FREN 4770

Contemporary Arts and Literature in France

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This class focuses on artistic and literary creation in France, from the 1980s to the present.  We will consider pop or rap songs, novels, bande dessinée, theater plays, movies, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and maybe even fashion, cuisine or TV series.  Roughly half of our time will be devoted to literature.  We will explore topics such as the limits of fiction, the construction of the self, the creation of new forms, the links between the arts and politics, or the postcolonial.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Conducted in French.

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