Luc Monnin

Office: Vollum 318
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luc.monnin@reed.edu
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Reed College SPRING 2005

332 Early Modern French Literature and Culture

Full course for one semester. This course explores the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with a special emphasis on the roles, forms, and schools of lyric poetry and their evolution within their cultural context, from the "Grands Rhétoriqueurs” through "la Pléiade” up to the beginning of Classicism. We will study the means by which poetic texts explore and reveal the productive tensions between ideals and practices, heritage and innovation, and French and Italian poetics, as well as their ancient and modern poetic traditions. Authors covered include Jean and Clément Marot, Louise Labé, Maurice Scève, Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and François de Malherbe. Discussion in French. Prerequisite: French 210 or demonstration of equivalent ability by placement exam. Lecture-conference.

The grade composition:
3 papers
Participation: homework, preparedness for class, attendance, and participation in class conferences.