Id: 041490 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

The "Haussmanization" of Paris coincides with the emergence of the capital city of France as both a setting for contemporary literature, and as a literary character in its own right, holding different meanings for its many poets, writers, and painters. This course explores how Paris changed over the course of the nineteenth century by examining poetic and fictional responses to the Parisian landscape, and through their explorations of what it meant to live in the capital. Readings will include works by main French writers such as Balzac, Baudelaire, Hugo, Zola, and Maupassant, and feature cinematic works by Godard and Varda, in additional to examples of Paris as represented in new media. Taught in French.

Prerequisites

WLFR.2110 French 3 and Culture.

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