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G45.2690

G45. 2690    
Tues  4:10-6:10  
Fall 2008                                                                                                                        
Prof. Sieburth
Office hours: Thurs 2-5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Studies in l9th-Century Literature:
Exoticism

I.              Introduction: Inside/Outside, Here/There, Us/Them

                                Selections from Barthes & Segalen

II.            Utopia and its Discontents

Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (Livre de poche/Classiques

                                d’aujourd’hui)

III.           Versions of Pastoral

                                Bernadin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie (GF)

IV.           Extinction

Chateaubriand, Atala/René/Les  Natchez (Livre de poche)

V.            Slave Narratives

                                Mme de Duras, Ourika;  Mérimée, “Tamango” (pdf.)

VI.           Sublime/Grotesque

Hugo, Bug-Jargal [in Dernier jour d’un condamné (Folio)]

                [Bongie intro and notes to Bug-Jargal in pdf.]

VII.         Orientalizing Poetics

                                Hugo, Les Orientales  (pdf.)

                                Nerval, selected sonnets (xerox)

VIII.        Obscure Objects of Desire

                                Balzac, “Une Passion dans le désert,” “La Fille aux yeux d’or” (pdf.)

IX.           Desert Writing

                                Friomentin, Une Année dans le Sahel (GF)

X.            Disorientions

                                Flaubert, selections from Voyage en Orient (Folio); Voyage en Egypte (pdf.)

XI            Bourgeois and Barbarians

                                Flaubert, Salammbô (GF)

XII.         Returns of the Repressed

                                Mérimée, “La Vénus d’Ille,” “Lokis,” “Djoumâne” in  La Vénus d’Ille

XIII.        Going Native

                                Loti, Aziyadé (GF)

XIV.        Opacities

                                Segalen, René Leys (Folio),  Essai sur l’exotisme (xerox)

Editions available at NYU Bookstore:

Diderot, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (Livre de poche/Classiques d’aujourd’hui)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie (Garnier Flammarion)
Chateaubriand, Atala/René/Les Natchez (Livre de poche)
Hugo, Le Dernier jour d’un condamné/Bug Jargal (Folio)
Fromentin, Une Année dans le Sahel (Garnier Flammarion)
Flaubert, Voyage en Orient (Folio)
Flaubert, Salammbô (Garnier Flammarion)
Merimée, La Vénus d’Ile (Garnier Flammarion)
Loti, Aziyadé (Garnier Flammarion)
Segalen, René Leys (Folio)

 
Available in pdf. on Blackboard:  Hugo, Les Orientales; Balzac, “ Une Passion dans le desert,” “La Fille aux yeux d’or, ” Flaubert, Voyage en Egypte