FRE 124 Intro to the Analysis of Literary Masterpieces

This course introduces students to literary genres: poetry, tragedies, comedies and philosophical essays. It retraces their evolution and the establishment of formal rules from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century until the French Revolution. Materials include poems from La Pl?aide, tragedies from Racine and Corneille, philosophical essays by Voltaire and Rousseau.