FREN 720
This course is an introduction to the skills required of students doing graduate degrees in the humanities.
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Francophone Journals (Selected)
- Etudes françaisesE-Journal 1983-Present (follow link above)
Paper Journal 1965-Present
Watson Library Stacks - 3 1/2 West Stacks Stacks Map
Call Number: PQ3900 .E78 - Nouvelles études francophones2010 to Present available in
Project MUSE - Premium Collection - Présence francophonePQ3900 .P74x
Watson Library Stacks, 3 1/2 West - Research in African Literatures03/01/1999 to Present in
Project MUSE - Premium Collection (Also available in several other databases with various years of coverage) - Francosphères01/01/2012 to Present available online in
Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals - EthiopiquesDT1 .E8
Watson Library Stacks, 1 1/2 East
(Some back issues available at journal website http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/ and also available in HathiTrust)
Voyage de Noces by Patrick Modiano
La Douleur by Marguerite Duras
Film: Marcel Ophuls, The Sorrow and the Pity
- Marcel Ophuls, The Sorrow and the PityFrom its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation under Nazi regime has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films ever...
- Film: Claire Denis, ChocolatStory of a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti whose ordered life is turned upside down with the arrival of a new recruit who finds favor with the unit’s commander. Loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd
Literary Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9780691060781Publication Date: 1953-10-21Addresses how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf have depicted reality; and explains how to read Western literature.
Mimesis: the Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Call Number: PN56.R3 A83 Watson Library Stacks - 3 WestISBN: 0691060789Publication Date: 1953-10-21Paper book
A Theory of Narrative by Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780231513128Publication Date: 2008-07-03Altman's approach breaks away from traditional forms of analysis, identifying three basic strategies: single-focus, dual-focus, and multiple-focus. The author unpackis intentionally diverse selection of texts.
A Theory of Narrative by Call Number: PN212 .A47 2008 (Watson Library Stacks - 3 West)ISBN: 9780231144285Publication Date: 2008-07-03Paper book
Telling Anxiety: Anxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite uras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert (e-book) by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781442684850Publication Date: 2016-01-29Examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French.
Telling Anxiety: Anxious Narration in the work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert (paper book) by Call Number: PQ673 .W54 2007 (Watson Library Stacks - 3 1/2 West)ISBN: 9780802092762Publication Date: 2007-10-06
African Cinema in a Global Age by Call Number: PN1993.5.A35 H36 2024ISBN: 9781032502526Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Kodjo Atiso
Library Handouts
- A Faculty/Librarian Collaboration to Restructure a Graduate Research Methods Class for French Literature StudentsThe French Review. 89.2 (December 2015): 146-163.
- Review of Klapp Bibliography Review written by Nick Heim, French Studies Library Group Annual Review, Issue 13 (2016-2017)
Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century
Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780230105805Publication Date: 2010-03-01
The Craft of Research
The Craft of Research by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9780226239873Publication Date: 2016-10-284th edition
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