FREN-UA 741 - French Poetry from Baudelaire to the Present

Institution:

New York University

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Major trends in French poetry from the late 19th century to the present. Beginning with the precursors of contemporary poetry in France and other countries' Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, and Laforgue-innovation is studied in the 20th-century writers: Apollinaire and the New Spirit; the surrealist poets, including Aragon and Breton; Saint-John Perse; Michaux and exorcism through the word; Ponge and the world of things; and the postwar poets. Includes textual analysis, poetic theory, and relationships of the works to their literary environment.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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