Seventeenth-Century Reading List
Sara Melzer - Malina Stefanovska
Fall 2002
Required reading for the Second-Year Review
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Corneille, Le Cid, Horace, Cinna
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Racine, Phèdre, Andromaque, Bérénice
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Molière, L'école des femmes, Tartuffe, Le bourgeois gentilhomme
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Pascal, Les pensées (Edition Brunschvicg)
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Mme de Lafayette, La princesse de Clèves
Reading list for general coverage
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Descartes, Discours de la méthode
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La Rochefoucauld, Les maximes
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La Bruyère, Les caractères (Selection)
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La Fontaine, Fables (Selection)
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Boileau, L'art poétique
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Retz or Saint-Simon, Mémoires (Selection)
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An anthology of Baroque poetry
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Two additional plays by Corneille, Racine, or Molière.
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Mlle de Scudéry, Conversations (or Mme de
Sévigné, Lettres (Selection)).