FRENCH 24 - Introduction to French Literature and Culture III:Nineteenth Century

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Dartmouth College

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09S: 2 10S: 10 This course examines the nineteenth-century renewal of literary form and vision from the French Revolution to the First World War. We will study the social and historical developments of French culture as they are reflected in various literary genres (narrative, poetry, dramatic theory and practice), literary criticism, philosophy, historiography, and the other arts. Emphasis will be placed on France's growing self-awareness as a nation and on the analysis of aesthetic and intellectual issues represented in the major literary movements of this period including romanticism, realism, symbolism, art for art's sake, naturalism , fin de sièc le decadence, and modernism. Readings may include works by such authors as Chateaubriand, de Sta l, Stendhal, Hugo, Musset, Sand, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Michelet, Zola, and HuysmansPrerequisite: French 10, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Kogan.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.dartmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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