FRENCH 338 - Reading for the Plot:Hugo,Balzac,Stendhal,Flaubert,Zola

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Bard College

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Description:

This course addresses the complicated relationship between between 19th-century French novelists and the notion of literary entertainment. While they welcomed the feuilleton format (publishing novels in cliff-hanging installments), novelists often resisted the hostile takeover of a public that begged them to surrender stylistic experimentation for plot, aestheticism for entertainment. This conflict figures in the novels studied: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Balzac's Illusions perdues, Flaubert's Education sentimentale, Zola's L'oeuvre , Huysmans's à rebou rs. Studenalso examine secondary material about plot resistance to pleasure in art, and mimesis. The course is taught in French.

Credits:

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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