From Symbolism and Surrealism to the New Novel and Beyond
CTMP2311.03F
This class will address questions of perception, image, and presence.
DESCRIPTION
We will analyze the interlocking perceptions of self and world, word and image, in the literature and art of modernity, from Rimbaud and Mallarmé, Gauguin and Van Gogh, through Surrealism and Cubism, to Camus and Sartre and beyond to the new novel and new wave film, Barthes, Bonnefoy, and contemporary French women writers.
TIMETABLE
Lecture
TR 10:05 - 11:25 a.m.
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READING LIST
A. Breton, Nadja, trans. R. Howard (978-0-8021-5026-4)
Claude Simon, Invitation (978-0-916583-90-3)
Jean-Paul Michel, Placing Being Before Itself (9780-9812686-4-4)
Yves Bonnefoy, In the Shadow’s Light (978-0-226-06448-2)
M. Duras, The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein (978-0-394-74304-2)
M. Bishop, Contemporary French Art 2 (978-90-420-3346-7)
Women's Poetry in France, 1965-1995 : A Bilingual Anthology (Contemporary French Poetry in Translation), trans. M. Bishop (9780-916390-72-2)
S. Mallarmé, Selected Poetry and Prose (978-0-8112-0823-9)
