update

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Juliet O'Brien

Lecture outline-notes from this week (2) and the rough version for next week (3) are now up at Schedule > 1: Rose

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Juliet O'Brien

Please note: you DO NOT have a “Romance of the Rose” project to do for Tuesday.

By “Romance of the Rose Project,” I mean the online hypertext scholarly research project already in existence:
http://romandelarose.org/

Thanks to those who told me of the misunderstanding at the end of class, and my apologies for causing any panic / palpitations!

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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Juliet O'Brien

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Criticism: From False Semblance to Praise of Folly

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Juliet O'Brien

❊ PDF of the syllabus & schedule ❊

(3 credits)

Term 2: Tuesday/Thursday, 12:30-2:00 pm
Room: Buchanan B208
Juliet O’Brien, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies
juliet.obrien@ubc.ca

Description
Criticism pervades pre-modern European literature: across a range of kinds of writing, high and low, scholarly and popular, serious and light-hearted—even scathingly satirical. From a long continuing tradition of exegesis and commentary, through didactic works, to incorporation within works such as the Roman de la Rose and “quarrels” about and around them, we will see a subversive side to questioning and debate. It explores themes of social and religious critique, attacks hypocrisy and corruption, and develops ideas of privacy and identity, freedom of conscience and expression, and the figure of the public intellectual. Continue reading →

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