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2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
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FRN 328 - Comedy in French Literature Prior to the Revolution

4 credits (Fall)
This seminar analyzes how French writers used comedy, and comic techniques, to depict and even criticize different aspects of French society, such as religion, sexual norms, or courtly etiquette.  Students will also engage in translation of certain works, to try to understand how to capture humor and cultural notions while using a different language.  Some of the authors studied may include Molière, Villedieu, Voltaire, Laclos.
 

Prerequisite: FRN 312  or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Harrison