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| 0680-3239-01 | The French Novel in the 19th Century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
The course examines the major 19th C. literary trends. A variety of relevant novels will be studied. We will implement the prism of history, literature, romanticism, realism, and naturalism to study writers such as Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Emile Zola, and others. The historical chasm between what preceded the Revolution and what came afterwards is expressed in many fictional works. Industrialization and urbanization—changing the face of society—left their mark on literature, both sociologically (the consumer’s market, publishers, the press, ghost writers, etc.) and poetically through the ethos of the author and his relationships with his work (fiction as documentary, art for art vs literature and political involvement). Through those questions, the following novels will be analyzed and discussed in class: Balzac’s César Birotteau (1837), Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (1830), short stories of Guy de Maupassant.