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| 0625-6250-01 | Victor Hugo 1: Writer, Philosopher, National Icon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course will examine the character and the great body of works of Victor Hugo, the greatest French writer of the 19th C, and the head of the Romantic revolution. The author of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables was also a prolific and diverse poet, a groundbreaking playwright, and a political thinker who fought for democracy and social justice.
Lectures will be accompanied by selections from movies based on Hugo’s works.
First Semester
1. Introduction: The Man, the Works, The Period—Overview
2. Seven Regimes: France in the 19th C
3. Romanticism in France: Sources and Outstanding Artists
4. Victor Hugo as a Lyrical Poet
5. Hugo as a Poet in the Service of the Republicanism
6. Hugo as an Epic Poet
7. The Romantic Drama According to the Introduction to Cromwell
8. The Plays of Hugo
9. The Death Penalty
10. Hugo as a Political Figure
11. Nineteen Years of Exile
12. Hugo as a Witness of His Era—His Diaries and Journalist Writing
13. Women and Sexuality
Lectures will be accompanied by selections from movies based on Hugo’s works.
First Semester
1. Introduction: The Man, the Works, The Period—Overview
2. Seven Regimes: France in the 19th C
3. Romanticism in France: Sources and Outstanding Artists
4. Victor Hugo as a Lyrical Poet
5. Hugo as a Poet in the Service of the Republicanism
6. Hugo as an Epic Poet
7. The Romantic Drama According to the Introduction to Cromwell
8. The Plays of Hugo
9. The Death Penalty
10. Hugo as a Political Figure
11. Nineteen Years of Exile
12. Hugo as a Witness of His Era—His Diaries and Journalist Writing
13. Women and Sexuality