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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Le Siècle des Lumières: The 18th Century or the Age of Enlightenment

Course Information

Subject: Comparative Literature (CL), French (FRE)
Number: 346
Language of Instruction: French
Prerequisites: Littérature française : 16-18ème Siècles, History of French Literature from the Romantics to the Present

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

Availability

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Summary

Explores the work of Anglo-American modernist writers in Paris, concentrating on works by Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and other writers. Relates their formal experimentation to the visual arts and to the psychic dynamics of exile: the experience of liberation from the constraints of one culture and an alienated relation to the new environment.

Full Description

Explores the work of Anglo-American modernist writers in Paris, concentrating on works by Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and other writers. Relates their formal experimentation to the visual arts and to the psychic dynamics of exile: the experience of liberation from the constraints of one culture and an alienated relation to the new environment.

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Le Siècle des Lumières: The 18th Century or the Age of Enlightenment

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