French Studies 624 - Renaissance Prose

Selected texts by Fran!ois Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne. Writings by modern critics: Bahktine, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Yates. The order/disorder of literary texts. Attempt to define the notions of memory and chance with-in rhetorics. Class participation in French or English and term-paper written in the native language of the student.