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Culture générale - LEN_51G12_EP : The Myth of Paris in French Imagination

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Descriptif

Since before Charlemagne, there has been a love story between Paris and its citizens. Paris captured artists’ imagination as early as the Middle Ages with the “chanson de gestes,” but in the nineteenth century, it became a myth in French literature.

We will explore this myth and its evolution since the 1830s, starting with the “rooting” of the myth in Balzac’s works. We will also study how the novel developed as a city-defined genre. Authors that will be analyzed include: Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola and Apollinaire. We will study the evolution of the myth in literature and compare the literary constructions of Paris to the physical reality described by urban historians.

Though we will concentrate on Paris in its literary representations, comparisons will also involve other forms of art such as painting and photography, in order to illustrate the omnipresence of Paris in French imagination. A range of mediums will be discussed, but literature will be used as the grounding element for discussion in each case. Accordingly, we will examine works from: Delacroix, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissaro, Degas, Caillebotte, Delaunay, Marville, Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Klapish and Jeunet. Students will be encouraged to draw comparisons between different forms of representations, across time periods, and to compare and contrast differences between mediums, as well as time periods.

Objectifs pédagogiques

Develop students' knowledge in French culture (literature, painting, photography and cinema) as well as French history and society.

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                      Programme détaillé

                      Introduction: Paris in the 19th century

                      • Course syllabus and requirements
                      • Paris in the nineteenth century
                      • What is the myth made of?

                       

                      The Balzacian Archetype : Paris of the Restoration

                      • Honoré de Balzac’s Old Goriot (1835): analysis of 3 excerpts
                      • Parisian microcosms: the quartier, the boarding house
                      • Parisian social segregation
                      • A dialectic of combat
                      • Lavielle’s Cinq étages du monde parisien, coupe d’un immeuble (1850)
                      • Comparison with the film

                       

                      Paris as Revolution: a comparative approach

                      • Passages from Hugo’s Les misérables (1862) and Flaubert’s l’Education sentimentale
                      • Delacroix : La liberté guidant le peuple (1830)

                       

                      Baudelaire’s Paris: The Poet in the City, from a Pastoral to an Urban Mode

                      • Introduction to The Flowers of Evil (1861)
                      • Analysis of a poem: The Swan
                      • Photographs of Marville’s and Atget’s Paris

                       

                      Haussmann’s Paris: A Mobile Entity in Literature and painting

                      • Photographs of Marville’s and Atget’s Paris
                      • Excerpt from Zola’s La curée
                      • Zola and the Impressionnists see the virtual exhibition “Zola: historien et poète de la modernité”(http://expositions.bnf/Zola/Zola/expo/index.htm)

                       

                      MID-TERM EXAM in CLASS

                       

                      Paris of “l’Esprit Nouveau” 

                      • Apollinaire’s “Zone” from Alcools (1913)
                      • Paintings by Delaunay

                       

                      Paris in photography (Doisneau, Cartier Bresson)

                       

                      Paris in French cinema (Jeunet, Ladj Ly, Klapish)

                      Mots clés

                      Paris- literature- painting- photography- cinema-French society-French history

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                      Graduate seminars based on interaction and consisting in analyzing the material, multiple exercises alone or in groups

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