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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | FRENB206001 |
Course Title | Topics: Le Temps des virtuoses-Beauty&theBeast in fin-de-sièc |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | French and French Studies |
Instructor | Mahuzier,Brigitte |
Times and Days | MWF 09:10am-10:00am
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Room Location | TAYF |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2086 This a topics course. Course content varies. Current topic description: What is so beautiful about the famous "Belle Epoque"? What is really going on in the backstage of its gaudy new buildings, its seedy cabarets? Reading Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, we will examine the "Beast" and/in the "Beauty" of that period of time (1871-1914) by reading a number of literary works by such writers as Zola, Colette, Gide and Proust. Prerequisite: FREN 102 or 105.; Current topic description: What is so beautiful about the famous "Belle Epoque"? What is really going on in the backstage of its gaudy new buildings, its seedy cabarets? Reading Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, we will examine the "Beast" and/in the "Beauty" of that period of time (1871-1914) by reading a number of literary works by such writers as Zola, Colette, Gide and Proust. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Inquiry into the Past (IP);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU) . |
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