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Courses - Fall 2023
FREN
FREN649A
Special Topic in Eighteenth Century French Literature; Science and Fiction in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Approach to the French Enlightenment
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Explores selected texts from various genres (plays, essays, novels, poetry) with a focus on the emerging environmental crisis. Students will review the major theoreticians of the French Environmental Humanities while examining how 18th-century science, fictions, and sci-fi imagined new relationships between humans and non-humans.