HISTORY 2125 - Cultural Capital,Paris

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Bard College

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The city tells its stories through neighborhood and parish, gates and walls, vineyards and graveyards, cafés and street life: markets, fairs, openair theater, and scaffolds. Students read Diderot's enigmatic Rameau's Nephew, Mercier's descriptive Tableaux, and of Benjamin's haunting arcades, Haussmanization, and Zola's Belly of Paris; they also examine maps, engravings, and Marville's early photographs. The course opens with the Regency period, when great fortunes were made and lost and all Parisians were caught up in the excitement of rue Quincampoix's paper money experiment. It ends with the Paris Commune, its state-sponsored violence and political possibilities. Throughout, it considers urban structures, from language to architecture, as they contributed to the changing social imaginaries of space.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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