Updated 4/2/2020:  Due to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course will be offered via remote format. 

Readings:

Readings may include:

Montesquieu: Lettres persanes (extracts)

Voltaire: Le monde comme il va

Maupassant : une partie de campagne/la parure

Camus : les muets

Djebar : regard interdit, son coupé

Césaire : discours sur le colonialisme

Paulhan : la peinture cubiste

Films:  TBA

Course Description:

In this course we will examine representations of Paris from the 18th century to the present. We will analyze the symbolic value of the city, and trace its re-significations, in French and Francophone literature from Voltaire to Assia Djebar. We will pay special attention to the personification of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Prerequisites: 

French 102 or equivalent or consent of Instructor.

Additional Information:

Satisfies 1 “Literaure/Genre” or 1 “Elective” course requirement in French major; satisfies one "Historical Period" requirement in French major; satisfies 1 course requirement in French minor.  Satisfies Letters and Science breadth requirement in Arts and Literature or International Studies.

Due to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this course will be offered via remot, synchronous  format.