspreadsviolenceaspartofhissecondnature(theauthorwasactiveinthe1180’s);3)the
lyrico-narrativeshapingofacontemporaryincidentbyDanteAlighieriinhis“Inferno”–CantoV,i.e.,the
storyofFrancescadaRiminiandPaoloMalatesta(“L’Inferno”ispartIof“LaDivinaCommedia,”
authoredatthebeginningofthe14thcentury);4)thepoeticalreshapingofBiblicalmythsofsexand
violence,e.g.,inasonnetfromtheSpanishGoldenAgebyLopedeVega(1562-1635).
Readingswillbetakenfrombilingualeditions:thestudentswillberesponsibleforreadingtheEnglish
translationswhiletheprofessorwillrefertotheoriginalofthebilingualeditionsinherlectures.
REQUIREMENTS:participationinEnglishintheDiscussionBoard,twowrittenassignments,amid-term
examandafinalexam(tobewritteninEnglish).
BIBLIOGRAPHY:(note:everythingwillbepostedonMoodleexceptforDanteandMariedeFrance):
I. PrimaryTexts
1. FrederickGoldin,“LyricsoftheTroubadoursandtheTrouvères.”NewYork:Anchor/Doubleday,
1973(severalshortpoemstobepostedonMoodle).
2. MariedeFrance,“Guigemar,”in“TheLaysof….”ISBN16038-41881.
3. DanteAlighieri,‘TheInferno.”AnewversetranslationbyRobertPinsky,Bilingualedition.New
York:Farrar,StrausandGiroux,1998ISBN0-978-0-374-52452-4.
4. AngelFlores,ed.,“SpanishPoetry:ADualLanguageAnthology,16-thto20-thcenturies.”
Mineola,NY:DoverPublishing,Inc.,1998(severalpoemsfromtheSpanishGoldenAgeincluding
Lope’ssonnetwillbepostedonMoodle).
II.
SecondarySources
Prefacesandothercommentariesauthoredbytheeditorsoftheabove-mentionededitions.
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SPANISH 6198-476: STUDIES IN SPANISH LITERATURE:
COLONIAL SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
(From the Discovery until Independence)
Class #1527
Prof. Manuel García Castellón
This course, conducted in Spanish, will familiarize the student with Colonial Latin
American texts such as Christopher Columbus’ Diario de navegación and Cartas del
descubrimiento, and notable chronicles such as Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Verdadera
Historia, Hernán Cortés’ Cartas de Relación, Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios, and Inca
Garcilaso’s Comentarios Reales. We will also read critical essays of the period such as
Bartolomé de las Casas’ Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Yndias and Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz’s autobiographical “Epistola a Sor Filotea.” As for poetry, we will
discover Alonso de Ercilla’s memorable Araucana, as well as Sor Juana´s feminist
redondillas. Other than primary sources, the student will read a series of related critical
articles posted on Moodle as “Course Documents,” mostly in postcolonial
interpretation.
Requirements: weekly readings, with corresponding questionnaires and comments,
and a final paper of 10-15 pages including bibliography, in MLA format.
Textbook: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez: Aquí, ninfas del Sur, venid ligeras. Latest ed.
ISBN: 9788484893431. Available at the Tulane Latin American Library, call number: PQ
7084 .A695 2008
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DIRECTED STUDY
DR. MANUEL GARCÍA CASTELLÓN
SPAN 6397- 476
CLASS #1533
This course is restricted: special departmental permission is required to enroll.
Only students in need of it to fulfill a special requirement will be allowed to enroll.
This course will be taught in Spanish.
Topics in recent semesters: Golden Age Literature including Cervantes; early
Spanish Civilization; Readings on women writers’ fiction, etc.