FRE 494 -- French Women in Society and the Arts

Spring 2006 Mondays and Wednesdays: 1:40 –2:55 PM, Room LL60

Aleksandra Gruzinska, Coordinator. E-mail: gruzinska@asu.edu

http://www.asu.edu/languages/fre/FrenchWomen/frewomen/

 

Syllabus for FRE 494; FLA 494, WST; FRE 598; ENG 494/598; ACMRS;
Honors Footnote 18.

01/23 Dr. Marc Cruse – Marie de France: Lays.

01/25 Dr. Cruse. Marie de France. Lays.


03/20 Dr. Aleksandra Gruzinska : Mme de Staël. Ten Years of Exile

The Year 1812 –Staël in Russia

03/22 Mme de Staël & Napoléon in 1812

01/30 Dr. Marc Cruse : Christine de Pizan: The Book of the City of Ladies

02/01 Dr. Marc Cruse . Christine de Pizan: The Book of the City of Ladies

 

03/27 Dr. Aleksandra Gruzinska : George Sand/ G. Flaubert Correspondence

1870 – The Franco-Prussian War

03/29 Dr. Aleksandra Gruzinska :

George Sand/GF Correspondence

1871 – The Paris Commune


02/06 Dr. Deborah Losse . Poetry of Louise Labé

02/08 Dr. Losse : Poetry of Louise Labé


04/03 Dr. Sylvain Gallais . Simone de Beauvoir et Le Deuxieme Sexe.

04/05 Dr. Sylvain Gallais. Presse feministe et femmes en education et politique en France (19e, 20e siècles)


02/13 Dr. Kristin Valentine

A dramatic reading of the

Marquise de Sévigné's Lettres

http://www.otvitre.fr/frhtm/patrimoine/madamede.htm

02/15 The Marquise de Sévigné Lettres


04/10 . Ann Hibner Koblitz , Women and Gender Studies. French Women and Science

04/12 Alexandra Gruzinska . Françoise Giroud. Une femme honorable

Detailed paper outline due

02/20 Dr. Deborah Losse : Marguerite de Navarre. L'Heptaméron

02/22 Dr. Losse. Marguerite de Navarre. L'Heptaméron


04/17 Film: Les Palmes de M. Schutz

04/19 Film: Les Palmes de M. Schutz

Francoise Giroud. Une femme


 


04/24 Dr. Suzanne Hendrickson.

M.Duras: Moderato Cantabile

04/26 Dr. William Hendrickson: Agnès Varda: Cleo from Five to Seven .


02/27 Mid-Term Examination (35%)

Class Participation (5%)

03/01 Dr. Aleksandra Gruzinska . Isabelle de Charrière. Mistress Hensley

05/01 Dr. William Hendrickson: Agnès Varda: Cleo from Five to Seven .

Course Evaluation . Concluding remarks by Faculty and Students. Sug. Box. Final paper du (20%) .

03/06 Dr. Anthony Gully. Women as Artists & Subjects in Modern Painting of France – The 19 th Century

03/08 Dr. Anthony Gully, Women as Artists & Subjects in Modern Painting of France – 20 th Century

05/02 Tuesday - Reading Day

03/12 Spring Break

03/19 Spring Break


5/8-5/10 Wed. Final Examination (35%).

Class participation/assessment (5%)


  Honors Students: contact Dr. Gruzinska for direction of special assignment with appropriate instructor in the area of your interest.

Graduate Students in French may register as FRE 590: Reading & Conference. Research paper in area of interest. Research topic requires faculty approval.